They just want to drive, don't ya know.
Posted on 08/25/2002 12:50:21 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Recently, I did an interview with Focus on the Family in which I stated that pro-family conservatives are not motivated to vote in the upcoming elections in November 2002. While I stand by that statement - because it is true - I was contacted by a high level White House staffer who pointed out all the reasons he believes that pro-family conservatives should be motivated to get out there and support President Bush. Taken together, it is a pretty impressive list. I will mention some of the items on his list, but by no means all of them, for purposes of discussion.
First there is the passage of the tax cut and the effort to make it permanent. Then, there is the nomination of excellent judges and the defense of those nominees who are encountering opposition for partisan purposes. President Bush rejected the International Criminal Court. He got us out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and thus paved the way for a missile defense system. The Ashcroft Justice Department, directed by the President, opposed partial birth abortion in the Ohio case and opposed euthanasia in the Oregon case.
The President opposed human cloning and has pushed for the right legislation in the Congress to ban it. The President opposed taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research. The Justice Department has supported the correct view of the Second Amendment.
The President has pushed for energy independence. He signed the parsonage tax credit bill and the Born Alive Infant Protection bill, during which, at the signing ceremony, the President made the strongest pro-life statement coming out of the Oval Office in a couple of decades.
The President signed the Child Custody Protection Act. In the Prenatal Health Insurance Bill, he insisted that the definition of eligibility include the fetus. In the House he pushed for a welfare reform bill where marriage, work and the family are central.
The President rejected the United Nations Rights of the Child Treaty. He rejected funding for the United Nations Population Fund. He raised abstinence education funding to a record $300 million.
In addition, the President has praised single sex schools, highlighted the Boy Scouts, and condemned the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling removing "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.
My White House friend says that the whole demeanor and atmosphere in his place of work has changed. He is right about that. No more pot smoking, condom swinging, late night liaisons with teeny-boppers at the White House. It is a dignified place to work once again.
Now, in fairness, all of this has to be weighed against the sight of the president and Teddy Kennedy working together to pass the budget-busting education bill that threw out vouchers on day one. And there are liberal holdovers at the Justice Department and others departments pursuing policies that should be rejected by a conservative administration. Moreover, the administration seems to have a weakness toward homosexuals. Not only have there been a number of high level appointments, but the Justice Department, under the leadership of one of the heroes of the religious right, had a so called Gay Pride event. The President signed into law the so-called campaign reform law which has hurt the ability of every pro-family organization to explain to the voters the records of the Members of Congress or the positions of the challenger candidates. Then there is the huge agriculture subsidy bill that undoes most of the excellent "Freedom to Farm" reform effort of 1996, with most of the money going to big farm conglomerates, doing little for the family farm.
And now the Department of Health and Human Services has ruled that the government can share medical records with employers and insurance companies without your consent. And HHS is pushing a plan to deal with 9/11 type medical emergencies that all but does away with any remaining states' rights.
Again, I could go on. You will have to determine which list means the most to you.
But of the many good things the president has done, almost no one knows about them. I was speaking with some Midwest grass roots activists, who pride themselves on knowing what is going on. I read them the list from the White House staff member. They were shocked. They had heard of only about a quarter of the items mentioned. If folks like this haven't heard the good news, it is a lead pipe cinch that folks in the precincts know less.
If the Bush Administration expects to motivate voters for this fall, it had better learn to tell its story, short and sweet. One way that might be done would be for the president to cut a series of radio spots to be played in states where the stakes are high.
But what the heck, my advice on such things is never followed anyway.
"Now let us work toward the goal of using the assets of this continent, its resources, technology and foodstuffs in the most efficient ways possible for the common good of all its people. It may take the next 100 years but we can dare to dream that at some future date a map of the world might show the North American continent as one in which the peoples and commerce of its three strong countries flow more freely across their present borders than they do today. "
Did he say that while signing the amnesty of '86?
That comment (sans the editorial remark about the smile...MAP, do you work for the NY Times?) is about the fact that Bush UNDERSTANDS the REASONS why we have a problem with illegal Mexican immigrants.
Of course, by using NYT tactics, you try to turn it into something other than what it was.
To claim that it was giving some sort of carte blanche to Mexicans to violate our laws, and our borders, is spin worthy of Carville.
Congratulate yourselves.
"I got an offical letter today from President Bush, post marked Crawford, Texas, has the white house seal on the letter head. Did any of the rest of you get one, has to be from the faxes at numbers I have sent.
He says, *I expect to continue to work with the Congress to ensure passage of Section 245i, of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act, which would allow qualified immigrants eligible to become legal residents to obtain residency in the United States with out being forced to leave the country and their families.
Signed George W Bush"
Twice now this President of the Western hemisphere has tried to sneak this through a flurry of phone calls and faxes from irate and frightened American citizens, looks like he's going for the third attempt.
Removing the Clinton/Gore stain from the White House is enough for me for 1st term. I'll decide on merits of 2nd term in 2004 when the big picture of his accomplishments is known. Too soon now for hand-wringing.
"I recieved this post last night from poster calawah98.
"I got an offical letter today from President Bush, post marked Crawford, Texas, has the white house seal on the letter head. Did any of the rest of you get one, has to be from the faxes at numbers I have sent.
He says, *I expect to continue to work with the Congress to ensure passage of Section 245i, of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act, which would allow qualified immigrants eligible to become legal residents to obtain residency in the United States with out being forced to leave the country and their families. Signed George W Bush"
Twice now this President of the Western hemisphere has tried to sneak this through a flurry of phone calls and faxes from irate and frightened American citizens, looks like he's going for the third attempt."
184 posted on 8/28/02 6:14 AM Pacific by MissAmericanPie
Un El día En El la vida de Jorge W. La arbusto
Darkness by design for amnesty move
"At the precise directions of Mr. Bush — the House sneaked through a bill directly related to the student visa fiasco."
But deliberately cloaked in the bill — the first attempted passage was, in fact, to be by unrecorded vote — was the highly controversial Section 245(i) amendment to the immigration law, which allows "undocumented" immigrants (who, to employ plainer talk, are really illegal aliens) to immediately get permanent residency. All they need to do is pay the federal government $1,000 and have a close relative or employer sponsor them.
This decision gives people who come here illegally the ability to skirt American law, to move to the front of the line because they have skirted that law, and to avoid any real check on their past. Without it, they would have to return to their own countries, apply legally, probably wait up to 10 years and go through at least the minimal check of experienced visa and consular officers in the American Embassies.
The fact that this entire scenario was cloaked in the secrecy and deception of a spy novel — it was included in the day's "suspension calendar," which is generally reserved for noncontroversial matters — demonstrates the degree to which the administration is trying to advance its idea of amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in America, perhaps up to 9 million."
I don't understand. Mexicans who've obtained citizenship legally ARE well-respected.
Idiot ... he threatens to turn the lot of them into pariahs with this. Why don't Americans of Mexican origin understand this?
I know ... I know ... might as well ask why women, homosexuals, blacks and disabled don't understand they're being Used either.
The prostitution of voting
I assume this refers to Numbers USA. I have received no such letter from Bush. I have used Numbers USA, I have written letters and sent email to him about 245(i) but I have received nothing.
About a week ago I did receive a 2 page letter regarding 245(i) from Bob Barr. That had to be the results of Numbers USA.
Bush is keeping immigration and amnesty out of the main stream media because he knows he is sitting on a powder keg. Watch for things to start happening following the November elections.
Thanks for the ping.
Actually it was three times.
They just want to drive, don't ya know.
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