1. ___ Call the Dale Carnegie people; Demand refund.
2. ___ Call Teddy. Thank him for the 32-year-old single malt.
3. ___ Remind those snot-nosed punks on the committee I know more about immigration everything than any of them.
4. ___ Yell at those #%@&! kids about staying off my lawn.
5. ___ Hit GoDaddy. Register www.ballisto-geezer.com.
6. ___ Yoga. 4p.
7. ___ Blockbuster. Return: Anger Management; Incredible Hulk. Rent: Milagro Beanfield War.
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1. ___ Call the Dale Carnegie people; Demand refund.
2. ___ Call Teddy. Thank him for the 32-year-old single malt.
3. ___Â Remind those snot-nosed punks on the committee I know more about immigration everything than any of them.
4. ___ Yell at those #%@&! kids about staying off my lawn.
5. ___Â Hit GoDaddy. Register www.ballisto-geezer.com.
6. ___Â Â Yoga. 4p.
7. ___ Blockbuster. Return: Anger Management; Incredible Hulk. Rent:Â Milagro Beanfield War.
According to the advocates of the current wink-or-turn-a-blind-eye approach to illegal aliens, we need lots of illegals because they “do jobs Americans won’t do.”
Well one job this American didn’t want is to attempt to read the 326-page draft of the immigration “reform” bill. Fortunately, Hugh Hewitt has stepped up and done it for the rest of us.
What qualifies Hewitt to stroll into that labyrinth of legislative-speak and full-contact lawyerizationalizing? Well, here are some highlights from Hugh’s resume:
. .a Professor of Law at Chapman University Law School. . .the recipient of three Emmys during his decade as an anchor of a nightly news and public affairs show for the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, KCET. . .served six years in the Reagan Administration in a variety of posts including in the White House Counsel’s office. . .is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School. . .
Other than that, he’s just another hack like me.
Tellingly, there are sections of the bill that even Hugh couldn’t decipher. Just wait until some low level bureaucrat starts trying to apply them.
As you read Hewitt’s eight-part dissection of the bill, keep in mind that John McCain is screaming and swearing at my Senator, John Cornyn, because he wants it passed quickly before anybody can actually figure out what it will actually mean for our country.
According to the advocates of the current wink-or-turn-a-blind-eye approach to illegal aliens, we need lots of illegals because they “do jobs Americans won’t do.”
Well one job this American didn’t want is to attempt to read the 326-page draft of the immigration “reform” bill. Fortunately, Hugh Hewitt has stepped up and done it for the rest of us.
What qualifies Hewitt to stroll into that labyrinth of legislative-speak and full-contact lawyerizationalizing? Well, here are some highlights from Hugh’s resume:
 . .a Professor of Law at Chapman University Law School. . .the recipient of three Emmys during his decade as an anchor of a nightly news and public affairs show for the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, KCET. . .served six years in the Reagan Administration in a variety of posts including in the White House Counsel’s office. . .is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School. . .
Other than that, he’s just another hack like me.
Tellingly, there are sections of the bill that even Hugh couldn’t decipher. Just wait until some low level bureaucrat starts trying to apply them.
As you read Hewitt’s eight-part dissection of the bill, keep in mind that John McCain is screaming and swearing at my Senator, John Cornyn, because he wants it passed quickly before anybody can actually figure out what it will actually mean for our country.
In my previous post, I offered my first shocked-and-awed thoughts about the “immigration compromise” to a breathless world, clamoring to know my take. If I am in any way typical, it’s a deep self-inflicted wound for the Republican Party. But maybe I’m not typical.
So, how does this Amnesty-in-Drag hurt Republican prospects in the near term. Today David Frum basically says, “let me count the ways!” In this post he reels off not five, not six, not seven, but eight ways this damages Republican prospects in the next election.
A tender morsel:
6) As we have seen in both the Harriet Miers fight and the Dubai ports deal, this White House’s first instinct when faced with dissent in the ranks is to insult and abuse its strongest supporters. “Sexist”; “elitist”; “registered bigots” were some of the terms cast during the previous fights. Brace yourselves for much, much worse. This is no way to win friends and influence people. And triggering an internecine party conflict on the eve of a difficult and dangerous election is no way to re-elect a damaged incumbent party.
In my previous post, I offered my first shocked-and-awed thoughts about the “immigration compromise” to a breathless world, clamoring to know my take.  If I am in any way typical, it’s a deep self-inflicted wound for the Republican Party. But maybe I’m not typical. Â
So, how does this Amnesty-in-Drag hurt Republican prospects in the near term. Today David Frum basically says, “let me count the ways!” In this post he reels off not five, not six, not seven, but eight ways this damages Republican prospects in the next election.
 A tender morsel:
6) As we have seen in both the Harriet Miers fight and the Dubai ports deal, this White House’s first instinct when faced with dissent in the ranks is to insult and abuse its strongest supporters. “Sexist”; “elitist”; “registered bigots” were some of the terms cast during the previous fights. Brace yourselves for much, much worse. This is no way to win friends and influence people. And triggering an internecine party conflict on the eve of a difficult and dangerous election is no way to re-elect a damaged incumbent party.
I cast my very first vote in a presidential election in 1980. I was 20 and voted for Ronald Reagan with a heady mixture of zeal, pride and anti-Carter-malaise-dispelling bravado. My only regret was that I could vote only once. So I voted hard to compensate.
The bundle of passions and convictions that made me a loyal, activist Republican 27 years ago:
. . .these kept me voting for, working for and donating to Republican candidates in the intervening years. Though some of the threats have changed names (goodbye Soviet Union, hello militant Islam), they are still pretty much the ones that animate me today.
But on most of the above issues, large segments of the Republican leadership have either abandoned the field to the statists, the multilaterialists, and the appeasers; or have actually joined them.
Today I find myself questioning whether or not I am still a Republican.
On this sad day a Republican President and significant numbers of Republican Senators sold out their country and conservative principles and then tried to pretend the opposite was actually the case. This so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform compromise may be the last straw for me.
I need to sleep on it but I’m so angry right now I could leave a voicemail for Lindsey Graham and John McCain that would make Alec Baldwin’s ballisto-rant on his daughter seem like a Precious Moments greeting card.
I haven’t left the party. But it does appear the party has ditched me.
“I mean. . .here I am on Fox News. . .”
A magenta-faced, sputtering Bill Clinton threw those words at interviewer Chris Wallace and didn’t bother to finish the sentence. He didn’t feel he needed to. And if he had still been inside the insular echo chamber of left-liberal cocktail parties in Manhattan, he wouldn’t have. It’s understood. Fox News is a byword.
By the time the former President got to the chair opposite Chris Wallace, he was well into a media tour designed to let Clinton humbly receive kudos for all the money he’d raised for his “Global Initiative.” At every stop, he was fawned over, praised and babied. If memory serves, Keith Olbermann handed Clinton a check and gave him a foot rub.
This explains Clinton’s gobsmack-ed fury when Chris Wallace suddenly went all “journalist” on his posterior and asked him a tough, but relevant question.
You see, Conservatives/Republicans know that almost every engagement with the news media is likely to involve tough questions, adversarial postures, and “gotcha” games. You will hear them complain (with ample justification) about liberal bias in the newsroom and left-wing agenda journalism. But, like adults, they keep showing up and make their case.
That brings us to today’s news that the Democratic presidential candidates refuse to conduct a debate hosted by Fox News—far and away the most watched cable news channel. There will be two, that’s right, two CNN debates. Another two on NBC/MSNBC, as well as one each on ABC and CBS.
What must we deduce from this? That, like Clinton, a critical mass of left-of-center politicians have now become so accustomed to dealing with a friendly press that they have come to view kid-glove treatment as an entitlement.
And after decades of posturing about the vital role of a free press in keeping government honest and accountable, they are prepared to send the following message to every major news division:
“Be our ally or we will shut you out.”
. . .to his readers at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, here.
. . .to his readers at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, here.