Posted on 06/16/2007 6:34:45 AM PDT by kellynla
The S.S. GOP is sinking fast, and it looks like Skipper Bush is going down with his ship. That’s only fair -- after all, he’s the one who torpedoed his own ship with the immigration-reform-bill warhead. Not fair is the fact that he’s taking his party down with him.
I can understand his stubbornness in sticking with this insane program that doesn’t do a damned thing to plug the leaking borders that are allowing the United States to be flooded with all manner and shapes of illegal aliens, some of them terrorists who want to kill large numbers of Americans -- he really has nothing to lose.
In less than 18 months he’ll be history -- one of those curiosities who at one moment wielded the vast powers of the presidency and the next found themselves with all the other John Q. Citizens.
That’s not true of the senators who stand on the bridge with him as the water rises up toward the quarter deck where they can either jump into the life boats and survive, or go down with the ship.
I’m amazed at how many of them appear to be choosing a watery grave. After all, it should be more than obvious that standing firm behind this monstrosity of a bill carries with it the death penalty -- it’s just plain suicidal.
He might not yet fully realize it, but Sen. John McCain has suddenly gone from being a serious candidate for the presidency to that of being a politician with no political future at all. And I can’t imagine how Senator Lindsay Graham could ever imagine that his strong advocacy of a bill that in the blink of an eye turns lawbreakers, some of the most serious kind, into instant legal immigrants could be helpful to his political future. Ditto John Kyl and the others.
If it weren’t so serious, it would leave us laughing at the spectacle we saw when the president went up to Capitol Hill Tuesday to try to revive the bill.
It wasn’t serious politics, it was a joke.
Did he really, seriously think that Harry Reid was going to be his friend and help patch the sinking GOP hull?
Here you have a president with a dismal 30-something-percent approval rating rubbing elbows with a group -- Congress -- that has a more-dismal 27 percent approval rating being led by a guy with a horrendous 19 percent approval rating. It doesn’t get more comedic than that.
These people are living in a dream world, and one that has not yet been shattered by the incredible backlash from Americans outraged to see their national sovereignty imperiled and determined to keep the bill from ever becoming law. The message is loud and clear: kill the damned thing or get ready to pack your bags and head for home because your political career is all but over.
To continue to push for passage indicates that the backers are either stupid, or arrogant and determined to impose their wills on the nation whether the people like it or not. When this bill emerged from the back room where it was crafted in secret by the likes of Teddy Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh took one look at it and renamed it the “Comprehensive Destroy the Republican Party Bill.”
No matter how many Democrat senators back the bill in a Senate they control, Republicans will take the blame for it. Unless the GOP roars back and in one voice makes it clear that their president does not speak for them on this issue, and goes all-out to kill it, 2008 is going to be a sorry time for all Republicans.
The late Sam Francis must be grinning up there in paradise as he watches the GOP prove once again that it is what he called it “the Stupid Party.”
After all, stupid is what stupid does. And when stupid defies the will of the American people, stupid goes under.
Well now you got to build the website. If you’re not sure how to do that you can hire someone out or get a friend to help you. Check around in your local area, you might be able to get a deal if you keep it simple.
It’s not conservative to dismantle your country so that transnational corporations can have unfettered control of borders, customs, infrastructure and the government.
It’s not conservative at all. As we are learning, constitutional guarantees for free speech, freedom of association,taxation without representation, protection of marriage, protection of the unborn,are all vanishing because of this presidency, his predecessor and his father’s presidencies.
He has not ‘conserved’ his country, he is dismantling it.
No he go there to make millions of law breakers legal.
“...because the alternative of having an aggressive, Palestinian-like enemy state on our southern border is far worse.”
Americans love America, and have defended their country against at least three evil Mexican governments...and now our ‘leadership’ refuses to. If you think that the reason Bush is letting the borders remain a sieve is to help America avoid a Chavez-style southern dictatorship, you’re just fantasizing. He’s doing it to help his crony capitalist pals in Mexico keep a firm hold on the country, and trying for amnesty to help his pals in big business keep their cheap labor without gambling on their own personal liability. If Bush were at all concerned about this country and its security from ‘a Palestine-like enemy state on our southern border,’ he’d have built the same style wall the Israelis have built around ‘Palestine’ years ago. He has proven he just doesn’t care—and thinks we’ll buy the lies one more time. Even if he were to suddenly vocalize all the fears you’ve enumerated, he’d still be eviscerated, and rightly so, for not doing anything to prepare for the worst case scenario...especially since conservatives have said after 9/11 that the open southern border is not just an economic and legal travesty, but a military liability.
“I think it’s very sad that the conservative base cannot separate out the issues they disagree with from all the rest of the good this president has done for this country.”
This is NOT a conservative or Republican or Democrat issue. Here’s something to ponder:
A individual leases a used Mansion. They buy the best of the best in remmodeling efforts. Prime paint, custom woodwork. The longest and strongest lasting carpet on the market, hands-down...guaranteed to withstand the most traffic and toughest stain attempts. The yard gets a complete make-over as well. The grass is green, all the hired hands are well paid and the neighbors couldn’t be happier to have them. Even their property value increased.
Nearing the end of an 8 year lease, rumors are afloat that the individual is going to burn the mansion to the ground. Now you have some stake because you also have been leasing a room in the mansion for over (xx) years and you really have a stake in the mansion’s future.
What are you going to do? I see you have but one option.
Should have been done, and while it would have been difficult to swing it in a day, we've had YEARS. I encounter the same "arguments" on this and other conservative boards, and find it difficult to be civil when confronted with such idiocy. No doubt I'll be banned from one or more before this is done.
Harry will let W and McCain pull the scab off as often as they want.
lib/dems - no cajones republicans & jorge bush...all the same...determined to sell out the US to illegal invading hordes...
the new party (will be a fiesta)....and the US tax payers are the pinata!!!
the best words of advice.....start learning to speak spanish!!!!
P.S. If anyone reads that and doesn’t feel like they have a stake in the mansion’s future...it means you have been numbed by socialist thinking. We ALL have a stake in this!
Would you care for a violin so you can play while Rome burns?
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Yeah, sadly I was one of 'em. :(
If this were just about votes and cheap labor, both parties would win by letting this bill die . They already HAVE open borders and a de facto amnesty, so why this bill? Is it just GWB’s stubbornness? If the bill dies, the Democrats and (presumably) the Republicans who want it (ie, GWB) get the credit for trying, Big Business still has what it wants, the aliens can continue to enter and not leave, and the 80% of Americans who are against this bill would be placated (or so they think) . But he insists on pushing this bill! And the only reason I can see (besides stubbornness to the point of mental illness) is to send a signal to those heads of state who were afraid of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, because they feared DC would dominate such a union, and manipulate it in favor of Americans at every turn. After all, if a monstrous bill like this can be passed over the objections of 80% of Americans, then plainly we’re already nothing but a peasant class to be taxed, sent off to wars when needed, and otherwise ignored. Therefore the prospective members of the FTAA/AU have nothing to fear re: US favoritism towards its own citizenry.
1) Illegal immigration is providing a safety valve to keep Mexico from slipping into Communist revolution.
We already have 20 million Mexicans here who, were they deported, have already seen the benefits of capitalism. If they truly knew the dangers of socialism, they would have no choice other than to fight the kleptocracy that has ruined Mexico. We should educate, train, and arm them to do it. Instead of accepting an enemy force within our borders we should do what we can to turn the tables.
Now, lest you think this pollyanish, consider the effectiveness of what we ARE doing... As things are now, our "educators" teach them to fight us, as criminals they develop networks to fight us, and their employers treat them like spit.
Democrats, as usual, are working to ensure America's defeat. To win the long war, we'd best think outside the box or we're through.
It looked a lot worse for GOP fans following '74 and '76 elections. But from out of the past, rode RWR. History will repeat in '08...just as soon as he declares.
Michael is a little too melodramatic for me...he sees the Abyss about every other week.
I should’ve said, started taking steps to seal the borders on 09/12/2001. :-)And I did mean both the Canadian/US, and the Mexico/US borders : There’ve been disturbing reports about islamic terrorist wannabe’s at least, entering via Canada.
Post #10 well said, clapping hands.
“Therefore the prospective members of the FTAA/AU have nothing to fear re: US favoritism towards its own citizenry.”
Excellent post, and your last sentence above speaks volumes!
>>Personally I think Bush has lost his marbles.......<<
I think, like Captain Queeg, he lost his marbles a while back, people have been mentioning it for some time, and now he has made it glaringly obvious to everyone.
Thanks!
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