Back when Ronald Reagan was running for President, he suggested that Democrats were "so far to the left, they've left the country." Today, the reverse seems to be true.George W. Bush, in his monomaniacal, desperate search for "victory in Iraq" (whatever that means), is set to overrule not only the voters, but also his generals, and send more Americans into the quagmire. He has as much as admitted that he has no real plan for their deployment and no goal for them to accomplish, but he's sending them anyway.
Meanwhile, in order to deflect attention from his insane plans, he urges Americans to just "go shopping." Franklin Roosevelt was never so callous. Nor was Woodrow Wilson, nor Abraham Lincoln. Only George W. Bush could stoop to such levels of depravity.
Well, only George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans.
Republican Congressman Virgil Goode sent a letter to his constituents saying:
"When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Quran in any way."The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Quran.
"We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.
"I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped."
Has this guy never heard of the First Amendment? Apparently, he doesn't believe in supporting the bedrock of American freedom. (Oh yeah - and that third paragraph quoted above is a run-on sentence; apparently, he doesn't believe in learning the English language either.)
Fortunately, the tide is turning. Conservative commentator Joe Scarborough recently mused that the television show "The View" may be moving to the left in order to boost its ratings. Clearly, America is rejecting the racism, incompetence, intolerance and outright stupidity that the Republican party represents.
The Republicans may hold to their increasingly un-American positions, but the rest of the country won't be going along.
Copyright 2006, Dan Jacoby
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