When Push Comes To Shove

And the shove did occur, this time to both NY State Governor Eliot Spitzer and, by extension, to NY Senator Hillary Clinton. And the shove came not from their fellow politicians -- on either side of the aisle -- but by the CITIZENS of this country.

And there, people, comes the rub -- "DANGER, WILL ROBINSON" -- which I'll explain shortly.

You recall Governor Spitzer -- he of the recent "I want to give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants" fame. The spillover of this issue already rendered glazed the brains of many Demorats and Hillary's campaign handlers in particular (as I posted here). Wednesday he backed down from that idea:

I've concluded that New York state cannot conduct this program on its own," Spitzer said at a Capitol Hill news conference. "It does not take a stethoscope to hear the pulse of New Yorkers on this topic."

Translated: he heard your bitching. And that's just what he thinks of it: inconvenient, immature, bothersome bitching. YOUR bitching, YOUR whining. So it was time to blame anyone and everyone BUT himself:

To save face, Spitzer railed against the federal government for its inability to handle the illegal immigrant issue, saying it had "lost control of its borders. ... and has no solution to deal with it," he said.

It is clear that 70% of the residents of very liberal New York State, and 75% of the denizens of the entire United States think that handing out licenses to illegal immigrants is a vacuous idea.

Further, Spitzer discovered there is a "popularity" price to pay if you do something untenable against the will of the public:

The decision to wave the white flag was cemented as a Siena Research Institute poll released yesterday showed Spitzer with his lowest approval ratings ever - with just 25 percent of voters saying they would support his re-election if the vote were held today.

Translated: only when it affects me personally, politically, will I even remotely consider bending to the will of The People. I hope you sear that sentence into your brain, for I'm going to make another point, then make my ultimate point at the end. In the meantime, let me make these things abundantly clear:

• The People of this nation do not like the idea;
• 75% of all legal residents of the country, blue and red states combined, do not like the idea;
• It is nothing more than a recipe for fraud;
• Government-ENABLED fraud;

Further:

• Legal Americans of all ages and stripes are tired of being Strangers in their own land;
• Increasingly surrounded by people who do not speak their language;
• Whose government is not insisting that its residents speak a common language;
• Surrounded by those who believe their ability to get their ankles damp enables them to sweep into this nation unchallenged, refuse to assimilate, create groves of Mexican encampments in our cities where only Spanish is spoken and only Mexican customs followed;
• With an entitlement attitude;
• Behind a wall of racist Reconquista rhetoric

People, we say we can't do things, that we're ineffectual but, trust me, we are NOT. It is a public groundswell that had massive affects on:

- The Harriet Miers issue;

- The Dubai Ports issue;

- The nomination and support of Roberts and Alito;

- The elimination of the illegal immigrant amnesty bill;

- This week, the halting of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.

And now, my final point -- doing what I call the "logical extension."

BECAUSE the Conservative elements have BEEN effective, BECAUSE the line-level Conservatives have LEARNED how to communicate, BECAUSE we communicate so quickly and so effectively due to blogs, because of the internet, because of online magazines, because of e-mail and because of TALK RADIO, then:

• EXPECT THAT THERE WILL BE A REDOUBLED EFFORT TO REMOVE YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH,
• TO INSTIGATE FURTHER "HATE SPEECH" RESOLUTIONS,
• TO RE-KINDLE THE SO-CALLED "FAIRNESS DOCTRINE",
• and then APPLY THOSE STRICTURES TO ALL THE AREAS WHERE WE SUCCEED in terms of communications.

Mark my words, ladies and gentlemen, you have not yet begun to see the impending massive and concerted Demorat and Left assault on our freedoms enumerated above.

This was a public failing and slapdown of Eliot Spitzer in combination with Hillary Clinton.

Because of our efficacy.

Expect the other shoe to fall.

BZ