No lectures from a perch of 29% approval, please
President Bush is going to give an address on immigration Monday night. He will do so within the context of a 29% approval rating, per a new Harris poll reported in the WSJ, in which 69% of respondents also said “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” We fervently hope we will not be treated to another tiresome lecture on the so-called jobs that Americans are unwilling to do, and the need for a guest-worker program now.
The chart above is stunning, and the disapproval rating for the President is stunningly unnecessary. Were it our responsibility, we would seek to reverse the popularity decline with a plan including the following:
(a) Immigration. Enforce the borders, n-o-w! Make the problem no worse. Agree to take up other matters in the next Congress.
(b) Energy Independence. The US cannot afford to be held hostage by, and lavishly subsidize, its enemies and ideological adversaries. We need a 10-year path toward energy independence that is not just airy-fairy and pork.
(c) Tell the truth about the war. We are not in a fight against “terrorism” but in a war with militant Islam that wants to impose sharia law by force or otherwise. Sharia is inconsistent with American and Western values. People in Islamic countries can live as they please, but they cross the line when they want to impose those views on us. We are heirs of a very old clash of civilizations. At best, we would like to have places like Afghanistan and Iraq be successful societies; but at worst, we cannot tolerate regimes which seek to dominate the modern world or destroy it.
You are free to pick your own favorite issues of course. It’s hard to get too much further wrong when you are at 29%.
May 12th, 2006 at 10:20 am
b) No “airy-fairy” here!
Gateway Pundit covers Sen Larry Craig’s (R-ID) brilliant presentation in the
Senate yesterday:
Thanks to Democratic “No Zones”, the US Is in Grave Danger
Sen Craig gave a report with maps and charts on how the now miNOity party has created NO Zones.
China is drilling 50 miles off our coast for Cuba, while we
are at the mercy of dictators, tyrants and terrorists.
From GatewayPundit:
Senator Craig…
Now, as we sit idly by, worried about development 100 miles from Florida, China is actively exploring oil fields 50 miles from Key West, Florida. U.S. companies are barred from working in this area because of U.S. policy . So, instead of allowing the most environmentally responsible companies to operate there and increase our domestic supply, China, who has a dismal environmental record, is sucking close, lucrative oil reserves dry.
On Thursday, May 11, 2006, Senator Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., introduced legislation that will allow U.S. companies to compete for and develop oil and natural gas resources in Cuban waters. The oil fields are currently being explored by a number of other countries, including China, India, Spain, and Canada.
Sure we’d all like to have other sources of energy today and we’d also like rainbows and buttercups everyday, but this crisis we are in today demands mature solutions. Hope is not a defense policy. Hope is not an energy policy, either!…..GatewayPundit
Hurrah! Senator Larry Craig, Republican Senator of Idaho.
“The miNOrity party’s NO Zones” sure looks like a great bumper sticker.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Preview of Monday’s speech? There is text of El Presidente’s oration (illustrated) in “Our First Mexican President.”
May 13th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Sadly, the very same conviction in the face of criticism that allows a man like Bush to prosecute the war (regardless of why) is the very same ability that will allow him to destroy the Republican Party by foolishly supporting amnesty and citizenship for illegals.
The trouble when you get a good horse that wins a race is that a lot of manure is also part of the package.
May 14th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
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