Twilight zone ... 2x

During the ride in this morning, I nearly choked up my chai latte when I heard that the House ... THE HOUSE ... voted down a bill to increase *natural gas* drilling in the country. NATURAL GAS!!!! Obviously all the anti-America communists (oh, I'm sorry, the democrats) voted against it, but apparently they pulled over enough R.I.N.O.s to defeat it.

This is totally bizarre on several fronts ... not the least of which is that natural gas drilling is (from my understanding, since I don't work the petroleum industry much) fairly clean and unobtrusive. The commentator indicated that there is speculation that part of the reason it was voted down was exactly the fact that it is so clean ... if people see that we can dig up natural gas with absolutely no impact, then the people will be more likely to realize that the leftie tree hugging environmentalist whackos have been lying all along about how much damage energy independence causes.

And yet ... higher prices on oil and gas are the President's (republicans') fault???

In the immigration debate ... commentators are poo-pooing the various reports that say that over the next 20 years, immigration (legal and illegal ... if anything can even be thought of as illegal anymore) ... numbers may be in the upper 10s of millions and as high as 200 million. One person I heard independently was Alan Colmes (radio show) who called it "ridiculous".

How is it ridiculous to assume that EXACTLY what has happened in the past will happen again? Reagan's mistake (80s amnesty) was 3 million, and now we're anywhere from 13 to 20 million new illegals. So if we just do the easy math on a number in the middle ... 15M to make it easy ... you get at least 75 million (15M x 5). Now, I have no idea if the 3M of the Reagan mistake included the extra LEGAL immigrants as a result of those who would be parents and children of the Reagan amnesty recipients ... so the 2006 REAL numbers in the amnesty bill is conservatively at least 45M (assuming each new LEGAL brings in 2 ... which is likely to be real low).

Now, if you are dumb enough to believe that the Democraps are not going to pay these new constituents a king's ransom in entitlements, then you are clueless. Also, my immediate fear is that somehow a Democrap president figures out a way to bypass Congress altogether and somehow grant immediate citizenship / voting rights ... I know Clinton / Gore did something like this the last time to get a bunch of extra voters before their re-erection.

Staying home for the election?

So now the rumour is that conservatives will stay home in protest because they are so pissed off at the Republican party.

Again, I am wondering how stupid the liberal media thinks we are?

And if any of your friends are stupid, set them straight ... we don't get what we want by losing both houses and the presidency (and corresponding federal bench) ... we get what we want by putting even MORE CONSERVATIVES in office. The first round is coming up now ... getting rid of any RINOs. The next round will be to get those conservatives into office ... which should not be hard since it simply involves telling folks exactly what the Democrats have been saying all along.