BUSH SAYS STOP MEASURING DRAPES

George W. Bush said yesterday that Democrats should stop measuring the drapes in anticipation of taking over control of Congress November 7th. Maybe the only thing they'll be hanging will be their heads. Bush says it is them that the American people are going to pull the rug out from under on Election Day. Setting aside the fact that it is his job to rally the troops and stay as optimistic as possible, could he possibly be right?

Again .. what reason do people have to not vote for Republicans? Well, the president gave a reason...and it was quite interesting. He said that the Democrats would raise people's taxes, and he's right. But what he failed to mention was that the Republican Congress, at his direction, has spent more money faster during his presidency that at any other time in history. In fact, the federal government is growing so fast, it has doubled in size since the Republicans took over in 1994.

So what's the difference? One difference is that while the GOP will grow the size of government exponentially, they'll borrow money to do it. The Democrats will charge you for it all right now. Will the masses respond to the new tactic of trying to convince them Democrats will raise their taxes? Probably not...after all, most people only focus on what they "get back" from the IRS every year.

So what else can the GOP run on? Terrorism? People are tired of hearing about that. There's just not a good strategy for Republicans right now, which explains the polls.

Now remember this ... especially those of you who are sending me the nasty emails. I don't want our government to fall under the control of the Democrats. Once the Democrats get total control they'll move swiftly to expand the welfare entitlement state to the point that they'll never have to fear being kicked out of power again. What I do want is to have the Republicans get a huge scare ... perhaps to be sent to time out for two years while they lick their wounds and try to figure out why their conservative base abandoned them.

Hello! Spending! Big government!

Twelve days to go. Things change. Let's watch.

OUR NEW 700-MILE FENCE

The president is all set to sign today the bill authorizing the construction of a 700-mile border fence with Mexico. This would be an absolutely fabulous idea....if our border with Mexico were 700 miles long. The only problem: it isn't. It's almost 2,000 miles long. Oops! Looks like somebody fell a bit short in the arithmetic department. The $1.2 billion bill is seen as a "down payment" on the fence. Great...a fence that's too short still isn't fully paid for....this gets better all the time.

Republicans could have not only retained their majorities in the House and Senate, but expanded them this year. All they had to do was come out months ago in favor of getting tough on the illegal alien invasion. Some of them have, but the stumbling block isn't in Congress, it's at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. President Bush simply supports amnesty for illegal aliens...the so-called guest worker program....and does not support doing anything at all with the 12 million illegals already here.

So this fence is just another do-nothing initiative that will not stop invasion from Mexico in the least. It's not enough. As long as there are places where illegals can just walk right on in, they will. As long as they know nothing will happen to them once they get here, they will continue to take the risk.

How about a fence along the entire border? And a real fence...a manned one with gun turrets and stuff. You could even mine it. Illegal immigration problem solved. North Korea and South Korea have had a pretty good border fence for 50 years.

By the way .. have you heard that China is busy laying down a barbed wire fence along its entire border with North Korea? Let's send some observers over there to see how they're doing it.

TIME LIMIT ON WAR IN IRAQ

Here's an interesting change of policy...one that the Bush Administration has casually mentioned about Iraq. However, if you blink, you'll miss it. President Bush said yesterday that he supported setting "benchmarks" in Iraq. In other words, measurements that are required to be met. Hmm...interesting. This sounds sort of like conditions...and what if the benchmarks aren't met? Perhaps we'll leave.... Bush didn't say.

The most interesting part of what the president did say was this: Bush said the United States has "got patience, but not unlimited patience." In other words, we're hitting our limit. He's also admitting some of the things that went wrong. Such as the Coalition overestimated the Iraqi civil service's ability to provide services to the Iraqi people. The prime minister in Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, didn't particularly like this talk of benchmarks. He held a press conference in Baghdad to take exception.

Said Al-Maliki: "I affirm that this government represents the will of the people and no one has the right to impose a timetable on it. I am positive that this is not the official policy of the American government but rather a result of the ongoing election campaign. And that does not concern us much." You don't say. Well, I have bad news for Mr. Maliki. This does seem to be the new policy of the American government.

There are going to be limits to our support of Iraq. Sooner or later, the training wheels are going to come off and we're going to toss the Iraqis the keys and head for the exits. We're starting to see the groundwork being laid for that right now.

NOT SERIOUS ABOUT THE MEXICAN INVASION

A story out of Atlanta today. Brian Feagans reports in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that every single day the police chief in Roswell, Georgia faxes a list to the Atlanta office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The fax is a list; a list of every inmate that the chief is holding in the Roswell city jail that he suspects is in this country illegally.

Thus far about 10,000 names have been faxed to the immigration officials. And thus far immigration officials have picked up exactly three of them. Three, out of 10,000. That, my friends, is how serious our federal government is about fighting the Mexican invasion. At one point Feagans reports that an immigration official even called to tell the Roswell police that they are wasting their time. The faxes continue, though, and the so-called immigration enforcement types continue to do nothing. Here's your story.

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS ... AGAIN

OK .. Your child brings home a report card. It's all "A"s. That's good, right? His sister brings home all "D"s. That's not so good, is it? For as long as most of us can remember that's the way it has been. But no longer. Government schools across the nation have been working to find ways to tinker with the grading system so as to mask how their inmates are really doing. Some schools have done away with red ink for grading papers. It upsets the students. Others have moved from the A,B,C,D,F system to one involving symbols ... triangles, squares, circles.

Well ... we have to give the prize to the infamous Gwinnett County Government Schools in Georgia. They have completely turned the grading system on its head.

Every single week Gwinnett "teachers" in grades K through 5 send home something called the "Weekly Folder" with each student. This document is supposed to grade the student's behavior in class for every day of the week. Each student is graded for each day with either an A, B, C or D. Sounds normal so far, doesn't it. But ... oh you're just going to love this ... here's the good part. D is the best grade you can get! A? Well, an A is the absolute worst grade! Right there at the bottom of the grading sheet you will find "D=Exceeds Standards C=Meets Standards B=Does Not Meet Standards A=Significantly Does Not Meet Standards

A parent writes that the school excuses this grading system by assigning words to the letters. Hold your breath ... here we go:

* A = Anarchy
* B = Bothers
* C= Cooperative
* D = Democracy

So .. what do we have here. These kids go through their first five years of school thinking that Ds are good and As are bad. Now that really sets them up for the reality of government education when the learnin' gets serious, doesn't it?

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

This would be a sure sign that you're in a redneck's bathroom. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

To show you how little the federal government actually cares about illegal immigration, the Roswell, Georgia police chief has been faxing the names of thousands of illegals to the feds for years.....and they do nothing about it.  In fact, they've gone so far as to call him and tell him he's wasting his time.

Democrats trying to unseat Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania have started running ads criticizing his intervention in the Terri Schiavo case.  But Michael Schiavo doesn't like that either, saying neither side has any right to use his wife as a political football.

The smackdown continues between Michael J. Fox and The Godfather...with  Limbaugh now calling Fox a victim of Democrats.  He says Fox is being used because he's a messenger that people aren't allowed to reply to.  Of course, you know whose side the media is taking.

It turns out that being fat not only shortens your life, but it makes your car more expensive to drive. 

That ads up to $2.8 billion a year in extra gasoline...just to haul around the extra freight.  Along those same lines, Ford Motor Company has started enlarging their cars for fatter people.

Robert Novak tells us why things may be a bit more uphill for Democrats in their campaign to take over the House than previously thought.  The problem is, it all comes down to about 50 hotly contested local races...and it's hard to figure George W. Bush and Iraq into that mix.

In 1984....some 22 years ago at the height of the Cold War....Donald Rumsfeld made a speech about terrorism.  In it, he said terrorism was growing and he predicted many of the problems we're having today.  Cal Thomas makes note of the speech and says it's all coming true.

Victor Davis Hanson talks about how the governments of the Middle East are still stuck in the dark ages....doing many of the same things previous civilizations did thousands of years ago.  Like still chopping off people's heads, for instance.

The latest push from the Bush Administration seems to be for sanctions on Iran...but Max Boot says that isn't going to work unless we embargo crude exports from the Islamic terrorist state.  Since that's not going to happen, Boot has other ideas for dealing with Iran.

Democrats pretend to support The War On Terror by saying they supported the war in Afghanistan. 

But Ann Coulter calls them out...saying the Left has never supported any sort of war on terror...and if Bush had gone to war in Iraq right after 9/11, they'd support that too.

Andy Rooney said in his commentary on '60 Minutes' that he wanted President Bush to explain why there are troops in Iraq.  Larry Elder takes over the challenge...and writes an open letter to Andy Rooney in his latest column.

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