Posted on 06/01/2007 5:41:16 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
However, now I do not feel alone. Peggy Noonan has a new column up in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal. She has clearly said what has been getting me down. I think I knew what was up, but couldn't put a finger on it. I knew it centered around the immigration debate, and the way our congressional leaders are behaving. That sentiment especially includes Mr. Bush too, but when I read this column, I felt like Charlie Brown yelling at Lucy at her Psychology booth when he yells, "That's it!" when trying to identify why he can't get into the Christmas spirit.
Try this clip on for size :
The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don't even much like the base. Desperate straits have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain. Leading Democrats often think their base is slightly mad but at least their heart is in the right place. This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place.
For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don't like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don't like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad.
But on immigration it has changed from "Too bad" to "You're bad."
The president has taken to suggesting that opponents of his immigration bill are unpatriotic--they "don't want to do what's right for America." His ally Sen. Lindsey Graham has said,
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Duncan Hunter is the only honest conservative in this race.
It’s one thing to do something boneheaded once. See: 1986 amnesty.
It’s another thing to do the same thing AGAIN with that experience as your teacher.
And it’s a totally other thing to then imply that your base is stupid and/or bigoted.
If anyone broke the 11th Commandment it was this administration.
Duncan Hunter is the only honest conservative in this race.
There are other honest conservatives.
Can’t you support your guy without lying and smearing the others? Hunter deserves better.
When it comes to the illegal aliens issue, that statement works both ways: "Base, the president is revolting."
Bush is completely incompetent. I just wish that he and Cheney would walk away now while there is still a Republican Party left.
I can’t believe how Bush always says he has a “strategic plan.” He never had of a strategic plan, I don’t think he even knows what a strategic plan is, he probably heard the phrase in one of his classes at college.
That’s fine, but meanwhile we’ve got to do something about the fact that our country is being virtually stolen, transformed to a bilingual mess dominated by a polyglot culture that is anything but the American culture that has been developing over the past two centuries.
The invaders, now including Muslim enclaves scattered about our country in addition to untold millions of Mexicans and other ‘Latinos,’ are anything but amenable to being assimilated into the now marginally dominant American culture, and have zero or less interest in becoming U. S. citizens. They didn’t come here because they wished to be U. S. citzens, and if our elected officials are willing to sell U. S. citizenship cheaply why should foreign nationals value it highly?
What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. ... What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.
So, the question now is not the one the false pragmatists keep asking (Hey, Pelosi's worse, you don't want that, do you?). The question for conservatives and their right-libertarian allies is "What are we going to do about it?" I say it's time for a revolution in the Republican party, not time for "pragmatism" or looking back on the history of the past two decades to find times that the true heros of the conservative movment stumbled.
But that's just me.
I mean Cheney should quit and let Bush appoint a good successor, then Bush should quit and let the newly appointed VP take over before it is too late.
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 illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.
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I think one of the main groups responsible for this entirely lousy bill is the “conservative” bloc that wanted it their way and made 100% non-negotiable demands for unrealizable objectives. Bush’s first suggestions a year ago needed tweaking, but they weren’t that bad; “conservatives” could have done something then to have some input. But impelled by a combination of Dem sleeper trolls and raving nativist loonies, they instead refused to talk and essentially ended up putting themselves outside the game.
And this bill, passed under Dems that the “conservative base” helped elect, is the result. The bill is rotten, but it’s almost a certainty that it will be passed. Thanks, guys.
Just like Laura Ingraham nailed it in her interview of Linda Chavez this morning...
To think of all those Sore-Loserman signs I printed out and painstakingly taped together. Well, at least next time I can get a Z-visa holder to do the drugergy for me.
I haven't heard or read his speech (yet) but if he said that, well, that's pretty much the end of any support from me.
And the RNC can take that to the bank.
Sad but true IMO.
It is hard to have to say, “No, Mr. President, it’s YOU who doesn’t want to do what’s right for America.”
But I’m getting there.
Ditto here.
Fred has been busy on TV, Rudy is a democrat in republican clothing and Mitt is someone who will apparently say anything to get elected. Hence his flip flop on abortion to get into Mass. State House.
Fred's the man everybody wants and I'm just slightly suspicious of him because he won't talk about things like the NAU and "free-trade" with China.
No, but he can veto it on his own. Too bad he won't, though.
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