Ok people, let’s look at the morning news and see if we can help the lost little Republicans find their way…well, assuming anybody actually wants to because they don’t exactly deserve it at this point.

Exhibit A:

From Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker over at the Washington Post

Bush, GOP Congress Losing Core Supporters–Conservatives Point to Spending, Immigration [May 11, 2006]

A remarkably accurate and objective column considering the publication, VandeHei and Baker consolidate the results of several recent polls to paint a rather gloomy (but again, accurate) picture of today’s once Grand Old Party.

“Disaffection over spending and immigration have caused conservatives to take flight from President Bush and the Republican Congress at a rapid pace in recent weeks, sending Bush’s approval ratings to record lows and presenting a new threat to the GOP’s 12-year reign on Capitol Hill…”

Yep, no surprise there.

VDARE.com has been saying it for six years, folks! The White House has simply abandoned conservative principles!!

“Since Bush took office, government spending has increased by more than 25 percent, the largest increase under any president since Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson.”

Undoubtedly Bush II had to work hard for that legacy but I think it a tad unlikely that anyone will mention it fondly…or outside of say, an impeachment hearing.

“Conservative voters are saying they want swift congressional action to secure the border and enforce immigrations laws…”

And the numbers are…

“A new Zogby Interactive poll found that fewer than 25 percent of respondents who described themselves as conservative or very conservative approved of Bush’s handling of the immigration debate.”

That’s pathetic…true, but pathetic.

So what in the world are they going to do?

According to VandeHei and Baker, this is the plan:

“Karl Rove, Bush’s top political adviser, and GOP leaders are well aware of the problem and are planning a summer offensive to win back conservatives with a mix of policy fights and warnings of how a Democratic Congress would govern. The plan includes votes on tax cuts, a constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage, new abortion restrictions, and measures to restrain government spending.”

Great…the if-you-think-we’re-bad-look-at-the-alternative strategy.

As my dear Terry Anderson (email him) said the other night on his show “The lesser of two evils–that’s like picking the best turd out of a toilet bowl.”

(You can listen to more of his brilliant commentary every Sunday at 9PM on KRLA AM870. Click here to listen live online.)

At first, I thought the Rove and Co. completely missed the immigration factor…but I was wrong.

Exhibit B:

When I finished reading this column, I turned to look at the rest of the news and there it was: The Republican strategy for immigration reform!

From an AP article by Suzanne Gamboa:

Senators Agree to Revive Immigration Bill, May 11, 2006

“Senate leaders reached a deal Thursday on reviving a broad immigration bill that could provide millions of illegal immigrants a chance to become American citizens and said they’ll try to pass it before Memorial Day.”

Majority Leader and presidential hopeful Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) is running the show.

“Frist said the Senate will send 14 Republicans and 12 Democrats to negotiate with the House, with seven of the Republicans and five Democrats coming from the Judiciary Committee.”

Hmm…you might recall that this is the same committee that approved the McCain/Kennedy amnesty plan.

(Read about it here)

Senator Frist and the White House want this done by Memorial Day so we have 18 days stop them!

The Senate has announced they will resume debate next week so check back in with VDARE.com BLOG where I will be posting live updates for our readers. (Just bookmark the page and save yourself some time!)

As I indicated in the title, the lack of conservative principles within the GOP leadership is disturbing and could be explained by alien abduction–assuming of course they had any conservative principles to begin with.

Then again, maybe they just don’t care.

WBAL Baltimore’s Ron Smith has a commentary on the station’s website, [Another Example of Unequal Justice, May 08, 2006] on the Duke malicious prosecution case.

He quotes two sources that David Brock won’t like:Steve Sailer and Taki Theodoracopulos.

In his column in The American Conservative, Taki says the story “stinks to high heaven – and the New York Times coverage of it even more so.”[Guilty Until Proven PC, May 22, 2006] He quotes the managing editor of the “Old Bag,” Jill Abramson as saying of the paper’s future: “We believe in a journalism of verification rather than assertion.” He then asks how that can be when she runs the sports columns of Selena Roberts, who has written that the alleged victim “was raped, robbed, strangled and was the victim of a hate crime.” The guilt of the accused is assumed, asserted without any proof, totally contrary to Abramson’s above statement.

(While Taki wrote that for The American Conservative, at the moment it’s only available on his personal website, takistopdrawer.us.)

Smith also quotes Sailer’s last Sunday piece, saying

As Steve Sailer points out, the MSM, while totally obsessed with the Duke rape case, is uninterested in the stories of three minority football players who got in trouble with the law and were charged with felonies (one assault, two rapes) in the last two weeks:

Chicago Bear defensive back Ricky Manning Jr. was charged with assault with a deadly weapon against some stranger who apparently offended him by working on a laptop computer in a Denny’s restaurant. Utah State quarterback Jerod Walker was charged with raping a coed, as was USC quarterback Mark Sanchez. “ Yet none of these cases,” writes Sailer, “have received a fraction of the attention that the Duke Lacrosse team has garnered – even though football is the most popular sport in America and lacrosse is close to being the most unpopular.” Sailer’s exploration of why this is so is absolutely must reading.

Because what you read on Vdare.com, you won’t read anywhere else.

The Netherlands’ most famous Member of Parliament, the fearless Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has been doing something of a book tour in the eastern United States, speaking in Philadelphia, New York and at Harvard so far. Her new book The Caged Virgin is a collection of her essays discussing Islam and its threat to the freedoms of the west, particularly the religion’s Koran-sanctioned cruelty to women.

The one-time Somali refugee, who fled to Holland to escape an arranged marriage, has proved to be an uncomfortable presence in her adopted country says writer Christopher Hitchens, since some Dutch still cling to the failed ideology of multiculturalism [ The Caged Virgin: Holland's shameful treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali].

But here is the grave and sad news. After being forced into hiding by fascist killers, Ayaan Hirsi Ali found that the Dutch government and people were slightly embarrassed to have such a prominent “Third World” spokeswoman in their midst. She was first kept as a virtual prisoner, which made it almost impossible for her to do her job as an elected representative. [...] This is not the only example that I know of a supposedly liberal society collaborating in its own destruction, but I hope at least that it will shame us all into making The Caged Virgin a best seller.

Similarly, New York literary liberals found it discomforting to hear the forthright enunciation of western values by an African woman, according to An Enlightenment Fundamentalist. Ayaan’s refusal to conform to the victim script apparently annoyed the self-important writerly types at the PEN Center, as did her scathing critcism of Islam — so un-multicultural.

(Listen to her PEN talk with Philip Gourevitch, where she angrily denounces the “liberal betrayal” of western values by excusing Islam’s failure regarding basic human rights. It’s from this page which includes photos of the event.)

As we used to say back in Texas, “You don’t miss your water till the well runs dry.” So it is with our western values under assault by inappropriate immigration — Mexican as well as Muslim. Nice that Ayaan is around to remind us of the importance of free speech, religious liberty and the rights of the individual.