From Ann Coulter in “GOP DOUBLE CROSSING TRAITORS,” at anncoulter.com:
Why don’t Republicans attack the media? People hate the media! Their power is eroding — and it would erode a lot faster if Congress would challenge them. Instead of submitting to the media’s blackmail, my suggestion is, take their gun away.
Tell voters what the media won’t: that Obama’s “amnesty” will give illegal aliens Social Security cards and three years of back-payments through the Earned Income Tax Credit, even though they never paid taxes in the first place.
Could we get a poll on that: Should the government issue work permits to illegal aliens and give them each $25,000 in U.S. taxpayer money? I promise you, Obama would lose that vote by at least 80-20. Even people vaguely supportive of not hounding illegal aliens out of the country didn’t sign up to open the U.S. Treasury to them.
Tell voters that the media are refusing to report that, for the past two weeks, Senate Democrats have been filibustering a bill that would defund Obama’s illegal amnesty.
Whether or not the Democrats continue to filibuster the bill containing the amnesty defund, the government won’t shut down — contrary to hysterical claims by the media and George Will. The government is funded. Only the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be “defunded.”
Which means, wait … I’m counting on my fingers … yes, that’s right: NOTHING.
Nearly all DHS employees are “essential” personnel required to stay on the job even if the department is defunded — the Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard.
Approximately 200,000 of DHS’s 230,000 employees will keep working.
By “government shutdown,” the media mean: “some secretaries will not go to work.”
Why don’t Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama’s amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It’s hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren’t trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they’re intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty.
If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can’t stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.
The interesting sentence here is the last one. You’re late to the party Ann, because there hasn’t been a reason to vote Republican for a long time. However, we all have our moments of epiphany. For some former Republicans, it was when they read George H.W. Bush’s lips as he announced that he would in fact raise taxes. For some, it was when his son blundered into war in Iraq and the “nation-building” he had formerly eschewed. Republicans used to be good at keeping the country out of wars and ending Democratic ones; now they’re the war party. Some Republicans lost faith when Bush signed into law an unaffordable prescription drug benefit, and for some it was after TARP and the bailouts.
Anyway, better late than never for Ms. Coulter, if she does steps outside and inhales deeply the bracing air of independence. She should consider her decision carefully. After all, she’s made a lot of money and garnered much fame pandering to the still substantial group of “mainstream” Republicans, the kind who believe everything Fox News and The Wall Street Journal tell them to believe. However, if she meant what she said in that last sentence, she will end up independent, because congressional Republicans are going to cave on immigration. She may have some company if she leaves the Republicans, but the remaining “mainstream” Republicans will line up behind their 2016 candidate, Jeb-yet-another-Bush.
When I read her article, I also took note of the drastic last sentence. I also agree with your analysis of GHWBush and GWBush. But would you have voted for/did you vote for Clinton, Dukakis, Gore, or Kerry as their opponents? Or did you just not vote for a president? Except for Reagan, my more recent votes have been against the candidate who I thought would do the most damage. Even so, I have been much disappointed. 2016 looks terrible if Clinton and Bush are the choices. I wonder what Ann and you are going to do.
I have voted Libertarian for the last several elections, except for the last one, when I voted for Romney. Not because I thought he was any good, but because I just can’t stand Obama. However, I’m in a pretty Democratic state and my vote makes no difference, so I’ll go back to voting Libertarian. I have never voted Democratic.
yes,yes. we know presidents have made bad decisions. is that an excuse to make more? a bad decision is a bad decision. however, you failed to respond to the topic ms.coulter mentioned. if what she says is true, it is completely irresponsible, witb our deficit and our debt at an all time high, and only 50-60 % of us are currently working and paying taxes. If you want to donate $25,000 dollars, go ahead. last i checked, donations were, well, charitable donations. not mandatory, not coerced, or stolen.