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One US Senator speaks on behalf of the former United States. GOP E won't join him because they're thrilled about open borders:
7/29/14, "Jeff Sessions Can't Believe What He Sees," Rush Limbaugh transcript
"Jeff Sessions yesterday afternoon on the floor of the Senate spoke
about President Obama and "immigration reform," and we have...sound bites.
SESSIONS: The president is preparing to assume for himself the
absolute power to set immigration law in America....The absolute power to determine who
may enter and who may work, no matter what the law says, by the
millions. Our response now is of great import. It will define the
scope of executive and congressional powers for years to come.
RUSH: Sessions then said that if Obama is allowed to do this, the
moral authority for any border enforcement will forever be eviscerated.
SESSIONS: If President Obama is not stopped in this action and he
exceeds his powers by attempting to execute such a massive amnesty
contrary to law, the moral authority for any immigration enforcement
henceforth will be eviscerated. Anyone the world over will get the
message: "Get into America by any method you can, and you will never
have to leave." We're almost there, but it's not too late.
RUSH: And then he issued a warning...
SESSIONS: Let me state a warning. The American people are being
roused to action -- and once activated, their power will be felt. They
will not be mocked. They have begged and pleaded for our nation's
immigration laws to be enforced for 30 or 40 years. The politicians
have refused, refused, refused. There's one thing the powers in
Washington fear; that is being voted out of office. Before a member of
Congress acquiesces to any action of this kind, they should consider
their responsibility to their constituents.
RUSH: And then he did something that few in Washington have the courage to do.
SESSIONS: Mr. President, you work for the American people, they
don't work for you, and they will not accept nullification of their law
passed by their elected representatives. I'm calling on all members of
Congress today to stand up to these lawless actions and sponsor
legislation that will block them. I'm calling on every person in this
body and in this house and in the House of Representatives to stand and
be counted at this perilous hour.
RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you: It's both appalling and astonishing
that it has really come down to this. A United States Senator has to
practically beg his fellow congressmen and countrymen to do something to
stop these upcoming extra-constitutional executive orders. And he's
right. They will effectively overturn what is left of our immigration
law. Now, the Drive-By Media ignored the speech totally.
They don't want the American public to get riled up and kill amnesty
like they've done so many other times in the past. But they're not gonna
be able to stop it because Sessions also asked for the phone lines in
Washington to be melted. Now, granted, it's near congressional recess
time, and they're all gonna be leaving town. But not quite yet.
The phones in Washington did indeed melt yesterday, despite the fact
the Drive-Bys did not cover this. There's so much going on that it's
hard for anybody to focus on any one single thing. The chaos, the
deterioration, the disasters are numerous. But here you have a United
States senator, the only one standing up in opposition to this -- the
erasure of the Southern border, for all intents and purposes.
When is this gonna stop? With a stroke of his pen he authorizes five
or six million with amnesty.
Meanwhile, the trains keep coming from
Central America, and there's no end in sight to that. None!
And
nobody's talking about ending it. Some are obsessed with immigration
reform, comprehensive or otherwise. But, I mean, it's just astounding. Here's the story on this from the Associated Press:
"Obama Mulls Large-Scale Move on Immigration." He's gonna expand the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to include adults, which we
predicted, by the way....It's been obvious
from day one. "You can't have these kids arriving here unaccompanied!
Well, you can't have them arriving without their parents! At some point,
we're gonna have to track down their parents and bring them here.
"That's the only humane thing to do. We must unite these children
with their parents." So we'll find them and we'll fly them up here. It's
a Democrat voter-registration effort. It'll further pressure on the
welfare or whatever it is. None of it's any good. I don't care how
cloaked in compassion you claim to be. We could be as compassionate as
you want, but compassion does not require us to commit suicide as a
nation.
How many of you remember that we shut down immigration from 1924 or
'25 to 1965? There was none. Zip, zero, nada! Every time I mention
that, people are stunned. They think immigration is something that
happens all year, every year, throughout the year. From 1925 to 1960, 35
years we suspended legal immigration. You know why? So that the
people who came here post-Civil War up to post-World War I could
assimilate and become Americans.
They could learn our holidays, learn English, and become part of the
American fabric and culture -- which, by the way, they wanted to do. That's not even a component anymore. Talk about assimilation and you
get laughed out of the room. "Who are we to make people want to live
like us?" Well, it's our country!
"Well, what gives us the right to tell people they have to live like
we do?" That's the catcall from the left. "These people have their own
culture. Why can't they set it up here? Who are we to tell them
how?" That's the justification for this, and running throughout all of
it is: America has been to blame and must pay the price for all of our
aggressive transgressions over all of these decades."
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6/2/2007, "Too bad," Wall St. Journal column by Peggy Noonan
"What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must
understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White
House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby
setting down a historical marker -- "At this point the break became
final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans
must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What
President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a
great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not
only for one political party but for the American future.
The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because
its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in
the administration don't even much like the base. Desperate straits
have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain. Leading
Democrats often think their base is slightly mad but at least their
heart is in the right place. This White House thinks its base is stupid
and that its heart is in the wrong place.
For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters
have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don't like
endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable
affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in?
Too bad! You don't like expanding governmental authority and power? Too
bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad.
But on immigration it has changed from "Too bad" to "You're bad."
The president has taken to suggesting that opponents of his
immigration bill are unpatriotic -- they "don't want to do what's right
for America." His ally Sen. Lindsey Graham has said, "We're gonna tell
the bigots to shut up." On Fox last weekend he vowed to "push back."
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested opponents
would prefer illegal immigrants be killed; Commerce Secretary Carlos
Gutierrez said those who oppose the bill want "mass deportation." Former
Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson said those who oppose the bill are
"anti-immigrant" and suggested they suffer from "rage" and "national
chauvinism."
Why would they speak so insultingly, with such hostility, of
opponents who are concerned citizens? And often, though not exclusively,
concerned conservatives? It is odd, but it is of a piece with, or a
variation on, the "Too bad" governing style. And it is one that has, day
by day for at least the past three years, been tearing apart the
conservative movement.
I suspect the White House and its allies have turned to name calling
because they're defensive, and they're defensive because they know they
have produced a big and indecipherable mess of a bill -- one that is
literally bigger than the Bible, though as someone noted last week, at
least we actually had a few years to read the Bible. The White House and its supporters seem to be marshalling
not facts but only sentiments, and self-aggrandizing ones at that. They
make a call to emotions -- this is, always and on every issue, the
administration's default position -- but not, I think, to seriously
influence the debate....
If they'd really wanted to help, as opposed to braying about their
own wonderfulness, they would have created not one big bill but a series
of smaller bills, each of which would do one big clear thing, the first
being to close the border. Once that was done -- actually and
believably done -- the country could relax in the knowledge that the
situation was finally not day by day getting worse. They could feel some
confidence. And in that confidence real progress could begin.
The beginning of my own sense of separation from the Bush
administration came in January 2005, when the president declared that it
is now the policy of the United States to eradicate tyranny in the
world, and that the survival of American liberty is dependent on the
liberty of every other nation. This was at once so utopian and so
aggressive that it shocked me. For others the beginning of distance
might have been Katrina and the incompetence it revealed, or the depth
of the mishandling and misjudgments of Iraq.
What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this
White House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just
wisdom -- a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is
not all there is, that man has lived a long time and there are things
that are true of him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice,
that personal loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in
charge of anything, that the way it works in politics is a friend
becomes a loyalist becomes a hack, and actually at this point in history
we don't need hacks.
One of the things I have come to think the past few years is that the
Bushes, father and son, though different in many ways, are great
wasters of political inheritance.
They throw it away as if they'd earned it and could do with it what
they liked. Bush senior inherited a vibrant country and a party at peace
with itself. He won the leadership of a party that had finally, at
great cost, by 1980, fought itself through to unity and come together on
shared principles. Mr. Bush won in 1988 by saying he would govern as
Reagan had. Yet he did not understand he'd been elected to Reagan's
third term. He thought he'd been elected because they liked him. And so
he raised taxes, sundered a hard-won coalition, and found himself
shocked to lose the presidency, and for eight long and consequential
years. He had many virtues, but he wasted his inheritance.
Bush the younger came forward, presented himself as a conservative,
garnered all the frustrated hopes of his party, turned them into
victory, and not nine months later was handed a historical trauma that
left his country rallied around him, lifting him, and his party bonded
to him. He was disciplined and often daring, but in time he sundered the
party that rallied to him, and broke his coalition into pieces. He
threw away his inheritance. I do not understand such squandering.
Now conservatives and Republicans are going to have to win back their
party. They are going to have to break from those who have already
broken from them. This will require courage, serious thinking and an
ability to do what psychologists used to call letting go. This will be
painful, but it's time. It's more than time." via bizzyblog
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GOP has merged with Democrats:
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2/20/13, “As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned,” Angelo Codevilla, Forbes
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“Increasingly the top people in government, corporations, and the media collude and demand submission as did the royal courts of old.”…
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Comment: It's fine if Republicans find their ideology compatible with Democrats'. They simply need to file paperwork making their Democrat status official.
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