Posted on 05/17/2006 4:16:59 PM PDT by Revel
18 RINOs to target for defeat in the future. Particularly in conservative states such as SC, UT, and KS. No excuses for electing a pro-amnesty RINO from states like that.
Mark May 16, 2006 on your calendars as the day the Republicans lost the country. I'm afraid they lost too many supporters that it'll be a long time before they can regain any power in Washington.
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I found this comparative point from the full article to be brilliant:
"At any rate, the amendment to delay the amnesty and guest worker provisions until the border had been sewn up successfully was offered by a senator from Georgia, by the name of Isakson. He said, "We didn't enforce the border. We granted amnesty in 1986, and 20 years later there are 11 to 12 million or 13 million who have come because of the promise and opportunity of this country, but also because we've given a wink and a nod to the security of our border." (story) Mr. Isakson's fellow Georgian, Republican Saxby Chambliss, said, "I don't see how any senator who is serious about border security and enforcing our immigration laws can disagree with this amendment. To disagree with this amendment sends the message to the American people that we're more eager to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship than we are to secure our borders from further illegal immigration and the smuggling of illegal drugs and weapons."
Speaking of that, illegal drugs, Jonah Goldberg had a piece today in the National Review Online. He's one of their editors at large or executive editors, and he said it's interesting if you compare the way we're fighting the war on drugs to the way we are fighting the war on illegal immigration. He said pretend for a moment that illegal immigrants are illegal drugs, and is the war on illegal drugs working? And, in fact, some people are saying it isn't going to work because the supply and demand laws are going to take over. As long as there's a demand for drugs, they're going to find a way in the country no matter what you do at the border.
He said if you look at illegal immigration that way, some people might have the same take. But his interesting analysis is that while all kinds of people are just dead set serious on the war on drugs. "We're not going to cut anybody any slack. We're not going to back off one second!" The same problem: you still got an insecure, unprotected border that leads to the existence of both problems. You got the illegal immigrant crowd, the open borders crowd, "Ah, borders? We need to deal with this on the interior basis. We need these borders," whatever cockamamie thinking they've come up with, and when it comes to the war on drugs, it's an entirely different mentality and attitude by the same people."
Here is a question for Freepers. What was used to or who put the screws to Sam Brownback? Overnight he flipped and did a 180 on immigration and border security. So is he just being yanked into line by large contributors such as agribusiness or meat packing or who? And if so was there something hidden there they could use on him that was more potent than just threats to cut off campaign donations or patronage from the White House? I''m serious. Brownback is the most glaring volte face on immigration yet.
Because he was born to host, and we were born to listen!
Republicans will wake up only after Speaker Pelosi and President (Hitlery) Clinton are running the country.
When Will Republicans Wake Up?
Because the callers serve as openings for topics Rush wants to discuss. They also break up the monologues. Dialogue is often easier to follow.
Senator Sessions is shaping up as hero in this story/tragedy.
BOHICA
Bob Jubelirer of PA woke up this morning.
They are here today illegally, if the day after tomorrow they are here legally then they received 'amnesty'. Citizenship is NOT the issue them being here illegally is the issue.
I don't know what happened to Brownback. I liked him up until the immigration thing.
Now he's out the door.
Thank God for Rush Limbaugh. He is truly leading the charge on this issue. Thank God his voice stretches wide and far.
He does it with a lot more tact than you or I can really muster too. I readily admit that for myself anyway. It takes a lot to TRY and not be on constant attack.
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