Posted on 05/15/2006 7:45:36 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Today conservatives and Americans across this nation, especially those who voted for George W Bush, should be thankful for what we have accomplished and for having George Bush as President. My tolerance for the whiners who don’t get all they want, or who say the pace of getting America to become more responsive to conservative ideas is too slow, is totally used up. Tonight, when George Bush speaks his is going to discuss how we can take SOME steps towards getting a handle on immigration and the security threats it represents.
I want to give thanks to W for taking the war to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and for not shrinking from his course when the French and Germans bawked, when the UN whimpered, when the left wailed and when the right ran away.
I want to thank him for protecting all our families and neighbors since 9-11.
I want to thank him for reducing taxes and pulling this economy together since my family just about went under due to the economic hits from 9-11, and now I am working a dream job exploring the solar system.
I want to thank W for protecting the lives of some of the embryos who otherwise would have become a product to harvest for spare cells (to make spare parts).
I want to thank W for making the education system accountable and force it to produce statistics on its performance.
Thanks also for giving my 80+year old parents a prescription drug plan so they can live out their lives with dignity and in the best health preventive medicine can offer. I know that at their age to fix things once their broken is much harder than keeping them from breaking in the first place.
Thank you as well to the immigrants who come here and extend the American fabric and re-establish respect for the family and the work ethic. I still believe working without papers is aking to driving a car which is not properly registered. While not legal, it pales next to the people I deal with everyday in my 75 mile commute on the busy and dangerous DC Beltway. For perspective, I do not thank all the drivers chatting on the phone, reading, eating, doing their face who risk my LIFE with their casualness. I am less concerned about the immigrant workers coming to do top notch work on my house than the insane drivers who could kill me or my family. Let’s not even discuss how little thanks I have for drunk drivers (and drunk is only a few drinks away).
I want to thank LJSTrata for putting up with me for so long and keeping this site going through its first Blogoversart (5/18/06).
I owe a big thanks to Powerline this week for naming us Blog of the Week - which is an extreme honor we will cherish.
I want to thank my kids and family for being who they are.
I do not have any words of thanks to he those who leak national secrets to the media because they cannot address their issues through our established political processes. None. Anomous leaks are not a badge of honor.
I have no words of thanks to those who are so frustrated they have turned on Bush when he needs our support, and threaten to sit out elections. Why would I have any thanks for that kind of action? I am thankful we avoided a President Gore and President Kerry. Gore would have lost his mind after 9-11 (look at how he handled the 2000 election). And Kerry would have been so confused about what to do he would have signed legislation beforing vetoing it.
I am thankful for our new allies in Iraq, Afgahnistan, the UAE, Qatar and Pakistan. They are not perfect allies, but they are better than enemies. Just like Bush is 100 fold better than a manic Gore or a confused Kerry. I thank Bush for doing all he did, and doing it despite the naysayers and quitters, the moaners and whiners, and especially the serial surrenderers. Thanks George Bush. And no thanks goes to anyone who gives us nothing on immigration because they could not get all they wanted. I am tired of the zero sum game. It is a game for fools.
Tonight's speech has definitely exposed those who are truly "unappeasable" and/or Rat/trolls, and those who take the border issue seriously but prefer to be rational and use commonsense when trying to fix this serious problem.
Deporting up to 20 million illegals would be a very simple and easy endeavor, if approached intelligently and patiently. The deportations don't have to occur overnight; we can simply deport them as we find them, even if it takes 25 years. The important things is to make a beginning.
There is another way to skin this cat too. If you crack down on businesses who hire these fraudulent "immigrants", and if you take away their government welfare benefits, (which is the underlying reason why most Americans are against the illegal invasion), then they will begin to 'self-deport'. With no free government handouts to grab, and few businesses to hire them, they will have little reason to remain here. It's really an easy, painless solution, but President Bush has been trying his best to complicate and delay it.
The President's greatest concern isn't a humanitarian one, as he'd have us believe, he's actually terrified that if the illegals are sent home then the businesses will have to pay a higher wage to American laborers. But the time has come to put Americans first again.
Yep.
Is this a joke?
If you've* had two parties leave you within ten or fifteen years, maybe it's not the parties. Maybe it's just you.
*Obviously not you personally.
I listened to Lou Dobbs on the Larry King show. He was less than impressed with the speech and ticked off a bunch of reasons why. Where did you hear him say it was a good speech?
But then again, it could be bait :-)
In case you haven't noticed, the "fringe right" has just forced President Bush to do something he would never have done otherwise; he just sent 6,000 'vigilantes' to the border to help stop the invasion of "temporary guest workers" from the South.
Now watch closely as the "fringe right" continues to force the President's hand on this issue. It won't be very long before his amnesty program for 20 million drifters from parts unknown is defeated. This, of course, will happen because it is NOT any 'fringe' element forcing Bush to do his job, it's the patriotic majority who are not afraid to stand up to the man they elected and demand he do the right thing.
But two things: don't you think it's a little unfair to say "Berlin Wall"? The purposes are more than a little different. And don't you think the wording and image of "mass roundups and deportations", even though I think that's what SHOULD be done, evokes a middle-of-the-night knock in Nazi Germany that is unfair also?
I missed the speech, did he mention why it took him so long to start enforcing the law?
Until we work as hard as President Bush, then we have nothing to complain about!
That's bull. He ran for office. He accepted the job. He swore the oath. That's his job. My job is to pay his salary, and I do.
Yeah he said you were too hard to find.
The only speech made by this President that Lou Dobbs would be happy with is a withdrawl from Iraq, Isolate us from the rest of the world, and put an end to all things related to God and Liberty
If 6 million have been sent back in five years, that is 1.2 million per year and 120,000 per month. Add to that the 500,000 to 850,000 that have made it through and you get some idea as to the enormity of the problem. These are not figures to be proud of. We are being invaded and now pat ourselves on the back for how many we have caught. The true measure of effectiveness is how many illegals are getting into our country and staying.
Selective memory is what I have come to expect from the left, but this practice is alive and well here on Free Republic
We all have faults, weaknesses and failings. Lord knows I do. But I am proud that GWB is my President. He is a good man, who honors his father and mother, loves his woman, and seeks to know the will of God.
He is serving in an exceptionally challenging time, facing issues that most presidents seek to avoid. He deserves our prayers every day. In out home we certainly pray for the man and his family and I hope y'all do too.
When did I mention "temporary worker program?" Certainly not in the post you replied to and, as far as I know, this is the first time I've ever typed that phrase.
As a matter of fact, I've worked with many temporary immigrants (as I was told and as far as I know) and find them, as temporary workers, great. I don't think they are the major problem. They are certainly not at the root of my objections.
No, Mr. Bush has betrayed his base in many ways, but not in that respect. Nice straw man, however. The WH check is in the mail.
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