NOTE:  It is 6:30PMMDT.  I have finished blogging for the day.  If anything interesting develops, I'll get it tomorrow. 

The really important news of yesterday - finally, after all these years, I was polled on the Designated Hitter!  I hate it - the DH, not being polled.  Anyone who is as much of a baseball fan as am I will understand my joy at finally being able to express my opinion on this extremely important subject that does effect the balance of power in the free world.

First off  - if you don't believe the whole anti-immigration thing is racist and anti-Hispanic, you need to read this article out of San Diego.  2.5 million people who are here illegally are from....EUROPE.  They have blond hair, blue eyes, speak with a lilting accent (I know one) and no one would even think of them being illegal because they don't have a Spanish accent!  It is the racism stupid, not immigration. 

And in keeping with my theme today, The Opinion Journal did a piece on RWR and immigraion on May 6.  My point exactly.  The people who are claiming to be conservative and the party of Reagan are a disgrace..."...During the same campaign, circa December 1979, the Gipper responded to criticism from conservative columnist Holmes Alexander with the following: "Please believe me when I tell you the idea of a North American accord has been mine for many, many years. I have seen presidents, both Democrat and Republican, approach our neighbors with pre-concocted plans in which their only input is to vote 'yes.'

"Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas--how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence." So much for those conservatives who think the Gipper would have endorsed a 2,000-mile Tom Tancredo-Pat Buchanan wall....Yes, times change, and it's impossible to know what precisely the Gipper would do at the current moment. But judging from these quotes and so many others across his long career, we feel confident in asserting that Mr. Bush and those who support more open immigration are far closer to Reagan's views than today's restrictionists are.

The current immigration political panic is not unlike many in America's past, including a couple while Reagan was in public life. He always avoided the temptation to join them, no doubt realizing that they were short-sighted politically, and, more important, inconsistent with his vision of America as the last best hope of mankind." Check out The Subway Canaries for more on this.

Late last evening or early this morning, right now I don't know because, like many others I was up all night working on this mess, I heard from the Pondering American that the whole Simcox Minuteman Fence thing was finally hitting the fan.  I've been telling you for several months now that things weren't exactly kosher. My fear is the conservative media is going to completely ignore the story.  Why?  If they cover the story many people like O'Reilly, Hannity, Reagan, Gallagher are going to be forced to admit they were taken in by a scam.  Rush has never been into the whole fence thing, but he has been co-opted into the Greene/Vaguerie/Keyes scam. 

There's more than the Minuteman Fence going on here.  I think we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg that is going to sink the RINO conservative titanic - and I shudder to think of the repercussions.  You simply cannot put your faith into one ideology where there is no loyalties or honor.  And the conservative movement has neither.  Face it, they are no better or worse than the liberals - just different opinions.  Right now to me, the only one who comes out looking intellectually honest is Alan Combs, and he's liberal!

The problem began when O'Reilly was sucked into the whole Tanton scam, hook, line, and sinker.  I remember listening to an interview he did with dear little TT (Tommie Tancredo) and said he, Bill O'Reilly had looked into allegations that TT was consorting with 'Nazis' and there was nothing to it.  Where the heck did he look?  It is all right there in black and white.  Then he gives Jim Gilchrist a pass.  Let's face it he and Hannity made celebs out of Gilchrist and Simcox. 

As usual, David Neiwert, over at Orcinus, the usual excellent job of research is being put into the little rift between Simcox and Gilchrist.  Frankly, I'm about ready to sit back and laugh and do an I told you so and see where little Tommie Tancredo fits into all of this.  He is also linking into the entangled relationships I mentioned yesterday in Subway Canaries.   One good person took out a 120,000 loan on his home to help build that fence.  This is a scam.

One of the things that bothers me is the fact that the conservative media is so quick to expose the follies of the Dems, but yet ignore the mote in their own eyes.  This no longer works for me.  I always though, as 'conservatives' we were better than than this.  I am absolutely ashamed of these intellectually dishonest conservatives and I don't know if I even want to be considered 'conservative' after everything I am discovering.  Frankly, I am heart-sick.  I feel manipulated, used, and abused.  I am as conservative in my values as Rush, but I don't want to have anything to do with conservatives after all of this.  I am a Republican. 

I am sick of good decent Republicans who do what they feel is right, like Lindsey and the Prez (see Robert Caldwell's new piece on Bush - good stuff) being treated like dirt and being trageted by conservatives who aren't even Republicans.  Novak peggs it with this piece about Lindsey and the problems in the GOP.  If  you want my two cents, those in the GOP who have backed the hard line in immigration are going down in flames.  Novak is one of the conservative pundits you can trust.  He is intellectually honest and calls it as he sees it, even if it makes me crazy sometimes.  Fred Barnes is the same way. 

Lindsey is right about immigration.  TT is wrong.  The Opinion Journal today has some polling information that backs up what I've been saying.  "According to the most recent Tarrance Group survey, 75% of likely GOP voters support immigration reform that combines increased border and workplace enforcement with a guest-worker system for newcomers and a multiyear path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already here--provided that they meet certain requirements like living crime free, learning English and paying taxes. "Support for this plan," the poll found, "is strong even among base Republican voter demographics like strong Republicans (77%), very conservative Republicans (72%), white conservative Christians (76%), and those who listen to news talk radio on a daily basis (72%)." Someone is not tellling the truth about polls.  I just wonder who it is? 

Speaking of Lindsey, the ADL has listed the CofCC targeting of his office as a 'hate crime' - or sort of!  "•In Greenville, South Carolina, the racist Council of Conservative Citizens held an anti-immigration demonstration on April 29 in front of the offices of Republican Congressman Lindsey Graham, where they burned Mexican flags and displayed signs such as "More INS, Less IRS," "Vote for Pedro to Go Home," and "I Didn't Fight in Iraq for Illegal Aliens."" You read it here first!

There's a good post by Cliff Kincaid about the CIA being after GWB, but can you believe it?  What's the agenda?  When conservatives stop policing themselves and accept anyone who claims to be a 'conservative' even those with ties to such things as Stormfront, then Houston, we have a problem!  I am absolutely terrified that the fact that conservatives no longer have the inclination to police themselves is going to have horrific repercussions on the GOP in the near future.  If some of the most vocal conservatives like Bortz, etc. would own up to being Libertarian, and Baldwin would own  up to being connected to that racist Constitution Party, and both would own up to being connected to Peter Brimlow and VDARE with their connections to all those adorable little neo-Nazis, maybe the GOP can survive.  I think the only way we can survive is to expose these RINO conservatives for what and who they are, and quickly separate them from the GOP.

IF ANYONE LIKES GWB, PLEASE STAND UP

I truly feel sorry for GWB.  The poor man doesn't have a chance.  He's the anti-christ to the liberals.  Dems can't wait to push him over a cliff.  The MSM detests him.  TT has rallied a bunch of turn-coat Republican Congressmen into betraying him.  RINO Conservatives who pretend to be GOP are trying to impeach him.  And now Peter Hosekstra has finally revealed the depths to which the CIA and the intel community has gone to undermine him.  TheNRO version is quite interesting. 

This comes out of Australia and is slightly different from the NYTimes. Over the weekend - always a weekend - we were treated to breathless comments about how the Bush Administration was breaking all kinds of laws, etc. not notifying Congress, etc.  I've ignored the story because I realized there would be more to it.  There is. "A HIGH-ranking Republican congressman has exposed what he sees as a dissident faction within the CIA that he says "intentionally undermined" the policies of US President George W Bush.Rumors about the existence of such a group have circulated in the US capital for a long time, but the comments by Representative Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, marks the first time they were confirmed by an official with intimate knowledge of the intelligence community. "In fact, I have been long concerned that a strong and well-positioned group within the agency intentionally undermined the administration and its policies," Mr Hoekstra wrote in a letter to Mr Bush dated May 18, and made public today.The CIA has refused to comment on the charge.The document has been obtained by The New York Times and posted on its website in its entirety. Mr Hoekstra confirmed its authenticity in a television interview today, but did not elaborate on his concerns."

Much of this goes back to a 'whistle-blower' named Russell Tice, profiled as heroic in this ABC piece.   According to NRO, in the blog JustOneMinute, Tice has been exposed as having been fired.  You need to read the JustOneMinute piece to understand the scope of the mischief the NYTimes is trying to create this time.  When will it ever end?

From NRO:  Is it just a coincidence that Hoekstra wrote his letter to President Bush so soon after Tice started talking about these programs? And what are we to make of Tice himself, who was fired from the NSA after he repeatedly accused a co-worker of being a Chinese spy and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation that found him to be paranoid?

Another hypothesis is that Hoekstra is raising the issue of secret programs as a pretext to vent unrelated complaints about the staff shakeup at the CIA. Tom Maguire digs this story out from where the NYT tried to bury it.

Whatever the case may be, it's of concern that one of the administration's closest allies on intelligence-gathering is suddenly starting to rebel. Is this just about the firing of Porter Goss and the hiring of Stephen Kappes? Or is this in some way related to weird whistleblower Russ Tice? And if so, is there anything to the claim that the administration has improperly withheld information from the intelligence committees, given that the NSA directed Tice to the armed services committees instead?"

Have you noticed the distinct odor of something more than a little fishy?  Does Hoeststra support the Prez or not?  I'm not bright enough to figure it out.  All I know is something stinks here. 

If I lived in Norway, I would wonder if something cosmic was trying to tell me something.  Another large meteor strike!   Then there is the story about the developer who was stopped by transplanted endangered flowers.  You gotta love it.  I don't know which side I am on.  Having delt with a large construction project I was much against, and seeing out of control development in Ruidoso, in a way, I don't blame these people.  Where does development end?