When I read about Mike Pence, truly a conservative in most respects, dissing the U.S. Senate's amnesty plan disguised as a guest-worker program, then offering his alternative, which calls for a stronger border-security program, followed by another version of an amnesty program that he says is not an amnesty program, I thought I had seen the final proof that Washington. D.C., is, indeed, in a parallel universe that sucks the brains out of anyone who gets close to it. Now comes new House Majority Leader John Boehner, opining in Terre Haute. He has nothing but praise for No Child Left Behind, perhaps the biggest affront to federalism since Richard Nixon's revenue sharing, and the Medicare drug plan, an increase in entitlement spending that would have left Lyndon Johnson breathless.
And these clowns wonder why the GOP base is unhappy? If there isn't a complete Democratic rout in the fall election, it won't be because Republicans haven't been working hard to achieve it.
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I could not agree more.
The Republican Party of today is a big government, deficit creating, fiscally irreponsible Party.
If The Democrats came up with a simple and attainable and believeable platform they would crush them...
Mike Sylvester
Libertarian
Twenty years ago congress granted amnesty and did nothing to prevent the same thing happening again. Now they created this problem are attempting to make themselves look important by solving a "crisis." Congress is always reactive, never proactive. This is and will be our downfall. Can we send them all back, no but I am all for trying. Do we simply give up? John Paul Jones told the British captain attacking his ship when asked to surrender, "I have not yet begun to fight" and defeated the British. Where have these types of leaders gone?
I like Pence, but his immigration position does not coincide with mine. Is he being "assimilated" and resistance is futile?