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Langley Long Gone

5.16.06 @ 12:01AM

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Next question, please.
-- Paul Kotik
Plantation, Florida

You are so right. The only way to stop the leaks is to send people to jail and SOON. This has gone on way too long without any action.

The porous border is another joke. Why should anyone stand in line for years to come here legally when all you have to do is come illegally and reap all the benefits, free schooling, health care, and welfare. There are good laws already on the books but no one is enforcing them. Go after employers that hire illegals and the jobs will dry up. Stop allowing children born to ILLEGALS to become citizens, stop all the freebies. Get some kind of voter card so only citizens will be able to vote, get tough on LAWBREAKERS. When Bush called the Minutemen vigilantes, it made me sick. Bush is in the pocket of big business that wants cheap slave labor and that is what the illegals give them. The INS should have been out at the protest making a list of employers that closed that day to know who to go after for illegal hiring and taking names of protesters checking for legal status.

I am mad as hell and not going to take it any more. If you feel this way sign up on www.numbersusa.com and send FREE faxes to the President and your members of Congress. We can do this -- we just have to work together.
-- Elaine Kyle

I think Mr. Babbin misses the point somewhat. The last few years have shown that expecting this President to fully explain and rationally defend his policies and actions is itself more than he is willing to do; actually expecting action seems more than we can hope for. Note to Secretary Chertoff: How's the disposition of all those trailers sitting in a field in Arkansas coming along?
-- Chuck Vail

Jed asks: "why should any conservatives respond favorably to yet more promises that aren't accompanied by decisive action?"

Bush, Rove, and other elected Republicans and their consultants have figured out (or think that they have) that all they need to do to keep conservative voters in line is to pat them on the head once in a while, and tell them what nice boys and girls that they are. Besides, we are so stupid that we will believe whatever bit of puffery George Bush utters. All the while, Bush is on the phone to Vicente Fox assuring him that all the tough border enforcement is only temporary and we will return to status quo ante in the blink of an eye, just as soon as he gets his stupid base voters calmed down. Oh, and Laura says that the polls showing low ratings for Dubya are not true, and she doesn't believe them.

Bush started on the wrong path when he ordered the Justice Department not to prosecute the Clinton White House staffers that trashed the place on their way out to the tune of many thousands of our tax dollars. There has been no meaningful prosecution of anyone in the Gingrich intercepted cell phone case. The so called prosecution of "Socks" Burger was a joke at best, and not a funny one. Additional examples are legion.

In the meantime, the Dems go after one effective Republican after another, and don't let up one iota until the person is out of office and professionally destroyed.

It has been written authoritatively that, when Hayden takes over at CIA, he will bring back as his number two man the very person that Porter Goss fought so hard to get rid of. Long story short the entrenched bureaucracy will be back in charge, with their compadres from the Department of State, under the auspices of Negroponte, standing with them against the DoD (and the American people). I seriously doubt that we will see Bush awarding any medals to Porter Goss like he did for Tenet and Bremer.

When will the GOP get serious and get in the game, and will we have any country left if and when they do?
-- Ken Shreve

I think Mr. Babbin has written a wonderful column. I've been asking the same questions. Why are there no indictments for these leaks? Is it okay to leak classified information if you're a Democrat? I'd like to learn more about what it is Mr. Gonzales actually does.

As for cleaning up the CIA as well as State, Justice, and other problem agencies I think you have to employ the correct tool. You need hatchets and hatchet men to use them. From the caterwauling I hear from generals I believe Secretary Rumsfeld is doing a good job. Secretary Rice is presiding over a pit of vipers at State and I hope she'll accomplish good things for her country. Gen. Hayden has a nasty job ahead of him. I hereby offer my services as loyal plain-speaking hatchet man.
-- Jeffrey Ring
Lorton, Virginia

I was amazed at the lack of humor displayed by uncomfortable and grumpy conservatives after the correspondents' dinner the other night. Now I'm further astounded by conservative anger at George Bush and the Republican-led Congress.

Having controlled both houses of Congress since 2002, and the White House since 2000, and also been at the forefront of intellectual discourse, the scope of change that the right could have initiated is only matched by the lack of action from spend-thrift Republicans. I personally put down the turning point of this administration with the disgraceful posturing of pro-life Republicans during the Schiavo "incident," but obscene deficit spending and the inability to curb illegal immigration, can also be seen as major problems for the Republicans.

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