Posted on 05/16/2006 7:07:22 PM PDT by Drew McKissick
I say the speech marks a low point because the Administration has made a conscious decsion to push full steam ahead on an issue that has the potential to turn the GOP's majority into a minority - fast.
Somebody please tell me what we elected a Republican majority for? To pass programs that make a mockery of our laws? To open our country's borders to upwards of 200 million immigrants over the next 20 years...just so we can, (as John McCain suggests), have someone to clear the tables in our restaurants and pick our vegetables.
Some day's I think that some elements of the GOP have lost their collective minds. It's one thing to do something stupid, have someone point it out, learn from it and not do it again. It's another to rush headlong into something so monstrously stupid that everyone with half a brain is pointing it out to you and you stubbornly continue to do it. In this case, putting the Republican majority at serious risk. OK, that was being charitable. We're probably already at serious risk, at least in terms of one of the two houses of Congress, but this thing threatens to split the party down the middle.
And of all the issues for the President to "make a stand on", why oh why does it have to be this? Geez, how about the budget, runaway spending or something. Maybe vetoing a bill now and then. That terrible piece of "reform" known as Campaign Finance Reform comes to mind. But no, it has to be this.
And as we go through this debate, might I just say that there are several phrases that should be banned completely, as I am utterly sick of hearing them. Such as "comprehensive reform"...as in, we can just fix one problem, we have to leverage "your" desire to do border security to get "our" amnesty plan. And how about "out of the shadows"? With all the rallies lately, I don't think anyone's in the shadows anymore. And heck, it's not like the government doesn't know what "shadows" their hiding in...they've just made a conscious decision not to enforce the law. Just like they made a conscious one to showboat by busting some illegals a few weeks ago. And I am sick and tired of supposedly intelligent people suggesting that our economy is going to crumble if we don't import tens of millions of poorly educated, unskilled laborers. Please. Let's call a spade a spade. That's the business community talking. It's almost enough to turn social conservatives against business.
And what's with this straw-man the proponents of "comprehensive reform" keep promoting when they say their plan is necessary because, "we can't possibly deport 12 million people". I'll say it once again for the hearing impaired. WE DON'T HAVE TO! Just enforce the border and fine the heck out of any business that hires them. They can either sit hear and a) go hungry, b) try and fraudulently collect welfare...at which time they should be shipped back home, or c) eventually go home.
And since when where the proponents of this program so all fired up about the fact that we have illegal aliens in this country. You'd think they just woke up and discovered it. Now they claim that any proposal must address their status and "get them out of the shadows". Please. They're just trying to ride on the coattails of the momentum created by conservatives over lax border enforcement.
I for one and thoroughly and completely sick. Will the real conservatives please stand up? Thank the good Lord we managed to get a few good judges and Justices on the Supreme Court out of the sweat everyone put into the last few campaigns. It doesn't look like real conservatives will get much else.
Bush has destroyed the GOP, perhaps forever.
Sounds like he didn't pay attention to the speech
Simply brilliant....
Which is why I'm voting for House Republicans. The Senate is a joke and the 17th Amendment should be repealed.
Medicare drug bill.
No Child Left Behind.
Immigration catastrophe.
Foreign adventurism.
Real conservatives are crying.
He has had some help with his plan, some call them Senators, I think Co-Conspirator is a better description...just imagine Los Angeles coming to a city near you !
For more than just one issue. And the alternative is no alternative.
"Look mom! I'm posting on the internet!"
It wasn't long ago that we used to say it was the liberals who had thier minds made up before the President spoke.
Looks like liberalism is catching on.
Lol.
It's not over yet. Get back to me in 10 years. The real battle is with Islam and he's ducked that one as far as I can tell. Right now he looks like a drunken cowboy in a barfight.
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"Bush has destroyed the GOP, perhaps forever."
It is my belief that May 14 may have been the low point of the President's public popularity. His speech on immigration will reverse the downward trend of the last 18 months. I think his leadership on immigration is clearly centered on a policy belief he has advocated for more than a decade. The GOP will remain strong and much of the credit for that will be the result of the President's courageous leadership on this highly complex issue.
Here's a "Ninas Limpias".
That's Spanish for "baby wipes."
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