Belmont Club on immigration…

Here is a comment I just left over at the Belmont Club that sums up my feelings on the Amnesty fiasco…

The Bush administration can kiss my big fat white ass…I am done, through with that man and if that bill goes through I am done with the Republicans. They have the power to stop it and they better. Today I received a letter from the GOP that read as follows. “Please don’t tell me you’ve given up…that you have abandoned the Republican Party. I don’t believe you have because of your strong record of support for President Bush and our Party proves differently.”

I immediately picked up the phone and called the DC Office to promise them that if that bill goes through that they can try and collect from the illegal’s because they won’t get a red cent from me. The nice young man tried to explain that this was something that President Bush felt strongly about and I told him fine collect your donations from the next 2,000 border jumpers…maybe they can make up what you are losing from me.
Well and truly if giving the Republican party all the money I have given them in the past buys me a bill written by Kennedy then what difference does it make who is in office? They couldn’t get it right when they were in the majority and they cannot get it right whilst they are in the minority….they can kiss my ass. Source: Blogger: The Belmont Club – Post a Comment

Which was in response to this post by Wretchard….

Peter Shabby of CNN talks to conservative bloggers and finds them up in arms over the revived Senate Bill and finds it more unpopular than “Harriet Miers”. Captain Ed says “Shabby talked with me for close to an hour, and also with Erick Eriksson of Redstate. He gives a pretty good look at the debate on the bill on the conservative blog sites, including the comments sections, and it’s clear that the reaction has been almost unanimously opposing the bill.

Clue bat to the side of the collective head of the Republicans….wake the fuck up. You will lose the next 3 elections if this bill goes through…if any amnesty goes through. We don’t take kindly to contempt of the law…especially by those who represent us.

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As ridiculous as this sounds I would not be adverse to seeing the big I word being thrown around…impeachment sure gets peoples attention. This President is out of control and the immigration thing is just serious enough to cause me to advocate joining with the netroots to get him out of there. Or at least to distract him enough that this attempt at amnesty goes nowhere.

Not sure why Wretchard deleted the post but I bet he wasn’t happy with the brevity of it.

I have recovered the comment and if you are unhappy about it please let me know and I will delete it. I thought it was worth seeing. Thanks for reading.

Kevin said…
The leftwing blogosphere is faced with a similar dilemma over the Democrats support for the Iraq War. After the 2006 election, the large donors quickly realized the danger of the netroots retail level fund raising (politicians are all natural whores and will always follow the money and act accordingly). The wealthy could not abide the idea spread of democracy within America and have quickly retaliated by throwing tons of money at Hillary and Obama and other Vichy Dems enough so that the party recently voted to continue to fund the Iraq War. . Which ever tool wins the nomination they will be totally independent of the netroots activists and will instead be firmly in the pockets of the big corporate donors (who happen quite often to be the financing the Republicans too). Democracy is nice in theory but in practice it is just so messy when the masses actually start looking out for their own interests.

This is why I get a kick out of frustrated Republicans who say they will stop giving money on the retail level to protest the Republican elite following their obvious class interests by flooding the country with poor immigrants, often outside of any democratic process (the same two-tier approach that destroyed many unions). On a wholesale level the Republicans are getting inundated with money from the wealthy and corporate interests who want to see wages and the standard of livings of average Americans to go down. And why not, what are the passive and distracted American people going to do about it? The one thing our elites do excel at is the “bread and circuses” strategy of distraction. So I’m not looking for much of a response, the new must-see TV season is coming up or perhaps a rich heiress will have to go to jail. And besides, it’s not like all these poor immigrants will be sharing a classroom or a swimming pool with the children of the wealthy.

What’s interesting now is that working and middle class Republicans are starting to see the obvious, their class interests are usually not the same as the wealthy (although admittedly it is not a zero-sum game). What is sad is the side that is supposed to look after the working and middle classes, the Democrats, are as clueless as ever and have been totally co-opted by a wealthy elite. The grassroots on the Left are for the most part silent on the obvious class divergences between the masses of Democratic voters and the whims of their wealthy representatives. My personal politic dream is to see a grand coalition of working and middle classes but now just as many Republicans are coming around to a similar realization; it is the foolishness of the Democrats which are blocking any such possibility.

In the end however, the only policy goal remaining (after it passes immigration) for the Bush Administration is to keep the Iraq War going through the 2008 presidential election. That way it will give partisan historians in the future at least a small chance to rebut the obvious fact that George W. Bush is the first president in the history of the United States to lose a major war all on his own. He is trying the LBJ strategy of pushing the blame onto the opposition party. The Bush legacy is priority number 1 in this White House.

So if the rightwing blogosphere is serious about taking on George Bush it will have to do more than not support his non-existent future agenda. It will have to start using the “L” word–loser that is–over and over again. Bush has to be presented with a stark choice, his class interests or his legacy. And only the powerful noise machine of the rightwing blogosphere (along with radio talks shows and the cable news networks) can seriously put Bush’s legacy into question.

1. Pierre Legrand on June 18th, 2007 at
Wretchard took that post down along with my brilliant comment to it.

2. Kevin on June 18th, 2007 at
Ann Coulter’s column on immigration in today’s (SUN) paper is great!

3. Michelle on June 17th, 2007 at