"YOU DON'T NEED PAPERS FOR VOTING"

I've been telling you for weeks that the driving motivation behind Democrats' refusal to back any plan to seal our borders against the invaders form Mexico was tied to one thing ... votes.  The Democrats see the gate-crashers as an almost inexhaustible source of new votes for Democratic candidates.  They're not citizens, you say?  True enough, but since when has that meant anything to the left and to Democrats when it comes to pushing their "everybody in the pool" attitude on voting?  Do you remember the 1996 elections in California?  Orange County Republican Bob Dornan was running against Loretta Sanchez.  This was quite an interesting election.  Miss Loretta had tried several times to run for office under her married name of Loretta Brixley.  Didn't work.  Then, an epiphany!  Why not revert to her maiden name of Sanchez?  There are tens of thousands of Hispanics in the district, and though many of them are illegal, being the informed and knowledgeable voters that they are, they would certainly respond better to the Sanchez name than to the Brixley name.  So ... change her name she did, and win she did ... on the strength of thousands of votes from unregistered Latino voters.  The Republicans, recognizing that some pretty massive voting fraud had taken place, immediately started an investigation.  The Democrats, just two years from having lost control of the House, immediately started screaming racism.  The tactic worked, the investigation into rampant illegal voting was dropped, and Sanchez remains in the House of Representatives

Well ... it certainly looks like we're set for a repeat of 1996 in California, just a bit further South.  In San Diego we have a Democrat named Francine Busby who is a candidate for the vacated seat of disgraced Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham.  In a nutshell, Busby is telling Latinos  that they don't need to be here legally to vote.  Here's what happened at this campaign appearance.  A man stood up in the back of the room and said "I want to help, but I don't have papers."  Now this was a blatant admission by this man that he was in this country illegally.  Let's pause for a moment and think about just how bad things are when someone who has broken the law by entering this country illegally can actually feel free to go to a political rally and announce that fact!  Not only announce it, but then express a desire to help Democrat candidate in an election!  And why help the Democrat?  Because the Democrats are the party of amnesty, that's why!  But, we're getting away from Francine Busby here.  What did Francine Busby say to this illegal?  She said "Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you all can help.  You don't need papers for voting.  You don't need to be a registered voter to help." 

What?  You don't need papers for voting?  What kind of papers?  Well .. papers that show you're in this country legally!  This was nothing less than a bold, blatant invitation to every illegal alien and non-citizen living in this particular congressional district to go the polls and put this wonderful Democrat, Francine Busby, into office. 

You must know that as soon as a recording of Busby's remarks hit the local talk shows she started backtracking --- big time.  Now we're getting the "I misspoke" nonsense from her campaign.  Busby's Republican opponent, Brian Billbray (why, by the way, has a strong anti-illegal immigration stance) said it best when he said that at worst, Busby was encouraging illegals to vote, and at best, she was encouraging people in this country illegally to work actively on her political campaign.

Now all of you know that I try to avoid cliches like the plague.  But you really need to connect the dots on this one.  Part of the Democrat game plan for returning to power in Washington is to make it as easy for the growing number of Hispanic non-citizens, both those who are here legally and those who are here illegally, to vote in all elections.  Francine Busby's statement, retractions notwithstanding, was just another dot for you to connect.  Want some more?  Try these:

• Across the country Democrat activists are starting to push the idea of allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections.
• Whenever any evil Republican comes up with the idea of making people show a picture ID to vote, or to register to vote, or when it is suggested that people should have to do something to prove their citizenship in order to register or vote, the Democrats are the first to howl like stuck pigs. 
• If fraud involving Latino voters is suspected, and someone suggests an investigation, Democrats will counter with charges of racism.
• Democrats are in the lead when it comes to promoting some sort of immigration "reform" that will allow the 11 million illegals we currently have in this country to stay.

Do you have to be whacked around like a pinata to see what's going on here?  Democrats have adopted a "whatever it takes" philosophy when it comes to regaining their power inside the Beltway.  If it takes allowing anyone who can get to a voting booth to cast a vote, regardless of trivial matters like citizenship ... no problem!  Just don't be stupid enough to announce it at an election rally.

HAD TO TURN OFF THE NEWS AGAIN THIS MORNING

I'm finishing my program notes in silence.  I'm finding it harder and harder, in spite of Carol Costello's new hot looks, to watch the news in the morning.  This particular morning it was the usual on Fox News Channel ... that happy, happy bull---t morning coffee klatch nonsense, and on CNN it was all about American soldiers murdering unarmed civilians in Iraq and how tough it is for poor, poor Americans to deal with high gas prices.  So ... I watched the weather (where's Chad?) and that was it.  You're actually the winners here.  I write better when I'm not listening to the tube.  So now .. here is sit ...in blissful silence wearing my Bose Quiet Comfort2 noise canceling headphones trying to figure out just how to piss off the largest number of people possible today.  Usually, that isn't a problem.  This next item ought to do it.

THAT BUSH .. HE'S REALLY IN TOUCH, ISN'T HE?

I had yet another sleepless night last night.  It was awful.  I woke up at about 1:30 and just couldn't get back to sleep again.  You'll hear me yawning uncontrollably today on the show.  Not good radio, but whatchagonnado? 

And what kept me awake?  Well ... I'm sure you're like me.  At night, when the mind is otherwise cleared of the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life, those problems that really count, I mean those just awful and terrible problems you have, will come visiting ---- with a vengeance.  So last night I'm lying there when suddenly I'm shocked by the realization that somewhere, perhaps even within a ten-mile radius of my home, my sanctuary, there might be two men or two women who truly love each other lying in their own bed as they sleep.  Then ... this horrible thought.  What if they wanted to get married?  Well .. that was it for me.  I should have just gone ahead and gotten up to start the day about four hours early.  I spent the rest of the night worrying about the devastating impact on my own marriage and on my career that would surely follow if two gays or two lesbians were actually allowed to engage in some ceremony to show their love and lifetime devotion to one another.  Why, I'm just not sure I could go on!  What would be the purpose in life if two homosexuals were actually allowed to make that kind of commitment to each other?

Fortunately, help is on the way.  Today we're going to have a big time presidential speech from the Rose Garden today at 1:00.  Frankly, I'm surprised they didn't plant a garden of pansies just for this incredible event.  President Bush is going to set all of our minds at ease by coming out strongly for some sort of a Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage.  We've needed this for such a long time.   I think that it is perfectly fitting for us to use the United States Constitution, a document that is dedicated to the preservation of our inalienable rights, to tell a certain specific group of people what they cannot do, rather than tell the government what it cannot do. 

We don't need tax reform.  We don't need an end to earmark pork spending in Congress.  We don't need smaller government and school choice.  We don't need real reform that would put medical care back into the competitive marketplace.  We need none of those things.  All is fine!  What we need is a Constitutional Amendment that will keep two people who love each other, but who we don't consider to be normal -- not by our standards anyway -- to marry.

I know I'll sleep better tonight. 

MUSLIMS DENOUNCE TERRORISM...SORT OF

A big score over the weekend in Toronto for the authorities...they stopped a planned attack by terrorists they say were inspired by Al-Qaeda. The plot was to bomb several buildings around the city using three times as much fertilizer as Timothy McVeigh used in Oklahoma City 11 years ago.  Good news for Canadians.   Bad news for Americans who have gone to sleep on the terrorism issue.

Now .. you really had to search for this little factoid in many of the stories on this issue .. but you did know that all 17 of these  men and boys that were arrested are Muslims, didn't you?  This puts the Muslim community in Canada in a bind.  What do they do?  Do what they do here in the U.S., which is to say nothing?  Actually. they did the right thing.  Canadian Muslim organizations came out and condemned the planned bombing, saying "We are committed to the safety and security of Canada and Canadians.  We of all Canadians are shocked at the recent arrests of young Muslim men and teenagers and the very serious allegation against them."

So how's come that never happens here in the United States?  The answer is, many of the people who run these Islamic organizations (not all) believe that it is actually the fault of the U.S. that terrorism takes place.  You see, if it weren't for the evil Americans supporting Israel and killing innocent Muslims, there would be no terrorism.  Got that?  Good! 

Perhaps if these Muslim groups condemned terrorism against the United States, their approval ratings might be higher.

IRAN THREATENS U.S.

Speaking of Islamic terrorists, Iran is back in the news.  Yesterday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei crawled out of the cave that he probably shares with cat carcasses to threaten the United States.  He said that any 'misbehavior' directed at Iran would cause a disruption in oil shipments.  Translation: take a shot at us and we'll cut you off.  Sadly, there is some validity to what he says.

Twenty percent of the world's oil flows through Iran...and no matter who we have economic sanctions against, it doesn't matter when it comes to world commodities.  All supplies are traded on the open market.  Imagine if a 20% reduction in crude took place around the globe.  Gas would shoot through the roof.  So what are we doing about it?

Other than paying lip service and promising more fruitless and worthless "negotiations," absolutely nothing. But the answer is simple, and it's right there in front of us.  In order for Iran's threats to mean nothing, we need our own crude oil and we need to work on resources available to us right here in our own country so that we don't have to rely so much on foreign sources of energy.  But here is where the left and the leftist eco-nuts like Al Gore are the problem and not the solution.  They want to block every effort to drill for oil in the United States.  Convert shale to oil?  No way.  Convert coal to useable fuel?  Not a chance. Drill in ANWR or off the Florida coast?  Are you kidding?

If the world didn't need Iran's oil so much, Iran would be a parking lot or a giant sand box.

DEMOCRATS IN 2008

It's over 2 years away, but already the 2008 Democratic campaign season is heating up.  We are currently in a primary of sorts...with candidates jockeying for position.  With the amount of money that will need to be raised, it's no surprise things are getting into full swing.

Everybody knows Hillary Clinton will be running and that she is the front-runner.  Who's next after that?  Conventional wisdom (which is often wrong, by the way) says that the past two presidential election losers are going to be back in 2008, looking for a piece of the action.

First up is Al Gore.  Gore, who is out promoting his movie on global warming, refuses to say he will not run.  Speaking yesterday on ABC's 'This Week,' he all but said he wasn't running...but wouldn't shut the door.  He's taking the wait and see attitude.  He probably hasn't decided.   It used to be that if you ran once and lost, you were considered damaged goods.  But times have changed.....and it wasn't that long ago that Richard Nixon lost a national election and came back to get elected to two terms.

Then there's The Poodle. He would be the extreme leftist candidate, the kind of person the Democratic fringe primary voter could get behind.  He told a group of bloggers the other day that the Bush Administration was a bunch of criminals. Just the kind of thing that Moveon.org is looking for.

Then there are some governors most people have never heard of.  Governors are the ones that usually wind up in the White House, which means it's anybody's game at this point. 

BASIC INTERNET RULE NO. 15

Any email message you get containing the word "eBay" in the subject line stands a 99.68% chance of being part of a fraudulent phishing scheme.

PRIVILEGED TREATMENT

It's been three months now since Georgia Democrat Cynthia McKinney slugged a police officer in Washington DC.  Three months.  Still, no indictment.  It sure is nice to see that our elected officials are treated just the same way we are, isn't it?  How long do you stay on the streets if you slug a cop?

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

What does a redneck imagine might be at the end of the rainbow?  His own pot 40oz. of gold. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Al Gore was asked on 'This Week' on Sunday if he would feel compelled to jump into the 2008 race if Hillary Clinton ran.  He said no, which ranks right up there with "I did not have sex with that woman" as one of the greatest whoppers ever told on national television.

President Bush's poll numbers are at record lows, but out in the world, things have never been better.  Michael Barone points to record economic growth and a high standard of living.  He also says Bush knows what he's doing.

The conventional wisdom is that Hillary Clinton is going to the Democratic nominee in 2008.  But if Florida is any indication, Peter Brown says Hillary is in trouble....already.

Wal-Mart is in the news again.  The corporation known for falling prices, employing illegal aliens and taking land via eminent domain abuse is having problems out in California. A city there wants to turn the tables and take Wal-Mart's land.  Debra Saunders has more.

Dennis Ross, a former ambassador and negotiator in the Clinton and Bush 41 administrations has a plan to boost democracy in the Middle East.  He says it cannot be done by military might alone.

Even if you assume the 'massacre' took place in Haditha and Marines killed those innocent people, Mark Steyn says that doesn't change a thing.  We still need to win the war in Iraq and the War On Terror.

In order to become the majority party and be trusted with national security, liberals need to start taking terrorism seriously.  John Leo says it's time for a new message from the Democratic Party.  Good luck...they need to agree on one first.

Nancy Pelosi...who if the Democrats take control of the house would rise to the Speaker's office...could be on her way out.  Robert Novak reports that Democrats are getting tired of her act.

Professor Mike Adams is known for squaring off against various colleges over their liberal bias and leftist faculties.  Today's organization he takes issue with is...well...the Mormon faith.

In his fourth column in a series about the liberal vision, Thomas Sowell takes a look at what happens when liberals become conservatives.  That is, when the facts pile up to the point that they can no longer believe.

Bill O'Reilly slanders WWII soldiers. (video)

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