THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IX, Issue # 117, June 21, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
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JUST SAY "NO" TO BUSH & AMNESTY
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE BUSH PRESIDENCY & U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: THE PROPOSAL TO GRANT AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS
CURRENTLY RESIDING & WORKING IN THE U.S.A. AS ONE OF GEORGE W. BUSH'S FORAYS OFF INTO THE MISBEGOTTEN
THINKING OF THE POLITICAL LEFT -- PRESIDENT BUSH & MANY SOCALLED "REPUBLICANS" JOIN FORCES WITH LIBERAL
DEMOCRATS IN FORSAKING AMERICA, AS THE COUNTRY FIGHTS DESPERATELY TO RETAIN WHATEVER VESTIGES OF ITS
NATIONAL IDENTITY & CULTURE REMAIN, IN THE WAKE OF A MASSIVE INVATION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS -- THE NEED
FOR GRASSROOTS, CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS & THEIR REAL
LEADERS TO TAKE BACK THEIR PARTY FROM BUSH & HIS ILK, RE-COMMIT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO UPHOLDING ITS
BASIC PRINCIPLES, & USE THE PARTY TO VIGOROUSLY OPPOSE & BLOCK PASSAGE OF SUCH PRO-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,
OPEN BORDERS LEGISLATION AS THE AMNESTY BILL CURRENTLY BEFORE CONGRESS
FULL STORY:
Perceptive Conservatives have long seen this train wreck coming. Back in 1999 and 2000, the Conservative base, along
with Republicans in general, were so gripped by fear of a Gore Presidency that they were willing to temporarily overlook
some ominous signals emanating from the Bush camp. Yet, those signals turned out to be undeniable harbingers of
what was to come. The “day of reckoning” eventually became inescapable.
We were forewarned when we heard President Bush borrowing Liberal Leftist terminology, as with his opposition to
“balancing the budget on the backs ofthe poor.” An insult to every decent and hard-working American who struggles
under the burden of our ever-growing government, this epithet essentially accused the middle class of wanting to extract
greater taxation from a segment of the populace that pays no taxes.
Yet, it was George Bush’s adoption of the phrase “compassionate conservatism” that should have sent up all the warning
flags. When attempting to deflect criticism over its usage, he would sometimes demur by claiming that Conservatism was
inherently compassionate. But, more often than not, he would reveal his true intent, which was to invent and implement
more efficient Socialism.
He should have been immediately confronted about the logical impossibility of exhibiting compassion by giving out the
wealth and property of others. Had Heartland America instantly called him on this, as well as his other forays off into the
misbegotten thinking of the political Left, America might not be facing the abysmal situation threatening it today.
Now the country fights desperately to retain whatever vestiges of its national soul remain, in the wake of a massive and
dispassionate invasion of illegal aliens, abetted by a President who ardently seeks to give away a country that is not his
to give away.
The truth needs to be repeated as often as the deceivers in Washington spout their diatribe. The word “comprehensive” in
relation to immigration “reform” means only one thing -- amnesty. White House assertions that requiring the invaders to
jump through a few “hoops” at their leisure, will somehow negate the outrage of amnesty, reflects a viciously insulting
condescension towards the American people. The reality is as simple as it is grim, and it cannot be so easily disguised.
Promises of eventual border security, accountability by employers, or any other appealing conditions tagged onto the bill
are merely “fig leaves” meant to cover its most obscene provisions in order get it through the legislative process so the
President can sign it. Amnesty plus anything equals amnesty.
Were the President truly committed to uplifting the downtrodden, or any of the other high-sounding ideals that he
professes in connection to all of this, he could employ them on a personal basis. He might start by proving his
“benevolence” towards the invaders by allowing them to overrun and trash his Crawford, Texas, ranch, just as they have
done to so many other places closer to the border.
In contrast, his ranch is well guarded from intruders. He need only occasionally consider such prospects when not inside
the District of Columbia “cocoon” from which he can view the world through rose-colored glasses. Yet he demands that
the rest of America accept the results of his sanctimony.
And those results are increasingly dire. The number of Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of the illegal alien
invaders dwarfs the slaughter of 9-11. The financial costs are a horrendous and increasing burden to those who have
played by the rules. Amnesty for the invaders will only accelerate the dismal repercussions that have already ensued.
If Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the Leftwing Liberal cabal have perpetrated crimes against real America by
their continued derision of the terror war and their dispiriting propaganda against the U.S. Armed Forces, President Bush
has done no less in his impassioned advocacy of a force that abrogates and undermines America’s very culture and
national identity, and his castigation of any who seek the only reasonable means to restore the American nation to its
former integrity.
During his consuming endeavor to implement amnesty, Bush has metamorphosed from impassioned to determined to
obsessed. In the process, he has become truly arrogant and indifferent to the fate of real Americans, appearing more
sympathetic to the plight of the invaders. One has to wonder if he even recalls, on Inauguration Day in 2001 and in 2005,
just whose interests he swore an oath before Almighty God to guard and uphold.
Nor should his “bipartisan” Senate collaborators be given a pass. By their actions, they are proving that they have
already adopted much of the mindset of the Third World autocrats from which people are fleeing to what is left of
America.
The current, shadowy plans to keep details of the latest iteration of the amnesty bill secret until the last minute, and then
pass it in dark of night stand as yet more evidence of a governing mindset far more characteristic of banana a republic
than that of traditional America.
Of course the most heinous example of this in recent days is embodied by the comment from Senate Minority Whip Trent
Lott (Republican --Mississippi), who asserted that an informed and engaged public constitutes a “problem” that he and
his cohorts “need to deal with.” Millions of illegal immigrants invading and swarming the country, trashing its laws and
hostile to its national culture, somehow constitute less of a concern to him and his kind.
Catcalls of “racism” and "ethnocentrism" against the bill's opponents, so typical and indicative of Liberal tactics (though
they emanate from both parties), must be noted and their authors never forgotten by the electorate. But neither should
those Senators who are on record “opposing” amnesty, while clearly not doing all that is within their power to stop it.
Ronald Reagan, once a Democrat, changed parties explaining that he had not left the Democrats. Rather, they had left him.
Likewise, while grassroots Republicans remain committed to the principles that made their party and their country great,
George Bush has abandoned critical precepts of what it once meant to be a Republican.
The current debate represents a watershed moment for the GOP. Frustration and anger among the base has now exceeded
critical mass. If the President is determined to discard the core Conservative values of the Republican Party and now holds
them in unrestrained contempt, Republican officeholders need to publicly oppose him in order to remain true to those
values.
GOP Senators who still believe in the principles embodied by their party ought to be fighting the amnesty juggernaut as if
the very future of the country hangs in the balance, which it inarguably does.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
Political Culture, Patriotism, & American National Identity
Ethnic & Racial Politics
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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