The Unwasted Life

Reports are flying that the an agreement has been reached between the Bush Administration and Senate leaders. As usual, Hot Air has good coverage: Breaking: Bush, Senate leaders reach immigration agreement.

After first hearing about this pending disaster on Hugh Hewitt’s show last night. I let the GOP leadership (McConnell, Lott, Kyl) hear from me that I was not on board with any plan that did not give us Fortress America with a very secure border that would keep terrorists and illegals out BEFORE we have any discussion about immigration reform.

This is what the majority of Americans want. We want to be secure and have out country defended. What sense does it make that we send our best off to fight overseas and the leave the doors wide open at home for anyone and everyone to come in?

Allahpundit said it best at Hot Air:

We had a Republican Congress and a Republican White House for six years. Six years, and it’s come to this.

The GOP better start praying that they still exist in 6 years. This issue is that big.

Update: Michelle Malkin It’s here: The Bush-Kennedy amnesty Report: Potential cost = $2.5 trillion. Also, vote Hell No! in her poll.

(Update: link added to Fortress America post.)

The great Ronald Reagan once said Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose..

Where are leaders like Reagan in times like these? Everyday it seems like more and more Republicans are joining with the What is your strategy? What is your plan to defeat and eliminate the countless Islamic fanatics and their millions of supporters and sympathizers? Have you not heard one thing they have said? Are you blind to the destruction that they have brought?

This might come as shock to you, since some of you don’t even know that al Qaeda is Sunni not Shiite, but they (radical Muslims, Islamofacists) are locked in a holy war against the world. Only Muslims who agree with them are safe from this jihad.

Iraq is just one of the dozens of battles that we going to fight against this enemy. If we don’t even attempt to win in Iraq, why should we even bother fighting them elsewhere?

America must stand strong and united against this enemy. Republicans who cave on this should be booted out of office along with all the Democrats (save, Joe Lieberman). Hugh Hewitt has spoken and written passionately about this the past 2 days and NZ Bear has put an online pledge together so we can show the Republican Senators that we will not stand for their lack of courage and failure to support the President and the US Military. As I write, over 14,000 people have already signed the pledge. Please sign the NRSC Pledge today. Call and write your Senators. Hound them until they proclaim “Not now, not ever, never will we vote to encourage the enemy.”

Ultimately, this is a spiritual war (a prelude to the end of days?) and I pray that our Heavenly Father’s will be done. I pray that Jesus Christ be glorified in all that I do and all that America does. I pray that all Muslims will come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Getting back to Reagan, only in Christ can we truly win and receive eternal life while non-believers lose and face eternal separation from God.

Thanks Hugh for your fine work and inspiration!

Hugh Hewitt sums it up nicely with The Road Not Taken: Forfeiting a Majority.

The Republican Party sent them and their 52 colleagues to Washington D.C. to implement an agenda which could have been accomplished but that opportunity was frittered away.

The Republican Party raised the money and staffed the campaigns that had yielded a 55-45 seat majority, and the Republican Party expected the 55 to act like a majority. Confronted with obstruction, the Republicans first fretted and then caved on issue after issue. Had the 55 at least been seen to be trying—hard, and not in a senatorial kind of way—Tuesday would have had a much different result. Independents, especially, might have seen why the majority mattered.

Thankfully a new day is here. The world did not come to a crashing end. Let’s look at some of the news coverage today:

• Hugh Hewitt: The Good News And The Bad

• Hugh Hewitt: Fred Barnes On The Morning After

  THIS ONE IS PRETTY EASY TO EXPLAIN. Republicans lost the House and probably the Senate because of Iraq, corruption, and a record of taking up big issues and then doing nothing on them. Of these, the war was by far the biggest factor. Unpopular wars trump good economies and everything else. President Truman learned this in 1952, as did President Johnson in 1968. Now, it was President Bush’s turn, and since his name wasn’t on the ballot, his party took the hit.

  The defeat for Republicans was short of devastating–but only a little short. The House seats the party lost in New York and Connecticut and Pennsylvania will be hard to win back. Just as Republicans have locked in their gains in the South over the past two decades, Democrats should be able to solidify their hold on seats in the Northeast, as the nation continues to split sharply along North-South lines.

• Dean Barnett: An Overdue Reckoning
• Michelle: Conservatism did not lose
• Redstate: The GOP Must Get Back To Its Principles
• Kevin McCullough: Because it HAS to be said… Part Two - Liberals Moved Right
• Kevin McCullough: Because it HAS to be said… Part Five - If you didn’t vote thank you for the lap dance…
• Unalienable Rights: If We Can’t Get Them Out We’ll Breed Them Out

George W. on Kerry’s “Conservative Values”:

My opponent recently announced that he is the candidate of “conservative values,” which must have come as a surprise to a lot of his supporters. Now, there are some problems with this claim. If you say the heart and soul of America is found in Hollywood, I’m afraid you are not the candidate of conservative values. If you voted against the bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act, which President Clinton signed, you are not the candidate of conservative values. If you gave a speech, as my opponent did, calling the Reagan presidency eight years of “moral darkness,” then you may be a lot of things, but the candidate of conservative values is not one of them.

Full text of President Bush’s speech | iTunes 2004 Republican Convention, Day Four.

Rudy Giuliani on Edward’s two Americas:

Maybe this explains John Edwards’ need for two Americas — one where John Kerry can vote for something and another where he can vote against the same thing.

Full text of Giuliani’s speech | iTunes Audio

Rudy Giuliani:

And I say it again tonight, “Thank God George Bush is our President.”

Full text of Giuliani’s speech | iTunes Audio