Posted on 05/19/2005 5:50:44 AM PDT by shortstop
It sucks to be a Republican.
A real Republican. A conservative at heart who believes in principles, who believes in a small government and a free people and a secure homeland. It really sucks to be one of those.
Because we're being betrayed left and right.
We've given the Republican Party the White House. We've given the Republican Party the Senate. We've given the Republican Party the House. We're about to give the Republican Party the judiciary.
And what we've gotten in return is a bigger government, a deeper deficit, a meaningless border and more welfare.
We've gotten everything we've ever voted against.
George W. Bush is a good president when it comes to fighting the war on terror. And he's a good president when it comes to talking about God. But he sucks at everything else. Him and the Congress and everything they've done.
A conservative can't help but look at Washington and wonder what in the heck is going to become of our country. When the enemy of freedom was the Democrats, we knew what to do. But now that the enemy of freedom has become the Republicans, we have nowhere to turn. The good guys have gone bad, and the only distinction the bad guys have is that they're a little worse.
The Democrats stab you in the back 12 inches. The Republicans stab you in the back six inches. It's better, but not so that it makes a difference. You're still stabbed and you're still in a bad way.
And I'm afraid for the future of the country.
And, no, that's not an exaggeration.
The actions of this administration are endangering the integrity and existence of the nation. If not now, then in 50 years.
I'm talking about illegal immigration. George W. Bush's inaction on this subject has been essentially treasonous. To fail to secure our borders and to fail to enforce the laws of our land is a fundamental failure of his prime responsibilities. He swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, and by flippantly ignoring duly passed immigration laws and procedures he is not upholding the Constitution. We are a nation built on rule of law, and he has disregarded the law by failing in his duty to enforce and uphold it.
Further, he has sat silently and idly by as we have been invaded. To the conservative estimate of a half a million new illegal aliens a year, he has given over our national security and territorial integrity. The impact of this invasion is overwhelming, whether you are counting the costs to our medical, welfare, criminal and educational systems, the artificial lowering of our wages, or the cultural erosion and displacement. The values of the United States are being supplanted by the values of Mexico -- values which are inconsistent with our society and liberty.
It is estimated that in the lifetimes of our children the American Southwest will be majority Spanish speaking. Already the influx of illegals, though many are hard working, is straining and breaking the social structures and values that have prospered and protected the United States and its freedom. Unlike earlier immigrants who melted into the American culture, enriching it by their cooperative presence, these new illegal immigrants are displacing American culture, bringing the social failures of their homelands north to our country.
It is a clear, galvanizing and potentially catastrophic matter.
And the Republicans, who have held exclusive power for five years, and significant power for all but two of the last 25 years, haven't done a damn thing about it.
Ditto for the deficit and climbing debt -- and the runaway welfare "entitlement" programs that fuel them. The party of fiscal and individual responsibility last year introduced and passed the largest new welfare program in a generation -- President Bush's old-age prescription plan.
Homeland defense has been sucked into the morass of big-government bureaucracy. George W. Bush and the Republican Congress turned natural concern for national security into more and more federal employees and spending. We have all but nationalized our airports, searching frantically for fingernail files while leaving millions of tons of annual cargo unchecked, all the while convincing no one that safety or security has been truly enhanced.
It was George W. Bush and the Republican Congress that gave us No Child Left Behind, a dramatic, patently liberal, big-government intrusion into education matters that should be left to state governments and local school boards.
It was George W. Bush and the Republican Congress that left us conservatives out in the cold, uncertain about the course of our government or the future of our nation. At first we felt that we were taken for granted, now we know that we were just plain taken.
Taken in by what seems to have been a con.
And we have nowhere to go. Third parties are forever powerless. The Democratic Party is forever liberal. The Republican Party has bitten the hand that feeds it, and there's nothing we can do about it.
The wolf has worn sheep's clothing, and won.
It sucks to be a Republican.
I definitely agree. I'm giving thoughts to switching to a third party just because I'm fed up with the Republican party on different important issues. I'd rather have Republicans in office than Democrats of course, but it's getting to the point where there's not a whole lot of difference.
I agree almost entirely.
I'm not going third-party, but this article contains much truth. W much better than Kerry, but all in all a grand opportunity for real reform missed by him and his Republican Congress.
Perhaps two more points to consider; Kim Jong Il and the Islamic Republic of Iran are assembling fission weapons or will be shortly on His watch. And the Pakistani nuclear physicist that pimped out the technology is running scott free. That disturbs me greatly.
BTTT.
I Agree 100%.
There is only one party...The sooner conservatives realize that the pubs are only closet dems the better.
Lonsberry hits the mark as usual.
Whether rogues develop fissable materials should be moot, overshadowed - no - dwarfed by the stern promise from a unified voice that a single detonation in U.S. territory would be so costly they'd never overcome the effects inflicted by the U.S.
But our lawmakers languish in ambivolence and can't even place judges on benches, telling the world we simply don't know what we're doing.
Agree - Sending this article to my Republican representatives. As if it will do any good.
...like teaching English and grammar to Conservative bloggers.
The GOP has had control of Congress since 1994. That's ELEVEN fricking years, not overnight, and we still got the same big government.
Hit the nail on the head!.....
I've been waiting for Laz to post that one. I cleaned up one spelling error prior to posting, also.
Winning is hell, isn't it?
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