Posted on 05/11/2006 7:13:29 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Regime Crisis
by Patrick J. Buchanan
At this writing, France has capitulated to mass demonstrations and canceled a labor law that would have let employers dismiss workers under 26.
For the French, the cave-in is truly bad news. It means the political system is not strong enough to take even modest measures to liberate France from a socialist system that is a freshwater fish in the salt waters of the Global Economy.
If despair and gloom are widespread in France, they are justified. With a birthrate below what is needed to continue as a French nation, its 5-8 million Arab and Islamic immigrants alienated, a limping economy, and no way to cast off socialist shackles, France’s future appears grim.
In America, too, a regime crisis appears at hand.
Millions have massed in cities from Los Angeles to Phoenix to Dallas to Washington to demand that 12 million illegal aliens be granted full rights of U.S. citizens and all talk of defending U.S. borders be halted at once. Republican and Democratic politicians have been rendered speechless by the size of the demonstrations.
But the demonstrations reveal something more unsettlling. That hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, all subject to deportation, would defiantly march under foreign flags in U.S. cities suggests the government of the United States has lost its moral authority.
For two decades, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have failed—or rather refused—to do their constitutional duty to defend the states from this invasion. Now the message had gone out to the world. Americans can’t or won’t defend their country. We can walk in and take over. And they are coming in the millions, every year.
And where is our commander in chief? He backs McCain-Kennedy, the bill to grant amnesty to the 12 million and blanket pardons to the corporate chiselers who hired them and passed on to taxpayers the costs of their health, education, and welfare.
This would put the illegals on the road to lifetime benefits from our welfare state and allow U.S. companies to go overseas and hire hundreds of thousands of workers yearly to bring back to replace Americans who balk at working for Third World wages.
This is the opposite of what Americans have told pollsters for 20 years they want. It is the opposite of what Arizonans and Californians have voted for every time they have held a referendum.
According to a new Washington Post-ABC poll, 60 percent of the people now disapprove of Bush’s performance, the strongest repudiation of his leadership since January 2001. And the Republicans who control Congress are running 15 points behind the Democrats. If the elections of 2006 were held today, the GOP would be annihilated.
But what do the Democrats offer us? Censure, taxes—and Cynthia McKinney.
If you think this Congress is an agonizing disappointment, wait for the new House, where chairmanships will be assumed by Barney Frank, John Conyers, and Henry Waxman, with Ways and Means and tax-writing power going to Charlie Rangel. That should be good for a 1000-point plunge in the Dow.
What is the probability of tough legislation to halt the invasion and put the U.S. government back in control of its frontiers? Given the makeup of this Senate—with Democrats virtually united in their resolve to make those 12 million illegal aliens new Democratic voters, and half the GOP terrified of being called “racist” or “xenophobic”—zero.
Indeed, if such a law were passed, it is questionable Bush would enforce it. For he has refused to enforce existing law or defend our southern border and has stated flatly he cannot secure the border unless given an amnesty/guest-worker program to go with it.
And who is the likely replacement for Bush in 2009? Hillary or McCain, both now competing with each other in the generosity of the amnesties they would bestow.
America is facing something of a regime crisis. The president’s poll number are falling not simply because of perceived incompetence—Katrina, Harriet Miers, the Dubai ports deal—but because his policies are failing. His trade policy has created the greatest trade deficits in history and accelerated the death of U.S. manufacturing. His immigration policy has left our borders undefended and millions of illegals marching for their “rights” under foreign flags. His democracy crusade is being ridden to power by anti-Americans from the Middle East to Latin America. His Iraq expedition has given us endless bleedings of blood and money.
What does McCain offer? On trade, immigration, and Iraq, he is 100 percent Bush. If Mexican radical Obrador wins in July and appears headed for the presidency, Americans may be looking around for a General Pershing. At least “Black Jack” understood border control.
Buchanan for President 2008. I remember when he was talking border control way back in the 90's!
Bring on 6$ a Gallon Gas
Posted by PoorMuttly to ElkGroveDan
On News/Activism 05/10/2006 9:11:26 PM PDT · 32 of 51
That's pretty much how I see it, 'nuff blame to go around.
But y' know, since we are evidently now a nation that waits for trouble when we have seen it coming for several decades and done nothing, like with the borders, drug demand, all sorts of things, well, in such cases perhaps getting a swift kick in our lazy wise-asses with, well, maybe, a skyscraper getting blown down in a major city...no...er...that won't work.....an indigent foreigner invasion...nah...they can sleep in the woods...and in the emergency wards, delivering babies....fatal diseases and frequent murders from funding drug gangs....well...then where will we get our fun from...??!! OK...OK...I've got it, $10 gasoline, so we actually DO something (of course for wimpy, self-gratification reasons, not wisdom or national welfare, like WHEN our foreign sources are closed, it will be too late to drill and crack and pump...) but perhaps again, the resilient American freedom under law system will rescue our worthless asses by the working of simple Capitalism.....the demand causing us to not only drill our own stuff, but perhaps even change our 100 year old gasoline engine technology for something better, rather than struggling to preserve the buggy industry by growing super oats, and 5 legged horses.
Years ago if you told me our space project would mostly yield great pictures and a golf game on the moon, but in the 21st. century we'd still be running our Japanese teardrop cars on stuff even Henry Ford thought was a second choice, I'd have laughed.
Then again, I'd also have laughed about people having bones through their noses, and people debating the sensitivities and motivations of the people who slit our stewardesses throats with razor blades and crashed our planes into our Pentagon and office buildings...so what did I know, after all?!
$10 gas?
We need it.
Ping!
I can't argue with him
But i'll sure as hell defend this country i am willing and able i just can't do it by myself !
BTW Buchanan Kiss my a**
But it won't keep his fans from posting them.
If our President will ignore such a basic responsibility as securing our borders and making our citizens safe from invaders, how many of his other responsibilities is he ignoring?
No spine. I would have let the twenty-somethings burn the entire country to the ground if they wanted. There is no such thing as a guaranteed job, and I'd force the Parliament to pass one over my signature, or however it works in Parliamentary countries.
Illegals make more money up here in a day than they made in a whole month down in the third world and they get more welfare freebies than they ever thought possible and yet they still complain/demonstrate? Gee, who could've seen that coming?
But the demonstrations reveal something more unsettlling. That hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, all subject to deportation, would defiantly march under foreign flags in U.S. cities suggests the government of the United States has lost its moral authority.
Our ingrate "guests" hold the U.S. gov't in utter comtempt. ......and I certainly don't blame them for that.
For two decades, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush have failed—or rather refused—to do their constitutional duty to defend the states from this invasion.
It goes back a lot further than that, Pat. (Remember the '86 amnesty? ....and the '65 Immigration Act?).
.....with Democrats virtually united in their resolve to make those 12 million illegal aliens new Democratic voters...
They're natural Democrat constituents -- welfare staters. Most that will be given amnesty will join the Donkey Party, no matter how enthusiastic the pandering efforts of the GOP . If the Pubbies want to keep their majority (or even increase it) they'd be wise to keep these 20+ million "willing workers" far away from U.S. citizenship, and to encourage them to head back to where they came from by punishing employers who hire them, ending the welfare freebies, and repealing the anchor baby laws.
....and half the GOP terrified of being called “racist” or “xenophobic"
Spineless cretins hell-bent on losing their congressional majority.
(insert obligatory lame guardtower joke here)
At this writing, France has capitulated to mass demonstrations
So have our good ole USA Senators.
sorry you forgot that part. ;)
Don't bet on it, Pat.
A crisis may be at hand, but America is not France.
Remember Todd Beamer? Remember the other heroes of Flight 93? They were the American people!
We may have another Boston Teaparty coming up!
Americans WILL defend their country! You can bet on that! And our fuse is getting very short!
It has yet to sink into their stupid noggins that when you piss off your base you are DOOOOOOOMED!!! I hate to say it but I will be glad to see it happen. When politicians refuse to listen to the people who put them in office Its time for a change.
The idiots truly believe the base will be with them on election day no matter what they do, and with this in mind they attempt to stretch the GOP's "big tent" to include an increasing number of traditional left-leaning groups. They may be in for a big surprise in the midterms.
For the 'Throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater / All-of-Buchanon's-opinions-are-invalid-because-we-don't-like-certain-ones' crowd........Pat is spot on.
Hello, Politicians,
A country without borders is NOT a country.
If not a country, what do we need politicians for?
I wish he would wake up the the reality that dissolving the borders is the plan, and it's working perfectly. There are no two parties in the USofA, there is one party whose only argument is who to divide the spoils with, the E.U., the U.N., or a united Western, no borders Trade Zone.
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