Guest Voice: Going Down With The Ship
The Moderate Voice runs Guest Voice columns of varying viewpoints. Michael Reagan’s columns are syndicated by Cagle Cartoons. This one deals with the controversy over the immigration reform bill. Guest Voice columns do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Moderate Voice or its writers.
Going Down with the Ship
Making Sense, by Michael Reagan
The S.S. GOP is sinking fast, and it looks like Skipper Bush is going down with his ship.
That’s only fair – after all, he’s the one who torpedoed his own ship with the immigration-reform-bill warhead. Not fair is the fact that he’s taking his party down with him.
I can understand his stubbornness in sticking with this insane program that doesn’t do a damned thing to plug the leaking borders that are allowing the United States to be flooded with all manner and shapes of illegal aliens, some of them terrorists who want to kill large numbers of Americans – he really has nothing to lose.
In less than 18 months he’ll be history – one of those curiosities who at one moment wielded the vast powers of the presidency and the next found themselves with all the other John Q. Citizens.
That’s not true of the senators who stand on the bridge with him as the water rises up toward the quarter deck where they can either jump into the life boats and survive, or go down with the ship.
I’m amazed at how many of them appear to be choosing a watery grave. After all, it should be more than obvious that standing firm behind this monstrosity of a bill carries with it the death penalty – it’s just plain suicidal.
He might not yet fully realize it, but Sen. John McCain has suddenly gone from being a serious candidate for the presidency to that of being a politician with no political future at all. And I can’t imagine how Senator Lindsay Graham could ever imagine that his strong advocacy of a bill that in the blink of an eye turns lawbreakers, some of the most serious kind, into instant legal immigrants could be helpful to his political future. Ditto John Kyl and the others.
If it weren’t so serious, it would leave us laughing at the spectacle we saw when the president went up to Capitol Hill Tuesday to try to revive the bill.
It wasn’t serious politics, it was a joke.
Did he really, seriously think that Harry Reid was going to be his friend and help patch the sinking GOP hull?
Here you have a president with a dismal 30-something-percent approval rating rubbing elbows with a group – Congress — that has a more-dismal 27 percent approval rating being led by a guy with a horrendous 19 percent approval rating. It doesn’t get more comedic than that.
These people are living in a dream world, and one that has not yet been shattered by the incredible backlash from Americans outraged to see their national sovereignty imperiled and determined to keep the bill from ever becoming law. The message is loud and clear: kill the damned thing or get ready to pack your bags and head for home because your political career is all but over.
To continue to push for passage indicates that the backers are either stupid, or arrogant and determined to impose their wills on the nation whether the people like it or not.
When this bill emerged from the back room where it was crafted in secret by the likes of Teddy Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh took one look at it and renamed it the “Comprehensive Destroy the Republican Party Bill.â€
No matter how many Democrat senators back the bill in a Senate they control, Republicans will take the blame for it. Unless the GOP roars back and in one voice makes it clear that their president does not speak for them on this issue, and goes all-out to kill it, 2008 is going to be a sorry time for all Republicans.
The late Sam Francis must be grinning up there in paradise as he watches the GOP prove once again that it is what he called it “the Stupid Party.â€
After all, stupid is what stupid does. And when stupid defies the will of the American people, stupid goes under.
Conservative broadcaster Mike Reagan, the eldest son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network. E-mail comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com
©2007 Mike Reagan
14 Responses to “Guest Voice: Going Down With The Ship”
Good column. Thanks for posting.
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Ted Kennedy was a strong supporter of the 1965 Hart-Celler Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson which dramatically changed US immigration policy.
This is what Ted Kennedy said about the 1965 bill.
“The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.”
Kennedy is now the chair of the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship, and remains a strong advocate for immigrants, both documented and undocumented
About the same time there wasn’t enough room for citizens to have children.
The Unacknowledged Holocaust
Back in the 60’s the Federal Government came into the public schools and brainwashed us as little children with the message that the children we were about to have were unwanted because the population was rising so fast. They launched a program called, “Zero Population Growthâ€. They pushed Family Planning and birth control pills. I think you and I now both know that you only have to trick people for their few child bearing years and there is no going back.
Many of us never had a say in the future of our unborn.
I am the result of two living cells. One from each of my parents. They are the result of two living cells, one from each of their parents. I wasn’t just born. I am a continuation of life. I am a living thing that reaches back into time perhaps 400 million years and the result of billions of joining of pairs of cells. It is possible that if you were to follow my cells back to my parent’s cells and beyond that my family tree touches every living thing here on earth. That is if we limit ourselves to believing life was created here on earth. If it rained down from the immensity of the universe it could reach back into that immensity of time and space, and who knows what relationships and who knows what species.
At least until I came up against the Federal Government and their plan to control the population.
I have seen the Federal Government do little else to control the population.
The open border, United States laws only apply to some, is a serious slap in the face. No, not a slap in the face, it reaches well beyond that. Maybe back to the beginning of time and stretch to the bounds of the universe.
The US has dropped 300 pounds of bombs of for every man, woman, and child in Indochina, and 22 tons of bombs for every square mile in McCain’s heyday.
That is incomprehensible but little compared to the devastation of the loads of what he is dropping on this once great nation.
These people are living in a dream world, and one that has not yet been shattered by the incredible backlash from Americans outraged to see their national sovereignty imperiled and determined to keep the bill from ever becoming law. The message is loud and clear: kill the damned thing or get ready to pack your bags and head for home because your political career is all but over.
Are they really living in a dream world? I’d really honestly truly like to believe so. Every once in a while (though not often enough) the public gets its dander up and manages to throw out a few dozen or so.
Nowadays, of course, many congressmen are so protected by gerrymandering that they couldn’t care less. The few party members who do care enough are more than offset by the idiots in the 80% Republican or Democratic districts who pull the lever without even thinking.
Case in point: Lindsey Graham. In spite of the appalling things he’s said about amnesty opponents, a primary challenger has yet to step forward. If he does, he’ll run a suicide mission straight into the well-funded Graham machine, $3.7 million strong, lots of it coming from lawyers, mill owners, and real-estate developers: the very people who LOVE open borders. An opponent can hardly expect to raise diddly form the middle class.
Yep, the elites are running this country against the best ineterests of most Americans – but we’re dumb enough to let them get away with it.
Yeah I have always said that I can solve the redistricting problem in 1 minute.
Let them draw up the plans. One that favors the Republicans and the other that favors the Democrats. When they have each plan perfectly laid out and exactly the way each party wants it then come to me and Ill flip a coin.
Heads the Democrats get their plan. Tails the Republicans get their plan.
I bet after a couple coin flips they get the picture and come up with fair and equitable redistricting plans.
It’s not clear to me that Americans as a whole disapprove of a comprehensive bill on Immigration, even the one proposed currently. I know that Republicans and Lou Dobbs are overwhelmingly against it but the polls I’ve seen say that 80+% of Americans don’t want to throw 12 million illegals out of the country. That means we have to come up with some solution short of that. What we have now is amnesty by inaction. If not this bill do republicans really believe they have the strength to impose a far stricter immigration bill anytime in the next 10 years? By that time we’ll have 20 million illegals in this country and you want to try to solve the problem then?
In a generation those 12 million illegals will turn into 12 million legals as children born in this country have citizenship. In another generation those 12 million illegals will turn into 50 million legals. Demagogery will not get the Republicans a tough immigration bill. It’s better to get what is possible than nothing at all.
Somebody: You’re actually on the right track as to how to do proper distribution of groups. It starts from the idea of two people sharing a cake. One person cuts it, and the other person chooses. The person making the selection is going to do it so that both are as equally good as possible. People mathmatically extrapolated that to divisions of any size and number about a decade ago, but we aren’t smart enough to implement it.
No! When they come to you, shoot them, then substitute your own, better plan. Heh, heh
It starts from the idea of two people sharing a cake.
The problem is that with a cake, you normally cut slices in sane shapes, whereas what we see are bizarre, contrived shapes for electoral districts.
(They should be “normally-shaped” groups of adjacent ZIP codes or Census tracts, approximating circles or squares, or rectangles or ellipses as needed.)
Somehow I never put the phrases “Michael Reagan” and “Making Sense” together.
Yeah, he never really gets around to giving an argument. There are a couple hints at it – awarding illegal behavior and not enough border control – but spends 95% of the article just making fun of people. No mention is made of his better plan, and no mention is made of the provisions in the bill made to address some of his concerns, such as no path for felons and the like. Oh well. This is certainly the way most people argue, but it doesn’t bring great credit to the cause.
jdledell said,
“What we have now is amnesty by inaction.”
That’s a very apt description, of the situation re illegal immigrants,
What does this article contribute? Another tirade.
As it is, one-sided rants produce nothing but one-sided rants from the opposidtion and further distance from a solution.
The other suggestion of this article is that Bush should put his party above country. No, thank you.
That’s exactly what led us to the mess we’re in today.