THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE, DROP-DEAD, MUST SEE!

Before you do anything else  ... you gotta see this video.  Drudge posted it late yesterday.  It's a campaign advertisement created by Hollywood mogul David Zucker.  The intent was to have Republican organizations use this ad in the closing weeks of the 2006 campaign.  Apparently Republican leaders are afraid to use the ad .. .they say it's over the top.  You watch. You decide.

DEMOCRATS BLAME BUSH FOR NUKE TEST

The Democrats, John Kerry in particular, are blaming North Korea's "nuclear test" on George W. Bush.  Now, setting aside for a minute the question of whether or not The Gargoyle actually set off a nuke...and it is a big question...let's take a look at their accusations.

According to The Kept Man:  "While we've been bogged down in Iraq where there were no weapons of mass destruction, a madman has apparently tested the ultimate weapon of mass destruction."  O.K., so The Poodle seems to think that if we weren't in Iraq, Kim Jong-Il wouldn't have tested his nuclear weapon.  How does he know that?  The answer:  he doesn't.  Harry Reid also weighed in:  "The Bush administration has for several years been in a state of denial about the growing challenge of North Korea, and has too often tried to downplay the issue or change the subject."  They have?

It is the present Bush Administration that corrected our policy toward North Korea from one of appeasement during the Clinton Administration to one of dealing with North Korea sternly.  That's what the six-party talks are for...to pressure North Korea into doing what they should be doing.  So what were things like when Democrats were running our North Korea policy?

Don't forget it was the Clinton Administration that got us into this mess in the first place.  In 1994, in Switzerland, North Korea and the United States signed an agreement in which The Gargoyle agreed to abandon his nuclear weapons program in exchange for us helping them build two nuclear power plants. 

North Korea's reward?  President Clinton eased some of the economic sanctions.  Kim Jong-Il was also rewarded with an official state visit from Madeleine Albright, which did absolutely no good.  So the Democrats have this all wrong.  We tried it their way; we tried appeasing North Korea.  It didn't work. 

Obviously that agreement wasn't worth the paper it was printed on, since North Korea immediately broke it.  When Bush took office they found that The Gargoyle had been cheating on that agreement all along.  Something that the Clintonistas evidently didn't recognize, or didn't care about.

For them to sit back and criticize the Bush Administration is the height of hypocrisy because it is their party that is responsible for the current situation.

Oh .. .by the way.  Yesterday I told you that one of the reasons The Gargoyle was making all of this noise is because he wants the stature of being involved in two-party talks with the U.S.  It's tough to demand money from the U.S. taxpayers when there are four other parties in the room.  Much easier if you're only dealing with us.  I wondered yesterday who would be the first prominent Democrat who would suggest that we give Kim Jong Ill exactly what he wanted, a face-to-face with the U.S.  It didn't take long to get our answer.  It was none other than Senate Minority Leader (soon to be Majority Leader?) Harry Reid.

Way to go Harry. 

BRACE YOURSELF FOR A BLOWOUT

Today is the one month mark.....four weeks until Election Day.  Are you registered to vote?  Actually, if you aren't educated on the candidates and the issues and don't know what you're doing, please stay home.  At any rate, with just 30 more days until the American people go to the polls --- so here's your update.

Where do things stand now?  If the election were held today, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid would be ready to take over.  According to a USA Today/Gallup poll, Democrats lead Republicans 59% to 36%.  Uh-oh...that's the makings of a landslide.  Other polls offer no better news for Republicans.  CBS/New York Times poll?  49% leaning Democratic versus only 35% Republican.  An ABC/Washington Post poll shows much the same....54% to 41%, with the Democrats in charge.

All the GOP can hope for is that the polls are wrong.  After all, most of the polls in 2004 showed John Kerry beating George W. Bush...some by as much as 8 points.  In addition, the mainstream media has predicted the downfall of the Republican Congress for 3 consecutive mid-term elections...2002, 2004 and 2006....we'll see if they're right about the last one.

And what will be different with the Democrats in charge?  Well, for one their committee chairmen will have subpoena power.  That means endless investigations of Republicans and the Bush Administration and perhaps even impeachment proceedings.  Of course, all this could change...four weeks is an eternity in the world of politics.  So now you're up to date.

TAKE THE FENCE TO THE UNITED NATIONS? 

Are you believing this nonsense? 

It's as if we're not even a sovereign country any more.  The United States doesn't exist.  There are no borders.  The U.S. is nothing but a grandiose economic system providing  jobs to Mexicans and shoring up the corrupt Mexican government in the process. 

Why the outrage?  Well, as you should know, Bush is saying he is going to sign a bill that calls for the construction of a fence along about 700 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico.  That fence will be built on our side of the border.  On U.S. territory --- if there is any such thing any more.

Well .... actually the Mexicans don't seem to think that there is any such thing as "U.S. territory."  They're raising hell about the fence and -- now get this -- they want the United Nations to stop it.  The message here is that we have no right to protect our border.  We have no right to keep people from entering into this country illegally. 

Vicente Fox only has about seven weeks left in his presidency, but he has dispatched his foreign secretary, Luis Ernesto Derbez, to Europe on a mission.  Part of that mission is to complain about the border fence.  So far Sr. Derbez has talked to the French foreign minister about the fence, and now he's on his way to complain to the governments of Spain and Italy.  Derbez says he will continue his campaign against the border fence until Fox's last day in office.

What the hell?  This payaso is traveling around Europe complaining that the United States is building a fence to keep his countrymen from crossing into our country illegally?  This is absurd?

Well .. .maybe not so absurd if you look at it through the eyes of Derbez and his cronies in the Mexican government.  First -- they truly feel that the border is illegitimate in the first place.  That border runs along the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.  Those states, and the southern half of Colorado, are what many Mexicans refer to as the "Republica del Norte."  The area used to be part of Mexico -- or whatever preceded Mexico -- and is now being "re-conquered."  Go ahead.  Google "Republica del Norte" and take a trip through the 12,000+ hits you'll get.

This stream of Mexicans across our border is an invasion, not a migration.  They're invaders, not immigrants. 

I don't give a flying leap how many bales of pine straw they spread, how many square miles of sheetrock they hang, how many homes they build, how many cars they buff up as they emerge from the car wash .... I don't care.  It's an invasion just the same.  No real attempt is being made to assimilate into American culture.  No interest is shown in learning to speak anything past basic English.  Why should they?  The ultimate goal is their own country, or a brand new northern state to be part of Mexico.  Instead of trying to become part of our society, they write magazine articles informing us that "Los Angeles is Ours." 

So .. .along comes this idea for a border fence, and they react is if they are being fenced off from something that belongs to them!  They react that way because they feel that way.

In case you are one of the few out there who are wondering how it is that the Republicans came to be in such trouble in this upcoming election .... look at the stream of Mexican invaders coming across our borders.  What have the Republicans done to stop it?  The border fence?  Hey, it's about 1400 miles too short.  Besides ... and here's the key ... it hasn't been funded yet, and there are some serious doubts as to whether or not the congress will fund that fence at all. 

WOW -- PERHAPS A POOR CHOICE OF WORDS

Yesterday I was being interviewed by The New York Times about the role of talk radio in the upcoming midterm election.  The reporter was very interested in the visit I and a few other talk show hosts had with President Bush, particularly whether or not we were asked or a suggestion was made that we push certain issues or adopt certain positions on our shows.

Well, color me naive, but I hadn't considered that question before?  When I thought about it though, not once did the president make any comment that could possibly be construed as a suggestion that we push any idea or policy on our shows! 

The reporter then asked if there were any exchanges between us and the president that might be defined as, shall we say, challenging.  The issue of immigration policy immediately came to mind.  We told the president that our listeners were very concerned about illegal immigration, and they flat-out wanted the border between the U.S. and Mexico closed.  Now.

I went on at that point to frame my opposition to the president's "comprehensive" plan for immigration control.  I said that I felt that the first job was to close the border ... then we could worry about those who have already entered. 

Then I let my imagination run rampant --- and if the reporter prints the analogy I used we're going to seem some interesting reactions.

So ... might as well get it out in the open right now.  My latest analogy on border control, and why a "comprehensive" plan won't work.

Let's say that you leave some windows open at your home, and suddenly you're invaded by mosquitoes. What do you do?  Oh come on now.  You know the first task would be to close the windows before any more mosquitoes get into your home!  How hard is that?  Would it make any sense to try to get rid of the bugs you already have in your house while you leave the windows and more keep swarming in!

Close the windows!

Makes perfect sense ... but just maybe it will be considered to be a bit insensitive.  Oh well, it probably won't make it into the story anyway.

Well ... mosquito is a Spanish word, isn't it?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

We've all heard of those big, fantastic, warm Italian families, right?  Well, what is the future of the Italian family?  What is the future of the Greek Family?  The French?  The Germans? 

To build families, you have babies.  You make brothers and sisters.  Simple enough.

I'm reading a book right now by an excellent writer named Mark Steyn.  I link to his columns often. The book is "America Alone. The End of the World As We Know It."  It is an absolutely fantastic read .. if not an alarming one. 

In the prologue to the book Steyn makes some demographic points.  Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia are running out of babies.  Greece has a fertility rate of 1.3 per couple.  Demographers cite that as a low point from which no human society has ever recovered.  The fertility rate for Spaniards is 1.1.  In Italy it's 1.2.  Steyn writes  "... by 2050, 60% of Italians will have no brothers, no sisters, no cousins, no aunts, no uncles."

Why is this important?  Because in Europe the Muslim fertility rate is sky high.  Muslims are out-producing the French in France, the Germans in Germany, the Italians in Italy ... etc.

If this doesn't mean anything to you then you're just trying to exist until tonight so you can watch "Entertainment Tonight."  Maybe you can get a copy of People Magazine to tide you by.

TED TURNER'S ANTI-AMERICANISM

Ted Turner, who's flying high these days with his ever-expanding chain of bison burger restaurants and also his new girlfriend Catherine Crier, made a speech the other day.  In it, he proclaimed that he couldn't pick sides in the war on terror.  No, your eyes do not deceive you...Ted Turner actually is conflicted as to whether or not he supports Islamic terrorists or the United States in the war against terrorism.

This should not come as much of a surprise, since Ted Turner somehow has a reputation for being an appeaser.  But Ted's anti-Americanism doesn't stop there.  He also says that the media has no business showing the American flag.  Something about the media not being biased toward the United States or something.  You really do have to wonder about Ted Turner.

How does a guy who's obviously such a brilliant businessman...an American success story....turn into such a Leftist?  That's a good question...maybe Jane Fonda did it to him.  We'll never know.  And here's a question that people need to ask all of these rich liberals who bash the United States:  if America is such a terrible place, why are you still here?

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

This gives "hands free" a completely new meaning. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

The Gargoyle may have a bit of a problem:  U.S. officials say his "nuclear blast" may not have been nuclear at all.  It seems it just wasn't powerful enough.  Once again, Kim Jong-Il falls just a little bit short.  We'll know for sure soon enough.

Mexico is so upset about the proposed border fence between the United States and their country that they may take their dispute to the U.N.  Good luck, guys...you know, the United Nations is in New York and we pay for the place, right?

For those Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who say that Iraqis were better off under Saddam Hussein, they might consider this.  A former woman prisoner says Saddam's guards used to bury people alive.  But he really is a nice man.

So far, things aren't working out too well for Perky Katie Couric over at the CBS Evening News.  She's solidly in third place, the same place Dan Rather was and Bob Schieffer were.  How long before this whole experiment goes bust and she moves to the Early Show?

Get ready for a new D.C. sex scandal.  The Feds have busted an escort service that has for 13 years dispatched hookers to high-profile, well-off clients.  If that list of names ever gets out, get ready for the Capitol to be turned upside down.

It's official:  the new U.N. Secretary-General is South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon.  He gets a four-year term that starts on January 1, 2007.  Perhaps he can clean up the mess of corruption left behind by the Kofi Annan regime.

Jack Kelly takes a closer look at the United States' North Korea policy and asks whether or not it's working.  He doesn't share the alarm people have over Kim Jong-Il's supposed nuclear weapons test or North Korea in general.

In 4 weeks, Americans will go to the polls and decide whether or not to vote for the Democrat or the Republican.  Thomas Sowell says that choice is not so much one of political party, but a decision about whether you are serious or frivolous.  Read on to find out what he means.

With Republicans on the ropes and their dreams of continuing their majorities in the House and Senate continuing to fade, Cal Thomas makes the case for continuing the GOP majority.  Somebody has to do it, you know.

David Limbaugh still doesn't think conservatives are going to stay home on Election Day and put Congress in the hands of the Democrats.  He says don't believe the propaganda... after all, these were the same prognosticators that said John Kerry was going to win big in 2004.

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