Stark Rove-ing Mad: Meet the "pro-immigrant" thugs at Ntional People's Action

Wall Street Journal, Opinion Journal ^ | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST

[holyscroller]

For a moment this Sunday, the yard outside White House senior adviser Karl Rove's home looked like a scene from "On the Waterfront."

In the screen version, Karl Malden's parish priest finds his church surrounded by union toughs who bang their clubs on the basement windows in an effort to intimidate those inside attending a meeting on dockside corruption. In the real-life Beltway version, nine busloads of activists "stormed" (the Washington Post's word) Mr. Rove's yard, blocking the street, surrounding both sides of the house and pounding on the windows at a time when he was inside with his 15-year-old son and his son's friend.

[holyscroller]

Just read your site and added it to favorites. You've got some really great insight there. Thanks.

[CyberAnt]

If you had one ounce of brains I'd tell you off - but since you have non I'll excuse you for not only being STUPID but totally ignorant as well.

[WestSylvanian]

In-state tuition at state universities is made possible by that state's taxpayers. And those same taxpayers will probably discover that their children are denied admission to those state universities so that there are places available for illegal aliens who will be given preference in admissions because they qualify for affirmative action/diversity "protected status" as "under-represented" minorities.

These same illegals will also have special programs designed for them to make sure they succeed; it's vitally important for these state universities to report their retention success. In the state universities where I've worked, funding from the state government is dependent upon the university showing that it recruits, retains, and graduates a specified percentage of minorities. I believe there are even special grading allowances, i.e., two separate standards, one for white students and one for minorities. In other words, get into this country any way you can and prepare to exploit all the government handouts available to you. And complain about it if you don't get what you think is your share.

[skeeter]

In many ways, these are precisely the people who have the most to lose from a Bush immigration reform founded on responsibility and the American Dream rather than subsidy and entitlement.

This is what the WSJ takes away from the episode - trying to making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

[newzhawk]

"My two sons are inside" when he only had one-is not really wierd---if this was going on and I would be madder than him I am sure(my husband would have his rifle out already) I would say "my kids are inside" or something to that effect. What difference does it make- the point was kids were involved- it is a HOME-not an office or organization- these people are sick- the 60's Hillary radicals are back.......

[Viking2002]

Three words: ELECTRIC CATTLE PRODS.

[jwalsh07]

Private property rights are soemtimes lost on my fellow freepes. I too would have had the shotgun out.

[johnfrink]

Gotta disagree with you. I think Rove was trying to get some extra victim points. How much harder is it to say "my son and his friend are inside right now?" Not much harder at all, and in fact requires less planning than claiming a neighbor kid is yours. I think Karl's feeling a wee bit touchy these days (esp. with Hughes coming back, as someone noticed), and might have snapped. I personally think he's pretty overrated. The 2000 campaign wasn't exactly a stellar success--only Gore's incredible tank-job sealed the deal.

[Missouri]

To put it another way, what we had on Sunday was the spectacle of immigration "leaders" directing their ire at the most pro-immigration Administration in recent memory.

I doubt it.

Link to F.A.I.R. article

Clinton got the ball rolling. I have to wonder if any one at the WSJ has any sense?

[itsahoot]

Methinks Karen Hughes has been brought back on the scene because Mr. Rove is falling out of favor.

I guess you didn't see Karen on the factor then. She seemed very supportive of the Bush plan saying we have employers willing to hire employees and we have to accommodate that.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Karl Rove,

Welcome to Amerika, you piece of neocon trash.
This mob of third world monkey people and commies is what you wish to drop on all the rest of us.

I hope they come back to visit you often, chum.

[janetgreen]

MEXICO TO AMERICA - GIMME, GIMME, GIMME. Nothing will ever be enough for these invaders. We're already supporting them, thanks to the cowardly politicians in Washington.

[Ohioan]

You might check out the original article on Karl Rove:

Karl Rove--Dysron, Quack Or Mole?.

Any time that you--or any one else who agrees with our present immigration policy--thinks they are up to telling me off, please be my guest.

[CyberAnt]

I'm not upset with your immigration policy opinions - I'm upset that you are personally attacking Karl Rove. Your statements about him are just over the top.

You don't agree with Karl - Whoop-dee-doo! But to malign and misrepresent him as a person shows your total ignorance regarding who Karl is and what he stands for.

This is why people won't join your causes. You make a personal vendetta against a fine person and then you want me to agree with it. I DON'T.

And .. since the person running the "National People's Action" group is very entangled with the TIDES FOUNDATION which is connected to Teresa Heinz Kerry which is connected to the Kerry campaign - you don't have a leg to stand on with me.

I may not like our present immigration policy - but where were you people while the Clinton admin was allowing all those Saudi people into America using false documentation; never following up on them when they claimed to be attending school - and were getting flying instructions instead??

I didn't see any of you on say Carville's or Blumenthal's or Ickies' doorstep screaming and pounding on their windows? You see .. you have no legitimate reason to be besmirching Karl Rove and terrorizing his family.