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Hey man! Long time no see!

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Here's a perfect example of Uncle Bill's propaganda.

That's a link from one of Bill's spam posts.

Of course, his headline is a lie...but when did that ever stop him?

Thanks Luis! I hope all is well with you and your family this blessed season.

Lott's dismal mea culpa tour revealed him unfit for duty. He was lying and meely-mouthed in a manner far too reminiscent of the last guy in the Oval Office and his reign of gutless malfeasance and deceit.

It was right to throw Lott overboard. The GOP has a higher standard of integrity to judge our political representatives. I wouldn't have it any other way. Buchanan railed against the "betrayal" and the "Bush stabbing of Lott in the chest" ... therefore I knew it was the right response and outcome.

I've never understood the folks around here who rue their abandonment by the GOP party. The betrayal, the insult and the hurt ... it's inhuman. Huh? The "party" is not any central committee or ruling body, it is a nebulous affiliation of tens of millions of individuals working through an institutional political vehicle to pursue their wants, needs, desires and interests. The GOP IS the functioning party of conservative ideology and policy priorities. If you want to change the platforms, replace the candidates, challenge the status quo and make a difference you work within the process, persuade a plurality to support your agenda, and win elections.

The U.S. Constitution is still firmly intact, IMO. I've got freedom of speech. I can own a gun. I am not subject to searches, seizures, intrusions and abuses from State agents. I still get my day in court, and I get a jury and it's still THEIR burden of proof. The separation of powers is secure, the institutional hurdles (SEE SENATE) have worked marvelously to forestall severe popular whim and no President can ramrod ANY program or agenda through a committee driven House, a fillibuster ready Senate and an independent Judicial review. This isn't the Nebraska Cornhuskers lining up against the "powderpuff allstars" from "Miss Marie's Cosmetology Academy". The bad guys have some folks working for pay too. Incremental change is what the founders mandated, and our neighbors and reps have been incrementally ramping up the cost and scope of government. We need to ramp it back down, just as slowly but surely. The positioning of jurists who are Constitutionally loyal is job number one. The disempowering of agencies and unelected bureaucrats is job two. It has to be steady and defensable against left wing demagoguery. Or ... the citizens will jump right in and throw us out.

The GOP is not going to reverse 65 years of creeping Statism in 8, 16 or 32 years. That's not acceptable to the American people, who are pretty lethargic, but jump in wit' a vengence when they sense their government is tilting extremely one direction or the other.

Here's a perfect example of Uncle Bill's propaganda

I never like to get personal here, but let's get some dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap truth out about this longtime FR contributor:

Uncle Bill was a bachelor engineering tycoon living in a 3000 sqare foot Manhattan penthouse - yet this single man was employing a live-in British manservant, Mr. French, BEFORE the three orphans (23 year old highschool sophomore Cissy, sexually confused red-mopped urchin Jody and the gifted actress Mrs. Beasely and her talentless prop Buffy) showed up at the front door.

Single 50ish man, British butler, cook and housekeeper, smallish apartment. That's odd some might say. Me.

Uncle Bill lost HIS wife to an untimely death, his sister and brother-in-law were killed in a tragic manner, Buffy jumped out a highrise window to her death while on bad acid, French keeled over with a cardiac three months after final shooting ... Sissy was doing a two girl show with Dana Plato.

Death and destruction. Uncle Bill, you should have lived in a Little Rock highrise, because you are looking to be a one man Arkancide. Anybody seen Johnny Whitaker lately? Tarzan's "little buddy"?

Michael Rivero knew. He knew too much.

"Here's a perfect example of Uncle Bill's propaganda.

Bush wants stamps for illegal aliens

"That's a link from one of Bill's spam posts.

Of course, his headline is a lie...but when did that ever stop him?"

Louie, Louie. You guys are funny, really. Pathetic. But funny. Just what part of Illegal Aliens(noncitizens) do you not understand? Your boy Bush wanted to give my tax money to illegal aliens!! Keep trying though. Hooyah!

House GOP Blocks Food Stamps Plan

Associated Press
By PHILIP BRASHER
AP Farm Writer
SOURCE

WASHINGTON - President Bush's election-year proposal to restore food stamps to noncitizens has run into opposition from House Republicans who would rather use the money to benefit farmers.

The White House plan is popular with groups that represent Hispanics, a voting bloc the White House has targeted.

But a House-Senate conference committee that is negotiating a farm bill set aside the food stamp issue after House GOP members balked Wednesday at Bush's proposal. They want to restrict the number of immigrants who could qualify and limit how long they could get benefits.

"We ought to target those people who are most in need of assistance," said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.

Legal immigrants were cut off of food stamps when Congress overhauled the welfare system in 1996.

Bush's proposal, which was included in a farm bill passed by the Senate in February, would restore benefits to an estimated 363,000 people at a cost of $2.1 billion over the next 10 years.

The proposal "would give a lot of hope to legal immigrants," said Rep. Eva Clayton, D-N.C.

But House Republicans want to take most of that money and shift it into agricultural research and subsidy programs for farmers and landowners.

The GOP negotiators said immigrants should be required to prove they have worked in the country for at least five years and should not receive food stamps for more than two years.

The Republicans also would deny benefits to any immigrants who have ever been in the country illegally for more than a year. Federal and state officials say that restriction would be very difficult to enforce.

"It's hard to see why they (Republicans) are digging in their heels," said Ellen Vollinger, a spokeswoman for the Food Research and Action Center, an advocacy group.

Farm workers, whose jobs are seasonal, would be among the biggest beneficiaries of the White House plan, experts say.

House members of the conference committee voted 8-6 along party lines to support the GOP proposal over the White House plan.

The GOP move also was significant in that it would break an agreement that leaders of the conference committee reached in March on overall spending levels for various sections of the farm bill.

That agreement earmarked $6.4 billion in new spending for nutrition programs over the next 10 years. Overall, the legislation would increase spending for agriculture and nutrition programs by $73.5 billion over the decade.

The negotiators are trying to merge a farm bill that passed the House last fall with the rival version approved by the Senate.

So far, the lawmakers have mostly been staking out negotiating positions on a long list of issues that range from the president's food stamp plan to new rules for farm subsidies.

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said he did not expect the conference committee to make much progress before next week.

The bills are H.R. 2646 and S. 1731.

"The Republicans also would deny benefits to any immigrants who have ever been in the country illegally for more than a year. Federal and state officials say that restriction would be very difficult to enforce."

So, if it's under a year, it's ok. LOL!

Bush's food stamp plan called ethnic pandering