Rubio's Political Suicide

This entry is about Rubio's attempts to reach Hispanic voters through amnesty.  Now, I definitely think immigration laws need an overhaul, but who can trust the major players here?  McCain?  Graham?  Schumer?  If Rubio does, he shows himself to be naive.  A country cannot have open immigration and be a welfare state at the same time.  

My parody from the viewpoint of a disgruntled Tea Partier, and is set to contemporary singer Matt Hires' “Restless Heart”

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk4dKviGpXw)

 Pretty boys have many different faces

 Your heritage is Cuban

 Backstabbers like you are not hard to replace

 You’re definitely in Washington

 We followed you at the mid-term elections

 And we helped you defeat Charlie Crist

 I wish I had seen what was coming to us

 For the Tea Party you have dismissed

 Hey you’re in the gang of eight

 Granting millions of aliens amnesty

 But you have made a foolish mistake

 You say votes are all that you need

 Well you're not gonna get it from me

 Oh-no, oh-no, no you're not gonna get it from me

 You say that you want to reach out

 That you can find common ground with McCain

 But even the most optimistic of us

 Can see that it's all just a game

 But while you are looking for love

 Looking for new Republican voters

 We tried it before 27 years ago

 All we got were Democrat donors

 Hey you’re in the gang of eight

 Granting millions of aliens amnesty

 But you have made a foolish mistake

 You say votes are all that you need

 Well you're not gonna get it from me

 Oh-no, oh-no, no you're not gonna get it from me

 You’ve already lost the Primaries

 You’ve already lost

 You’ve already lost the Primaries

Best of the Web on Kermit Gosnell

I am unable to express my feelings on this, they are so tender. I'll just quote the apostle Paul for now:

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

RIP Margaret Thatcher

Wall Street Journal

From The President, The Pope and the Prime Minister

Human Events article by John Hayward

The Grocer's Daughter by Sarah Palin

Margaret Thatcher and the Triumph of Conservatism by Jeffrey Lord

And on a different note, this is an article about another influential person from that time, CIA director Bill Casey.  Make sure you click on the link in the article which sends you to Herb Meyer's speech.  It is fascinating!

Lastly, on what seems to be a completely unrelated note, I started watching "Call the Midwife."  It's based on the memoirs of a woman who was a midwife (hence the title) in East London in the late 1950's.  It is very well done.  But in the two episodes that I've seen, writers have inserted public service messages in the most awkward way.  The scene goes something like this: a woman is about to die from pregnancy complications, and some doctor comes in and says, "It's a great thing that we have the NHS now, sending ambulances and providing life-saving treatments for these poor people!"  Not only is the dialogue out of place (like the Subway advertisements in "Chuck"), it's laughable.  Go to James Taranto's "Best of the Web," which he writes five days of the week for the WSJ, and you'll see countless examples of the great "progress" Britain's National Health Service has enjoyed.  We're heading that direction ourselves under ObamaCare.

Sadly, one of Margaret Thatcher's few failures was her inability to dismantle the NHS.  It was too entrenched by then.  It illustrates the perils of passing unwieldy legislation to begin with--once it's there, it's nearly impossible to remove, no matter how terrible it is.  That said, I pray for leaders here in the US who will continue to work for the repeal of Obamacare--my belief is that rather than losing elections, they will win by doing so.  Margaret would have agreed.  She said this of her own party's tendencies to "go wobbly":  "I was utterly convinced of one thing: there was no chance of achieving that fundamental change of attitudes which was required to wrench Britain out of decline if people believed that we were prepared to alter course under pressure.”