I have this eye-popping tee-shirt from rightwingstuff.com picturing Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush in western hats. It’s captioned, “My heroes have always been cowboys”. From the time I was a little kid watching The Lone Ranger [whose hat never came off even when the bad guy punched him right in the nose] to 9/11 when I said, “What we need now is a gunslinger running this country”, I’ve always looked up to our champions of the west. This weekend, I folded my tee-shirt and put it away in a storage chest.
President Bush has done an incredible job of keeping us safe, creating the most robust economy in our history and of withstanding unrelenting pressure from the extreme liberal left but I fear he has misplaced his guns. The Dubai port issue could be chalked up to just a bad choice. It happens. Failing to address illegal immigration was a huge mistake and was not in keeping with the rest of his national security policy. It placed him in a long line of Presidents before him who either ignored the problem or seemed to think amnesty was acceptable. However, joining forces with the likes of Chappaquiddick Ted and endorsing an, allegedly, comprehensive program that reaches straight into your pocket and mine is inexcusable. I feel as though I’ve been sold out, for the sake of some hack political deal, in a critical issue that will change both the face and economics of America forever.
In case you haven’t checked, I thought you might like to see who voted to hand our future, and that of our children, over to a bunch of law-breaking thugs and terrorists. The following senators voted to just hand illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home state. If a state is not listed, there was no voting representative:
Alaska : Stevens (R)
Arizona : McCain (R)
Arkansas : Lincoln (D) Pryor (D)
California : Boxer (D) Feinstein (D)
Colorado : Salazar (D)
Connecticut : Dodd (D) Lieberman (D)
Delaware : Biden (D) Carper (D)
Florida : Martinez (R)
Hawaii : Akaka (D) Inouye (D)
Illinois : Durbin (D) Obama (D)
Indiana: Bayh (D) Lugar (R)
Iowa: Harkin (D)
Kansas: Brownback (R)
Louisiana: Landrieu (D)
Maryland: Mikulski (D) Sarbanes (D)
Massachusetts: Kennedy (D) Kerry (D)
Montana: Baucus (D)
Nebraska: Hagel (R)
Nevada: Reid (D)
New Jersey: Lautenberg (D) Menendez (D)
New Mexico: Bingaman (D)
New York: Clinton (D) Schumer (D)
North Dakota : Dorgan (D)
Ohio : DeWine (R) Voinovich(R)
Oregon : Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania : Specter (R)
Rhode Island : Chafee (R) Reed (D)
South Carolina : Graham (R)
South Dakota : Johnson (D)
Vermont : Jeffords (I) Leahy (D)
Washington : Cantwell (D) Murray (D)
West Virginia : Rockefeller (D), by Not Voting
Wisconsin : Feingold (D) Kohl (D)
Not long ago, I felt the prism of time would, eventually, view George Bush as one of the greatest presidents in American history, especially when considering wartime presidents. His lack of aggressiveness in Iraq, recent softening of principle, as well as an apparent tilt toward the Left leaves much of this in doubt. Will he be remembered as the unyielding masked man on the white horse who stood tall against the Taliban and the forces of evil or just an ordinary cowpoke who threw open the corral gate, allowing the pillaging hordes to stampede across our boarders?
R.S.F.
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