Posted on 05/21/2007 8:06:54 AM PDT by Theodore R.
It's Political Suicide for the GOP John LeBoutillier Monday, May 21, 2007
We are witnessing political self-immolation on a major scale.
Right in front of our eyes we are witnessing the Bush-McCain Forces kill themselves politically — and, unfortunately, in the process they may kill any chances the GOP ever had of regaining Congress or keeping the White House in 2008.
Last week's "deal" for what is known as Comprehensive Immigration Reform, code for total amnesty for all law-breakers in hopes of getting their votes once they are given the vote, is the biggest act of political suicide we have seen since . . . ah . . . well . . . since Bush launched us into Iraq.
In fact, these two actions, the pre-emptive and totally unnecessary invasion of a country that had not attacked us and this disgusting act of border treason, solidify Bush as the worst Republican president ever — and the man who has done more damage to our nation than any other.
For decades, LBJ had that honor — as Vietnam and the so-called Great Society have haunted us for 40 years. But what George. W. Bush has done to every institution he has touched is truly tragic:
Our nation's reputation around the world: shattered. We are reviled, disrespected and loathed — thanks to his arrogant treatment of all other countries. (Even our most loyal ally, England, has seen Tony Blair ruined by his support of Bush's Iraq policy.)
Our military: crippled by a useless war with no end, and equally damaged by a weak military leadership without the guts to tell Bush that Iraq can't and won't work. It will take a generation, just like after Vietnam, to rebuild our Army in particular. Story Continues Below
The Republican Party: riding high across the board when he became president. Today? A shell of its former self. An empty vessel which stands for nothing. A party which seems to favor the rich over all others. A party of the Fortune 500 Board Rooms. Period. His father, the first President Bush, so screwed things up that he gave us Bill Clinton in 1992. God knows what is coming next year because of the misguided George W. Bush administration. He has made lefties like Hillary, Edwards, and Obama suddenly competitive — when they should be seen as so far to the left that they'd have no chance.
The American people: shattered with disgust over Bush, the government, the war, the lack-of-caring for our injured troops, and the blatant lies we have been told for years by Washington, D.C. Their cynicism has returned — and who can blame them? One note: Some readers always like to attack Bill Clinton and call him the worst president ever. Well, guess what? His awful behavior, Monica, cigars, "travelgate," and all the rest — were indeed abominable. His amorality is why Bush won over Gore in 2000; Bush's pledge to restore "honor and dignity to the White House' resonated. But this presidency has done much more irreparable harm to us all, and to our country.
9/11 was a golden opportunity — a defining moment — for George W. Bush to take a suddenly re-untied nation and use that unity for great purposes.
Instead he frittered it all away on Iraq. And he didn't need to.
Not if you don’t drink the Kool-Aide. Keep the team intact, fire the coaches.
And the DemocRATs don’t favor the rich? Ho ho ho. Of course they do. The just have willing accomplices in the M$M to hide the facts.
I fail to see how Bush 41 "so screwed things up".
LeBoutillier’s anti-war feelings come through loud and clear.
I have issues with a lot of what Bush has done, but as far as I can see he took the nation to war against terrorist regimes that threatened us and attacked us. Afghanistan and Iraq were appropriate battlefields. He did the right thing. I just wish he would attack Iran.
No, Ross Perot gave us Clinton42.
Twice.
On purpose.
The bigger "F**k you!"
By Michelle Malkin
May 19, 2007 10:30 PM
"When it comes to "F**k yous!," no obscene utterance compares to the George W. Bush-backed, RNC-backed, Kennedy-conspired, fantasy-based amnesty profanity unleashed on conservatives and the country."
David Frum;s Diary
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Immigration Thoughts
http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGJlMjg4ZDcwZjY2NmZiYjZlOWNlZjFhNTA3MGI2YmM=
"With the immigration * compromise * in the Senate, President Bush and the Senators have detonated the slow-motion trigger on a Republican debacle in 2008."
The 700-Plus Page "Destroy the Republican Party" Immigration Bill
May 18, 2007
Rush Limbaugh
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051807/content/01125106.guest.html
"Democrats would love for this thing to get passed and create their new welfare state -- and then the anger in the country over it be directed at the Republicans. The key to this is, there's a Republican president that's going to sign it!"
Bush I, himself, said in one of the debates that the “economy was in the doldrums” even as the recession was officially over.
They’ve severely damaged themselves already by promoting this monstrosity. The only thing that will prevent a 2008, election massacre is the killing of this bill... the building of a wall and severe penalties for those hiring/enabling illegals.
Personally I doubt there will be an attack on Iran under Bush. There may be an attack in the future but not under this President.
No matter what you think on the war - The American military is now a battle-tested force full of combat veterans...it is more ready to take on combat missions than anytime since WWII...
LeBoot is a huge Bush family hater, has been even before W was elected. His talking points come straight out the the lefties’ playbook.
On the issue of Immigration, the President and the RNC as a national party organization appear to be utterly disconnected from much of their base. It raises the question of whether national Republicans are being duplicitous or merely delusional in their support for a species of "reform" that when you get past the legal gobbledygook and loophole logic is a transparent grant of Amnesty.
Let me suggest that the RNC and the President are being both duplicitous and delusional.
Theory: they know it is "amnesty" but don't want to call it that. They - the Elites - think that we hayseeds out here in the backwoods lack the political sophistication to comprehend complex matters of foreign affairs, international trade and economic theory as relate to labor. Really smart people who went to Ivy League schools and are now invited to all the right Washington cocktail parties don't have time to listen to all that boorish, Nativist claptrap, anyway. They seem to lack the patience to try to explain it so that even fools like us can understand. Maybe it'd help if they drew a bunch of pictures in bright crayon colors for us.
In any event, the powers that be have decided that illegal immigration is a fait accompli (French makes things sound so much smarter, doesn't it?) and we can't put the genie back in the bottle (metaphors help, too!). American industry demands the labor of people who are Just Doing the Jobs That Americans Won't Do for us to be competitive. No one really wants to spend all that money building a Wall that will just anger the Mexican government and further alienate our allies. We need to be more culturally diverse anyway, and Hispanics are hard workers who are religious and will eventually vote for Republicans. Sound good? So, let's get past that whole ugly "illegal" thing and start preparing them to be Good Citizens who will (one day) begin paying their own way toward a piece of the American Dream.
Does that sounds like President Bush could have spoken it? It does to me, and that's too bad, because it is delusional. The man who once stood with a bullhorn on top of a smoking pile of rubble that used to be an American Icon and announced a clear-eyed vision of resolve to the world - now sounds like an old insurance man who no longer believes his own sales pitch, but adds a new layer of phony enthusiasm because he really needs to close the deal.
In the meantime, we are on the verge of making permanent the importation of twenty to thirty million largely unskilled non-English speaking workers and their families, along with their medical needs, crime, drug habits, welfare demands, and other social pathologies and expectations at variance with 250 years of American culture and life. And the Republican Party is on the verge of defeat and dissolution, its most loyal members betrayed by an Elite whose shared illusions about the world and their own infallibility have turned them into a sad collection liars and fools. That the Democrats are in their own way far, far worse - is no consolation at this moment.
Frittered it away???? He freed at least 25 million people. We would have to be in the Middle East anyway. You can, of course, have changed timing or location, but the forces of chaos have to be addressed somewhere sometime. Like it or not the civilization depends on the free flow of oil. Oil does not flow amid chaos or under the watchful eye of OBL. Do you like living in a tent? No jobs..zip nada? Oil is what makes things happen and Middle East is where the oil is. You can wait 50 years for shale to replace oil from the middle east? Alternatives take far too long to develop. If you want to blame someone, blame Eisenhower for turning over the oil fields to camel jockies from the desert. Bush is a bad President for the following:
1.Prescription Drug
2.McCain Feingold
3.Immigration
Those 3 make him competitive with Jimmy Carter for the worst President ever. This immigration bill finishes the country. What #1 and #2 could not do was destroy the country and the party. Alas, #3 accomplishes both.
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
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