From HughHewitt.com:

Word is leaking that the GOP in the Senate are on the verge of agreeing to an immigration bill that has –as a concession to the GOP– less than half of the fencing promised by law last year. White flag time on the border, and a national security and thus a political disaster.

The GOP are sending around talking points attempting to make this “compromise” defensible, but it won’t and shouldn’t fly. Agreeing to it takes the party down the tubes on the issue of border security –because it doesn’t provide what the public understands to be border security, a very long, very high fence with a very wide gate.

This is McCain’s continuing gift to the GOP, and the immigration absolutists’ legacy: Lots and lots of promises and no fence worth calling a fence.

Aren’t there 41 GOP senators willing to fight for border security? Apparently not. And they will see the result in their depleted coffers and diminished numbers come November ’08. All they have to do is fight for border security, but they won’t even do that.

But wait, as if that isn’t bad enough (roughly 48 hours before the Senate decides), the Santa Fe Police Department is considering the possibility of recruiting Mexican nationals to fill vacant police jobs.

How wonderful is that?

Let me see: first, the GOP appears to settle for HALF a fence because, after all, we wouldn’t want to cause a stir and muddy the waters (of the Rio Grande, apparently) — we wouldn’t want people to DISLIKE us, after all — and then a job, where years ago when I first hired on I had to swear an oath to defend the Fornicalia Constitution and the Constitution of the United States — a job I thought meant something, is soon to mean NOTHING because just any old biped can bop on by and be a cop. Though they’re not a citizen. Though they will still funnel money back to the Old Homestead. Though they have no inculcation in the country. No immersion. And no compulsion to integrate and assimilate.

Is this someone’s idea of humor? Thank God my grandmother and grandfather are dead, for they would no more recognize this country than they would the schematic of an Athlon chip.

From RedState:

We build a fence, we build it for 700 miles, we build it now.

Repeat after me:

Message to the GOP (and I repeat for those Invertebrates who “just tuned in”):

WE BUILD A FENCE, WE BUILD IT FOR 700 MILES, WE BUILD IT NOW.

New York City’s current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is going to mix it up and bloody the waters of both parties, becoming a third party candidate for President:

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is prepared to spend an unprecedented $1 billion of his own $5.5 billion personal fortune for a third-party presidential campaign, personal friends of the mayor tell The Washington Times.

As if we needed any more confusion.

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes.

“George,” a 9-year-old Jack Russell terrier in New Zealand happens to be one such hero. To wit:

George, who had a heart problem, won fame after defending five children from the pitbulls in the small North Island town of Manaia a week and a half ago. The two pitbulls rushed at the five children on the street, prompting George to charge the much larger dogs as the children escaped.

Unfortunately, George was badly mauled by the band of pit bull terriers and had to be put down because of the extensive injuries he sustained.

None of the children were bitten or injured.

It seems that George’s tale inspired Jerrell Hudman, 58, a US Marine for 30 years, to send his Purple Heart medal (acquired during his service in Vietnam) to owner Alan Gay. Hudman said:

It’s truly tragic that he paid with his own life for his instinctive act of courage.”

Hudman said he sent his medal because the dog was “a little warrior.”

Deeds, not words.

It’s all about the demographics.

Recently this came to mind when I responded to Texas Fred and his post about the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836.

For those being historically-challenged, the Battle of San Jacinto was, essentially, Texas fighting Mexico on April 21st of 1896. Mexican General Santa Anna aligned his superior forces against those of Sam Houston. To quote:

When Houston’s long awaited order to advance was given, the Texans did not hesitate. When within seventy yards the word “fire” was given, the Texan shouts of “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember Goliad” rang along the entire line. Within a short time, 700 Mexicans were slain, with another 730 taken as prisoners. The battle for Texas was won.

That was then; this is now.

I wrote a comment in Texas Fred’s post:

I do not see either side of the aisle much interested in saving this nation, solely on the grounds of overeducated white male guilt. People don’t like to admit it, but it’s all about race, culture and, moreover, demographics. Mexicans are procreating at a much greater rate than anyone else in America, including blacks, whites, asiatics. That will be our future. In Europe, Muslims are procreating at a much greater rate. Their future will be with Islam.

There is no stepping back; there is no regaining our country. We do not have the will. We can only hope that it comes in an orderly fashion and that we somehow manage to instill more of our culture on Mexicans, than they wish to bring from Mexico. Otherwise the USA will be nothing more than Mexico now — the Mexicans WANT to flee Mexico. There will come a time, Fred, long after you and I are gone, when people, mostly Mexicans, will finally look at the United States (or whatever it may be called by then) and decide THEY must flee THESE shores.

They will have done it to themselves.

It is quite sad indeed, to believe this is my country’s future. But I do not see common sense and logic winning the day. There are too many stupid, accepting and blinded people in this nation, too many with their hands out, hoping and longing for a Free Ride on the back of someone else. Until, of course, we RUN OUT of “someone else”s.

Mark Steyn, all looming 6’6″ of him, has written extensively about demographics in his most recent book (which I shall shamelessly plug here), because it is one of the MOST IMPORTANT books to have been published in, perhaps, the past five years.

Check this link and make your order now for Steyn’s “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It.”

In this book he makes the same assertion as me: that demographics shall become everything. To wit:

Europe, laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to America alone—with maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world’s last best hope.

Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America should proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread America’s influence around the world—for our own sake as well as theirs.

These things are quite obvious to me and, unfortunately, clearly obfuscated to so many others on these shores.

And isn’t that the frustration that you and I, and anyone reading my blog, share?