Posted on 05/22/2007 3:41:30 PM PDT by dennisw
“How can Washington, after the Farmers Branch election where 2/3 voted in favor of measures to curb illegal immigration, still feign ignorance?”
Isolation. With an 11-months-a-year Congress, they spend all their time in D.C. The whole time they’re there, they get their news from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the four TV networks. And the only people they talk to are their staffers, other congress-critters, bureaucrats, and lobbyists.
Back before air conditioning, Congress used to take August (and most of July) off. Everybody went back to their districts, and had to live with (and answer to) their constituents for a month or so. Now they only get home for fund-raising, which by its nature limits their contacts to people who already agree with them.
And there’s another factor. Today nearly all Senators and many House members can be described as “very wealthy.” The high percentage of rich people (some very rich) is a significant change from 50 years ago. When “very wealthy” people return home, it’s to the country clubs and gated communities. Even in the red states, the circles Congresspeople move in tend to be internationalist and fuzzy-liberal. And the only “average citizens” they’re likely to encounter are the illegal aliens who do the lawn mowing.
So yes, I can understand the ignorance. Of course they’re ignorant. They spend their whole life in a bubble, and they just don’t f*ckin’ know it.
..use to like him...not anymore.
When Bush started pushing this garbage about two and half years ago, I had to stop watching Hume's show. Barnes and Kondracke blindly parroting the Bush's anal retentiveness on Mexico made me lose all interest broadcast "news" and opinion, in general. I don't remember the last time I watched Hume's show.
I won't listen to Tony Snow any more, either, for his part in toeing the Bush refrain on it, either.
I’m ashamed.
“Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe...”
Fred Barnes: all Clark Kent, no Superman.
People like him are exactly what’s wrong with the Republican party....he’s a little 4-eyed worm.
It is getting increasingly hard for me to watch Fox.
I feel your pain....
Agree 100%
Barnes was on Hugh Hewitt last Friday and Hewitt was having none of it from Barnes.
“There is NO sin except Stupidity” -— Oscar Wilde
Can I get an amen?
Patriots....Pray tell.....how could anyone support chicken ranchers, motel owners, turkey pluckers, under the table contractors and attorney slime who want American tax payers to pay for illegal alien health care, college educations, their legal bills etc.
Put them out of business...Hunt them down with impunity. Turn them into the IRS, State Labor Law Agencies.... make every Patriot a whistle blower....
Remember it is us against them. They are out to ruin our culture and make us pay for it before we are put into poverty too. They are slave masters making slaves out of immigrants and we get to pay the welfare bill...
How could anyone in power sell us down the river like this...disgusting.
I don’t know about foreign ownership in the exchanges. But I can make a call and find out.
Murdoch has interests, but He is now an American citizen.
“Oh gee you’ve got to be talking about Jonathan Hoenig”
Bingo!
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