Douchebag Of The Week: Chris Satullo
July 3, 2008 by Joe · Leave a Comment
I have decided to start a new feature here on my blog, now that I am once again trying to post on a semi regular basis. As you can see from the title of the post, the new feature is the Douchebag of the week. Congratulations goes out to Chris Satullo, a columnust for the Philadelphia Enquirer, you sir for being an American hating piece of crap are the very first Douchebag of the week over here at RightWingRebel.com.
Here is an excerpt from this douchebag’s most recent article where he claims that we American’s do not deserve a July 4th holiday this year.
Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time.
This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement.
For we have sinned.
We have failed to pay attention. We’ve settled for lame excuses. We’ve spit on the memory of those who did that brave, brave thing in Philadelphia 232 years ago.
The America those men founded should never torture a prisoner.
The America they founded should never imprison people for years without charge or hearing.
The America they founded should never ship prisoners to foreign lands, knowing their new jailers might torture them.
You can read the rest of this fucking idiot’s article here. While reading it know full well that this is the way that almost all idiot liberal democrats feel.
Here’s my message to Chris Satullo, hey you piece of fucking shit, if you hate this country so much why don’t you go move somewhere else, like say Iran or Venezuela
There’s no hate, like liberal hate…
April 24, 2008 by Joe · 6 Comments
It has been a while that I have even thought about this blog, yet alone wrote anything and it has been even longer since I have stopped over and visited any of the blogs that I usually read. In part because I have been busy — the business that I had been a part of the past few years has dissolved and as such I had to look for a job rather then working for myself, which I have now found and have been working at for the past few weeks.
Third shift really and the lack of sleep it causes really makes me cranky too.
The main reason that I have been neglecting this blog though, as you can easily see by reading most of the previous postings, is that I have just been turned off as of late by anything political.
This morning, while checking my email and reading some news stories after I had just come home from work I come across this story about the sort of hatred that pours from ultra-liberals with Bush Derangement Syndrome — just sucked me back in to having to give my two cents.
Wheelchair bound Maureen Lovetro, 18, who is stricken with cerebral palsy was with her parents attending a speaking engagement of First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna — who were speaking about their new children’s book outside the 92nd Street Y in New York City. While they were there discussing their book, “Read All About It!,” which is about introducing the wonders of reading to children who don’t like to read when, German Talis, 22, a liberal douche bag takes it upon himself to heckle the first lady and daughter about the war in Iraq. Because, you know, liberal hatred of President Bush has everything to do with a children’s book written by the First Lady and her daughter.
From the New York Post:
“He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was waving at the crowd. I told the guy, ‘What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books,’ ” said John Lovetro. “He was unperturbed. I said, ‘Get out of here! You’re being a moron!’ ”
The next thing he knew, Talis was allegedly punching Maureen - a fan of the first lady since meeting her in 2004.
“I heard my daughter hysterical yelling, ‘He’s hitting me!’ ” said Wendy Lovetro.
“He punched her on the shoulder blades, but that wasn’t enough,” she said.
“My husband pushed the wheelchair away from him and he reached beyond my husband and began pounding my daughter in the thigh.”
The two men fought as the president’s family drove off. Cops broke them up and busted Talis on charges of assault and resisting arrest.
I’m all for freedom of speech, if you want to be an asshole and heckle the First Lady and her daughter over the perceived injustices caused by her husband the President — you have every right to do so. In turn the girls father had every right to tell that liberal douche bag to shut up, it was not the time nor the place to discuss his gripes about the war in Iraq. But to actually get physical about it, and not even to the man who told you to shut up, but to his wheelchair bound daughter — you sir are not just your average run-of-the-mill liberal douche bag, no you are the lowest of the low, a piece of shit of the worst variety.
Conservatives: We’ve been Hucked!
February 6, 2008 by Joe · 7 Comments
Well America, the mainstream media fed sheeple have spoken and after listening to their puppet masters in the news — they have gone with the New York Times Republican, John McCain. Conservatives put up a fight, but it was not a good enough fight to withstand the politically-apathetic independents and the moderate-to-liberal wing of the Republican Party, who have teamed together to shift the GOP drastically to the left.
Now of course the Main Stream media is spinning Super Tuesday as a great win for John McCain, and granted it was a very good night for John McCain — but it was far from what anybody with half a brain that follows politics would call a “great win.” John McCain won New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware — all states in which democrats have decidedly won in recent general elections. He also won Missouri, which is what you would call a purple state — and only by the slightest of margins 1%. He did win his adopted home state of Arizona, but it took much longer then expected and he also won Oklahoma — the only two of his states that have decidedly swung to Republicans in recent general elections.
No, it was not the fact that the Arizona Senator had big wins in Blue States that is the big news out of last night, everybody knows that Blue Staters love McCain and Red Staters not so much. The big news coming out of Super Tuesday is the fact that the Populist Preacher, the Southern born and bred Mike Huckabee swept the Southern States and almost snatched purple Missouri from John McCain.
Now outside of the South and his evangelical base, Huckabee has absolutely no chance of winning the nomination. He may however have forced John McCain’s hand into offering him up the Vice Presidential slot. Which is funny because McCain who is trying so hard to make people think he is a Conservative will probably have to be forced to join forces with the Huckster who, despite not being one, has fooled Southerners into thinking that he’s a Conservative.
And thus, the drastic transformation of what Conservatism is, is on the verge of being completed as people who have absolutely no idea of what Conservatism truly is all about, have hijacked the term.
John McCain, Mike Huckabee congratulations to the both of you on your empty victories. The Huckster, you’ve made your religious populism a force to be reckoned with and John McCain you’ve won the support of some Democrats, and liberal leaning Independents and liberal leaning Republicans. However I would be remiss if I didn’t congratulate you both and the ever growing possibility of a McCain/Huckabee ’08 ticket, on your biggest victory — you’ve both destroyed the Republican Party so bad that it will take years for us real Conservatives to repair it.
If you two think you have a snowballs chance in hell of beating the Democrats in the general election, please send some of those drugs you are taking my way, so I can numb myself to the pain you two have caused.
The same liberal media that are loving you guys right now, the same America hating New York Times that endorsed you John McCain, the same media outlets that are promoting you John McCain, the same media outlets that have fooled the sheeple out there into thinking you’re a great candidate are going to turn on you so fast come general election time you won’t know what hit you. Because once again the media will tell the sheeple what to do and may God help America when we are stuck with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in the White House. You can’t and you won’t win by abandoning the core Conservative principles that used to be the cornerstone of the GOP for the past few decades.
I’ll leave you with a quote from the late, great Ronald Reagan.
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.”
Hillary McCain and John Rodham Clinton
February 5, 2008 by Joe · Leave a Comment
Anybody who may be reading this and is in a Super Tuesday State getting ready to vote, Iâll just leave you with this.
They Agree.
The John McCain Liberal Love Fest Continues
January 24, 2008 by Joe · 6 Comments
Jonathan Stein over at Mother Jones, has an article up about John McCain that is just oozing with love. But what else would you expect from the most widely read liberal publication in the country? While John McCain does not swing to the extreme left like Mary Harris Jones, the socialist namesake of the liberal magazine, he does swing far enough to the left that his fellow Democrats adore him.
The best part of this ridiculous article is the subheading:
Fearing his independent streak and heretical policy stances, John McCain’s biggest enemies are fellow conservatives.
Leave it to a liberal to make a completely nonsensical statement such as that one. It would be like me saying, ‘fearing his independent streak, Barack Obama’s biggest enemies are his fellow members of the Ku Klux Klan.’ John McCain is to Conservatism like anchovies are to chocolate pudding.
Later on in the article is this interesting tidbit:
… attacks have forced McCain to take to the airwaves to defend his record, which he says is conservative enough to match “anybody who is running.” Yet the voters don’t seem terribly concerned by McCain’s transgressions against conservative orthodoxy: after all, he has won more primaries than any other GOP candidate.
Conservative enough to match “anybody who is running.” Yeah McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, his global warming rhetoric, by John McCain’s standards John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are all Conservatives. But the best part of the above quote is the out right false lie that McCain has won more primaries then any other GOP candidate.
Lets do some math here shall we:
Huckabee: Iowa - that’s 1
McCain: New Hampshire, South Carolina - that’s 2
Romney: Wyoming, Michigan, Nevada - that’s 3
That’s Romney 3 states and McCain two states, I don’t exactly see how McCain has won more primaries then any other candidate — unless of course liberals don’t feel that Wyoming, Michigan and Nevada matter.
As a matter of fact, in the even more important delegate race — because after all it all comes down to who gets the most delegates, Romney is way in the lead with 72 to McAmnesty’s 38.
I shouldn’t be surprised though because once again, liberals stick together and rewrite the facts to suit their own agendas.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
Biased Media Releases Biased Study On Iraq
January 23, 2008 by Joe · 1 Comment
Well since the surge is working, and of course, you know its working because the mainstream media is not reporting on it — a new study was just released claiming that the Bush administration made misleading statements about Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001.
According to this report:
The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”
The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said he could not comment on the study because he had not seen it.
The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.
I just love it when the liberal media attempts to re-write history. According to that article, and the bullshit study that was released its only “false statements” if they are said by a Republican.
Or maybe it really is such a vastly “orchestrated campaign,” that Dick Cheney and Halliburton sent robots back in time to the Clinton administration and replaced the Democrats with Halliburton controlled robots. I mean how else would you explain this…
If you seriously believe this blatantly biased “study,” you are either an idiot or a completely jaded liberal.
Sleeping With The Enemy: John McCain Is Destroying the GOP From The Inside
January 21, 2008 by Joe · 7 Comments
The Turncoat Mole is a crafty creature that is quick to switch pack allegiances without any observable reason to do so. It regularly eats from the lower ends of the food chain, but constantly harasses any other animal choosing to do so. In 2000, the Turncoat Mole was all but exterminated from the national scene when it tried to root itself into the hostile habitat of South Carolina. It retreated to Arizona and is now making gestures to go national once again. The Turncoat Mole sometimes hunts in tandem with the Senate snakes, with at least a few moles being eaten for dinner in exchange for looking bipartisan. Perhaps its chief natural weakness is that it is blind to how its burrowing undermines the principles of the party pack.
- Michael Savage on “The Turncoat Mole” John McCain, from The Political Zoo
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Now eight years after his defeat in South Carolina signaled the deathblow to his 2000 Presidential campaign, the Senator from Arizona has risen from the ashes like the proverbial phoenix, in the very same state that finished him off — leaving him the closest thing that the Republican party has had to an actual frontrunner for months now.
I for one do not even understand McCain’s appeal to regular Republicans and am completely dumbfounded as to how people who consider themselves to be Conservatives have allowed themselves to be fooled that a John McCain nomination would be a good thing for the Republican party. Throughout Senator McCain’s history in the Senate, he has shown himself to be an opportunistic, unprincipled man who has no problems selling out the base of the Republican Party to suit his own ambitions.
I have decided that from now until the Republican Party’s official nomination is announced, I will make it my mission to do my very best to try and ensure that John McCain is not named as the Grand Old Party’s nominee — by doing my best to point out the reasons why.
National Security
Out of all the issues facing our great nation, our National Security is the one issue that the majority of John McCain supporters make the case for the Arizona Senator being the supposed “best of the bunch” in the fruit basket that is the 2008 Republican Party candidates.
While I will concede the point that McCain has been steadfast and correct in his assessment of the current situation in Iraq. I will even go so far as to give him that pat on the back and the ‘atta-boy’ he so desperately seems to be seeking whenever he mentions the surge strategy, which he usually always takes credit for. Being strong on our military situation in Iraq is a important issue, especially considering the fact that most of the Democrats would have us pull out of there in a heartbeat, with our tails between our legs.
With that all being said, the point that people fail to realize is the Iraq War is over and has been over for years now — the U.S. Military, the greatest fighting force the world has ever seen, marched through Iraq and toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in less time then it takes for Rosie O’Donnell to plow through an all-you-can-eat buffet. What we are facing now in Iraq, is not a war, but a large scale battle in the overall war against radical Islamofascism. In that matter he is dead wrong.
As a former POW himself, I know full well that Senator McCain has first hand experience with the painful physical and mental scars of torture. However, in an attempt to partake in one of his favorite activities, appealing to liberals, John McCain has only served to greatly undermine our efforts in the war against radical Islamofascism, by his vocal criticism of our government’s interrogation techniques. The one thing that he has failed to remember from his time as a POW is that ’torture’ more often then not, results in the enemy giving up much needed information.
Picture the following scenario.
A chemical weapon has just been unleashed at the Mall of America killing hundreds of innocent lives, Al-Qaeda has released a video statement that more such attacks will occur shortly and the targets could be sporting arenas, office buildings or maybe even elementary schools. We have a person of interest in custody, who could give us the information we need to stop the next attack, before it happens.
Could you trust a man who tried to make the claim that our use of torture would somehow legitimize the use of torture amongst our enemies — as if our enemies have ever had a problem doing so? Could you trust a man who was one of the top cheerleaders against water-boarding (which in fact worked on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the Sept. 11 mastermind),, to do the right thing and do whatever it takes to get the information needed — to potentially save a loved ones life?
I’m not willing to take that chance.
His fuzzy view on “torture” is not the only way in which John McCain undermines the overall war on radical Islamofascism. The Senator from Arizona calls for the closing of Guantanamo Bay and for bringing enemy combatants to the U.S. where they would thus receive the same sort of constitutional rights as American Citizens. Bringing the detained enemy combatants to the U.S. would greatly hamper the war effort by giving terrorists (you know the people who want us dead and our way of life destroyed) the constitutional right to due process.
Finally, how can we call McCain the best candidate on matters of National Security when we cannot even trust him to protect our borders and our very sovereignty? Have we forgotten that it is our wide open borders and our failed immigration policies that allowed the 9/11 terrorists to come to, stay, plan and then ultimately execute their plan — by training in our very own flight schools — to crash airplanes into buildings, killing thousands of innocent lives.
Yeah he has changed his tune on Immigration now, that the American people were overwhelmingly against his Democrat buddy Ted Kennedy’s amnesty plan, saying that we must secure our borders first. But John McCain has a long record of changing his tune quickly when it may hurt his political ambitions. It was just last summer that he tried his damndest to push through a plan that would have granted “probationary” z-visas to illegal immigrants — many of whom are students from Muslim countries whose temporary student visas have expired. To make matters worse his plan would not have allowed for proper criminal and other background checks to be performed before the illegal immigrants received the z-visas.
It is not just Mexican’s crossing the southern border looking for work — we must not forget the fact that a few of the 9/11 hijackers overstayed their welcome and were illegal immigrants themselves after their visas expired.
With all these facts, we are supposed to believe that John McCain is the best candidate on matters of National Security?
The Economy
Just as often as he brings up “the surge” while on the stump, John McCain seems to always be trotting out “the bridge to nowhere” as an example how he will be the savior that all of us fiscal conservatives are looking for to fix the out of control spending in Washington. That is a noble effort as spending has gotten out of control in Washington, the problem with McCain and this issue is that at times he is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By his own admission, he still needs to be educated in matters of economics.
Here is what he said to Wall Street Journal editorialist Stephen Moore, in a November 2005 interview:
“I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.”
When asked who he would look for in terms of advice, his answer was former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm as well as the godfather of supply-side economics, Arthur Laffer. John McCain, must not be very good at taking advice, or maybe there is something we do not know about those two great economic thinkers, because John McCain is anything but an anti-tax, supply-side economic crusader himself.
John McCain has a long history of demanding that the federal government, be used to hold back the legitimate activities of private enterprise. He wants to go to war with “big pharm,“ “big energy,“ “big media,“ and anyone else who stands in their way. That’s not the record of a Conservative — that’s the record of Democratic contender John Edwards.
John McCain continues to claim that the reason he did not support the Bush tax cuts was because Congress refused to cut spending alongside with them. While that is a noble aim, that is not exactly the whole truth.
Where a Conservative sees the entrepreneurial spirit and inherent benefits in wealth-generators and job-producers, John McCain — and liberal Democrats see ‘evil’ corporations. As a matter of fact on of the Arizona Senators favorite activities is calling up the type of class warfare rhetoric usually only seen by those in Congress with a (D) after their name. Now of course, since he is seeking the GOP nomination and once again is trying to masquerade as a conservative, he makes the claims that his opposition to those tax cuts were because of the failure to cut spending. That was not his view however just two years ago, as evident in the same Wall Street Journal interview I sited above:
But Mr. McCain is no antitax supply-sider himself. He grandstanded against the Bush capital-gains and dividend tax cuts and even co-sponsored an amendment with Tom Daschle to scuttle the reduction in the highest income-tax rates. Why? “I just thought it was too tilted to the wealthy and I still do. I want to cut the taxes on the middle class.” Even when I confront him with emphatic evidence that those tax cuts have been an economic triumph and have increased revenues, he is unrepentant and defends his “no” vote by falling back on class-warfare type thinking: “We have a wealth gap in this country, and that worries me.”
Later on in the same Wall Street Journal interview, Stephen Moore closes with the following:
He views himself, I believe, as a kind of modern-day Robin Hood, a defender of the downtrodden and tormentor of the bullying special interests, which is endearing and unquestionably a big part of his broad political appeal, but often leads to populist and parasitic economic policy conclusions like higher taxes on the rich and attacks on “huge oil profits.” He wants to be the caped crusader against corruption. The buzzword for the McCain Straight Talk Express in 2008 will be reform: “I want to reform education, reform Medicare and Social Security, reform lobbying and campaigns. Reform immigration. Reform. Reform. Reform.”
When I ask him about America’s remarkable income mobility, he responds, “Yes, but I keep seeing the thousands of faces of those poor people who were left behind in New Orleans,” as if this was a failure of capitalism, not a failure of government.
John McCain attempts to beat the war drum loudly and proudly in his claims that when it comes to smaller government and economic matters that he is as conservative as anyone, but I have to make the comparison again, if that is what passes for a Conservative — I never realized that John Edwards was a Conservative all this time.
I cannot of course over look the whole issue surrounding the “Keating Five.” Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI); and John McCain (R-AZ).
At first you might look at that list of names and think of the Sesame skit and wonder, ‘which one of these is not like the other’? But then you realize Senator McCain’s long history of getting in bed with Democrats and that he belongs with his Democrat Party brethren in the same way that Dennis Kucinich belongs with his alien brethren on the mother-ship.
Charles H. Keating Jr., chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, was being investigated by the House Banking Committee following the collapse of the savings and loan industry in the late 1980’s. It later came out that five certain Senators all used back door channels to try and hamper the investigation into Mr. Keating — and then it was found out that the five Senators had been beneficiaries of $1.3 million (collective total) in campaign contributions from Keating. Had John Glenn, American space hero, not been as deeply involved in the scandal as McCain — we might not have to be worrying about the Democratic Senator from Arizona disguised as a Republican today.
This brings me to…
Campaign Finance Reform
It is rather funny that this situation was probably the catalyst for what caused John McCain to champion the cause of campaign finance reform — it is even more interesting to note that it never stopped McCain from eagerly sapping up the campaign contributions of some ‘evil corporations,’ such as Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Anderson and Global Crossing.
But John McCain will be damned if he, or his friends, have to play by the rules that he helped to author. Take for example the case of Marylyn Brewer, a friend of McCain, who sent out an endorsement mailer from her paid campaign consultant without bothering to disclose to voters the fact that he is her paid campaign consultant?
The hypocrisy don’t stop there however, According to the Orange County Register, McCain himself cut an ad for Brewer’s California congressional special election campaign. The ad in question failed to include the “I’m so and so and I approve this message” — one of the chief aspects of campaign reform that McCain-Feingold mandated.
So John McCain himself has no respect for the rules he helped create, which by the way completely violate the constitutional tenets of freedom of speech.
Take this tidbit from Andrew McCarthy in the National Review:
McCain believes political speech is bad for democracy — as long, of course, as there is an exemption for mainstream media speech that swoons over “mavericks” who break with conservatives over immigration, global warming, the Bush tax cuts, etc. The Senator, however, is astute enough to know his assault on the First Amendment is wildly unpopular with the people whose nomination he seeks. So, to put their minds at ease, he told National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru last year that he was satisfied by President Bush’s 2002 decision to sign McCain/Feingold into law. He would, he assured, seek no further “legislation” to ban political speech.
Turns out the captain of the “Straight-Talk Express” left out one itsy-bitsy detail. Even as he spoke those words, he was — as an influential senator — exhorting the United States Supreme Court to tack a sweeping judicial ban onto the already extensive McCain/Feingold restrictions.
The target was Wisconsin Right to Life (WRTL). This pro-life group well understood that when it comes to abortion, the action is in the federal courts. In 2004, the president was working to put his pro-life stamp on those courts by appointing conservative judges. He was being blocked by Democrats, who, though in the minority, were capitalizing on the chamber’s procedural rules to filibuster nominees for the all-important federal appellate courts. One of those Democrats was none other than Sen. Feingold. So WRTL decided to run issue ads, urging Feingold to do his constitutional duty and give the Bush nominees an up-or-down vote.
Feingold, however, was up for reelection. In the Alice in Wonderland world of McCain/Feingold, that meant it was ostensibly against the law for an interest group in our democracy to utter his name in “electioneering statements” on a matter of vital public policy 30 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election — that is, in the 90 days when public attention is at its height and political speech matters most. As the First Amendment ensures that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech,” WRTL had this crazy notion that McCain/Feingold violated its fundamental rights.
Obviously, McCain is all for “straight talk” as long as it is he — or the New York Times — doing the talking.
Which brings me to the next issue…
Abortion
As of the date of today’s writing, the controversial Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade turned 35 years old. The Senator from Arizona is now claiming that he supports the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but that is a complete flip-flop over what he has said in August of 1999 to the San Francisco Chronicle:
“I’d love to see a point where it [Roe v. Wade] is irrelevant, and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.”
The Arizona Senator makes the claim that he would nominate to the Supreme Court, justices similar to those of Alito, Roberts, Scalia and Thomas; but how likely is McCain really going to consider voting for men like these who all think McCain-Feingold to be poor legislation.
For more on the pro life case against John McCain, check out this article.
Illegal Immigration
I have already touched upon John McCain’s open borders stance above in the section on National Security and how his views are completely counter-productive to the ongoing effort in the war on Islamofascism. That alone should be reason enough for every true Conservative to do their best to ensure that John McCain is not the Republican Party’s nominee. But I would be remiss, if I closed without commenting on the non-national security impact of John McCain’s pro-amnesty position.
If passed the McCain-Kennedy bill would have been the most far reaching amnesty movement in American history. The fact that he co-sponsored the bill with Ted Kennedy should be setting off alarms inside the heads of Conservatives everywhere — not to mention the fact that he was one of the most vocal supporters of the bill.
Behind closed doors, he worked feverously alongside Kennedy, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, to block every single attempt to amend the bill with any measures that would lessen the great damage that it would do to our country. Now Conservatives are expected to forget and forgive the fact that John McCain worked hand in hand with one of the most liberal members of the Senate and the two leading candidates on the Democratic side for the Presidency.
John McCain now while on the campaign stump and while debating claims that he never supported amnesty and also claims that McCain-Kennedy would not have been Amnesty, yet that totally contradicts statements he has made in the past.
James R. Edwards Jr., of Human Events reports:
McCain publicly embraced amnesty for years before it caused him to get his political head handed to him. “Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens. That has to be a component of it,” he told a Tucson newspaper in 2003. “I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people who are eligible and at the same time make sure that we have some control over people who come in and out of this country…”
At the time of the 2006 debate of the Senate amnesty bill, McCain told a rally that illegal aliens have “grasped the lowest rung of our ladder. They want to rise, and we should let them. Let them come out of the shadows, pay a fine, stay employed, pay taxes, and earn their citizenship.”
Now, he says he’ll go along with some undefined border security measures, attempting to redefine words. But ultimately, he insists on radical legalization of most illegals.
He tried his “spin” at the YouTube debate: “ . . . [W]e never proposed amnesty.” He dissembled again in New Hampshire at Sunday’s debate: “I have never, ever supported amnesty and never will.”
McCain sets up a straw-man argument about either deport them all or legalize them all as the only two alternatives.
On May 30, McCain told FOX’s Bill O’Reilly, “You’ve got two choices here, Bill. You either round up and deport 12 million people and I know of no one who thinks that’s a good idea or practicable. Or you make sure that you do everything possible to make sure that they pay a very heavy price for having acted illegally and breaking our laws.”
In June, he told a Miami audience, “The most difficult problem is what to do about the twelve million or more undocumented workers who live and work here now. No critic of our bill has offered a serious proposal to round up all these millions, many of whom have children born in this country, and ship them back to their countries of origin. There is simply no practical way to do that, and most Americans understand that …”
Now, scrambling back, McCain says, “There are about 2 million people here illegally who have committed crimes; those people should be deported immediately. We can’t round up the other 10 million people and deport them all at once, so you are going to have to go step by step.” By “step by step,” he means legalize the vast majority of illegals, but start with some lame “enforcement” and kick out criminal aliens.
McCain remains coy on what enforcement measures he’d support. Judging by his bill, a few more border guards, some border fencing and a “virtual fence,” but little else. He told Vanity Fair, “I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.” Reuters quoted him at a recent New Hampshire meeting that he means by border security “walls in urban areas, through vehicle barriers, with cameras and sensors.”
All this is merely process — stuff and personnel — not results. Instead of building some fencing and hiring some agents, why not set goals of reducing illegal entry to a trickle? Or reducing the illegal population in four years by 75 percent through both removals and enforcement-driven attrition?
By any reasonable definition, McCain’s recipe constitutes amnesty. It allows nearly all illegal aliens to remain permanently in America. It lets them obtain a permanent resident visa and naturalize five years later. It rewards them with the job they came and stole, taxpayer-funded benefits and programs, tax credits, welfare and Social Security. It allows them to sponsor distant relatives and start their own migration chains.
The Senate bill, S. 1348, by McCain, Kennedy and Harry Reid included many loopholes and perpetually renewable Z visas for illegal aliens. The “background check” on an illegal had to be done in one business day, or else the government had to issue the amnesty visa. Flimsy “evidence” like a buddy’s “affidavit” would satisfy McCain in order to qualify someone for a Z visa. His bill gave illegals in-state tuition.
McCain’s bill allowed amnestees to renew a 4-year Z visa if they merely “attempt to gain an understanding of the English language.” That means “taking” (not passing) the naturalization test (whose standards of English acquisition are woefully inadequate). It also accepted getting “on a waiting list for English classes” (not taking or passing the course). Bottom line, amnestied aliens would remain deficient in English.
What about paying a “very heavy price?” McCain’s bill imposed just $1,000 as the penalty. There were up to $2,000 in various fees, but hardly enough to be regarded as much of a fine. Plus, the $1,000 didn’t have to be paid until after the meaningless “triggers” took effect. S. 1348 didn’t require payment of any back taxes; its last-ditch revision, S. 1639, added a tax requirement for getting a green card.
McCain rejects an attrition-through-enforcement strategy. He ultimately wants both mass legalization of illegal aliens and increases in legal immigration. He’d agree to deporting a couple million criminal aliens, but insists on letting the rest of the illegal population stay on.
In short, McCain has one of the worst grades of any Republican Senator concerning immigration. His overall career and recent Americans for Better Immigration grades are both Ds. On amnesty, he earns F. His congressional record on immigration ABI calls “abysmal.”
To build an immigration record that’s worse than Huckabee’s and even Giuliani’s takes some doing, but that’s what McCain has done. McCain’s record is more in line with Democrat candidates.
John McCain is nothing more then a de facto Democrat, posing as a Republican. Anybody who claims otherwise is just fooling themselves. I will not join the herd of idiots in the Republican Party willing to jump off the cliff like a lemming for John McCain — I have to much respect for my Conservative principles to do that.
Related: The Chameleon Candidate: John McCain
Al Gore or John McCain? I can’t tell the difference.
January 15, 2008 by Joe · 1 Comment
I respect John McCain, he served his country proudly and bravely in Vietnam and is an American War hero. But I have to say that the more and more I listen to the man speak, the more and more he sounds like a liberal democrat.
Watch this video from Mike’s America, close your eyes and see if you can tell if its Al Gore speaking or John McCain. I can’t.
Impeachment fever at an all-time high in Vermont
December 29, 2007 by Joe · 2 Comments
It’s no surprise that this news is coming out of the state in which socialist forces have created the closest thing to a communist utopia you will find in the U.S. this side of a Hillary Clinton Presidency. A group in Brattleboro, Vermont is pushing to add a proposal to a town meeting agenda in March that would make President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest and indictment if they visit the southeastern Vermont community.
Leading the impeachment parade in Vermont is the raspberry beret wearing leftinista pictured to your left, Kurt Daims, 54, a retired machinist. According to the Castro look-a-like in the raspberry beret, “This petition is as radical as the Declaration of Independence, and it draws on that tradition in claiming a universal jurisdiction when governments fail to do what they’re supposed to do.”
Vermont’s very own raspberry beret wearing Fidel Castro wannabe has been passing out documents that claim the community should acquire a “universal jurisdiction” to, you know, be above the law and impeach the President and Vice President without due process of the law, and no valid reason what-so-ever.
Hat tip: the Bashman
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Canada, Islam and the War on Freedom
December 28, 2007 by Joe · 1 Comment
Photo courtesy of Red Planet Cartoons
One of the greatest ideas, if not the single most defining ideal, of Western culture is the value of freedom of speech. Unfortunately, for the rest of the Western World, the United States of America is the only Western country that has this basic human right built right into its constitution — via the First Amendment.
Earlier this month the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), had announced that it had filed a complaint with three “human rights commissions” in Canada against Maclean’s a Canadian weekly newsmagazine and Mark Steyn, author of a October 2006 piece in the magazine that the CIC had issue with.
The CIC accuse Maclean’s and Steyn, of advocating the idea that Islamic culture is incompatible with Canada’s liberalized, Western civilization. They insist that this is not the case and want opinions that express that banned from publication.
Two separate groups, one Provincial and one National, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and the Canadian Human Rights Commission, have agreed to hear the case.
The article that has caused this outrage, adapted from Mark Steyn’s book America Alone, which argues that Western society is on the verge of destruction, by unassimilated Muslim immigration.
While I admit that this idea is somewhat controversial, I do agree with Steyn’s work and further believe that America Alone is one of the most important books written in recent years.
The problem is that the CIC’s complaints and the “human rights commissions” agreeing to hear the case only serves to prove Mark Steyn’s point. Muslims who immigrate to Western countries, at an alarming rate, refuse to accept the values of those Western countries.
The banning of opinions, even ones that may not be “popular,” go against everything that Western culture’s notion of freedom of speech stands for. Mark Steyn is right, through reverse assimilation Islam is gradually conquering the West. Unfortunately for Canada, they have seemed to fail to realize this — I just hope the same doesn’t happen here in America.
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