Audio: Teddy Kennedy sings in Spanish, promises illegal alien activist that “We won’t let you down, my friend” Update: Shamnesty’s “too close to call” Update: Rasmussen shows shamnesty support dropping again
7:55am Eastern Monday 6/25. I’m reposting this in case you missed it over the weekend. It should be a good incentive for you to pick up the phone and urge your Senators to vote against shamnesty. It’s down to the wire and it is within your power to make a difference:
Senators pushing a new immigration policy appealed Sunday to wavering supporters ahead of renewed debate on securing the borders and dealing with 12 million undocumented immigrants. A fragile compromise was pulled from the Senate in early June, then resurrected after bipartisan negotiations with the White House. The bill awaits a crucial test vote this week. With several senators distancing themselves from the proposal, the outcome was too close to call.
Update II of the morning: Bizzy Blog thinks there’s hope in George Voinovich’s indecision: Help him decide.
Update III: The latest Rasmussen poll results out this morning…
Rasmussen: Just 22% Favor Stalled Immigration Bill
As the Senate prepares to resume debate the “comprehensive” immigration reform bill, the legislation continues to face broad public opposition. In fact, despite a massive White House effort, public opinion has barely moved since the public uproar stalled the bill just over two weeks ago.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 22% of American voters currently favor the legislation. That’s down a point from 23% a couple of weeks ago and down from 26% when the debate in the Senate began. Fifty percent (50%) oppose the Senate bill while 28% are not sure.
Among the public, there is a bi-partisan lack of enthusiasm for the Senate bill. It is supported by 22% of Republicans, 23% of Democrats, and 22% of those not affiliated with either major party. It is opposed by 52% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 48% of unaffiliateds.
From an ideological perspective, the bill is opposed by 59% of conservatives, 54% of liberals, and 45% of political moderates. Among those for whom none of the traditional ideological labels apply, just 20% are opposed.
Support is found from 20% of conservatives, 32% of liberals, and 18% of moderates.
Just 32% believe it would be better to pass the current bill instead of doing nothing. Forty-five percent (45%) believe it would be better to pass nothing at all.
If the current bill passed, 71% of American voters believe that another bill would be required to focus on securing the border and reducing illegal immigration. That’s up from 65% in our previous survey.
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Originally published June 23, 2007 12:23 AM
Here it is. Teddy Kennedy’s Spanish anthem for shamnesty. He appeared on the top-rated Spanish-language radio show of former illegal alien Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo–yeah, the same guy who organized the massive illegal alien marches last year in L.A. and who chummed it up with Kennedy and RNC chief Mel Martinez last week. Listen if you dare (via Lonewacko):
Man, if that ain’t enough to Kill the Bill, I don’t know what is.
Kennedy, Sotelo, and Martinez chuckle over the Grand Scheme.
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See-Dubya cracks in comments: “Well, he’s…better than Hillary.”
Shudder. I had tried to blot that wretched performance of the Star-Spangled Banner from my memory. Flashback:
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Just another national disgrace. Unfortunately, you can’t point your fingers only at the democRATs on this one. There are as many RINOs jumping on the shamesty bandwagon. Michelle is right. We have to be active. We have to fight this attempt by all of the politicians in Washington to steal our sovereignty. We have to assume that every politician in Washington is against us until they come out and make a public stand. I hate to say it, but our leaders are selling out our country. We have to demand better from them or vote them out.
Well, he’s…better than Hillary.
I sure wish he’d represent the interests of US citizens with as much enthusiasm as he does those who entered the US illegally.
How about a parental warning for things like this? Or some kind of warning, at least. This is a frightful earful before bedtime.
I’m figurin’ someone told Ted it was an old Irish drinking song, hence his gusto in the delivery. But then again, isn’t every song is an old Irish drinking song to Ted?
WARNING: DISGRUNTLED COMMON-SENSE RANT:
I just don’t get it. Is it me? It seems like the world is going insane!
It wasn’t all that long ago that the idea of a US Senator, singing in Spanish – comically badly – in support of illegal immigrants who eat up US jobs, break our laws at a disproportionately higher rate than their legal counterparts and have the bold faced arrogance to march in our streets for – better treatment?!?! - would have been too absurd for even the wildest satirical comedy troupe. Now we have to pull our hair out watching this absurdity unspool as a moment from actual reality.
You know, history is replete with examples of empowered socio-political groups going haywire in ways that don’t make a bit of sense to any level-headed objective observer: The spanish inquisitions, the roman empire when it fell into wholesale debauchery, Nazi Germany, all and many other instances where absurd and socio-politically destructive behavior flourished and was for some reason tolerated by the masses – with invariably dire consequences for those entire societies.
And now we see a well-connected new englander, whose Daddy made his fortune running booze during the depression, who recklessly killed a young girl and handled the consequences shamelessly, with a reputation even among his left-wing media supporters as a boozer who chases girls half his age around in his underwear, who is still in office at the will of the people, and co-authors legislation which would give greedy outlaw trespassers rights even citizens of his own country do not have and then goes out and sings next to another former illegal who has proven to be a rabble-rousing troublemaker in a show of solidarity to … those who flagerently break our laws?!
More politically outlandish than the sardonic remarks of Will Rogers and Mark Twain and more surreal than the nightmare worlds George Orwell and William Boroughs. Insane. Utterly and completely insane.
Why do they keep putting this fraud,,,non-swimmer in office???
I have a 911 theory here.
“Non-swimmer”!
It sounds like some sort of Mexican Drinking Song.
How appropriate.
Mr_Conservative_Cat said:
“now we see a well-connected new englander, whose Daddy made his fortune running booze during the depression, who recklessly killed a young girl and handled the consequences shamelessly, with a reputation even among his left-wing media supporters as a boozer who chases girls half his age around in his underwear, who is still in office at the will of the people, and co-authors legislation which would give greedy outlaw trespassers rights even citizens of his own country do not have and then goes out and sings next to another former illegal who has proven to be a rabble-rousing troublemaker in a show of solidarity to … those who flagerently break our laws?!”
We’re just talking pretty much the end of the USA as it has always been – a nation of laws. But you make that sound like something bad, MrCC.
non swimmer is the girl he left for dead in lake chapp.. Her name was Mary Jo Kopp……….
I recently got an email request to donate money for Bush’s coming birthday.
I sent this response.
Estimado Senor o Senora,
What’s wrong? Aren’t Tysons foods, the Agri-lobby and the Chamber of Commerce donating enough? Let them pay for his birthday party as El Presidente is serving them, not me.
Sinceramente, once a Bush supporter, but never again.
Sheeesh…I don’t know he could sing in Spanish. He was already prepped for a Spanish America?
Someone I know sent this email to his Senator.
Senator you do realize when the President and Senators talk about the jobs Americans won’t do such as picking lettuce and cleaning houses and mowing lawns that you all sound like plantation owners, you do know that don’t you?
White rich elite Senators and one white rich elite President setting up the new 21st century plantation one illegal at a time.
Lincoln is weeping.
It’s called alzimeners, thank God the congress has a pill for that.
I have it on “good authority” that Ted Kennedy is not as much of a boozer as some may think.
He never has more than one drink at a time.
Well sometimes one for each hand, but that’s it, never two glasses in each hand, except on special occasions like the arrival of 7PM.
…..After futher reflection, I realize he is tied to a big hole that was dug for 15 years??
Why does everyone seem so surprised? Why shoot, scientists have been recording whale songs for years now. I linked.
And here we have Trent Lott’s new campaign commercial jingle.
PurplePeep:
“We’re just talking pretty much the end of the USA as it has always been – a nation of laws. But you make that sound like something bad, MrCC”
You know, you may have something. We know that the ultra-left, hates just about any kind of authority you can name because it makes them smaller than their ego-centric view of the world will allow (including God!), so maybe you’ve got it. Maybe hating the USA isn’t enough, maybe the spoiled brat in them wants to actually destroy it.
You made it a joke but maybe there’s something more to it than that.
For me a joke is an ultra-leftie getting a pie in the face. Now that’s funny! Little Theodore singing himself silly doing an imitation of a musical Benedict Arnold is not so funny.
(The above post does not endorse throwing pies at liberals. If you do so and make everyone laugh themselves sore, you do so at your own risk, regardless of how many people may congradulate you when you’re done
Ordinary Americans are becoming oppressed and exploited aliens in America. Looking out for us is out. For the people, by the people, Ted?
Mr_Conservative_Cat said:
“You made it a joke but maybe there’s something more to it than that.”
Actually, it’s commentary cloaked in jest, MrCC.
There’s something in your points as well. I agree – liberals & democrats as a whole do feel at least a subconscious need to srike a blow against “the Empire”. We’re not talking your Mom & Dad’s Democrats here (they’re certainly not my folk’s Democrats).
But I’d posit the urge comes mostly of guilt. Similar to those who feel guilty for being born caucasian – and thus responsible (in their minds) for all evils from Eden to slavery to whatever the guilt complex du jour.
In their minds they are doing a good thing if they can hurt America either by their words or deeds, they are atoning.
And we shouldn’t forget it’s the GOP that’s really leading the no-borders charge. For many of them the short-sighted appeal of unlimited slave labor is too much to pass up.
The union leaders prefer to be plantation bosses and suck in $$$$ in dues rather than being honest bargainers for free men and women.
The murder of the middle class is another result of the no-borders giveaway program. We can see it already, just as we’ve seen working Americans wages suffer as the lowering tide of the illegal’s wages drops all the boats.
Pies are for eating , MrCC. Especially blueberry pies. Them’s mighty good eatin’.
1. Dems for.
2. Gop for.
3. Bush for.
= A represensitive gov that does not listen to the majority.
a.special intrest/lobbists
b.contributions
c.gov not of the people.
There is ONE solution for this travesty bill IF it passes next week.
We the taxpayers should NOT PAY ONE DIME, beyond what come out of our wages, to the IRS! We should all go on strike!
What would happen? There isn’t enough manpower to arrest even 50% of the population. If they cannot manage the illegals, they cannot manage us either.
If we don’t give them the money to pay for all these freebies to illegals, then what? Let the darn senators pay their way….use THEIR wages, not ours!
I am so fed up with what is quickly becoming MEXICO II. I am sooooo tempted to move to another country. Heck, we may as well move to Mexico, become a citizen, move back here illegally and then we get the free ride!
We have GOT to do something NOW. I have written senators, the president (notice lowercase letters for him), and others and have heard NOTHING from anyone.
My town has been taken over by illegals and not to mention the people killed by drunk drivers; ditto illegals. They were getting free passes for drivers’s licenses here for years…NC.
Welcome to TACO TOWN USA….should be our welcoming sign when approaching.
SICK OF IT ALL. Time to Take OUR country back!
IT BURNS! IT BURNS! WHY WON’T IT STOP! YEEEEARRRRGGG!
At least Teddy does better than Shrillary, although not by much.
Yet more from Ted Kennedy Amnesty Mfg. Company. Are we really surprised?
It is very disheartening to read that he proclaimed that he would “not let them down.” The truth of the matter is I feel extremely let down — by any politician who supports Amnesty. I feel a major let down right now because I have the two oldest men in my home off either training or in Iraq fighting. When the government needs our men to serve then their obligation to protect our borders from criminals should become an even higher priority than it was before they empty our bases and homes of men — who usually offer the main source of protection in families. Instead they send our men away and then open the doors to criminals, and even roll out a red carpet. Nice touch there! Thanks.
Thanks a lot Teddy, thanks a lot Bush. This is NOT what my family sacrifices everyday for. This is NOT what my son has put himself in harms way for. This is NOT why they both wanted to defend our Country.
These Shamnesty supporters have totally and utterly disrespected the entire Country. It’s really disgusting.
I am so glad I didn’t eat breakfast before listening to this. If this bill passes, we need to send Ted to Texas so he can sing this to the illegals that are already there waiting to flood across the border. It might make a few of them question whether they really want to come here or not.
There seem to be a few pessimistic posts here regarding our future. I think the whole amnesty thing may be a blessing in disguise. People are making their voices heard unlike any other time in recent history and I am quite sure their voices will be even louder come the elections of ‘08′. History may someday remember this event as the catalyst that sparked the movement in which the average Americans reclaimed their country from the elites. It could be remembered as the time the citizens came together as one and said “NO!” to “immigration without representation”. We don’t even have to sacrifice our lives like our forefathers did to make this happen. We simply have to take time and explain to those around us what is at stake. We have to not only be active but encourage those around us to do the same. If each person who is informed would just sit down with five people who aren’t that informed on the issue(s), expalined it to them, then encouraged them to make their voices heard, not only through e-mails and phone calls to senators now but at the election booths next year, we could reclaim what is ours.
The momentum is there and continues to build. The biggest stumbling block to this actually occuring though will be fighting our short attention spans as a country. If we will just stay focused and remind the Trent Lotts and Teddy Kennedys that we are the ones that truly control this country, it can be ours again in a few short years.
Even if we lose this immigration battle, we can win the war at the voting booths. Our forefathers sacrificed their lives for our country. To win it back all we have to sacrifice is some of our time to make sure that those that truly represent us are the ones elected and that the elites are sent home to retirement.
What is in the minds of the citizens of Massachusettes who keep re-electing this bafoon. Sen. Kennedy is most likely a functioning drunk. I truly believe that many liberals are traitors who hate America and true Americans. I blame the Woodstock Generation for raising a whole new legacy of anti-American slackers. I hope to God some person comes along to right the ship.
I’ll take your idea, and raise you one more!
There was a recent IRS report that 9.5 million returns had names that did not match SSNs. Those are from the illegals that actually take the time to file (and who believe that action will help their shamnesty).
The common tactic they use is to fill out their W-4 and state tax forms with enough exemptions to prevent any payments directly from their paycheck. In the example of the illegal that stole my identity, he files 11 exemptions at every job he take. He also files his taxes, because I was audited for him.
My suggestion is this:
Everyone refile their W-4s with 11 exemptions, and pay the proper taxes on a quarterly basis
I know that it won’t be easy, and not a lot of people have the discipline to hold on to the tax share. And the government still gets their taxes. the benefit is two fold.
1) The receipts will slow, which may give old Teddy a heart attack, and cause Nancy to run for support of the only military she recognizes
2) The people will actually have to write a check for an obscene every quarter
Knowledge is power!
I’ve been a member of the Republican party since I was old enough to vote. Now, I’m hard pressed to find a reason not to drop my membership. With out of control spending, tone-deaf policy decisions, and an increasingly pusillanimous approach on Islamism, they have abandoned the principles that I believe in and party used to believe in as well. The shamnesty bill is foul icing on an already fetid cake. Between Pres. Bush’s race-baiting denigration of anyone who disagrees with this betrayal and Sen. Martinez (whom I voted for, now to my shame) repeatedly shown yukking it up with The Swimmer, I’ve had just about as much as I can stomach.
Anybody want to talk me down off the ledge (metaphorically speaking)?
whore (noun): somebody who is regarded as willingly setting aside principles or personal integrity in order to obtain something, usually for selfish motives.
I don’t want to say that nothing Teddy does would surprise me, because as soon as I do he’ll come up with something worse. I can’t say I’m surprised at Bush or Mcain for doing this either. Disappointed, though. Very disappointed. I hope the groundswell of outrage that is now occuring opens their eyes, but I really don’t believe there’s a prayer in hell for them to bow to the reality of this situation that they’ve brought upon themselves.
When will the politicians learn that it’s 2007 and anything they ever do or say in public, even in a supposedly “safe” setting, will end up on the internet? This is why I am SO looking forward to the campaign this year: YouTube ads ga-freakin’-lore! All those ads I always wished someone would make? Time to make them. Oh this will so find a place in the pantheon of Stupic Teddy Tricks.
What about America? (Teddy is the one on the left, under the guy with the briefcase)
#29 Insomniac,
I empathize with you. At this moment, in my mind, Fred! Thompson is the only hope we have who can turn around our party.
Listen to his words: http://abcradionetworks.com/Blog.asp?id=15663&m=6&y=2007
And read his senate voting record:
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Fred_Thompson.htm
If you then believe the way I do, sign up and give him your support:
http://www.imwithfred.com/index.aspx
He brought me back from the edge.
A complete ass!!
“We won’t let you down, my friend”
I think we know what flag he pledges allegiance to……and for everyones sake, Hillary shouldn’t pledge to any flag.
Kennidy is so confident that the bill will pass,im sure they have it all in the bag. Our president gets what he wants regardless of what the people say,no matter what we think about illegas,at least their presidente FOX backed them up,he was faithful to mexico,he made a deal with BUSH and has earned his name in history, PRESIDENTE VECENTE FOX RECONQUISTA AMERICA!
He’s simply adding singing, loosly defined
to the tune to which he’s been dancing for some time.
Saturday Greetings Mrs. Malkin and loyal community. From the general tenor of this board, and much, much elsewhere, is it fair to say that the “shamnesty” is driven by an unholy alliance of those who dream of a “Republic of Che” and those who would have a “Republic of ConAgra”? Are there two “elites”, both of whom are disappointed in the native “proletariat”, and so are implementing a decision to elect (or import) another? In response to this, is it possible that the “Main Street” part of the Republican party has reached a moment of truth as did the “anti-spread of slavery” people of the Whig party in the early 1850s?
While pledging to not let down 12 million illegals… he(they) are letting down 288 million LEGAL citizens.
The RNC called me the other day asking for money… I said not a dime until you get on the right side of the immigration issue. They hung up! How quaint.
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Good ‘ol Teddy. Hey, what about not letting American citizens down? You know, the people who pay your bloated salary.
Good ‘ol Teddy… Hey, what about not letting the American people down? You know them… They’re the ones who pay his bloated salary so he can have those ten martini lunches.
Kennedy destroys the American worker, particularly in the East Coast, and they and the unions continue to vote for this fraud. Delusional.
This is not a liberal-bash comment- some Democrats are true patriots. But Ted Kennedy is as anti-American as you can be without being arrested for sedition. I have often wondered how this man continues to be so popular in Massachusetts. Let’s see what happens when MA gets overrun with illegal, teenage alien gangsters (that could be a new cartoon).
I clearly remember an article in a left-of-center magazine from years ago that did a profile of Teddy Kennedy and all the exciting things he was doing for foreign relations against that bad, bad, Reagan. In that article, the reporter followed Teddy into some sort of banquet for the Soviet Union that ended with everyone singing The Internationale, the Communist anthem. Teddy enthusiastically joined in the songfest.
So this is nothing new. Teddy has a long history of seeking alliances with foreign powers against his domestic opponents to gain power. The Democrats and the Left in general operates on the rule or ruin principle. They don’t care if they tear down America in their quest for power just as long as they’re standing on top of the rubble.
Some very humourous comments in this thread; I particularly enjoyed the one about the whale songs.
I can’t really tell the difference much between big government republicans and big government democrats. They all seem to be looking to achieve the same thing; only the republicans want to do it slower.
I appreciate it, Danny B. I like what Thompson’s had to say, but am keeping my powder dry for the time being. So far, though, he’s the only Republican I think I could get excited about in the presidential race.
As long as they don’t build any of those horrid, view-obstructing windmills, Swimmer won’t care.
Here is a letter I drafted. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I am sure it will fall on deaf ears, and it will never reach the President, but I needed to write all of this out for my own sanity.
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Dear President Bush,
I am writing to you today as a citizen of the United States of America, as the wife of an American Soldier, and as the mother of an American Soldier who is currently deployed and fighting in the
war on terror in Baghdad, Iraq. Sir, I voted for you. My son voted for you — it was the first Presidential election in which he was eligible to vote. My husband voted for you. We all voted for you because we believed that you would assertively and proactively protect our Country, and that you would address terrorism head on. I am very sad to say that today I am deeply and greatly disappointed.
Mr. President I need some answers from you, and from the members of Congress who support amnesty for illegal aliens. I need to know why you would spearhead a global war on terror, ask my husband and my son to valiantly fight for you as their Commander in Cheif, and then abandon our borders and offer amnesty to those who have so little respect for our Country that they would not even observe our laws that govern their entry. Mr. President, I need to know for my own peace of mind how you are able to reconcile in your own heart and mind that we have witnessed thousands of our sons and husbands slaughtered in battle to keep our soil safe from terrorists, and then turn around and offer amnesty to criminals. How can you send our men and women to the Middle East to fight terrorism with one breath, and then in the very next breath speak of amnesty for those in our Country, illegally, who could very well belong to the same organizations in Iraq and Afghanistan that have spilled the blood of our soldiers? Mr. President how can you reconcile in your heart and your mind that under the Amnesty bill the illegal aliens who were planning an attack on Fort Hood would have been granted amnesty with blessings from you and the law makers that are supposed to be representing us, the American people?
There have been several reports of the dangers and downfalls our Country is facing if this amnesty bill passes. My son chose to join the Army during a time of war. He chose Infantry and knew that he would see battle. He chose to join in the fight because he believes in our Country, and he believes that through his service he is protecting his family, friends, and his fellow Countrymen. How disappointing it must be for many of our troops to hear that while they are fighting and dying in the sand, that their Country’s own borders have been deeply breached, and our national leaders have done worse than doing nothing — they are rewarding those who have illegal crossed our borders.
I have only one other question for you concerning amnesty, and then I will bid you farewell. Mr. President, how can you offer amnesty to illegal aliens when so many of our fellow Americans have come to this Country through legal avenues? How do you justify to them that they sacrificed, waited patiently, eagerly and respectfully obeyed the laws of this land, and paid the costs, but those who come here illegally and by-pass the whole process get the same rights and essentially the same treatment? Mr. President, that is the harshest and cruelest blow that you could offer to our fellow Americans who came here as immigrants and who display a deep respect for this Country. They have received, in turn for their respect for America, a message from our leaders that the sacrifices they endured to become a legal Citizen were not all that important after all. I have a very dear friend who came to America from Venezuela. She worked very hard to go through our system legally and honestly. It took her years and many sacrifices, but she did it with joy. I was so blessed to be able to give her one of her first hugs as a legal citizen of the United States of America on the day she became legally recognized as such. Her knowledge, respect and love for this Country shines as bright as many patriots past. She proudly proclaimed that it was the happiest day of her life. She fought the fight, she proved herself worthy, and she was rushed into citizenship with “hoorahs” and hugs, with flags waving and all of us witnessing the birth of a new American citizen. It was truly one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed.
Please do not dishonor my dear friend and the millions of other legal immigrants. Please do not send the message to them that their sacrifices were in vain. Please show your support to our troops by protecting our Country with laws that punish those who come here illegally. Please send the message to our troops that while they fight the good fight in the Middle East, that you will in turn fight here to keep our Country safe from those who come here illegally.
Sincerely,
****** ************
Michelle, Thanks for opening registration!
Mexicans are very hard workers. They sacrifice a lot, risk a lot, all in order to work hard to support their families. That’s wonderful! Those entrepreneurial Mexicans and fantastically hard-working laborers are exactly what is needed to get the economy of Mexico back on its feet. It’s been wrong of America to suck their hardest workers and greatest risk-takers out of the Mexican economy. We need to remedy this injustice by building a fence and otherwise securing the border, including enforced sanctions on those businesses that illegally suck the life out of Mexico and elsewhere. I call that illegal business, not illegal immigration.
No one can tell me I disrepect Americans because I lock my car at the mall, in my driveway, at my church, or even need a key to start it. No one can say I disrepect Hispanics because we’re building a fence. The White House administration of Monroe did not disrepect Americans more than the previous Presidents/administrations when it built a fence around the White House in 1820. And we don’t feel disrepected because that fence exists. To have a fence-less White House or leave your car running and unlocked, is in no way disrepectful of people. Rather, it is respectful of everyone to be safe and secure, prudently living up to the need to avoid chaos and ambiguity where property is an issue.
Monroe had a fence erected simply to be a good steward of the time given him by all Americans to do his job, and also to ensure modest security for himself and his loved ones. Those identical needs exist today. Let’s get on with our jobs and stop inviting disorder, it’s unproductive always, and once in a while, very unsafe.
Again, and in conclusion, it only took the White House a few administrations to see the pragmatic need for a fence. That same pragmatic need is overdue for all of America now. And as for those who are Mexican, and other hard-working Hispanics, we should respect them greatly, I know I sure do.
Fr. Gregory Charles
The DrunkSwimmer actually tried to get Yuri Andropov to make a 45 second anti-Reagan campaign ad in 1983. He thought that all of Reagan’s “warmongering” could be countered by the leader of the Soviet Union going straight to the American people and saying “we come in peace, mean you no harm” or some such nonsense. I guess all those SSN-20 nuclear missles aimed at all our major military and civilian centers were just for show.
Before 9-11-01, the central point in the courtyard of the Pentagon was called “Ground Zero” by the people who worked there, in a gallows humor kinda way. I guess you can’t expect a leapord to change his spots, now can you?
Armywife,
Wow, what a great letter! One thing I noticed though is that you said Fort Hood… I think you meant Fort Dix. Anyway, what a great letter. Would you mind if I copied and posted it on my blog? With proper credit to you of course.
Jim C
You are absolutely correct! See, that is why I need someone else to read it! I have had Ft. Hood on the brain and I just inserted it there without realizing it!
Please feel free to add it. I would be honored, and thank you!
Wow…just wow.
ArmywifeArmymom;
That was a very passionate, thoughtful and moving letter. If President Bush doesn’t read that, his staff is failing him badly.
I would like to thank you for your family’s sacrifices for our great country. You should know that no matter what our politicians say or do, that there are millions of Americans like me who are behind you and those brave Men in your family 1000%.
Without men and women such as yourself, well we might all be pushing #1 for German, #2 for Japanese. Thank you so much, and may God be with you.
Great letter from the mom!
Too bad the prez won’t read it. If he does, by some slim chance, he is steadfast in his amnesty plan.
The ONLY way we can make this shamnesty bill useless is to hit them where it hurts…..POCKETS. I liked the idea posted by crashemt. If only people would follow through.
Once the shamnesty plan has been implemented, it will be too late for any other elected officials to change it after 2008. It will be a DONE DEAL.
Therefore, the IRS needs to be put out of business and soon. They will be useless without OUR MONEY. Those illegals won’t stay long without any incentives. The only deserving people to get government money will be the elderly, and those that are TRULY disabled, VETS, and those with retirement plans. NO MORE FREE PROGRAMS, no more schools built to handle the illegal population, no more for roads, insurance, medical, food, (those that are illegal OR refuse to work!). Of course those entitled to social security benefits should be on the receiving end ….Don’t forget that IF this shamnesty bill is passed, illegals will be sharing the pot that we have been building for many years. Won’t be as much to go around for us who are over the age of 50 currently. THAT IS A NO BRAINER.
That would make CONGRESS useless as well…..they are anyway, so at least they’d have no paycheck and no monies to give away to freeloaders and special interest groups. We HIRED them and we can FIRE them.
PurplePeep:
It may well be that Dems and Libs are driven by a misplaced sense of guilt for being affluent and white, but if you go to the caribbean, even the blacks there will tell you that Americans are being silly about it – the slaves are dead, the slave OWNERS are dead. It’s a new day and people need to get along.
If they are driven by guilt as you say, then I’d toss this up in response: if they are, it’s because they have been brainwashed to be so by a media obsessed by the same problem. So if the avergae lib has been brainwashed, then what or whom brainwashed the media first? No, there is some kind of larger problem here, either a sickness of some sort (being unable to deal with authority of any kind and hating it) or some more nefarious intent. And no, this is not black helicopter theorizing, but an obvious extrapolation which needs more attention paid to it, not less.
“And we shouldn’t forget it’s the GOP that’s really leading the no-borders charge. For many of them the short-sighted appeal of unlimited slave labor is too much to pass up. ”
Here we can agree to disagree. There are plenty of greedy democrats owning plantations amd the like. Don’t fall for the old steriotypes.
Blueberry pie is the best. we should never throw one. What a waste of great blueberry filling!
Cherry pie is my favorite
If ever there was a “poster boy” for all that is wrong with America…Teddy gets the nod!
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Worthy of any pig calling contest.
Cheezecake; one should never throw cheezecake. You’d have to be insane!
New York cheese cake – with cherries! Mmmm…
Just don’t get it. For example Maine, except for the coast, has a chronic unemployment and under employment problem yet both of the State’s Senator’s(Snowe and Collins) support the z-cards. New Hampshire is in the throes of dealing with a way to keep real estate taxes, which are the NH’s main revenue source, bearable and still support education properly. Yet it seems Senator Gregg supports an influx of immigrants who can only burden the schools and taxpayers more. As far as I know none of these pols has explained these contradictions. What ARE their motivations!!!!
Oh, that was awful. I had to link it. Thanks.
First off, ArmyWife, what a wonderful letter! As a fellow military spouse, I want to commend you, your husband, and your son for your service. All Americans should not only write letters of protest to the president and their Representatives and Senators, they need to call them, and if they’re of like mind like Teddy Hiccup, it’s time to make sure they don’t get a return trip to Washington.
jeanie,
“What ARE their motivations!!!!”
You know, Michelle and O’Reilly and others have tackled this question but I’m not sure anyone has – or maybe can – answer it. I’m not sure many of these people know themselves; certainly hatred for authority is part of it, but there is some angry, destructive impulse driving them on.
My answer, these days, to so many things as a blanket hedge statement hoping against a leftist takeover in 08, is as follows:
THE DEMOCRATS ARE SCARED TO DEATH TO DEBATE ON THE FOX NEWS CHANNEL.
I know it’s a tride thing to go OT like this, but, you know, it’s the best bet for the right to keep shouting this until someone, somewhere, feels a response needs to be given, and once they enter that debate – we got ‘em!
If the SAP button on your TV will change shows that are in English into Spanish, shouldn’t it also broadcast Tela’ mundo in English??????????
I weep for JFK!!!
He, and Joe, fought and died so that the USA would remain strong and great. Bobby, too.
What a total disgrace their little brother turned out to be.
Some politicians will do anything to have a group of people voting for them. We’ve seen it lately in the Duke Lacrosse case.
Ted Kennedy is no exception to the rule. But in his case, the stupidity, the lack of vision and patriotism is so overwhelming.
Politicians like Ted Kennedy will put himself, his party and the interest groups above America.
They don’t care about the future of this country, about preserving and protecting its social fabric, culture, language and borders.
They have no respect for the established laws. They want to make new laws to suit their agenda, not the agenda and the interests of the American people.
Take a note -if you love America- about politicians like him (Republicans or Democrats) and vote them out next time you go to the polls.
Don’t worry who will win the elections.
Vote your conscience and your values, vote for the future of America not for the future of a party.
If the Republicans lose the elections because you voted to boot those who want to give amnesty to the outlaws who invaded and still are invading your country, so be it. Same goes to you, Democrat voters, if your party loses the election because you did the right thing, so be it.
Think about America, not about yourself.
It is up to you, the American people, to safeguard your country, its borders, its language and its culture.
You have the power. Wake up!
Headline News Spent the Morning showing part of the virtual fence..promoting it I would say, not reporting on it. This is called Appeasement because we all are supposed to be sufficiently dumbed down by now. Where is the Fence?
This is what 50 years in the Senate does to people.
Just talked to OH Senator Voinovich’s office (202-224-3353). Surprise — Voinovich “has not indicated” how he will vote and is taking comments from constituents.
Especially Ohioans, get on the phone. Link to all of his office numbers is here.
Loved this comment. I channel surf past all the hispanic channels when I watch TV. Wish I knew what all their actors were saying, but hey, now we have our own “Ugly Betty” tv show! Soon all of our programming will be monolingual…en espanol.
Eye yi yi yi . . . . I like slave labor and buritos
“Non swimmer??!!” I’m a floater!
It all comes down to a matter of respect for me. I live in Texas and have many Hispanic friends (all legal). Mexico is supposedly our friend but when your friends come over to your house, do they ring the doorbell or do they crawl in through the window? Any ‘friend’ who breaks in your house is not a friend. Is America a sovereign nation or isn’t she? And just the fact that we’re even having a debate about whether or not to secure our border 6 years after 9/11 is just insane. Build the dam fence already
America is drowning in illegal aliens–an emergency situation requiring courage and immediate action.
And Ted Kennedy just watches.
What a disgrace !
I know we are in a battle with legislation right now but let’s not forget the battle to come. The judicial branch . Towns are trying to enforce existing laws but they are losing in court . Judges saying state and local authorities cannot enforce federal laws.
Armywife – Great letter.
Dear ArmywifeArmymom–great letter. As I understand the process, you’ll have the best chance of the President’s actually reading it if you send it by real mail. The whole “shamnesty” debate–and efforts by the so-called leadership in the Senate to ram it down our throats–certainly takes a lot of the joy out of serving one’s country. I hope that you get a good response. And, of course, that your menfolk (if I may use that old fashioned term) come back hale and hearty.
Virtual Fence? What is that? Getting pictures of new Amnesty applicants as they stroll across the virtual border?
On of the more transparent prevarications about this bill that has not been explained by the Senate is that all illegals will become legal residents immediately. It is only the “path of citizenship” that is delayed. But why would any of these people want to be citizens? They get all the benefits and none of the down side. Heck they can even vote, apparently in Nv, Ca, and Wa. They don’t need to pay taxes, can get unlimited DUIs, , can practice pediophilia, etc. And if caught, just go back to Mexico and come in with a new name.
President doesn’t get mush real mail anymore since the anthrax thing. Send it via fax and email as well.
I’ve done all I can do. I’ve emailed and faxed my senators as well as some who are not mine. Unfortunately, my senators are Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson, both of whom I will be working as hard as I can toward them NOT getting re-elected…
Time to march on DC and let them know that we are exercising our Constitutional right to change the government around.
This current group of charlatans are not constitutionally representing We The People.