I am in complete agreement with your frustration DI. I get so sick of worthless legislators creating more legislation and not caring that the laws we currently have are not being enforced. Why does Bush want our country overtaken by illegals so badly? It's starting to remind me of the Carter presidency.
It's personally beyond frustration for me. I simply cannot continue to defend a man acting so completely contrary to the majority view on illegals and then having the audacity to try to tell us WE are trying to "scare the citizenry"! That is absolutely fricken' outrageous!
I am only one vote and a mute, insignificant voice, but I know there is one huge bunch of Americans that are coming to the end of their tolerance for this crap. That means that eventually those who support his twisted perception, whatever the motivation in each case, will be voted against. This surely will become the biggest coming Prez election issue if it is defeated as proposed legislation ahead of the election. It's time to rattle some serious Congressional caging.
"...to the phones and keyboards, Batman!"
I don't know why Bush wants to give illegals a pass, Tammi. I can't think of any good reasons, but bad ones are plentiful. My wife's parents went through all the hoops for just over twenty five years to come here legally. My wife waited almost 15, renounced her former citizenship, became a naturalized American and served honorably in the Army. How should they react??
I'm perturbed and grumpy about this. Sorry to be so harsh in word. I just can't subscribe to Jorge's rubbish here any longer. Worse than the injustice to legal immigrants, insecure borders are going to get a helluva pile of us killed sooner or later. It is unbelievable that we as a country even have something to argue about here.
Thanks for commenting Tammi. Take good care.
I heard his statements this morning and had to keep from driving off the road.
I just don't know what to think of our commander in chief anymore. It pains me to say that I agree with everything you've said...
I'm eyeing my "VIVA BUSH" sticker on my bumper.
Keep up the good work.
"Keep up the good work."
...What a supportive and kind thing to say as I have done very little "work" here lately. I know it, you know it and still you give encouragement. Thanks, Chief. You're loyal to a fault, as they say. My personal plate is over runneth lately. I need about two weeks sleep and then about a month vacation.
I never saw a "VIVA BUSH" stickie... is it a California thing or an "ET" thing? I like the wittiness even in my rage.
It was very strange driving to work today with my usual full defensive political posture on, only to suddenly realize that my Bush-less truck now made me blend in and look like any other Dhimmicrat around here. No bodacious looks of hatred from passers by and other traffic...
It's a small town and most everybody knows everybody around here. Must have 'em scratching their tiny little heads.
Take care, ET. And thanks.
I too am in agreement. This was the last straw for me. Bush has been bought. The first card to fall was his support of Ariel Sharon in Israel; free speech was next to go with McCain-Feingold; little by little the conservative that I elected in '00 withered away.
The man who ran as the quintessential outsider, the non-Beltway politician, the voice of the common people, has become the very definition of Washington insider.
Betrayal seems to be a family trait. Remember his father's infamous "No new taxes" pledge? And even Jeb caved to the illegal immigration lobby during his governership.
No more Bushes. Tancredo in '08.
Good Morning, IRS.
Yes, yes and yes. You have an uncommonly excellent memory. I would wish for it to be an incurable, rampantly contagious affliction... but it sure isn't. I also recall H. W.'s chastizing of the NRA and cancellation of his lifetime membership. (Although, I have just let my NRA membership of 47 years lapse over the Sheriff Bill Brown endorsement last November... David Codrea's tremendous work in exposing this travesty is alarming and essential reading! Another story and rant for another day. I got to get to it, though, because it is very important.)
I would go for Tancredo in a heartbeat, but I don't think enough of the country would, and NOTHING is worth giving any more chance for the Hildebeast to take the chair. We are so far down the liberal drain that I feel I have to give some creedence to the "electability" contention. We must capture the votes of a large population of essentially disconnected folks who listen to the Left Stream Media and read liberal rag newspulpers. In that vein, I suspect Mr. Thompson would survive and I think he would handily kick Klingon's wrinkled, abundant butt.
I always appreciate your time and insight, Sir... thank you.
Dang DI..I feel your rage all the way here and share it!..I heard Romney interviewed bout this and he was wishy washy too!...I'm sick over it but still fightin the good fight my friend!...Take heart. 
I'm with you here as well...and though I parrot this over and over myself...I was an immigrant, and am damn proud my mom had the fortitude to naturalize us the right way, and it personally insults me when he hear such things.
It's not that it's getting hard to be a Republican, I'm as Stout as ever, and if anything I dig in more, but it is hard to see the "Republicans" in pwer, not acting like Republicans. How am I supposed to try to be positive about my very own party, when the very core of what makes the Republican party seems to be disposable to the spineless and jelly-kneed representatives we have in our Congress.
I'm becoming more and more jaded. Tancredo I could support if he represented more than one issue...while it's easy to react to hotbutton issues like this...I still would rather have a candidate that I had 75% agreement with on all issues, than 100% agreement on one issue, and very little knowledge about how he would treat the rest.
"Just who the hell are you now working for, Sir? The American people or the enemies of same? I see no way that it can be anyone other than the latter."
I began to question him on that when he stated that "You are either with us or you're with the terrorists," then he did essentially NOTHING to fix the problems that allowed 9/11 to happen.
First he did everything he could to prevent a 9/11 commission, then when he was compelled to have one, he limited their time and their budget as much as he could. The silly-ass wimpy report and its sorry, pathetic, too-little-too-late recommendations Bush then failed to implement.
Meanwhile he created a whole new government bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security. If it works as well as the Department of Education, the Koran will be the supreme US law in two decades.
After 9/11, the world was on our side. After the mistreatment of detainees in Guantanamo then Abu Ghraib, under the same general who was sent first to one place then to the other, America is now grotesquely equated to the terrorists.
I don't care that those detainees are treated so much better than what our guys can expect anywhere in the Islamic world; the point is there should be no mistreatment at all, NO EXCUSE. WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS, and if we stop being the good guys, then soon we really will be no better than the terrorists. That goes right back to Bush and his order to "take the gloves off" in interrogation. THANK YOU BUSH for taking the US in that direction!
"This is your ultimate and most serious failing of the American people."
No, this is only a symptom. The real failing is his selling out of his country to money & special interests.
I am a Republican. I liked Nixon. I disagreed with Nixon's illegal activities, but I liked him and I understand why he did it.
I liked Bush 41, although he goofed up on the tax issue -- and has said so.
Bush 43 is the Republican Party's Clinton as far as politics goes, and the Republican Party's Carter as far as foreign affairs goes.
Yes, Angel... rage is the word, too. To me, it's about a lot more than just scraping off a dumb old bumper sticker. His words of chastizement the other day were the ultimate sellout. I am very disheartened.
Hey, Stouty... Great to hear from you. I been reading your excellent posts but have refrained from commenting to avoid having to listen to PR's inane BS (I noticed that a-hole has been over to ET's heckling, too. I'm sure that will get handled swiftly!) He is so insignificant, yet decidedly irritating, I just can't muster the required steam to take his bait and revolve in his constant games and word spin. He's there to entertain himself and I have no time for that crap. (I particularly enjoyed your Chris mathews post of the 29th!) I'm thinking I will start e-mailing you my comments when I have something to say. That way we get to discuss things without his manure sprinkled in. You're doing a great job as always.
I think if you look into those "other issues" you mention, Tancredo is still very much on our side of the playing field. I just see him as a victim of the LSM having been labeled an "extremist" for so long now that he can't shake it. We need a winner and I hope that will be Mr. Thompson.
Hey, hearty CONGRATS on that 1st wedding anniversary, too! Hope your vaca was top shelf! Take care, my friend.
YD! GREAT to hear from you also! I had checked your site for new material recently and became absorbed in re-reading what was already there. Your research efforts are astonishing.
I agree that Bush has done at least very little to truly change our national vulnerability. For a long time, I blamed it on his repeated "caving" to liberal whines for no profiling, etc., etc.... all the modern day PC rubbish. Now, after he has attacked his own Conservative base, i just don't know. I sure recognize that whatever his motivation(s), they cannot be good for America. There is no valid excuse for leaving unattended the things that can be and surely should be altered. I see border enforcement as absolutely basic and the very first priority. It has been six years... this is simply beyond any reason!
And, yes, "Homeland Security" and the '9-11 Comission' are farces, as was 'federalizing' the TSA workers (as if that changed anything besides those worker's ability to get on the federal taxpayer's dole out).
I personally have no problem with harsh interogation, Sir. Something less than actual torture, but intentionally damned 'uncomfortable' and in long duration. I especially believe that duration is the key to breaking them. They are savage murderers and I have no sympathy for their moderate discomfort whatsoever. I do not believe this equates us to their deplorable, unconscienable horrors.
Abu Ghraib and similar happenings were WRONG. It should have been harshly punished and kept quiet (I also recognize the huge threat of public exposure due to liberal whining and worldwide expl
...worldwide exploitation). When it was exposed, the penalties should have been even more intentionally swift and very public. To the point of being more publicized than the crimes! But again, not how it was handled.
I've had enough of Jorge to date and regret us having to wade through his coming additional mistakes until Jan. '09.
YD, as always, thanks so much for your input and views!
Geez, DI.
Look what you made me do...
http://tinyurl.com/2jh7ky
It started as a quick post on how I agreed with you, but as I began to get everything written down, I became more and more upset. My frustration culminated in... yeah...
You're making us think, and keeping us from getting complacent. Keep it up.
ET, I spoke with Jorge and he consulted with Nancy, Al, Chuck and Teddy.
The "consensus" is that you need to attend Anger Management Class immediately. In fact, they recommended that we both go.
We should probably car pool to reduce our 'carbon footprint'...
Shall I plan to pick you up or would you rather swing over and get me?
"“If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an amnesty bill,” Mr. Bush said this afternoon at a training center for border enforcement agents..."
In other words, he might as well have said: If you don't want to scare Americans, just tell them that it's NOT an amnesty bill.
It's also bizarre that he would say this to the Border Patrol.
This nonsense fits in with the idea that Bush is in favor of this North American Union thing.
if you're MAD
punish your country
- VOTE for Hillary
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I'm with you on this one, DI, and I'm leaning toward Fred Thompson, based on what I've seen so far.
Seeing Sandy "Socks" Berger get away with stealing classified documents - and nobody bothered to seriously investigate what was on those documents - was the beginning of the end for me. Scooter Libby will go to jail, and Sandy Berger will probably have a role in Hillary's administration if she gets one.
Bush defends the indefensible (Gonzalez' incompetence, Harriet Miers, etc.) but won't defend what he should - for example, "Yeah, I fired them, Clinton fired them ALL, so if you like that better that's exactly what I'll do." and then rehire the ones he likes.
He ought to be front and center, week after week, hammering the media with the Anbar Awakening and how many children have been vaccinated in Iraq. But he's too busy calling his supporters racists.
Berger was the beginning, and this is the end. I'm DONE defending him.
By the way, thanks for your kind comment and y'all - when you need to take a bumper sticker off your car, it's easier to do it with a hairdryer than a knife. Just sayin'...
kind of funny see you guys on the wrong end of GWB's bullsh!t & threats. you must have known all along this was his methodology
USpace, I fully expected you to be impressed with this bunk (not) and you never disappoint. Your usual sharp, spot-on comments...
What a perfect dissection of his words and true directives you made here:
"he might as well have said: If you don't want to scare Americans, just tell them that it's NOT an amnesty bill."
You are clearly correct. Yeah, and he made his comments to a room full of BP Agents! Wow. I would have loved to see a scan by camera of the facial reactions.
I had not considered the NAU as his possible motive, but I am unable to come up with reasoning that would fit better. NAU is something so contrary to anything he claimed to run on that it just seemed off the field to me. I can't imagine anyone but a core deep socialist endorsing such.
You really got me thinking again on that one! Damn, this is an unpleasant picture beginning to form.
I assure you, regardless of party affiliation, I will vote for the closest thing to a Conservative (hopefully Thompson will run), never abstain from the duty and NEVER for the Hildebeast unless I am dead and someone else moves my hand across the ballot!
USpace... Thanks and take care.
Hi Laura... So nice to have you visit!
The Sandburglar on Shrillary's hill is yet another very disturbing vision... you guys are upsetting my stomach as I read these early morning comments.
""Yeah, I fired them, Clinton fired them ALL, so if you like that better that's exactly what I'll do." and then rehire the ones he likes."
Yes. Exactly. I would have stood up and cheered. Do you remember his earliest '00 campaign ads? It was example after example of indecisiveness in the previous admin punctuated with the refrain, "I will LEAD!"
It was well received because that's precisely what we needed so badly then. It even seemed like that was what we were going to have, briefly. I can't decide whether it was his overall scheme or he just trickled downhill caving to liberal pressure.
I guess the 'how' and 'why' doesn't matter near as much as what 'is'.
I agree with each of your points, Laura, and this time I'm sad to say that.
Oh, and I'm not so sure about the hair dryer stuff. I'm fairly handy with my hunting knife. Besides, who wants to be seen with a hair dryer in a holster on your belt in public?!
As always, Laura... thank you.
Glad you're entertained there, lobbey. Sure, we knew all along about his "methodology"... we just didn't care. We do it all for you, you know... Hope you folks can find someone else to back you up when Ahmed and his buddies kick in your door. Thanks for your ever so deep wisdom.
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