The Border Fence Bill Will Be Signed
Posted on October 10, 2006
I never wrote about the speculation by Mickey Kaus on a pocket veto of the Border Fence Bill because I really didn’t understand it and I didn’t want to jump the gun. Well, according to Captain Ed, the Presiden’t support for this is secure.
I took a few minutes at my lunch break to contact a senior staffer on the Hill who has worked the immigration issue. He told me that, as some CQ commenters had speculated, Congress has not formally sent the bill to the President. That means the clock has not started for his signature. The 10-day period starts only after Congress formally prints and delivers the bill for the President to sign into law.
Why has Congress waited? The Secure Fence Act, which requires that the border barrier be constructed, is a very high priority for Republican leadership in both chambers. They and the White House want to schedule the signing for what they see as the maximum impact to the midterm elections. This means waiting for other stories to fall off the front pages. My source told me that the terrorist detention and interrogation bill will be signed on October 17th, and they want this to come after that.
Michelle Malkin backpeddals from the “I told you so’s” and states, “this one item won’t be a reason for sitting out the election.” She also rightfully stands firm that there are still many problems with the GOP’s immigration strategy. She also links to Xlrq who besides laying into her for quite politely on jumping the gun is on the same page as I am about the upcoming elections.
Malkin also offers some horrendous voting advice, encouraging readers to sit the election out and allow the Democrats to take over both houses of Congress. Come December, Michelle, when President Bush can’t do a f’ing thing to Kim Jong-Il or Mahmoud Ahmadinnejad without getting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on board, we’ll be the ones who hate to say we told you so. The difference is, we really will hate having to say it.
In all honesty Michelle doesn’t actually encourage her readers to sit out this election, she simply stated that she thought she would. However, I have seen many on the right side of the blogosphere with this attitude of sitting out. All I have to say is that I’m not going to be one of them.
I understand the frustration with the GOP, RINOs, and President Bush on the border issues, over-spending, the ports, and even on the Iraq war. What I don’t understand is the strategy of staying home, or in some case even voting Democrat, to teach them some kind of lesson. First of all, what makes anyone think they will learn from such a symbolic lesson? More importantly, what sense does it make to give the loony left control of one or both Houses of Congress for the sake of one or more issues the GOP has failed in? We are at war here, and if you expect the left to lead us in the right direction on that you will be in for a scary wake up call when it is too late to do anything about it. Think hard on the consequences before sitting this out.
We have the Democrats milking the Foley scandal for everything its worth because they know they can’t win the argument on real issues that matter. Why should your representative suffer because of what one Congressman did? I don’t see how that is fair.
If illegal immigration is the pressing issue for you, please tell me how allowing the amnesty supporting left to gain power will further that cause.
Don’t think the left will be sitting on the sidelines. While the right becomes divided and talk about sitting home, the “non-partisan” ACLU are running political ads in dozens of states urging people to vote for candidates that adhere to the ACLU’s view of “American values”.
The Good LT at My Pet Jawa is on the same page as me with a good rant.
The reasons for voting this fall? There are many.
Try these – a thoroughly disgraceful retreat from Iraq with terrorists slicing throats in celebration all over the ME. Higher taxes and more government intrusion into my wallet and yours. An open border with Mexico that will not only never be closed, but the criminals flooding across it will ensure the United States slides closer to third-world status than in the opposite direction – as one political party will attempt to make them its largest voting block. Senseless “impeachment” hearings for the only person in the world that seems to comprehend that we are fighting a war – a war the cowardly party “impeaching” him voted for and fought tooth-and-nail every step of the way afterwards for political expediency. A healthcfare system that will collapse. A social welfare system already strained that will swirl closer to the flushhole of hell. Food police. The end of talk radio as you know it, as the Stalinist “Fairness Doctrine” will be implemented. Endless “investigations.” Billions of wasted taxpayer dollars. The Clintonistas back in control. A return to the “Misery Index.”
Should I go on? You’ve all no doubt heard the “If Pelosi and Co. win” schtick, so I’ll spare you. The point is that these are all real and likely possibilities, readily admitted to by Democrats over the past year, that will come to pass. I could go on and on if I wanted to.
The only way to avoid this is to get out and vote and halt that encroachment on our lives and on the nation’s long-term security. All of the incessant GOP-is-horrible bitching, whining, self-righteousness, sanctimony, good ideas, momentum, etc. is meaningless and irrelevant the second those in the movement submit to the flak thrown at them by the other team. And make no mistake – the other team wants nothing less that the GOP’s complete and total destruction.
Duh. This is political warfare, and theconservative party has been targeted by sizable portion of the country for termination. Comfortable with that? I ain’t. For those sitting out or voting Democrat, bring on the socialism. You must really want it.
For me, this is too critical a juncture in history to surrender to a group of traitorous, back-stabbing liars and frauds who have no plan of action, who wish to implement long-dead Marxist fantasies which will drastrically affect our goverment and economy, and who aim to install anti-war hippy retreads from deacades past who are convinced that their cultural “revolution” is the antidote to what “ails” the country. Those people sent our culture and legal system down the crapper, and now we have conservatives threatening to vote for them.
Go ahead. Vote Democrat. Don’t vote at all to “teach the GOP a lesson.” The problem is that we’ll be paying for that “lesson,” and I don’t want to hear a sinlge word of complaint when they mow over you and the US loses the war. I don’t want to hear whining about high taxes, bad policy or open borders.
Personally, any conservative who fails to push through election day is one we can affort to go without. The only exceptions are those in CT voting for Lieberman. The rest are just doing “a Buchannan” and showing their petulance instead of their strength and dedication. If we find Speaker Pelosi in the House next year – it will be because of conservatives not fighting back . We have beat the liberal media just about every year since 1980. The one big exception was 1992, the last time conservatives got impatient and punished the country with Bill Clinton. Less punishment and more energy is what is needed now.
Also see MacRanger and Beth at MVRWC for a pep talk. Meanwhile, Iran joins Democrats on campaign trail.
So why are we bracing for so many losses? If you want Nancy Pelosi to be speaker of the House, cries for impeachment ratched up, surrender in Iraq pushed, the NSA program under further jeapordy, tax cuts repealed, terrorists and illegal aliens to gain even more rights, and originalist judges to be blocked then by all means stay at home this November. Otherwise, think real hard on who is the lesser of two evils.
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Know what I’d like to see? A reason to vote FOR someone this year. I’ve read and re-read over and over again all the horror stories about what’s going to happen if I don’t vote and Democrats win. But I can’t find any stories about what I’ll get if I vote FOR Republicans. Will I get less government spending? Nope. Will I get any border enforcement? Not likely. Will I get a government that’s serious about fighting Muslim terrorists in America? Nope.
It’s the lesser of two evils, but they’re both pretty bad. Staying home is a crappy option, but it’s the one that the vast majority of politicians want. The less people who vote, the more control the politicians will get.
I want freedom. I want to be able to vote for someone OTHER than the two major parties. In North Carolina, that’s not legal (even write-ins are thrown out). My choice is really evil, or really, really evil. I hate both options and just don’t see a good reason to vote evil.
Isn’t it always the choice between two evils? Don’t look at it as voting FOR the lesser evil, vote AGAINST the greater evil.
Read Sowell’s latest series if you haven’t already. I e-mailed to Michelle and Allah this morning. Well worth 10 minutes to read all four parts of “Frivolous Politics”… parts I, II, III, IV.
If you believe the differences between the Democrat and Republican candidate are insignificant, then you concede this election by voting for the Democrat, in hopes that the Republican party will come out with a solid candidate in the next election you can vote for. It is just a strategic retreat. You sit out an election only when no clear cut strategy to achieve your goals seems available. In the race for Illinois governor I will either write in the Constitutional party candidate, or I will vote Democrat because the Republican is a Cultural Liberal.
Ogre,
You are being negative. Some Republicans do support those items you talk about, and you should support them. My primary concern is to end the genocide by abortion that is occurring in the United States, so I refuse to support a pro choice to commit murder, Republicans and will vote for a Democrat that supports the same issue first, because maybe next time the Republicans will offer a candidate I can vote for. Anti globalist are my next requirement if both are pro life. Some issues need to be solved in the primaries.
It definitely comes down to local politics. I just object to the entire jump ship philosphy. pro-life is important. My priority is support for National Defense first. If one candidate does and the other is weak on it…thats who to vote for.
“I understand the frustration with the GOP, RINOs, and President Bush on the border issues, over-spending, the ports, and even on the Iraq war.”
So why would you be voting Republican exactly? Didn’t you pretty much cover the Bush administration’s entire history there?