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From Michelle Malkin  

If you are having trouble getting through the Capitol switchboard to express your opinion about the Bush-Kennedy shamnesty, there’s a special hotline number you might like to try.

1-800-882-2005. (Spanish number)
1-800-417-7666. (English number)

Freepers picked up on it this morning. Bryan Preston dialed it earlier today and captured audio of the hotline. He reports:

The hotline is paid for by something called the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and it’s being blasted to pro-open borders groups all over the country. The hotline gives its callers access to their senators that average Joes don’t have.

Here’s what the “Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is directing its pro-illegal alien activists to do:

Call between 9:00am and 5:00pm Eastern time to have a better chance of connecting with the Senate offices.When you call, you will hear a recording

1) The system will scan your phone number (or ask you to enter it) to verify your Senators.

2) The system will ask which Senator you would like to be connected to.

3) Before connecting, you will hear a brief message about immigration reform to deliver.

4) After the message, you will be connected to your Senator.

5) After you are done, be sure to call again and connect to your other Senator’s office.

Now, you can use it, too: Read more here:  ‘Flood the amnesty hotline!’

 Another appropriate recycle since Nancy is now running the country…

By Human Events - Link

No sooner had congressional Republicans lost the midterm elections, making them the opposition party in Congress, than President Bush called a press conference and made several statements that raised the question of whether these Republicans would also need to become the opposition party to his administration.

It will come as no surprise to readers of HUMAN EVENTS that President Bush’s position on immigration is closer to the position of congressional Democrats than to congressional Republicans. But it was a little unsettling when Bush happily made this point himself last week when prodded by a reporter.

Making Deals

“On immigration, many Democrats had more positive things to say about your comprehensive proposal than many Republicans did,” said the reporter. “Do you think a Democratic Congress gives you a better shot at comprehensive immigration reform?”

“Comprehensive immigration reform,” remember, is the code-phrase Bush uses to describe his plan for granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

“You know. I should have brought this up,” said Bush. “I do. I think we have a good chance. Thank you.”

“What are the odds for a guest-worker provision?” asked a reporter, using another code-phrase for not only amnestying illegals, but also allowing a continuing flow of unskilled foreign workers to enter the U.S.

“Well, that’s got to be an integral part of a comprehensive plan,” said Bush.

Ironically, in the same press conference, Bush also said he wanted to work with Democrats to increase the federal minimum wage. “[O]ne of these three characters [reporters] asked me about the minimum wage,” said Bush. “I said, there’s an area where I believe we can make some—find common ground.”

One wonders if Bush sees any contradiction between his amnesty/guest-worker plan and his new desire to increase the minimum wage. On the one hand, he wants to flood the U.S. with unskilled foreign workers, driving down wages for unskilled American workers. On the other hand, he wants the federal government to mandate higher wages for unskilled workers. In sum, his policy seems aimed at bringing in foreign workers so employers can pay them less than American workers, then passing a law mandating that employers pay the foreign workers more.

Why not just enforce the immigration laws, and let American employers and American workers negotiate wages in a free market?

Obviously, Bush knows increasing the minimum wage would hurt small businesses that no longer could afford to pay it. So, he has a plan for that, too. “And as we do [increase the minimum wage],” said Bush, “I’ll be, of course, making sure that our small businesses are—there’s compensation for the small businesses in the bill.”

What does that mean? Apparently the President wants to hand out tax dollars to subsidize businesses forced by an increase in the minimum wage to pay more to unskilled workers. With his guest-worker plan in place, does that mean taxpayers would subsidize the wages of imported foreign laborers?

Maybe this was a botched joke.

But then Bush moved on to education. “We had some pretty good success early on in this administration,” Bush said. “We got the No Child Left Behind Act passed, which was an important part of bipartisan legislation.” Noting that No Child Left Behind now needs to be reauthorized, Bush said, “There’s an area where we must work together for the sake of our children and for the sake of a competitive America. And I believe we can get a lot done.”

Yes, a lot more unnecessary federal spending will be done. The original No Child Left Behind Act, sponsored by Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.), caused federal education spending to more than double.

Yet, the biggest potential conflict between Bush and congressional conservatives may come from any deal he strikes with the Democrats on Social Security reform. “One of the big hot-button issues for the Democratic Party is Social Security and the idea of partial privatization, which you have talked about,” a reporter asked Bush. “I wonder if there’s anything in your agenda that you’re willing to adjust in the spirit of bipartisanship or back off from, given how important that is to the core of the Democratic Party.”

“I told [Treasury Secretary] Ken Paulson to tell the members that we’d sit down and listen to everybody’s ideas,” said Bush.

As Yogi Berra might say, this could be déjà vu all over again. Shortly after the 2004 election, discussing Social Security reform, Bush said, “We will not raise payroll taxes to solve this problem.” Then on Feb.15, 2005, in a discussion with the New Haven Register, he narrowed this promise to cover only the payroll tax “rate.” When asked whether he would oppose lifting the cap on the amount of income subject to the payroll tax, Bush equivocated. “I’m interested in good ideas,” he said. “People need to come forth with good ideas.”

When pressed by HUMAN EVENTS on whether the President would rule out lifting the cap on the amount of income subject to the payroll tax, then-White House spokesman Scott McClellan would not give a straight answer.

On November 5, Larry Kudlow of CNBC asked White House Spokesman Tony Snow whether Secretary Paulson was already talking with members of Congress about raising taxes as part of a deal on entitlement reform. Snow would not rule this out.

Kudlow said, “There are rumors now that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was in consultation, I guess, with House and Senate members on both sides of the aisle … might be willing to accept an increase in the top personal tax rate and maybe an increase in the taxable wage base in order to get an entitlement compromise. Can you squash those rumors?”

“No, I can’t,” said Snow. “I don’t even know about what’s going on. I know that Secretary Paulson is, in fact, trying to take on the entitlement problem because the overhang on entitlements is something that’s unsustainable. And the President is absolutely committed to dealing with Social Security and Medicare, and he doesn’t care if he has to be the heavy between now and the time he leaves office.”

The President should be commended for trying to reform Social Security, but you didn’t need to read his lips or Tony Snow’s to realize the White House is not ruling out making a deal with the Democrats to increase taxes.

Congressional Republicans need to rule out such hikes for them, even if it means going into pitched opposition against a President of their own party.

From Ankle Biting Pundits 

I can imagine that Newt Gingrich might be a little upset at watching the Republican majority he helped engineer to power in 1994 come crashing down the other night.  And today in Atlanta he let his anger towards his party be known: 

 Speaker Newt Gingrich laid into President Bush and congressional Republicans in an Atlanta appearance Thursday.

Taking questions after a medical forum, the former GOP congressman from Cobb County said four c’s — an absence of competence in Republican performance, an absence of candor, corruption and the bad advice of consultants — led to Tuesday’s defeat.

But Gingrich saved his strongest words for President Bush’s performance at the Wednesday press conference announcing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation. Bush told reporters that he had planned to replace Rumsfeld since before the election, despite praising the unpopular defense secretary a week ago and saying he would remain for the duration of his presidency.

“If the president had decided to replace Secretary Rumsfeld he should have told us two weeks ago,” Gingrich said. “I think that we would today control the Senate and probably have 10 to15 more House seats. And I found it very disturbing yesterday in the press conference, the explanation that the President gave.

“We need candor, we need directness,” said Gingrich, a potential 2008 presidential candidate.”We need to understand the threats we faced with are so frightening and so real, the danger that we’ll lose two to three American cities so great, that we cannot play games with each other, cannot manipulate each other, we have to have an open and honest dialogue, and I found yesterday’s staments at the press conference frankly very disturbing.”

He condemned Bush’s admission that in making last week’s statement about Rumsfeld, he had known he was being misleading.

“It’s inappropriate to cleverly come out the day after an election to do something we were told before the election would not be done,” Gingrich said. “I think the timing was exactly backwards and I hope the President will rethink how he engages the American people and how he communicates with candor.”

He contrasted the euphoria of 1994, when his Contract with America agenda helped ended decades of Democratic rule in the House, with the bitterness of Tuesday night’s Democratic sweep.

“I remember what it felt like the night we were at the Cobb Galleria and for the first time in 40 years we won control of the House and (there was) the Contract with America and people were very exicted about welfare reform and cutting taxes and balancing the budget and all those things, and I have to say 12 years later that I’m very disappointed, but if you look at what I’ve said all year, I’m not surprised.”

As for what Republicans should do now, he said, “I believe the House and Senate Republicans and the White House need to take a deep breath and think very seriously about this election result, because I think we’re at a very important turning point this is either a temporary interruption of what has been a gradually consolidating center-right majority, or this is a breakdown of that center-right majority leading to a significant effort to establish a center-left government majority.”

The democrats are not about to repeat Republican mistakes now (although I still think impeachment is on the table for them), so I dare say the GOP (*coughJOHNMCCAINcough*) would do well to heed Newt’s advice this time around, or face not seeing a majority again for a very, very long time.

Stuart Rothenberg is the editor of The Rothenberg Political Reporter.  He writes “At this point in the cycle, with four weeks to go, Democrats have enough credible candidates and enough resources to win both the House and the Senate.“  Rothenberg thinks that the stage is set for “a blowout of cosmic proportions next month.”

Michael Reagan, on the other hand, says that all is not lost for the Republicans. Yeah, right.

Amity Shales does a pretty fair job of explaining just how Republicans have embarrassed themselves into this possible (probable?) blowout. 

So .. here from Real Clear Politics .. are your latest poll averages for the Senate and for the House.>

More on the wonderful, peaceful religion of Islam.  Muslims can’t even bring themselves to leave a poor, defenseless 100-year-old tree alone.  Is anything safe from Muslim fanatics?

OK .. You have a license plate that reads “FOAD1″ Anyone have an idea what that means?  The State of Minnesota wants the license back.  Now. 

Someone paid over $100,000 to have this full-page advertisement printed in The Washington Post … but it was two years ago.  I wonder if he has another hundred grand to spare.

Gay Republicans inside the Beltway are, shall we say, a bit anxious right now.  It seems that someone (you don’t think it could be a Democrat, do you?) is shopping a list to the mainstream media.  A list of Gay Republicans and Republican staffers on the Hill.  The goal here is to keep Republican voters at home reeling with disgust on election day.  And the mid-term election is how many weeks away?

Unemployment is down … again.  Wages are up.  Damn … this economy really sucks, doesn’t it?  If Democrats were in control right now and this economic news was released, it would be banner headlines in almost every newspaper and lead all the network newscasts … pretty much every night right up to election day.

Howard Dean is upset.  He says that a black or some other minority should have been at the top of the Democratic ticket in Maryland.  Maybe it’s just me, but isn’t that a quota system of some sort?  Wouldn’t it be nice if Dr. Dean could judge candidates by their character and abilities, rather than by their color?  But .. .he’s a Democrat.  Must not forget that.

I found this on Talking Points Memo.
I said after his Macaca episode, he was going to do something to suck up to darkies.
If the Arsenio Hall show was still on, dude would bust out a campaign rap, to show he isn’t a racist confederate flag waving hillbilly.
This is tough, I don’t have an issue with dude politically, but like I said in my previous post, he has too many red flags in regards to race.
The fact that his campaign people had this “ethnic rally” proves he has issues.
What fucken moronic ignorant bastard would come up with an “ethnic rally” and think that twas a good idea?

Here you can see a screen shot from Allen’s website, where he’s providing a photo gallery of his special “ethnic rally” where he invited potential non-white supporters for a quick meet-n-greet. I guess ‘ethnic rally’ was better than ‘brown people outreach’ and that probably would have been better than ‘macaca day’.