Eureka!
Finally somebody is stepping up to the plate. The Dummycrats are back in full swing and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid promises this:
“We’re uniting behind a national security agenda that is tough and smart and will provide the real security George Bush has promised but failed to deliver.”
Excellent! We have been waiting for somebody to pick up the slack. It seems only logical that the national security agenda of the Left will focus on issues somewhere between stopping port-deals and handing out green cards to millions of illegal immigrants. And all troops will be pulled out of Iraq, of course. That is tough and smart, indeed.
Or strong and smart, as Nancy Pelosi puts it:
“… one that is strong and smart, which understands the challenges America faces in a post 9/11 world, and one that demonstrates that Democrats are the party of real national security.”
Obviously our beloved Dummycrats haven’t quite made up their minds yet, but the new agenda is definitely smart and either strong or tough or both. So keep an ear out for those words because I’m sure they will pop up everywhere.
But I’m starting to feel more secure now, knowing that Reid, Pelosi and others will make sure of it. They also vowed to eliminate bin Laden by using special forces and adding more spies. That’s the part that confuses me. Considering all the protest marches in the past few days, pretty much everybody has the right to live in the United States, legally or not, right? And if everybody has the right to live in the United States, pretty much everybody on this planet could potentially be the backbone of America. Sending out more spies to catch bin Laden, at least in theory would be a case of domestic spying to all the people on this planet. Now that’s illegal, isn’t it? In theory this theory should hold up. Although I don’t have the slightest clue what I just wrote.
All my grandparents were immigrants, but they didn’t crawl under a fence; they came through customs & immigration at Ellis Island and were duly registered & legal. That nuance seems to get lost in the immigration debate.
I don’t see any political will in America to build a thirteen-foot fence from sea to shining sea, to beef up the Border Patrol or to create a bureaucracy to register and regulate access to the US job market. Without them, the immigration debate seems to be just a lot of political posturing.
I guess the real long-term solution is to genetically engineer self-harvesting crops, self-cleaning homes & offices, self-mowing lawns and cows that turn themselves into hamburgers & burritos and crawl out the window of the drive-through without human intervention. Except that the scientist who comes up with it could well be some Korean or Pakistani…
Comment by ralphieboy - March 29, 2006 @ 7:47 am
They said they would increase the Special Forces. Which is a lie, because the only way they can increase the Special Forces would be to dumb down the training in SEAR and Seal training, to get people who would otherwise fail, into the Teams. Which ends up killing more Special Forces people, because the SF gets extremely dangerous missions that only discipline, talent, and determination can pull off.
The Left has never learned that they cannot mold human nature based upon whim. They failed to learn that in Stalin’s days, and they failed to learn that facing Islamic terror.
Comment by Ymarsakar - March 30, 2006 @ 9:25 am
The Democrats are doomed to fall on their faces trying to get to the right of Bush on most any issue. Not only does it look and sound ridiculous, as you have pointed out, but they are abandoning their few remaining strengths to try and take on Republicans on their own turf.
They are aware that they fared poorly in recent elections because they have lost touch with Middle American Values, and think that they have to get back in touch with the Nascar dads and churchgoing small-town folks by trying to out-Republican the Republicans.
Funny thing is that Traditional American Values do not always follow party lines. Bush learned that when he tried to reform Social Security. Middle America admires private initiative, but neither do they trust corporations to take care of their pension funds.
And although most Nascar dads oppose abortion and support “abstinence only” for their daughters, they want to know that there is an option available in case their daughter does not remain fully and successfully abstinent.
Comment by ralphieboy - March 30, 2006 @ 12:09 pm
Thanks for this great post. I’ve linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2006/04/re-dummygration-problem.html
Comment by Consul-At-Arms - April 3, 2006 @ 6:37 am
The problem is that tougher immigration laws will solve nothing, they will only make the illegal entrance CHEAPER, if you look at it economically.
On the other side, where is the problem with immigration, as long as those immigrants don’t get any welfare, there SHOULDN’t be a problem?
Comment by Max - April 15, 2006 @ 12:45 am
Since Bush’s “security laws” are already failing on all fronts and are only a threat to private life and liberties, (I had a knife on my flight from New York to L.A.) I don’t think the Democrats can improve on that.
Howeve, you seem to speak about “the intolerance of Islam”. What do you care to say about the “outrage” of the Christian Church about POPETOWN?
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