Posted on 05/26/2006 8:08:46 AM PDT by Tirian
The Bush administration and Republican Senators have badly misjudged both the attitudes of most Republicans (and, of course, most Americans) toward illegal immigration, and the intensity of those views. While we have opposed the Senate plan, we have been pretty mild-mannered about it. So I'm turning the microphone over to my friend Bob Cunningham. No one I know of argues immigration-related issues more cogently. Equally important, no one I know of conveys the white-hot anger and sense of betrayal that millions of Americans feel about this issue more effectively.
We know that this site is widely read in the White House and in Congress. To all Republicans in Washington: please, please read what follows with care, and understand that Bob speaks for most Americans and the overwhelming majority of Republicans:
Here's what they're missing, and it is the principal reason, in my opinion, WHY the anti-ILLEGAL forces are so upset -- and so powerful.
It has to do with the bad faith, calculated deceit, Orwellian propaganda, dishonest sophistry, misdirection, arrogance, presumption, indifference to, and, indeed, contempt for the beliefs of huge numbers of ordinary Americans -- including LEGAL immigrants and Hispanic natives! --- on the part of political/media elites.
Let's recognize that the political process has --- democratically --- designated the illegals AS illegal. Why? Because we, as a nation, decided that their presence -- NOT themselves per se (as the false attribution of racism would have it) --- but their presence in such numbers for such purposes (the phony Jobs Americans Won't Do/Jobs Americans Are Not Doing) is undesirable. There are perfectly reasonable grounds for that judgment. When did we vote for the Mexification of America? ANS.: NEVER....Indeed, going back to the 1965 immigration "reforms", assurances were REPEATEDLY given (Kennedy) that such reforms would NOT lead to an influx or demographic change. And guess what? The burden of proof is NOT on the nation to justify this stance.
Period. Full stop. End of discussion.
Since these elites don't like that decision now they want us to accept a fait accompli..and more! They feel perfectly justified in collaborating in the subversion of our democratically enacted immigration regime --- with crass, narrow, economic special interests and with others having perhaps more sinister designs. Their objectives --- open borders, a free flow of cheap labor --- are plain now for all to see. Some no longer even bother to pretend otherwise.
Given that, there is NO REASON to believe ANY of their promises --- the "wall," enforcement of "tough" conditions for a "path to legalization/citizenship" or limits in a "tough and smart" "temporary" "guest workers" indentured servant-helot program. We also know that the very underlying rationale itself for "temporary" "guest workers" (the economically illiterate JAWD/JAAND) is in DIRECT CONTRADICTION to ANY arbitrary "limits"....Indeed, the very claim itself that deportation is "impossible" renders the enforcement promises self-refuting! We should all ignore the false promises and intentional non-feasance in the past?...and do I even have to mention the Simpson-Mazzoli fraud? "This time it's different"?....we REALLY mean it now?....
The ultimate retort of the immigration celebrationists --- let us call it the "immigrants are good people" argument --- is totally beside the point. It is an assertion that no one would disagree with, but it is also an argument that has NO internal LIMITING PRINCIPLE. There is, on its own terms, no non-arbitrary basis for excluding ANY ONE of the 6 billion non-Americans. Other than criminal disqualification, most of them, are, indeed "good people"....so what?
Well, we already decided the question of numbers and limits...and the political/media elites, in conjunction with the scofflaw employers, do NOT have standing to subvert the democratic decision made, upon deliberation, several times in reliance on what we now can see were plainly false promises.
Never again.
same here. In MN, it's hard to tell the republican'ts from the demonrats.
Where you constantly err..........deliberately, I'm sure...........is insinuating, or saying outright, that those of us who support President Bush are not conservatives.
It's a bogus accusation, and somewhere inside, you know it.
Now please, don't ping me to threads with the sole purpose of insulting me. I prefer to choose my own battles, thank you.
Official Announcement: The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed!
Damn, it just doesn't get more accurate than that!
The very first sentence, the basis of this article is wrong. They know how we feel, they just don't care. They have plans and we the lowly citizens are not gonna get in their way.
And I believe that both types are part of the "Base," just that some are willing to stick with the GOP whereas others are willing to distance themselves from the GOP (or disapponted that the GOP is distancing itself from them).
What say you?
This has the makings of a real good tagline. Hope you don't mind if i borrow and paraphrase....
I'm plenty mad at the GOP.........my two Senators in particular, and they know it. But when it comes to the future of this country, and the possibility of throwing it into the hands of the treasonous left because we're mad at those who are with us 70% of the time, that's where I draw the line.
It is my deep and fervent view that no real conservative says there is no difference between the Republicans and Democrats. There are too many issues on which there is a vast gulf between the two for that view to have any validity.
The time to push out RINOS is during the primaries. In this state, the choice is between DeWine (whom I voted AGAINST in the primary), and a left wing extremist Sherrod Brown. No one who cares about the future of America would allow Brown to be elected, no matter what DeWine has done.
Got to go now.
There is more security at the Rayburn building right now ...than there is on the whole border....wimps..they really are wimps.....
Bingo! I think you found one of them Jobs the American Right will not do, Marching in the Streets!
Sad but true.
it should be known as THE LEAVE NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BEHIND ACT of 2006.
And Bush is supporting this and I was publicly on FR backing Bush. And many of you on FR were trying to warn me that this is a bad bill. I have seen the light now that the ugly details are being made known.
Crossroads for the Republic, if we want to keep it.
Apparently those in D.C. don't.
The question you must ask yourself is this:
Did We the People give the federal government and the industrialists the authority to strike the borders, transform the rule of law into the rule of men (amnesty), and surender our Constitution to a foreign power (North American Union and Vicente Fox)?
That is what is happening right before our very eyes this very minute.
And I'd like to thank the U.S. Senate for their clear answer to that question yesterday. Now if we can only get the House to agree with the senate we can all go back to sleep again and stop all this gut-wrenching confusion over such a simple matter as whose country it is to give away.
/whatever
"Time to turn out some Republicans. This means either don't vote, or vote for the Dem."
No, vote for a better Republican in the primary.
I understand your point, but right now I may just not vote at all. If there is no difference between a Dem Senate and Republican Senate why should I vote?
3 reasons...
JUDGES,JUDGES,JUDGES
A rancher near here, whose ranch is literally on the border; fell in love with and married a Mexican lady. They applied to do everything legally and it has been a nightmare. You cannot imagine the teasing they have had to put up with- it is plain to everyone she could have simply walked across, and no one would have been the wiser.
Immigration for those trying to go the legal route is a nightmare, and that is what should have been addressed with any reform. Now I don't see how if this new Immigration scheme passes it won't bog down the system and make it even tougher on those trying to follow the law.
I disagree. If you are thinking of not voting, stop right there. If you do not vote how will the pubies know you are opposed to their actions? Well, of course the answer is they will not know. So instead of not voting, let the pubies and the rats KNOW they lost your vote.
How? Easy. Vote third party.
If the pubbies can't get this very simple issue of the illegal aliens right I am voting constitution party. It will be a counted vote that the pub AND rats will see THEY DID NOT GET.
All four of mine (senators from Oklahoma and Georgia) are in the NO column.
Thank you, Sen. Inhofe, Sen. Coburn, Sen. Isaakson, and Sen. Chambliss.
I have voted for three of these good men (not in the same election!). I couldn't vote for Sen. Coburn when I lived in Oklahoma because he was then running for representative and I wasn't in his district. But I was really pulling for him.
Are you telling me that the Congers of the United States is not protected by a virtual wall?
Note: Congers are eels. Thanks to Pogo's Walt Kelly for this designation.
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