The Bell Tolls for Thee... - Commentary by Jim Dean, Heritage TV

Jim Dean, Heritage TV producer/host

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and a member of Georgia Heritage Council.

The Bell Tolls for Thee... – Commentary by Jim Dean

"What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them..." --Peggy Noonan

Dear Legal Americans,

Randy Phillips fortunately found and passed along this gem of a piece [ text below ] by Peggy Noonan on the illegal immigration debacle that is hanging over us like the Grim Reaper. It will be the death of America as we have known it.

Noonan has laid out this elitist Republican disaster more concretely than anyone else. This is literally a one article read on what is happening, and why. The Democrats desire for wide open (including illegal) immigration is a mystery to no one.

That the regime has decided to use hate rhetoric as a last ditch effort to push their phony immigration "reform" bill is a flashing neon sign advertising their contempt for us all. This is a huge mistake which I believe (and hope and pray) will backfire. Their language is startling..."prefer illegal immigrants be killed"..."don't want to do what's right for America. ..."We're gonna tell the bigots to shut up"... "mass deportation" ..."anti-immigrant"..."national chauvinism."

It's really shocking to see a Republican administration drooling such hatred and contempt for their base like this. It is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. They should all resign of course. But as Noonan describes, the regime elites don't really care what we think.

A political regime who has lost its base, and does not care as Ms. Noonan points out, is a danger to us all. Back in the Watergate days where a simple break-in and cover up was deemed an attack on our republic, that pales in comparison to what these folks are trying to do. They are fostering a huge population invasion with the nebulous justification that it is good for America. Despite their oath of office (to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution), which is just a joke to most of them, they have wanted to turn the whole country into a sanctuary.

They have actually been pushing this program while it was illegal. How, you ask? Through non-enforcement and non-funding. This started with Reagan when the enforcement provisions against businesses that hire illegal aliens were purposely given a starvation budget, an old political trick. Yes my dear Republican friends, the Gipper let this one be pulled on us. He also was not immune to the elite syndrome.

Editor's Insert:
And, the non-enforcement and subversion of the people's will happens on the State level, too. Just this week, we learned that Gov. Sonny Perdue vetoed legislation (S.B.-15 -- more info) designed to crack down on illegal immigrants caught driving without a valid driver's license (i.e., No ID of any kind). Latino opponents of the bill passed by both the Georgia House and Senate actually had the nerve to say that this bill should not pass because....get this....

“Comprehensive immigration reform is moving in our U.S. Congress and will solve the issue of unlicensed drivers among the undocumented immigrant population,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials.

We know that's a total deception smoke screen. The Senate "reform" bill does nothing but grant Amnesty, the enforcement provisions are empty promises and worthless smoke. But our point here is that Governors can block enforcement, too, by starving the enforcement budgets and other means.

Perdue got favorable press (that is to say "condemnation" from the open-borders lobby) BEFORE the election that his immigration "reform" legislation was the toughest in the country, but now that the election is over, he's back to being an Amnesty Amigo and an enabler of open borders and opponent to attempts to enforce our immigration laws or any other law against illegals. This bill he vetoed is a matter of Public Safety....but the elite's agenda to open our borders trumps our safety, our freedom and everything else.

**** Now returning to Jim Dean's commentary. --Steve Scroggins ****

As I have written before, this immigration subversion crowd is a bigger threat to our national security that the Muslim extremists. No Muslim extremists hold high government positions here. The War on Terror is literally a side show compared to the devastation the immigration invasion crowd want to bring upon us. They hate traditional Americans, the 'nativists.' They are actually attempting to create a new 'n-word' here.

If you think I am going a bit overboard here then ask them why they specifically wrote into the bill that all gang members would also be eligible for the miracle visas. The "reform" bill is a total hoax. They have no intention of enforcing the enforcement provisions. Their little scam here is they give the Homeland Security honcho the determining authority to rule on this. In political scams this is known as the 'fix', put in for the same reasons as in the 1986 bill. You lie to get the bill passed and then interpret it however you wish. That is our domestic Al Queda in action folks. They attack where they find a hole in our defenses.

It's time we gave them some of their own medicine. The leadership, those who have really been pushing this on both sides (e.g., Sen. Chambliss), have to be defeated for re-election. The incumbency edge (earmarks and all) has to be removed so we can remove those that work against us. Otherwise they will just keep coming back at us time and time again...attack after attack, until they finally win.

It's a tough tough job, but failure will be even tougher. Just remember for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. It tolls for America as we know it.

"...never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..." --John Donne (1572-1631), from Meditation 17 - Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and vice-chairman of the Georgia Heritage Council.

Too Bad - President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder
By Peggy Noonan
Friday June 1, 2007
Wall Street Journal

What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--"At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.

The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don't even much like the base. Desperate straits have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain. Leading Democrats often think their base is slightly mad but at least their heart is in the right place. This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place.

For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don't like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don't like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad.

But on immigration it has changed from "Too bad" to "You're bad."

The president has taken to suggesting that opponents of his immigration bill are unpatriotic--they "don't want to do what's right for America." His ally Sen. Lindsey Graham has said, "We're gonna tell the bigots to shut up." On Fox last weekend he vowed to "push back." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested opponents would prefer illegal immigrants be killed; Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said those who oppose the bill want "mass deportation." Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson said those who oppose the bill are "anti-immigrant" and suggested they suffer from "rage" and "national chauvinism."

Why would they speak so insultingly, with such hostility, of opponents who are concerned citizens? And often, though not exclusively, concerned conservatives? It is odd, but it is of a piece with, or a variation on, the "Too bad" governing style. And it is one that has, day by day for at least the past three years, been tearing apart the conservative movement.

I suspect the White House and its allies have turned to name calling because they're defensive, and they're defensive because they know they have produced a big and indecipherable mess of a bill--one that is literally bigger than the Bible, though as someone noted last week, at least we actually had a few years to read the Bible. The White House and its supporters seem to be marshalling not facts but only sentiments, and self-aggrandizing ones at that. They make a call to emotions--this is, always and on every issue, the administration's default position--but not, I think, to seriously influence the debate.

They are trying to lay down markers for history. Having lost the support of most of the country, they are looking to another horizon. The story they would like written in the future is this: Faced with the gathering forces of ethnocentric darkness, a hardy and heroic crew stood firm and held high a candle in the wind. It will make a good chapter. Would that it were true!

If they'd really wanted to help, as opposed to braying about their own wonderfulness, they would have created not one big bill but a series of smaller bills, each of which would do one big clear thing, the first being to close the border. Once that was done--actually and believably done--the country could relax in the knowledge that the situation was finally not day by day getting worse. They could feel some confidence. And in that confidence real progress could begin.

The beginning of my own sense of separation from the Bush administration came in January 2005, when the president declared that it is now the policy of the United States to eradicate tyranny in the world, and that the survival of American liberty is dependent on the liberty of every other nation. This was at once so utopian and so aggressive that it shocked me. For others the beginning of distance might have been Katrina and the incompetence it revealed, or the depth of the mishandling and misjudgments of Iraq.

What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this White House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom--a sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there is, that man has lived a long time and there are things that are true of him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice, that personal loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in charge of anything, that the way it works in politics is a friend becomes a loyalist becomes a hack, and actually at this point in history we don't need hacks.

One of the things I have come to think the past few years is that the Bushes, father and son, though different in many ways, are great wasters of political inheritance. They throw it away as if they'd earned it and could do with it what they liked. Bush senior inherited a vibrant country and a party at peace with itself. He won the leadership of a party that had finally, at great cost, by 1980, fought itself through to unity and come together on shared principles. Mr. Bush won in 1988 by saying he would govern as Reagan had. Yet he did not understand he'd been elected to Reagan's third term. He thought he'd been elected because they liked him. And so he raised taxes, sundered a hard-won coalition, and found himself shocked to lose his party the presidency, and for eight long and consequential years. He had many virtues, but he wasted his inheritance.

Bush the younger came forward, presented himself as a conservative, garnered all the frustrated hopes of his party, turned them into victory, and not nine months later was handed a historical trauma that left his country rallied around him, lifting him, and his party bonded to him. He was disciplined and often daring, but in time he sundered the party that rallied to him, and broke his coalition into pieces. He threw away his inheritance. I do not understand such squandering.

Now conservatives and Republicans are going to have to win back their party. They are going to have to break from those who have already broken from them. This will require courage, serious thinking and an ability to do what psychologists used to call letting go. This will be painful, but it's time. It's more than time.

www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010148

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