Posted on 05/20/2006 1:52:58 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
After an emotional debate fraught with symbolism, the Senate yesterday voted to make English the "national language" of the United States, declaring that no one has a right to federal communications or services in a language other than English except for those already guaranteed by law. Continues...
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Ambien sleep-driving Dems crash car into Sheriff Bush's barrier
Anyone still wondering how the humble man from Midland managed to do in the last election what no White House candidate had been able to do in 16 years -- win a majority of the popular vote -- Tuesday night's Oval Office address will have resolved any lingering confusion.
It's easy to see why this unpretentious, plain-speaking fella drives Democrats up the wall. With the MSM almost daily trotting out yet another "poll" which curiously always has Bush hitting a "new low" -- the "low ratings" magically achieved by having Democrats and liberal-leaning "independents" represented in disproportionately large numbers in the "randomly" selected sample -- the prevailing myth among the all-knowing Commentariat is that Bush in his speech was attempting to stem his hemorrhaging popularity and to mend fences with his 'alienated' base which is miffed over his stance on immigration.
Since the earliest days of his 2000 presidential campaign, Bush had run on his proposal for a temporary 'guest-worker' program, had delivered dozens of speeches advocating a temporary 'guest-worker' program, appealed to Hispanic voters in '04 by advocating a temporary 'guest-worker' program, but we're supposed to believe his conservative base -- which had voted for him overwhelmingly in 2000 and 2004 -- had not known his stance on immigration until this year (Bush just broke the news to his base!) and is now smoldering angry at him for fulfilling yet another campaign promise.
Paraphrasing the media headlines in the days and hours before his speech: Bush under fire. Bush in trouble. Bush under pressure. Bush careening to disaster. Bush in trouble. Bush's goose is cooked. Bush all but finished. Bush in trouble. Bush speech last-ditch effort to save his bacon. Stick a fork in his bacon, it's done.
Against this friendly cacophony of gloom-and-doomery from his girly men critics in the lead-up to his televised address, Bush appeared poised, self-assured, upbeat. To the media, shooting spitballs from the peanut gallery, it was important during this lead-up that the public perceive Bush as a much diminished figure, politically adrift, frail and fatigued, but that Bush was a no-show Tuesday night.
If Bush's gutsy speech was somehow a desperate, headlong rush to shore up "sagging" approval ratings, you'd never know it from his calm and assertive, cool and unruffled manner of delivery. It was vintage Bush.
For a politician ostensibly sliding irreversibly into oblivion, not bad. The unflappable, take-charge air about him was difficult to square with the media depiction of Bush as aimless, disconnected -- if not out-and-out political roadkill. Bush was forceful yet graceful, emphatic yet dignified, self-assured yet down-to-earth.
Judging from the fawning reaction, Bush hit a home-run. The New York Times, part of the open-borders fringe of the debate, lovingly wrote that the speech "was a victory for the fear-stricken fringe of the debate." Bush "last night specifically -- and shamefully -- urged that the (path to seek citizenship) be denied to temporary workers." The hate-Bush pitch-forkers: 'Impeach Jorge Arbusto for not enforcing our laws!' The hate-Bush anti-pitch-forkers: 'Impeach Bu$Hitler for enforcing our laws!'
As part of his secret plot to sponsor an invasion, "El presidente Jorge Arbusto" called for adding 6,000 Border Patrol officers, erecting "high-tech fences in urban corridors," building "new patrol roads and barriers in rural areas," employing "unmanned aerial vehicles," infrared cameras and motion sensors at the border; ending "catch and release" by constructing new buildings to keep illegals in custody. He laid it all out with specificity in his speech.
The press, which doesn't give squat about border security, had seized on the immigration issue as a means to split the GOP base, in hopes of reaping a windfall this November. Like mice running on the hamster wheel, they thought they were getting 'traction' on this issue. After Bush's speech, they felt frustrated and baffled. Some lapsed into a childish snit. Yet another issue had been seized by this commanding figure, who breezily took center stage as only a powerful leader can, sweeping aside the oodles of media lies, nailing his enemies chapter and verse, reshaping the political landscape and debate on his terms. Bush would not be stampeded. His tone deaf windbag critics, showing yet again what little grasp they have of the Man from Midland, had been dealt another cruel blow.
If displaying their inexhaustible supply of ignorance was the goal of Bush's detractors, they have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. Congratulations!
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
They're are not all like that. For every upstanding potential citizen, you have a mugger or rapist. Just like the Irish immigrants. Lots of good folks, and then there was Tammany Hall and the mugs that Jimmy Cagney modeled his screen persona on.
If they are lawbreakers, what does that make the oversight committees of Congress, the members of INS, the Secretary of Homeland Security, etc who all should be upholding the Laws of our land. I just wish that a little bit of the rancor and anger everyone feels about the current situation was addressed to those who abetted the "invasion" by tolerating it, and in many cities encouraging it.
Every time we drive above the speed limit or forget to include every dollar we earn in our tax return we are also lawbreakers. State police and IRS enforce willing compliance by having punitive measures on hand for the percent of lawbreakers that they catch. My point is that there has been virtually no law enforcement toward convincing those uninvited to the USA that they should not stay.
BUT AS HARRY REID STATED WE ARE ALL RACIST IF WE AGREE THAT ENGLISH SHOULD BE THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF THE LAND AND I SAY TO MR REID MY PARENTS CAME FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY AND SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE BUT BECAUSE THEY MESHED INTO THE USA THEY LEARNED THE LANGUAGE AND FRANKLY I AM SICK OF THE LEADERS OF THIS COUNTRY CALLING US CITIZENS RACIST, LAZY AND OTHER THINGS BECAUSE WE FEEL THAT WE NEED TO SECURE OR BOARDERS AND PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF US CITIZENS AND LEGAL PEOPLE WHO COME HERE AND I AM STILL WAITING FOR JOHN MC CAIN TO ANSWER MY RESUME FOR THE $50.00 AN HOUR JOB HE SAID NO AMERICAN WOULD DO
Enablers. That's why it's so disheartening. They won't uphold our laws and it's their sworn duty.
My point is that there has been virtually no law enforcement toward convincing those uninvited to the USA that they should not stay.
I agree. :( How can the problem be solved if they don't see it as a problem.
AMEN I AGREE 100%
You and I see eye to eye. One of my great'grandmothers was born in New Orleans in 1865, and when her mother was widowed a few years later she returned to Baltimore with 5 children. This bit of family history drove my interest in genealogy and social history of the Nineteenth Century. These great'great'grandparents were Irish immigrants from the famine years who had the courage to cross the Atlantic, and then to look for a better life down the Mississippi. I say thanks every day that they had the courage to live through all the hardships that they experienced.
America will survive this new wave of immigration, and we will be stronger for it, - if we do not allow the dems to totally throw away all the values that have made our country great, in their efforts to pander to the lowest common denominator.
Turning our backs on Republican legislators in our frustration at their molasses speed of addressing the issue will be SO VERY STUPID, I have to use all caps to say it.
How can the problem be solved if they don't see it as a problem.
They obviously wanted this labor pool in the US. Which is why I get mad at people who want to vent all their wrath on the illegals, and give the officials (not the Border Guards, but the Policy setters) a free pass, ignoring the years of their enabling behavior.
Yes, it does mention that. There are many instances, particularly Israel, who went into the Babylonian captivity because of disobedience to God.
The point is immigrants succeed because of our form of Govt and commerce.. That a person could buy land. That capital was available in a country like no other that enabled people to work and succeed.
..and because there is a self-selection of the ambitious and strong from these depressed countries that gamble on a new life, giving up their old one. America has always "insourced" the best each country has to offer. Our national gene pool is so strong because of that.
Very good point about the "old countries being in the doldrums, while the immigrants make a better life here"
I certainly hope to get to New Orleans. My ancestors lived on Julia then DeLord streets, and my greatgrandmother was baptized in St Patrick's Church. I hope it survived the ravages of Katrina. I have seen pictures on the Internet of the magnificent stained glass windows there, and hope they remain intact. They remind me of a glazier's version of Mel Gibson's Passion.
PS: I will definitely read Ann Rice's Witching Hour. Thanks for the tip.
St PAtricks on camp street is my favorite Church in NOLA. Its the one I attend when I am there. Not only was there hardly any damage it was the first to reopen and is thriving. Many Servicepeople attended Mass there in the early days of the Crisis. They still perform the Tridentine mass and in fact also have a service every Sunday where they perform the Novus Ordo Mass in Latin every Sunday. They have adoration I think almost every day. I was looking at that there site the other day to get mass times because I am going to NOLA next week.
The altar is beuatiful and the Paintings behind it are the most breathtaking aspect of the Church. They have a picture of it on their website I think still.
http://www.oldstpatricks.org/
I don't really believe in coincidences. We were meant to have this conversation today. Now I really must plan a trip to NOLA. Thanks a Million for the info about St Patricks. I am so relieved to know that it is still "in business." This might sound funny, but I feel very close to these Irish ancestors when I go to Mass, so I can only imagine what I would feel to attend Mass in St Patrick's. Wow!
Yes, he is doing something...effectively creating open borders, accepting illegal immigrants at a rate which suits them, not us.
And yet Bush is called a traitor around here, and we worship Reagan--who put us in a far worse position than he started with-- without reservation.
Reagan approached the issue in good faith, but failed. He failed because he tried to combine amnesty with employer sanctions. Amnesty was put in effect, but sanctions were gutted. He failed, but mistakes are made. No one had tried before. Repubs propose programs, but they are run the way Ted Kennedy wants.
W has offered his solution with clear knowledge of RRs results. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
The President will be live from the Oval Office in about 40 minutes - per F&F.
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