My greatest fear is that the GOP has gotten fat and full of themselves thinking they can't lose 2006 or 2008 and won't take the DEM's attacks on these issues seriously enough that will result in stunning election losses. GHWB & the GOP caused us to lose the POTUS in 1992 because of this "cockiness" and I read a lot of it here in FR every day.
In this post-Reagan era, the GOP hasn't learned to stop repeating its mistakes. GWB and the GOP had better come back out of the clouds and heed what their voting base is telling them, before it's too late. If "Hillary 2008" doesn't put the fear of GOD in us to stay focused and toe the line, then we deserve what we get. And just to remind us, the last time we got what we deserved, we got 8 years of that embarrassing pervert Bill Clinton. Food for thought.
Yes, Teddy Kennedy is the fool who opened up the immigration floodgates with two immigration reform bills he sponsored in 1964 and 1965. Before Kennedy's immigratin bills America was averaging about 200,000 immigrants per year. Now, today, America is averaging about 3 MILLION immigrants per year (when you factor in illegals and amnesties). In a speech to the Senate in 1965 Teddy Chappaquiddick assured the American people they had nothing to fear from his Immigration and Nationality Act. And I quote Senator Teddy Kennedy: "What the bill will not do; First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually." (LIE #1!) "Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same." (LIE #2!) "Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset." (LIE #3!) "Contrary to the charges in some quarters (this bill) will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area." (LIEEE #4!) Now heres the funny part. Teddy Kennedy is now back, forty years later, with yet another immigration deform bill -- the McCain-Kennedy "Amnesty" Bill -- to supposedly solve all the problems that HE, more than anybody, created with his previous immigration bills.