Peggy Noonan and The WSJ Editorial - It's Time to Revolt!

Red State ^ | June 1, 2007

[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,

[atomicpossum]

“Mr. President, the base is revolting!”

“You said it, they stink on ice.”

[PeterFinn]

Bush can go pound sand. I supported that jerk at the protests in 2000 and then I campaigned for the SOB in 2004 only to have him turn around and call ME unpatriotic because I don’t support illegal immigration? F*** him.

[Clintonfatigued]

Peggy Noonan is right. The GOP establishment did not learn anything from the 2006 elections.

[Sprite518]

Does anyone think Bush may pass this Amnesty Bill by Executive Order?

[Clintonfatigued]

At the risk of sounding disloyal, I’ll be glad when Bush leaves office.

[kara37]

I don’t think they will learn anything from the 2008 election either.

[wtc911]

ditto.

[Clintonfatigued]

If he does and word gets out, it will blow up in his face.

[Maynerd]

Bush can go pound sand. I supported that jerk at the protests in 2000 and then I campaigned for the SOB in 2004 only to have him turn around and call ME unpatriotic because I don’t support illegal immigration? F*** him.

BUMP!

[Sprite518]

I do not think they care about winning the elections. This why that Republican phone bank got shut down. The get their money from the Big companies that want this amnesty bill.

[BeckB]

This is a power grab by our government. They would love 20 million uneducated people seeking handouts. I suspect the new media and efforts toward voter identification has given the cause for concern that U.S. citizens may not be buying into all their progaganda. Who knows, we might even demand they give up some of the power they usurped over the last few decades.

[Sprite518]

How? He is obviously not up for reelection?

[Ronin]

I just might change my handle to BushedOut!

At least with Clinton we knew he was the enemy from the start.

I am deathly tired of this administration.

[familyop]

Then why nominate more of the same?

Immigration Profile of Sen. Fred Thompson
Served in Senate: 1994-2003

Nominate Duncan Hunter instead.

[true_blue_texican]

I’ve wondered that very thing. I don’t thing he would at this point. But who knows.

[jrooney]

Oh Please. Peggy Noonan has been on a personal vendetta against GW since she was turned down for a speech writer job by him. That is right, she wanted to work for him and got turned down. She is a pathetic. Ole Ronald Reagan would kick her ass to the curb for not following his 11th amendment, thou shall not speak ill of another conservative. That same Reagan, which I liked very much and still do, gave the first real AMNESTY WITH NO BORDER ENFORCEMENT. No POTUS is perfect, just as none of us are, our kids, family or friends. Many of you forget that.

Oh how some of the take our ball and go home conservatives forget. Immigration is a problem but no one has ever dealt with it effectively. Can GW sign a bill on his own? No. It needs to be approved by Congress first.

Where in the hell was Newt when he had control of a conservative House? It was not a priority for him!!!! Why is Newt getting a pass? Congress in 2002 to 2006 could have sent an immigration bill to GW to sign that included border enforcement first with a fence, punishing employers severely and than somehow dealing with the illegals here. They did not. Many of you take your ball and go home freepers here forget that.

What type of bill do you think will get by Pelosi and Reid now? One that is not near as good that Newt or Frist could have passed.

[RetiredArmy]

I feel the same way Peter.

[RichardMoore]

I've been saying this for seven years: the democrats and the republicans are both working together to move forward the ideas and plans of the CFR

This is just the tip of the iceberg. They want to unite Mexico, Canada and the former USA. Mitroikin walked out of the "former" Soviet Union with thousands of names and dates of KGB activity. Much of it involved media and government agents of the KGB that were imbedded here in the USA.

Litvinenko had been working with the Italian Gov't's MITROIKIN COMMISSION to uncover KGB/FSB agents in the Italian Gov't. PM Prodi was one that Litvinenko fingered. He has resigned and Litvienko was poisoned last November.

[RichardMoore]

The difference here is that President Bush signed a bill into law that calls for 857 miles of double fence along the border. This bill seeks to reduce it to 300. So far only 12 miles have been built. President Bush is showing that he doesn’t respect his own signature on a law. What kind of conservative is he?