“God Bless America, we need all the help we can get”

Amen!

E L Frederick on May 15, 2006 at 9:09 AM

Super! Now if we could only get MSM to telecast MM’s vent on tonight’s Evening News just before the latest BS attack.

Crude One on May 15, 2006 at 9:17 AM

I am sad to say, that I would pretty much support impeachment proceedings on Jorge Bush over this issue, especially after 9/11. Even the “Three Stooges” run 9/11 commission said the border security is a massive problem and must be fixed. (My apologies to the “Three Stooges”..compairing them to Jamie Goerelick was a low blow).

havok on May 15, 2006 at 9:26 AM

I am so angry I could spit. If the Bush speech tonight is as described on Sunday news shows then it is pure stop gap simply to shut us up.

If it comes out that way and congress follows suit we’ll need to do more than piss and moan.

Choke the political parties:
Register with both the DNC and RNC web-sites so you’ll be sure to get a raft of solicitations including postage paid return envelopes. Tape each one you get to a brick (to use in building a wall on the border) and drop it off at the post office. How many bricks do you think it would take to break both parties. Enough so they’ll get the message?

MikeG on May 15, 2006 at 9:35 AM

I believe the rules allow for posting the link to Rep. Tom Tancredo open letter to el Presidente Jorge Arbusto
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14808

Dread Pirate Roberts VI on May 15, 2006 at 9:44 AM

This is a great example of the difference between Conservatives and Libs. Clinton, Kennedy, Gore, Kerry, et al can do no wrong in the eyes of their cult…uh… party. Conservatives hold our (and yes, W often makes me wonder about using the term “our”) officials to the fire when necessary. There is no “painless” answer to the border and illegals crisis. It’s too far gone for that. We’ll see if W or any of our “leaders” can make the tough decisions. Color me doubtful.

Sugar Land on May 15, 2006 at 10:25 AM

I had a sick feeling in my stomach when I heard that Bush was reassuring Vincente Fox that the National Guard will not militarize our borders. What business is it of Fox’s what we do at our borders? It’s our sovereign territory and if Mexico doesn’t like it, too damn bad. The fact that Bush felt he needed to reassure this foreigner, who was making demands, is sickening.

pistolero on May 15, 2006 at 10:36 AM

Just kidding Michelle.

You rock.

EFG on May 15, 2006 at 10:44 AM

What we’re seeing is not a failure of Immigration Policy. It is a failure of the Federal Government. Rather than simply admit their impotence, they just keep moving the goalposts.
This problem, like SO MANY others cannot be solved by the Federal Government! They are really only good at some things; like taking money out of our paychecks and spending it. And talking and talking. This is just the tip of the icegerg. As we witness this foreign invasion crumbling our sovereignty we hear speeches. We see “plans”, but the problems just get BIGGER!
After the ‘86 amnesty you’d think we’d act more responsibly! HA! These “representatives” look us right in the eye, and DARE us to call them on their own larceny! They say, “if WE can’t fix it- No one can!” So There!
It’s time we face the hard reality that our Federal Government is worthless. Can anyone name ANY mission they are fulfilling? (I exclude the Military from this comment since it’s actually the ONLY part of the Federal Government that has a Constitutional Mandate.)
Let’s face it. The percentage of Americans that actually contribute to our governance, through payment of income tax, is around 50%. Who will convince the other half that it’s in their interest to pay income tax as well? No one! As the number of taxpayers decreases we slide toward the European Model. 30 million more Mexicans will arrive soon and they will bring with them their DEMANDS! Does anyone really think that ANY of these “immigrants” will see the benefit in participating in our economy? Or will they use their numbers to increase taxes on US?
Build a wall. Order an emergency reorganization of the Federal Government, reducing it in size by around 80%. Jail employers who profit from illegals. Stop ALL funding to cities that offer “sanctuary” to lawbreakers. How’s that for a start?

Gault on May 15, 2006 at 10:47 AM

Blue Silver - Welcome! Here’s a link to The Ugly Baby assphant.

Michelle on May 15, 2006 at 11:08 AM

Nail the employers and watch the backflow commence.

nico on May 15, 2006 at 11:18 AM

I predict that the presence of the National Guard will be more to tell the Minutemen that they are in the way and to go home and “let the professionals handle it”, and once that little bit of “enforcement” is done, the Guard will leave.

That’s all this is, of course. Just a way to get rid of the Minutemen.

Hide and watch.

maxmerc on May 15, 2006 at 11:25 AM

First, I want to say I’m so happy that registration was open today. I start my day by reading Michelle’s site, and am happy to vent here now.

Michelle, I’ll be watching and taping you on O’Reilly tonight. One thing (if you read this), please tell O’Reilly to stop calling the illegals “good people.” Good people do not break laws. Period.

moonsbreath on May 15, 2006 at 11:30 AM

I do not pretend to know what all is in the speach tonight, but based on past history MM has it pretty well nailed. I have learned to trust that uneasy feeling I get deep in my soul that says What Were We Thinking. Does being an illegial give people special rights? Try being late with taxes and see if a citizen gets special consideration.

Stickman on May 15, 2006 at 11:38 AM

Totally agree with LonelyMassRepublican. Vigorously enforce existing employment laws which will dry-up the jobs. Make an example of prominent scofflaw employers by imposing heavy fines and perhaps jail time for second offenses. Seeing some of their fellow executives being perp-walked on the nightly news should quickly get the message across to others.
The southern border needs to be much better guarded for reasons of terrorism, but if there are few jobs here for illegals, the flow of illegals will be reduced to a trickle.

Old Coot on May 15, 2006 at 11:50 AM

I am sick in advance. Please explain to me just what it is that Mexico holds over us that requires us to kowtow to them. Why dont Mexicans protest in the streets over their failed government. My congrats to Vincente and company for switching the focus of the Mexican peoples hopes from their own country to ours. Its as if they have come to the conclusion that Mexico cant be salvaged and now its just a question of how much can be bilked from the good old USA. With 40% of their non-government jobs in Mexico being created by American companies and 20% of their workforce living in the US I can see where they are coming from. Meanwhile 28% of federal prisoners and 40% of california prisoners are Mexican. My stepbrother and his wife are moving out of Arizona this week because the school system devotes Kindergarten to learning enough basic english to stagger into first grade. Bush and Co. had better have a plan with more teeth in it than “a temporary gaurd presence”. Hopefully The senate will produce a plan with some real force behind it otherwise I can only assume that the republican party is just baiting its members to bail on them.

deanayer on May 15, 2006 at 11:53 AM

My new sticker…
‘W’ es el Presideñte’

kenny1ram on May 15, 2006 at 11:55 AM

Michelle was right on in her assessment and commentary - Bravo Michelle!

Greed - from Republicans looking for short term monetary gain and Democrats for the promise of increased power - will work to the benefit of the illegal alien to the great detriment of the nation and it’s citizens.

There is hope! Just when you think the U.S. is going to “hell in a handbasket” it rights itself. Have faith!

Thank you Michelle for being a voice of reason and resistance to so much greed at the expense of those who are loyal to the United States.

omegaram on May 15, 2006 at 11:58 AM

In another forum, someone referred to immigration as a “human right”. I accept the notion that migration is a natural right, but immigration is an invitation, not a right. Consequently, every country or nation can establish its own rules about which outsiders to accept or reject.

There are a host of reasons an immigrant would leave their homeland to settle in a new land. Sometimes these reasons may include human rights abuses.

If there is a human rights component in the current Latino “immigration” wave, then their native countries ought to be charged with human rights violations for forcing them out. Instead the person I was arguing with was accusing the US for human rights violations trying to keep them out.

If in fact that there are over 10 million illegal aliens in this country suffering from human rights abuses, why haven’t they moved on to a more “human friendly” country?

Ripama on May 15, 2006 at 12:10 PM

I am sick to death of hearing how the illegals are doing jobs Americans won’t do. Pay me under the table and I could do those jobs, too. Being a citizen, however, means that I have to pay *taxes*, which significantly affects my take home pay.

I also agree that we don’t have to send them all home. Start enforcing the laws we have, actually deport the illegals we catch instead of releasing them and sanction those who employ illegals, and the USA would stop looking so attractive to illegals.

I recently had a little intruder in my home. It was a cold day, and the heat from my dryer vent was just too much for the little critter to resist. He wasn’t going to eat much, but I knew that if left unchecked I would have a major issue on my hands. One trap and an enforced border (mesh around the vent) later, no more intruder and no chance of more coming in, at least at that location.

Come on Bushie, defend that border!!!!

Great job, Michelle.

kas on May 15, 2006 at 12:23 PM

I find it interesting that here is Arizona the temp is already at 100 degrees F. Why to get here in the heat of the summer.

kas on May 15, 2006 at 12:23 PM and Michelle you guys are right on.

Shack on May 15, 2006 at 12:26 PM

Another reason why it’s time to vote Republicans out of office. Thanks MM for showing us the light. I am fed up with Republcan scandals, lies and being strung along. Independents unite and kick out the bums!

latinleo on May 15, 2006 at 12:33 PM

Slam the employers where it hurts - the wallet - and not with a $5000.00 fine, more like $5 million for EACH! That would bring a screeching halt to this mess.

Ok, since I have a pretty good idea what the Pres. is going to say, I will just play the “Open Border Drinking Game”, then finish off the night drinking to Jack Bauer! Wait, that’s it, we’ll put Jack Bauer in charge!

(Tomorrow is going to be a long day!)

scmommy on May 15, 2006 at 12:38 PM

If he’s going to send troops, have them build a wall. Otherwise it’s a complete waste of time & money, which we’ve seen all too much of in the past 6 years.

ChelleFiche on May 15, 2006 at 12:47 PM

Malkin/Tancredo ‘08 — It has a nice sound to it.

I agree completely with the previous posters who said we should crack down hard on the employers, cut of welfare, etc, and let them deport themselves.

bdfaith on May 15, 2006 at 12:51 PM

Bush is the MexiChurian Candidate. In a few more years, they will be proposing union between the United States and Mexico, I fear. Things will have gotten that far out of control….

tommy1 on May 15, 2006 at 12:55 PM

I’ll wait and hear what GWB has to say tonight. I’ve stood by our President through all the liberal attacks, and all the MSM-conjured “scandals of the week”, and through the politicization of weather events (Katrina). So I’ll stand by him through this evening.
BUT - if GWB caves in to business interests and the open borders lobby, he not only loses my support of his Presidency, he loses my support for the Republican party. I will definitely sit out the 2006 election.
If the President won’t enforce the law, get out of the way and let the Minutemen do it!

SicSemperTyrannus on May 15, 2006 at 12:57 PM

Remember to send bricks or those phony Mexican pesos to Bush and the Republicans. Spend the money you were going to donate to their campaigns to those wanting to privately build a wall, instead.

tommy1 on May 15, 2006 at 12:59 PM

You can tell President Bush isn’t concerned about being reelected and it would appear he isn’t too worried about the Democrats taking over Congress in November. I never would have believed that I would live to see the day when the will of the American people was so blatantly ignored by our elected representatives.

Round ‘em up, send ‘em back and build a wall!

repvoter on May 15, 2006 at 1:06 PM

Would you call someone who broke into your house a “guest”?

Kilo Echo 4 on May 15, 2006 at 1:09 PM

Here is the entire problem. We are ignored. Liberls have a protest of 300 people, every news outlet in America is clamoring about it. 1 million people protest about how hard it is for them to live here illeagaly every politician and newspaper cries into their milks and want to make it easier.
And its worse, big business trumps common sense everytime, especially when the politicos want to be reallected.
“Screw our base” they say, “who are they going to vote for? Hillary???”

Well, maybe we need to make our voices heard. Lets pull a liberal. Pick a day to boycott something. Let the government know that we are using that day to tell them how we feel, and let them know how many of us are serious. Maybe we can all cancel our subscriptions to the liberal press. or not do any shopping for a few days. A walk in to the front lawn of the white house would be nice. Pick a message, post the date, spread it to the blogs and just do it. And keep on doing it. Hell, I’m buying the first round at the capital brewery (for the first 10 people wearing an ishirt) :)
Their are 268 million americans, if 80 million are conservative, and only 10% showed up, thats 8 million people. That would get a message across

Immigration reform? Like Scrmommy said, make employing an illeagle a $5 million fine (I was thinking $1 mil myself) and ENFORCE it.

But for now, until we do something as a group, the politicians will continue doing self visual colonoscopies and nothing will get done. Making our voices heard on election day wil be to late. We need to try and get through to them now.

Wyrd on May 15, 2006 at 1:10 PM

Phytogirl79 Wash your mouth out with soap girl, never vote a Dimmocrap.

birdman on May 15, 2006 at 1:14 PM

I am damn mad! Frankly I am tired of footing the bill for healthcare, education, courts system, etc…My family works hard, pays taxes, obeys the law,and takes no government handouts. English is our first language and we still respect the American flag. We need a wall and enforcement of immigration laws. Crack down on employers hiring illegal immigrants.
God Bless America

Mott on May 15, 2006 at 1:27 PM

Great Vent Michelle, as usual. I think despite the MSM, conservatives like yourself who use the internet and other media really keep the hopes of conservatives everywhere from dimming. It’s clear from polls, FOX’s ratings, and sites like this that more people know what is going on and are on the right side of this issue than the MSM would like everyone to believe.

One point about the border issue that I’ve not heard mentioned, in regards to the War on Terror. We know now that the 9/11 hijackers could have been apprehended on immigration violations. Only one person involved in the plot was actually caught (Z.M.). Imagine if the job had been done right all along? It’s too late for that, but it’s not too late to do it right and prevent the next one.

Jezla on May 15, 2006 at 1:31 PM

I think you all are very thankless. Bush owes nothing to supporters like this. You are silent on the war and defending this president at every turn. Yet, you rip him to shreds with no thoughts of real world consequences when YOU want something.

The president is living in the real world, most of you are living in a conservative glass house. This man deserves better.

Don’t be an idiot and not votes either…jesus.

tomas on May 15, 2006 at 1:36 PM

I’m incredibly frustrated–once again, Bush is pandering, thinking he’s going to appease us. We’re stuck between a rock & a hard place: Do we let the RINOs go down this next election (which they deserve) in hopes that they learn their lesson, but which then creates the real danger of a Democratic majority legalizing 30 million illegals as a voting population?

Here’s the part I don’t get–why does the NAACP go along with this initiative? I would think it’s clearly apparent that allowing 30 million (mostly) Hispanics become citizens without following the rules is grossly unfair to anyone from a country that doesn’t have a geographic proximity to the US. Guess who that means? Yes, evil (white) Europeans–but also people from Africa, the Caribbean, & Asia. Which, uh, would mean Blacks & Asians, right? The MSM are so quick to present the oppressed/abused minority of the week, but they don’t see the unfairness of, in essence, punishing people who have the misfortune of being born in countries where they can’t simply walk across the border to the US.

I’m absolutely all for legislation raising immigration quotas. I would love to see more hard-working engineers, computer programmers, nannies, mathematicians, scientists, franchise operators, etc., move to this country. (I fail to see the urgent need this country has for housecleaners & ditch diggers–again according to the MSM. I suspect that if people pay a living wage, there are plenty of legal Americans who will do it. Merry Maids & other housecleaning services spring to mind–I’ve used them, & the women have always been legal Americans.) That, to me, would be fairest–then people from Nigeria & Cameroon do have the same shot at coming to the US as someone from El Salvador or Mexico.

Does the NAACP not realize how quickly any power base they have will shift? They will no longer be the Abused-Victim-Mentality-Minority-Group-The-Democrats-Must-Appease. Do Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton really think they can continue their race-hustling & be successful at it? They’ll very quickly be supplanted by a new, much larger, group that has been well trained in playing the victim card.

Example: I happen to live in Prince Georges County, Maryland, in Hyattsville (Michelle, no doubt, is very familiar with that country, which borders on the District of Columbia). It’s one of the largest majority-Black counties in the country. My apartment complex, which requires identification of citizenship (you can be from outside the US, but must prove you’re in the country legally), is virtually all Black. The next complex over, notorious for being very lax on paperwork requirements, is virtually all Hispanic. (The Metro parking garage at New Carrollton was very interesting the days of the demonstrations.) The elected officials of PG County are currently all Black. So are most officials of DC. (Ask Michelle & me sometime about the corruption & incompetence both councils enjoy because of their current electoral base’s willingness to continue to vote them in. Marion Barry set the standard for pandering to a poor minority, who would then overlook any graft or corruption he wanted to commit. The current councils aren’t in that league, but they’re trying hard.) But there are neighborhoods in both PG County & DC that are heavily illegal Hispanics. I can guarantee the makeup of both councils would change immediately were those residents allowed to vote. I suspect most large cities would see the same thing.

Of course, the idea of seeing Jesse & Al shoved out of the limelight by someone else does have its appeal!

Kittymama on May 15, 2006 at 1:38 PM

tommy1: How about “BorderGate”

JonB on May 15, 2006 at 1:40 PM

tommy1: How about “BorderGate”

Sorry if that’s a double post.

As for Ms. Malkins video, very well done, and quite to the point as well. When i first heard about this whole speech coming up I was just sick to my stomach.

JonB on May 15, 2006 at 1:43 PM

I loved your Vent today.
Law enforcement is needed for employers, but it is not enough. I understand that the Mexican government is coaching illegals how to start their own businesses.
And I wish the MSM would quit refering to these people as “immigrants.” My mother is an immigrant - from England. These people are law-breakers!

doug01 on May 15, 2006 at 1:48 PM

Next time somebody pulls the “Jobs Americans won’t do.” line punctuate it with: “Why, are you saying they are too ’shiftless and lazy’?”

Watch ‘em run for cover.

Wander on May 15, 2006 at 1:52 PM

Thank you, Michelle.

I want to be as dispassionate as possible, but the radical worldview Bush and the open borders fanatics represent chills me. If this legislation, or anything like it, becomes law, the welfare state will explode, illegal and legal immigration will become indistinguishable, and within a generation the United States will be much more socialist than any nation found in Europe. Citizen taxpayers, many of whom do not even have health care, will be forced to pay for the medicine, medical treatment, education, food stamps, and other social programs of the children of illegal aliens tonight although that never will be acknowledged.

If the president were to be honest tonight about what he actually believes and wants, he would be forced out of office Tuesday. Expect nothing more than blatant lies, spin and deception. And after Bush has lied through his teeth, impress upon your senators and representatives that they will be booted out of office in our last free elections if they go along with this insanity.

godhelpUSA on May 15, 2006 at 1:54 PM

At the moment my faith is mostly with the American people in the Red States. Why don’t we Conservatives ever come out in mass to show our objection to unsound policies and attacks usually coming from the left?

Yes, I know most of us are working, taking responsibility for our families and keeping this great country thriving. But it is disturbing to see the day to day progress over the years that the leftist groups have achieved in our communities snuffing out the rights of good, decent, hard working Americans. Or they make life harder for us.

I agree Republicans are letting us down too. Frisk is weak,Weak, WEAK…what do we expect?? We need leadership!!
The President seems to let his loyality, ie, Putin, V.Fox, get in the way of sound decisions. W has a hard time putting his foot down where he needs to. I did not elect W to be good friends with all leaders.

We write, blog, call…too many do nothing. Just once I would love to see the millions of good decent American people march for all the things that are RIGHT with this God given Country of ours. Remember, the United States of America is OUR responsibility and without her, nothing else matters.

chevy

chevyvan on May 15, 2006 at 1:56 PM

This is the kind of behavior that drove me away from the GOP years ago. It’s downright shameful. Maybe Bush can claim he is the victim of a Rovian plot as he placates Vicente Fox (who guards his own borders) and that patriotic American, Senator Chappequiddick Kennedy (Socialist, MA.)

Bellicose Muse on May 15, 2006 at 1:57 PM