Every one of us should find that information, talk to our County and State reps, our school board reps and get the cost, scope and justification for putting three recently arrived children from Somalia into a neighborhood, Engish speaking grade school or on a medical benefit entitlement. I can't waltz into Ramsey County and be approved for a transportation and housing voucher. I live in a County next door. Why can someone from Thailand, Honduras, Somalia or Lithuania warrant immediate enrollment and State authorization?
I guarantee you, none of the regulars on these "We're being swamped by Manitobans" threads have done ONE LOUSY THING besides grouse at Bush to address their injury and outrage at their local level. Where services are approved, managed and provided. And, funded.
It's not Bush. It's local bureaucrat functionaries, unfettered local Judges and money grubbing/money donating lawyers, immigrant groups, ACLU offices and Democrat/Socialist enablers. Let's figure it out, and get the problem attacked at the source. Why are our property taxes, sales taxes and fees being used to feed, house, school, nurse and support someone fresh off the truck from Iceland or Monaco?
If we have a problem with the Senate management of the nomination filibuster, let's find a powerful way to express ourselves. That is letting the NSRC and George Allen, the RNC, our State GOP Campaign Funding orgs and our political rainmakers know that we want action, our financial support is under temporary torpor, and we want them to let sleepy Senators like Hatch, Specter, Dominici, Stevens and McCain who don't want to upset THEIR wink-wink agendas by engaging in two fisted street fighting with the Democrat termites.
That's the stuff we can do. Firing off angry missives to Bill Frist do nothing. George Allen informing the GOP Senate caucus that the money folks are pissed, and closing their wallets, gets attention. Lisa Murkowski, Ben Campbell and Arlen Specter need to filibuster a PBS/NPR/NEA funding bill, let the people of Russ Feingold, Dick Durbin, Tom Harken, Tom Daschele, Evan Bayh and Barbara Boxer's state know why they are blocking the New England Dairy Compact giveaway that sticks their dairy farmers in the arse.
With the CFR reforms, we individual donors are more important than ever to the National Parties and the individuals seeking re-election. Why let Feingold, Boxer, Daschele, Schumer and the Dem Senators of Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois get away with screwing their farmers over to bribe Teddy, Leahy, Jeffords, Kerrey, Dodd and Reed. Make that a contentious issue, that's how cowardly Democrat Senators abandon the Judge, ANWR and Partial Birth Abortion filibuster nonsense. Make Feingold and Durbin take on Leahy and Kennedy. Or, use that confrontation as a lever to get the Bush nominees through the obstruction and onto the Bench.
Ragging about the gutless GOP Senators on FR is useless. They're on our team, we just don't have enough of them and the old fossils in charge don't like their comfortable pork, regulatory and independent power fiefdoms interrupted or compromised. So, we write Allen, we write Gillespie, we write our state parties and we write to interested parties like Sanford, Murkowski, Thune, Collins and Snowe, Gregg and Sununu ... the folks who need our support in 2004.
That's the kind of stuff we could be cooking up in the FR lab. Not another thread on India's growth in outsourced call center and network management investment, how the Matricula Consular card is a Bush scheme, or why Bush's Roadmap for Peace is causing Israeli's to be killed by homicide bombers.
Nah, it's about layoffs and the GOP and inhuman betrayal. Pffffft. These jerks don't want to achieve conservative victories. They want to blow stuff up. If they'll do it to the GOP, they damn sure will do it to Free Republic as well.