Bush administration ends

Well, that is it, I guess. President George W. Bush officially announced the end of his administration yesterday. No, not in so many words ... he couched it into a re-worded re-statement of his ridiculous position on immigration. However, in those few words he effectively cut off any support he may have had by the die hard conservatives that have been holding on against all hope that he would somehow redeem himself for the catastrophe that was 2005. I believe that after about a week of digesting this swill, the last 30-some odd percent of GW's support could be gone.

I should not be surprised ... but I must admit that I was. I held hope that Bush would have heard the cries of his constituency, in the same way he relented in the Miers debacle. Alas, those hopes were dashed ... and I found myself cussing at the TV in ways that I usually reserve for Democraps.

I liken it back to the same feelings that I had during a playoff game a few years back that the Green Bay Packers played against the Philidelphia Eagles ... Green Bay pretty much owned the Eagles throughout but gave up a devestating final score (one of the plays was a 4th and 23 conversion by the Eagles where Green Bay, playing 'prevent' allowed a receiver to be wide open up the middle of the field) ... allowing the Eagles to tie the game and push it into overtime. At that point you just figured the game was over, even though Green Bay had just as good a chance to win. Green Bay gets the ball ... Brett is under pressure and throws up a moonshot over the middle of the field ... interception and runback to just outside of field goal territory ... game over.

Bush's speech last night was like that last pass ... it was/is the time that you knew, as a fan, that the end was near.

Warning signs

While I am not sure that anybody actually has a transcript of the call ... many have reported that Vicente Fox called GW on Sunday raising concerns about the militarization of the border.

As an aside ... how would you like to have been on the receiving end of that call ... "Listen Fox, you corrupt hypocritical bastard ... if any of our Apache's sees anybody even resembling your paramilitary drug runners within a mile of the border, you are going to find out why they call them hellfire missiles".

In any case, the buzz is that Bush assured Fox that the Guard is not actually going to do anything. So now I know what it is like to be a Democrap.

Salvation

I actually do see a silver lining around this cloud. Despite the lunatic rantings of the Democraps, GW Bush is NOT running for any office this year ... and in that might be the salvation. I believe that the House republicans can argue that the election of MORE conservatives is the LAST STAND against Bush and the Democrats plan for mass amnesty for the aliens. They could also remind Americans of how Clinton/Gore rammed through citizenship for tons of aliens who were not qualified before elections in the 90s. Senate conservatives could similarly run on these themes, but they had better stand up now and try to block anything even remotely related to the garbage that the Senate has come up with so far.

The key here is that the Democraps are on the wrong side of just about every issue in this country ... national security, treatment of terrorists, immigration, drilling for oil, etc. ... including giving a good amount of their base (the union constituencies) the shaft. Conservatives simply need to force these details into the limelight and not allow the Democrats to hide in the abstract.