Bent Notes

The Senate couldn’t revive the Kennedy / McCain / W exercise in crass-manipulation-of-feelings-over-principle-and-security.

I started to feel pretty good about it yesterday as various Senators frantically tried to concoct amendments and get backing for them.  So much stuff got tacked onto the basic amnesty, pulling it every which way, that the basic patty-cake-with-lawbreakers at the core of the thing could no longer stand the strain and wound up in tatters.

Okay, now all you members of that august chamber: debate the truly important stuff, like the height of the fence and the gauge of the wire on top of it.

Of course, the MSM is playing up the defeat-for-Bush angle.  Appropos of my post below, “The Mind of W,” it’s a strange new world when my reaction to such headlines is “And a damn good thing, too!”

The Republican National Committee has let go its entire staff of phone-bank people as donations drop faster than your jaw.  And nobody’s buying RNC chief of staff Hathaway’s explanation about outdated equipment.

Is there a more reliably red state than Arizona?  That’ won’t be the case if the process of the GOP there continuing its hari-kiri goes unabated.

Damn it, listen to us!  Seal the border.  We can worry about how to humanely take care of the existing problem once we’ve stemmed the invasion.

Finally, BN has somebody to enthuse about, rather than make excuses for their shortcomings.  (Okay, Fred got on board with McCain-Feingold, but as far as I know that’s the goofiest move he’s ever made.) 

We’ve got the real deal here.  An utterly human, personable, seasoned, brilliant, principled, articulate and unafraid statesman.

In descending order, if it can’t be him, BN gets stoked by -

- Romney

- Giuliani

-Hunter

-Brownback

The things you gotta ask yourself are:

- who is realistically electable, and

- who can make mincemeat out of the H-word creature in a debate and show her for the socialist phony she is.

 These people qualify in descending order on the first count, but any of them could handle the second requirement.  One, though, could do it grandly, in a way that would have all Americans with intelligence and integrity levels above the level of slugs leaping out of their armchairs and pumping their fists into the air.

The number one fan of the man from Tennessee!

The immigration bill that passed the House and is about to do likewise in the Senate is a kiss of death for -

- the Republicans in 2008, as a critical mass of its base stays away from the polls in disgust

- the notion of law and order

- our national sovereigny

- the survival of the West, ultimately.

We can now see what happens to those afflicted with Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome in its late stages:  Their ravaged souls emit a foul odor that is strangely attractive to Freedom Haters, who then swarm around them and devour them.