Posted on 06/01/2006 10:36:45 AM PDT by 300magnum
As I write this, today feels like a day to just "vent," so here goes...
I'm sick of hearing about high gas prices. The national media is obsessed with the issue, hoping that the more stories they run about big, evil, price-gouging oil companies versus poor, victimized, SUV-driving consumers, the more the American people simultaneously will learn to hate their gas guzzling vehicles and President George W. Bush.
I'm sick of hearing that the president's low poll numbers are due to his handling of the war on terror, especially the war in Iraq. If the self-righteous inventors of The News would stick their heads out of their ivory towers long enough to see past their own political prejudices, they would realize that the president's poll ratings are, in large part, the result of his own abandonment of virtually every conservative constituency he has asked to trust him for the last six years. With the exception of modest (and so far temporary) tax cuts and a couple of seemingly solid Supreme Court appointments (one of which had to be forced upon him), there is precious little in the president's domestic agenda for a social and/or fiscal conservative to love.
I'm sick of hearing Ted Kennedy tell me how unfair it is that the rich have more than the poor. When he redistributes his portfolio among the less fortunate, then I might have a modicum of respect for the old windbag. Until then, he can just shut up and keep his greedy hands off my modest income.
Likewise, I'm sick of hearing John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Arlen Specter and Chuck Hagel blather on about what is fair and decent and right, as if only they have the righteous understanding to know such things.
I'm sick of hearing that everyone has a right to be proud of his or her race, creed, gender, sexual preference, marital status, religion and national origin -- everyone except happily married conservative white male heterosexual Christian Americans.
I'm sick of hearing that Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a radical few. Of the approximately 1.5 billion Muslims in the world today, it has been estimated that at least 150 million of them are in support of the goals of worldwide terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda. That's a pretty big hijacking. If ten percent of American Christians supported abortion clinic bombers, we would all be under surveillance.
I'm sick of hearing political correctness on every TV show. King Solomon was right when he said there is nothing new under the sun, but come on, Hollywood, get an idea in your heads that doesn't involve bashing Republicans, conservatives, pro-lifers, businessmen, Christians, the Pentagon or the NSA.
I'm sick of hearing about all the jobs that Americans won't do. Yank all the "safety nets" out from under able-bodied Americans and just watch how quickly they will take those jobs.
I'm sick of hearing that millions of illegal aliens cannot be removed from our country. Make it a felony to be here and a felony to hire them and watch how quickly they leave.
I'm sick of hearing that requiring people to learn English is discriminatory. You bet it is, and that is a good thing. I was raised to believe that discriminating people were ones with high standards. We have made the word "discriminate" synonymous with "bigotry." That is nonsense.
Finally, I'm sick of hearing that America is a nation of immigrants. I welcome anyone from anywhere who yearns to legally breathe free and who will swear allegiance to my country, but don't call me an immigrant. My ancestors have been in this country since well before the Civil War, and my wife's ancestry extends back before the founding of this nation. Read my lips: as for me and my house, we are not immigrants. We are Americans!
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to federal, state and local candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
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I'm sick of all those things too, and I'm not even American. An awful lot of those things apply up here as well.
Nice rant, I concur.
Dittos to your rant!
As an addendum: Watch Canada, Americans. And make sure country does not go down the path that we have.
Nice rant. And I'll add one more - global warming. As an added 'Barf alert', I just heard our local movie reviewer on a Philly newsradio station (consider the source) give the Al Gore crock-umentary 3 1/2 stars out of 4. The guy was practically wetting himself fawning all over the movie.
And I am sick of hyphenated Americans. Pick one or the other, not both. If you pick American, I say "Welcome fellow citizen". If you pick the other, I'll help you pack and will contribute to a one-way ticket out of here.
150 million seems a little low.
This brought a tear to my eye. Well done.
I'm sick of "There's a tropical disturbance forming 800 miles east of the Windward Islands and conditions are favorable for further development."
Concur.
This rant should be posted daily.
Bush's low approval ratings, IMHO, stem almost entirely from the immigration/border security/enforcement issue. I remember the first time he made his amnesty proposal. He was riding at about 63% approval in the polls, and the country was very much behind him in the WOT. This was before the 2004 elections. He made that speech, and within a month his approval was below 50%. The problem was that the border security issue undercut everything he was trying to do in the WOT. Even though there had not been a successful attack on US soil since 911 (except I think the plane that crashed the next week was terrorism, just covered up), few people could justify having 130,000 troops in Iraq with our southern border wide open.
I believe the Dubai ports deal was the first shot in the retaliation against Bush and the Republicans over the border issue. It was the last straw for a lot of people. Michael Savage, who is usually ignored by the left media, suddenly got respect and visits from Charles Schumer. The Rats figured out they weren't going to outflank Bush from the left, because moving to the left of Bush wouldn't get them any votes they weren't getting anyway. So, they jumped rhetorically to the right of Bush on immigration. Now, the problem for people who want the borders closed, which is most Americans by a wide margin, is pretty much the same problem we faced in 1992 with Clinton, Bush I, and NAFTA. Most of the American public did not want NAFTA, but a vote for Bush was a vote for NAFTA, and a vote for Clinton was a vote for NAFTA.
The political class wants a North American zone, as opposed to three countries. This cuts across both parties.
BTW, I have no problem with anyone coming to this country to live under the following conditions:
1. Come here to BECOME an American.
2. Learn English. (actually, most of the people who "don't know English" actually do, it's just convenient to pretend you don't in some instances.)
3. Enter the country legally.
4. Come here to add something, not suck on the welfare state like a seed tick.
Thank you! Ditto.
Amen to all that!
"I think that all good, right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right-thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right-thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."
All of the above plus reporterettes standing outside in the snow and telling me it's snowing.
Yeah, what he said. :)
Not so. I would hate driving a Kleenex that got 45 miles per gallon even more. As for George Bush, I still feel affection for him and especially I do when I think of him in the same chain of thought as John Kerry.
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