Republicans Si!
By David Tatosian (09/29/06)
By the end of the 2004 election cycle, a cycle that will no doubt be considered genteel and almost pastoral when compared to what lies ahead of us, President George Bush had won 51% of the votes cast in the largest turnout since 1968. Republicans increased their numbers in the Senate and the House as well.
48% of that turnout voted against George Bush. The nation was, and remains, divided.
Republicans, despite that 48%, were delirious at their 3% margin of victory and President Bush went so far as to insist that that 3% represented “valuable political capital” that he fully intended to exploit.
But for those of us who were forced to cast our votes for a President who, in January of the same year, had promised to reward millions of Latin American illegal aliens for surreptitiously availing themselves of our medical, financial and cultural benefits with a path to citizenship, the Republican victory wasn’t quite so uplifting.
True, we had fulfilled our patriotic duty by supporting a President who had exhibited courage by sending our troops into the belly of the Middle Eastern beast. Self defense and the destruction of jihadi murderers was, and will always be a righteous, but dangerous endeavor. President Bush is to be commended for those actions. It was also true that we had managed to reject the detestable and amoral agenda of the Democrats that John Kerry personifies.
For a brief moment, 51% of American voters breathed a small sigh of relief.
By December of that year, it became apparent that all that political capital was burning a hole in President Bush’s pocket. In answer to a question on illegal immigration at a White House Q and A, the President stated, “…First, we want our border patrol agents chasing crooks and thieves and drug runners and terrorists, not good-hearted people who are coming here to work. And therefore, it makes sense to allow the good-hearted people who are coming here to do jobs that Americans won't do a legal way to do so… we ought to have a system that recognizes people are coming here to do jobs that Americans will not do… Family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River… People are coming to put food on the table, they're doing jobs Americans will not do… legalize the process of people doing jobs Americans won't do; take the pressure off of employers so they're not having to rely upon false Ids… Our people are compassionate. The system we have today is not a compassionate system. It's not working…”
In an instant the President of the United States destroyed the shaky majority of American citizens that had reelected him. That he did so to fulfill the morally impoverished desires of illegal aliens indicates a tragic and dangerous character flaw that cannot, and will not be ignored.
That he continues to pander to those illegals, despite the outcry and opposition of a vast majority of American citizens (far exceeding 51%) is not simply outrageous and indictable, it is evil.
We should, however, thank the President for his candor. What other President, King, Prime Minister or Caliph in history had dedicated himself so blatantly to the expatriation of his own citizens for the benefit of foreign nationals? If he had been as secretive about his commitment to destroy the American citizen as he has been about his commitment to destroy the American Nation, via the Security and Prosperity Partnership, S2611 might well be the law of the land and our descent into third world status would be assured.
Now, after Jim Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project, illegal aliens marching in our cities demanding rights to which they have no legitimate claim, racial hostility and violence from those good hearted people the President continues to shove down our throats and empty promises by Republicans in the Senate and the House, another election is upon us.
Republicans and their allies insist this election has nothing whatever to do with the President. They are quick to remind us that the President is not running for office and is therefore not an issue. These same folks never tire of reminding us how Republicans purportedly rescued the nation from the Clintons in 1994, a year that Clinton was not up for election either, but, apparently that mid term election was completely different than this one.
Fine. The President is not an issue.
But the cultural and economic devastation, the divisiveness and hatred unleashed upon rank and file American citizens as a result of the preferential treatment extended to foreign nationals illegally on our soil is very much an issue. That the preferential treatment these illegals enjoy is based on race and their usefulness to Republican business interests is a violation of everything this country stands for. The same country that American citizens, not Latin American illegal aliens, are right now fighting and dying for. That Republicans, who are aware of the pleas of American citizens to protect them from this gross and inhuman injustice, have done nothing to rectify this situation is beyond cowardice.
We get a hand full of gimme and a mouth full of much obliged from Republicans unwilling to risk their jobs, but more than willing to watch us lose ours to people that don’t even belong in the country.
There’s a word for what these Republicans are. And it’s not the Honorable Senator or the Honorable Congressman either.
One more thing. Elvira Arellano still sits in that storefront church (run by a Marxist) in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Her tranquility has not been disturbed by demonstrations, rallies or the United States Government. At some point, probably after these see-no-evil, hear-no-evil Republicans are reelected, ICE will arrest her. There will be media coverage of the son’s tears, the mother’s pleas and angry Hispanics in the streets. At that point, expect Denny Hastert and a handful of compassionate Republicans to decry her arrest as un-American. Expect them to assure us that the Hutchison-Pence bill is just what we need to avoid the recurrence of this sort of tragedy. Expect that bill to pass unanimously. And when that happens, well, we’ll all be Democrats then, won’t we.
You want to vote for Republicans who turn a blind eye to the suffering and displacement of their own countrymen at the behest of a President who enthusiastically inflicts that suffering and displacement, you go right ahead.
There’s a word for that too.
David Tatosian
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