The Day I Missed
....traveling to the usual undisclosed location to attend my father-in-law's funeral tomorrow. Six-hour drives are a real drag, even if I only had to cover three and a half hours of it.
A brief look around my usual surfing circuit yields some varied observations:
***Dean Barnett sees the Democrat motivation behind the illegal immigration amnesty as pure numbers - i.e. twelve million (and counting) more votes in their electoral column. He sees John McCain as precisely what he is: an intellectually vacant narcissist. He doesn't get why Republicans are caving to this turkey any more than the rest of us. But he suggests there's still hope that there's enough of a connection between the Pelosi/Reid axis and reality that the Speakerette and SML will realize how manifestly unpopular this "compromise" is before it becomes law with Donk fingerprints still on it. Of course, this is the same Dean Barnett who thought the GOP would hold both houses of Congress last fall, so caveat emptor.
***Admiral Morrissey points out how the Dems passed a budget blueprint yesterday while the immigration furor was raging (perhaps the latter was a diversion?) that gushers spending upward far faster than anything Republicans did over the past few years. As well as, of course, lets the Bush tax cuts expire, which is another way of saying it raises taxes massively without their having to leave their fingerprints on the hike. Are the American people even paying attention? How about the avenging angel right-wing purists who thought they were "teaching the Republicans a lesson" by letting them get replaced with the REAL "party of government"? Gosh, they're certainly getting their payoff, huh?
He cites a Gallup poll about the proposed federal hate crime law expansion that is obviously either a hoax or a HUGELY rough draft.
And, last but actually first, he is still trying to put lipstick on the amnesty pig. Wonder when he'll finally concede that he's pissing into hurricane-force headwinds.
***Brother Meringoff relays Jack Murtha's runaway prickdom, which would earn him a stiff reprimand at minimum for flouting House rules if the House Donk leadership wasn't a pack of corrupt, lying scoundrels.
***Jim Geraghty had a very good day at the (shudder) HillarySpot.
on a very recent parallel to the immigration sell-out:
Ouch. Wish I'd thought of that one.
And this suggested GOP rhetorical template when addressing their Democrat "colleagues," which fits "Sailor" about like ski boots on a centipede:
Sh'ya, THAT'll be the day.
Lastly, J-Ger takes his crack at getting through the "realist" Morrissey bubble:
Illegal immigration amnesty is an issue that has moved beyond the possibility of broad public consensus. The people at large don't want it, the center-right REALLY doesn't want it, and official Washington, for reasons cynical and inexplicable, refuses to listen. That's the formula for a collision course, and that cataclysm isn't gonna be pretty.
You'd think Republicans wouldn't want to be at ground zero. Pity they're not thinking, or I wouldn't have to squander my time pondering such unnecessary quandaries.
A brief look around my usual surfing circuit yields some varied observations:
***Dean Barnett sees the Democrat motivation behind the illegal immigration amnesty as pure numbers - i.e. twelve million (and counting) more votes in their electoral column. He sees John McCain as precisely what he is: an intellectually vacant narcissist. He doesn't get why Republicans are caving to this turkey any more than the rest of us. But he suggests there's still hope that there's enough of a connection between the Pelosi/Reid axis and reality that the Speakerette and SML will realize how manifestly unpopular this "compromise" is before it becomes law with Donk fingerprints still on it. Of course, this is the same Dean Barnett who thought the GOP would hold both houses of Congress last fall, so caveat emptor.
***Admiral Morrissey points out how the Dems passed a budget blueprint yesterday while the immigration furor was raging (perhaps the latter was a diversion?) that gushers spending upward far faster than anything Republicans did over the past few years. As well as, of course, lets the Bush tax cuts expire, which is another way of saying it raises taxes massively without their having to leave their fingerprints on the hike. Are the American people even paying attention? How about the avenging angel right-wing purists who thought they were "teaching the Republicans a lesson" by letting them get replaced with the REAL "party of government"? Gosh, they're certainly getting their payoff, huh?
He cites a Gallup poll about the proposed federal hate crime law expansion that is obviously either a hoax or a HUGELY rough draft.
And, last but actually first, he is still trying to put lipstick on the amnesty pig. Wonder when he'll finally concede that he's pissing into hurricane-force headwinds.
***Brother Meringoff relays Jack Murtha's runaway prickdom, which would earn him a stiff reprimand at minimum for flouting House rules if the House Donk leadership wasn't a pack of corrupt, lying scoundrels.
***Jim Geraghty had a very good day at the (shudder) HillarySpot.
on a very recent parallel to the immigration sell-out:
Two words for anybody who thinks this immigration bill is a done deal, and there's no way enough opposition builds: Harriet Miers.
Ouch. Wish I'd thought of that one.
And this suggested GOP rhetorical template when addressing their Democrat "colleagues," which fits "Sailor" about like ski boots on a centipede:
"Unless my vote is needed to shut down your lame we-give-up proposals, I'm not even going to bother to show up for your pathetic attempts to win the approval of the rabidly antiwar 60s-acid-flashback types who celebrate our every defeat and avert their eyes when our military succeeds. You know these lets-get-out-now bills aren't going to pass, I know they're not going to pass, so why waste everyone's time with them? My time can be better spent talking with the American people, and your time can be better spent on land deals or something."
Sh'ya, THAT'll be the day.
Lastly, J-Ger takes his crack at getting through the "realist" Morrissey bubble:
The immigration stance of a big chunk of the Republican base is “enforcement now, path to citizenship later, maybe, if we’re in a good mood.” The leadership has offered a bill that is essentially, “a little less enforcement, path to citizenship with some limits that we’re iffy on how it’s gonna get enforced, and, uh… well, some fines that we have to rely on an already not-terribly effective federal bureaucracy to enforce.”
The base doesn’t care if somebody whose previous stance was “hooray for illegals” suddenly changes his opinion; they want somebody to stop the bill! If Ted Kennedy suddenly was hit on the head, had a total personality inversion, and started leading the fight against this bill and killed it, the conservative base would say, "You know, there was always something I liked about that hard-drinking sonofagun."
Illegal immigration amnesty is an issue that has moved beyond the possibility of broad public consensus. The people at large don't want it, the center-right REALLY doesn't want it, and official Washington, for reasons cynical and inexplicable, refuses to listen. That's the formula for a collision course, and that cataclysm isn't gonna be pretty.
You'd think Republicans wouldn't want to be at ground zero. Pity they're not thinking, or I wouldn't have to squander my time pondering such unnecessary quandaries.
posted by JASmius at 10:25 PM
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