Well we have all known that for quite some time. But now he is being sued for it.

A double-amputee Iraq-war vet is suing Michael Moore for $85 million, claiming the portly peacenik recycled an old interview and used it out of context to make him appear anti-war in “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Sgt. Peter Damon, 33, who strongly supports America’s invasion of Iraq, said he never agreed to be in the 2004 movie, which trashes President Bush.

In the 2003 interview, which he did at Walter Reed Army Hospital for NBC News, he discussed only a new painkiller the military was using on wounded vets.

“They took the clip because it was a gut-wrenching scene,” Damon said yesterday. “They sandwiched it in. [Moore] was using me as ammunition.”

H/T: Instapundit

That’s why it’s good news that the glimmer of a workable compromise surfaced this week, courtesy of Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, head of the Republican Study Committee, a group of 115 conservative House Republicans. Mr. Pence, proud grandson of an Irish immigrant, says the only bill that can pass in this year’s hothouse environment may have to be one that couples stiffer border enforcement with a no-amnesty guest-worker program.
His proposal (which can be found here) would have the U.S. government contract with gold-standard private employment agencies such as Kelly Services to establish offices called Ellis Island Centers in countries that supply the most illegal alien labor today. The centers would provide an incentive for illegals to leave the country and apply for guest-worker visas in the U.S. that would be granted within a week by matching workers with jobs employers can’t fill with American workers. They would also make criminal and other background checks. Guest workers would be able to apply for citizenship, but they would have to follow current rules with no favoritism over those now waiting legally in line.

“It would encourage illegal aliens to self-deport and come back legally as guest workers,” says Mr. Pence. “They would benefit from no longer living in fear or in the shadows of life and they could return home for visits. And since employers who hired anyone without such a visa would face stiff fines, it would make it increasingly difficult over time for those who weren’t legal guest workers to get jobs.”

This is from the same article speculating Chris Cannon’s soon demise, we hope. Mike Pence has put a bill on the table to handle the illegal immigration. Not surprisingly, his proposal is the best one to come forward that I think could get a majority on board. I have never been opposed to a guest worker program provided that the borders are secured, for real, first, that there is no granting of citizenship involved with the guest worker program, and that the jobs are only going to guest workers when Americans can not or will not fill the jobs.

It’s also interesting to note that the tide may be changing with the Republicans’ ass kissing of illegal aliens. If Chris Cannon goes down then there is no doubt the GOP will change its tune and suddenly begin listening to the American peoples’ wishes of not giving any type of amnesty to the people who have shown no respect for our laws. Some of them are already seeing the light.

That Mr. Cannon is now an underdog in a Congressional district where the new Dan Jones poll still shows President Bush enjoying a 65% approval rating is a sign that the politics of immigration are changing. Here are other signs:

• Rep. Tom Osborne, the legendary University of Nebraska football coach, who lost a GOP primary for governor this month, says he was defeated in part because he backed a bill that made children of illegal immigrants eligible for in-state tuition rates at Nebraska colleges. “I don’t think [voters] really understood” his position, he told the Associated Press.

• Rep. Chris Shays, a leading GOP moderate from Connecticut, told me his recent town-hall meetings in his upper-income district have convinced him he must oppose citizenship for illegal aliens.

• Of the 17 House Democrats who face the toughest races this fall, 13 voted for the get-tough bill passed by the House last December. And some of the 17 Republicans who voted against the enforcement-only House bill are having second thoughts. Rep. Mark Souder, who saw his vote percentage drop about 10 points against the same hapless challenger he faced in the 2004 primary, says, “there is a pot boiling out there. We’ve got to secure the border first.”

• Even Sen. John McCain, one of the main backers of a comprehensive immigration solution, made a bow to the passions behind the immigration issue when he addressed the same GOP convention in Utah that rebuffed Rep. Cannon. “The present system is broke. It’s a failed federal policy,” he told the GOP delegates. “We need a comprehensive approach, but first we have to fix our borders.”

Wow. Shays must have really taken a beating for that RINO to change his tune. If people in Connecticut are P.O.’d about this then you know that the American people are really serious here and aren’t going to take any pandering, lieing, and double speak from sleazy politicians like John McCain.

Timing is everything in politics. Late next month, just as the conference committee that will decide the fate of an immigration bill gets down to business, a GOP primary for a Utah House seat in the country’s most conservative congressional district may set the boundaries for any legislation that has a chance of passing both the House and Senate.

Illegal immigration is the key issue in the race, and should five-term incumbent Rep. Chris Cannon of Provo lose to a restrictionist challenger, look for House Republicans to dig in their heels and block any bill that creates a path to citizenship for illegal aliens.

“House Republicans are already spooked about immigration, and should one of our own lose on the issue, you will see panic break out,” one GOP congressman told me. At the same time, several GOP pollsters, led by Whit Ayres, say their surveys show it is vital that Republicans pass some immigration bill this year to prove they can govern.

It looks as though we might finally be rid of Chris Cannon. He has been a parriah for a long time with his pro illegal immigration views. Being in such a conservative district, we can easily do better than him. His challenger, John Jacob, won the GOP State Convention poll 52% to 48%, but Utah law requires 60% in order to avoid a primary election. If the sentiment of the people is that of the Utah Republican State Committee then Mr. Jacob is in for a good election night celebration.

I don’t know much about Mr. Jacob, but from what I have read he appears to be a good conservative. What I really like about him is a statement he made during his campaign in the context that hiring illegal immigrants is creating a sub culture that is little different from slavery. I am in full agreement with his thoughts as I hold this belief as well.

Fresh off the heels of Mark’s primary victory in PA, I want to turn your attention to a State primary race for Lt. Governor here in Georgia. State Senator Casey Cagle is fighting an uphill battle against Christian Coalition founder and lobbyist Ralph Reed. On name recognition alone Reed should win in a wash but because of Ralph’s tendency for the seedier side of politics this race is going down to the wire.

Why should you care about the Lt. Governor’s race down in Georgia? Well it’s simple. Ralph Reed represents the establishment wing of the GOP that works more for increasing power instead of pushing the conservative agenda. From his dealings with Jack Abramoff using Indian Casino money to stifle competition for his client, to his long history of dirty politics to elect moderate Republicans over their more conservative opponents. Most noticeably Ralph Reed worked for Mitch Skandalakis over the more conservative Clint Day in the 1998 Lt. Governor’s race in Georgia. Skandalakis lost the general election and dragged the GOP ticket down with him. The loss is attributed to the slash and burn campaigning spearheaded by Reed. Skandalakis later plead guilty to corruption charges and spent 6 months in jail. Reed has even gone so far as to lease a red pickup truck for this election. I can’t help but point out that Janet Reno tried the same thing in her bid for the governorship of Florida.

I am tired of Ralph Reed’s win at all costs type of politics. I want something better. That is why I support Casey Cagle. Casey Cagle is not a firebrand like Tancredo or Coburn, but he is a solid conservative with a proven conservative record. As the State Senate finance chairman, Cagle has sponsored legislation lowering taxes, and fought against eminent domain abuse by helping pass the Private Property Protection Act which essentially negates the disastrous Kelo Supreme Court decision here in Georgia. Casey Cagle also helped to pass the toughest illegal immigration laws of any state in the country. He is the leader we need for Georgia.

I hope what happened in last weeks primary in PA is a predictor of what’s to come around the country. Conservatives need to send a message: Republicans need to start acting like Republicans. Georgians can send a message July 18th by voting for Casey Cagle.

The Democrat Party is going to sweep New York, and in a brutal and soul-destroying way. It’s hard to imagine any way for the state GOP to recover. It didn’t have to be this way.

The immigration question is in the air, and with it questions of language and identity that always follow.

In his book “Less Than Words Can Say” (incredibly available for free here), Richard Mitchell identifies language as the easiest way to control a the underclass. “Of course!”, says the earnest liberal. “Making immigrants learn English is nothing more than cultural imperialism, we’ll not stand for that!”

Not so, language is only a dangerous weapon in the hands of those in power if the people under their control don’t understand it. The Russians aristocracy controlled the serfs by speaking French among themselves, the last thing they wanted was the serfs to go out and learn French. The French aristocracy had courtly French, Imperial China had 文言文, and (Mitchell’s best example) American bureaucrats have poor English. When the apartheid government in South Africa forced black South Africans to be educated in Afrikaans it was a cruel and racist policy, not simply because it lead to the extinction of tribal languages, but rather more so because the language of business and government was English and they were cut out from it.

On the face of it an officially polyglot America seems compassionate, in line with our history as a nation of immigrants, but it is anything but. By disincentivizing the learning of English would be doing nothing less than consigning millions of Americans to linguistic ghettos, with persisitent poverty and frustration to go along with it.

The Senate has by a 50-49 vote allowed a provision to remain in the Immigration Bill allowing illegal aliens to claim Social Security benefits. There is no way to sugar-coat what a disaster this is for Republicans and for the country.

The Ensign Amendment would have stopped immigrants with a Social Security Number from receiving credit on taxes paid into the system while working as an illegal resident. This is just simple common sense, which is of course why it escaped the senses of those in D.C. While Social Security is already a broken system and Congress is going to be unable to meet its promise to my own generation, they now refuse to stop illegal aliens from claiming its benefits? Words don’t exist to describe the outrage you should be feeling right now.

Republicans against the amendment:

Lincoln Chafee (Remember the millions spent by Liddy Dole to get him reelected this year)
Mike DeWine (He is now trailing his Democratic challenger in Ohio and deserves to lose)
George Voinovich (RINO)
Sam Brownback (Very disappointing)
Chuch Hagel (RINO)
Richard Lugar (RINO)
Ted Stevens (I guess he thinks illegals can build his Bridge to Nowhere instead)
Arlen Specter (Snarlin’ Arlen?? Get Out)
John McCain ( Of course! I seriously don’t believe this guy is trying to run for President. This has got to be joke)

Republicans know they’re in trouble this year, but they apparently don’t know why. November will come quick guys and a lot of you had better start packing up.

There’s been a few posts already regarding Mark’s victory this past Tuesday, but I wanted to really comment on the full picture. Mark’s victory was one of several key races that were vital to reshaping our state and conservatives taking back control of a corrupt Republican Party in Pennsylvania.

Tuesday’s primary was about more than an unconstitutional payraise that the General Assembly gave themselves last year. It was about decades of constant tax hikes, fleeing businesses, job losses, greed, and corruption. The payraise was merely the catalyst that ignited the flame and opened peoples’ eyes to what was really going on in Harrisburg. Senate President Bob Jubilirer and Senate Majority Leader Chip Brightbill, both major RINOs, suffered staggering landslide defeats to their conservative challengers, even after having outraised them in terms of money seven or eight times and with the aid of the ever misguided Republican State Committee trumpeting the “successes” (ahem) of the incumbent payjackers.

The Republicans of Pennsylvania have spoken and have been very clear that we will no longer tolerate Republicans that pander to conservatives, but vote like Socialist liberals. The immediate affect of the conservative victory has already been seen, as Eileen Melvin, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, has chosen not to seek another term. There are good times ahead.

Ha!

First and formost congratulations to Mark on his stunning victory. Mark epitomizes movement conservatism. Thank you Mark for choosing to serve.

Mark will need our help in the general. When Mark and his team reveal their needs please step up to the plate and help out.

The Pittsburg Post Gazette had this to say about Mark’s victory last night.

42ND DISTRICT
Novice stuns Stevenson

“Mark Harris, 21, a George Washington University political science major who is just preparing to graduate, scored a stunning upset over longtime Republican incumbent Rep. Tom Stevenson, R-Mt. Lebanon.

Mr. Stevenson, 53, voted in favor of the legislative pay raise, accepted the money, then returned it. Late in the campaign, his supporters ran TV spots calling attention to Mr. Harris’ lack of political and life experience.

Mr. Harris responded by sending Mr. Stevenson a copy of the book “Economics For Dummies.”

Mr. Harris credited his campaign staff with the victory. “I’m honored to be the nominee,” he said late last night.

Daniel A. Hackett, 49, of Mt. Lebanon ran third in the GOP contest.

Matthew Smith, 33, of Mt. Lebanon, was unopposed in the Democratic primary.”

With 97% counted, I am calling the race for Mark Harris who is at 44.88 to Stevenson’s 35.78.

It is Morning in Pennsylvania!

(WITH 64 OF 66 DISTRICTS COUNTED 96.97%)
MARK HARRIS. . . 2,620 44.88
TOM STEVENSON . . 2,089 35.78
DANIEL A HACKETT . 1,116 19.12

(WITH 46 OF 66 DISTRICTS COUNTED 69.70%)
MARK HARRIS. . . . . . . . . . 1,716 Total 43.55%
TOM STEVENSON. . . . . . . . . 1,445 Total 36.68%
DANIEL A HACKETT. . . . . . . . 771 Total 19.57%

Things are looking really good for Mark.

My fellow SaveTheGop comrades are in the trenches today fighting the good fight to elect Mark to the state house in Pennsylvania. I am stuck in Georgia and not able to be there with them and it is killing me! I have been making phone calls for them, to get their identified voters to the polls. If anyone has the time and can make some calls, please call Marks office at 412-253-7312. I have been in touch with the campaign some today, and I can say that they are organized, energized and sprinting to the finish. I will try post up dates when I can, as they are a little busy right now. Keep up the fight!

Just host a party on May 22nd, oh and raise alot of money and this baby is yours.

I found this little list in my room which I got a few years ago when it was distributed by the RNC. Let’s run down the list and see what remains true for the party and where the party has strayed from its conservative roots:

I AM A REPUBLICAN BECAUSE

I believe the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person’s dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored.

I believe in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability.

I believe free enterprise and encouraging individual initiative have brought this nation opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.

I believe government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn.

I believe the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations and that the best government is that which governs least.

I believe the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government closest to the people.

I believe Americans must retain the principles that have made us strong while developing new and innovative ideasto meet the challenges of changing times.

Finally, I believe the Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.

Right off the bat, let’s all collectively laugh at the last statement. Yeah. Right. With a Republican Congress and White House federal spending has skyrocketed, entitlement programs are in serious fiscal trouble, we have seen the growth of Big Government via Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, etc. The Republican Party is probably the worst vehicle to translate these ideals at this time. At least the Democrats will be honest in their contempt for smaller government, lower taxes, and free trade.

1. This Party honors the individual? Then why does it consistently pass legislation making the government more and more involved in the individual’s life? Last time I checked the individual can decide for himself how to pay for medication and healthcare.
2. The White House has shown favor for affirmative action policies.
3. Free enterprise… that’s a joke. See the $500 million subsidy to Northrup Grumman attached to the emergency spending bill last week, see the many other earmarks to private companies, see some Republicans’ refusal to allow Social Security to be more free-market based. I can go on and on. Oh, don’t forget Arlen Specter’s windfall profits tax. Give me a break.
4. I’ll give the GOP credit for tax cuts, but that credit is torn to shreds by the uncontrolled spending binge this Congress has engaged in. Why won’t the RSC budget proposal get more attention? Why must we add billions of wasteful pork to an emergency spending bill? The GOP fails this one.
5. “The best government is that which governs least.” McCain-Feingold, 527 legislation, ridiculous tax code, refusal to allow oil companies do what they do best: drill for and refine oil.
6. Is this a joke? The President Pro Tempore, Ted Stevens (R-AK), the highest ranking Republican in the Senate, shows unending contempt for “the people” in his neverending quest to doll out our tax dollars to pet projects at home. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Don’t forget immigration- because apparently the politicians know better than the majority of Americans who don’t agree with amnesty for illegal aliens. But I forgot, politicians feel that they are above the law so they don’t see the problem with other law-breakers.
7. Nuclear Power? Sorry, too “risky.” Offshore drilling? Sorry, too “environmentally damaging.” Build some more gosh-darn refineries which haven’t been built in 30 years? Nothing but silence from the DC crowd.
8. You have got to be kidding me.

So, can the GOP be saved? Sure does look bleak to me.

You got it, Arnold. The Federal government has sat back for decades when they knew all too well that we had hundreds of thousands of people invading our country from Mexico. It was only a matter of time before it would all come crashing down. The question is will our Republican government do the bidding of the citizens of America or the illegal invaders demanding they be given rights they are not entitled to?

“I think that all of this comes down to one thing: The federal government has failed the people of America in a terrible way, in a disastrous way, when it comes to this immigration situation.”

Schwarzenegger, who emigrated from Europe in 1968, called for better ways to police U.S. borders.

He chided federal policy-makers for letting the border problem “hang out there for 20 years and not do anything about it, when they knew this is a problem.”

The Senate ignored President Bush’s veto threat yesterday and easily passed a $109 billion emergency spending bill for war and hurricane recovery costs that also brimmed with favors for farmers, the fishing industry, and the states of Hawaii and Rhode Island.

The two-week debate that preceded yesterday’s 77 to 21 final vote was marked by an election-year surge in targeted spending on behalf of constituents and special interests, despite repeated warnings by fiscal conservatives about a swollen budget deficit.

Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), in a statement, called on his colleagues to “restore fiscal discipline to the Congress.” He voted for the war spending bill and favors keeping about $4 billion in agricultural aid but wants cuts elsewhere.

The Senate added money to rebuild a highway in Hawaii; protect riverbanks in California; upgrade a hurricane barrier in Providence, R.I.; and compensate New England shell fishermen for their losses from a red tide outbreak. The Senate also took steps to make farming less risky by offering compensation for virtually any scourge, including drought, flood, wildfires and pestilence.

As usual the Senate proves itself to be a worthless body of greed and self interest. I didn’t realize that the Constitution gave them the provision to give money to compensate the seafood industry when they have a bad season. They apparently are also not that concerned about Bush’s threat to veto the bill, but then again, when I heard Bush threaten to veto I pretty much laughed it off myself. The guy has never vetoed anything in his life so why should the Senate take it seriously?

WASHINGTON (AP) - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.

Six months out, the intensity of opposition to Bush and Congress has risen sharply, along with the percentage of Americans who believe the nation is on the wrong track.

The AP-Ipsos poll also suggests that Democratic voters are far more motivated than Republicans. Elections in the middle of a president’s term traditionally favor the party whose core supporters are the most energized.

I don’t know why it took the media so long to figure this out. It’s as if this is a surprise to them. It was the conservative block of the GOP that went out and busted our butts to get Dubya reelected and he’s done little to return the favor. In fact, other than appointing two good judges to the Supreme Court, and even in that instance the second judge only came after conservatives took Bush to the woodshed over it, I can’t think of anything worthwhile he has done in his second term. He promised us private Social Security accounts and we got nothing. He promised to reform the tax code and we’ve gotten nothing. We’ve got 11 million illegal aliens invading our country and he wants to give them a path to citizenship.

When the Democrats pick up seats in November, and they will, it won’t be because they won. It will be because the Republicans lost.

Haunting words from Charles Krauthammer

As it races to acquire nuclear weapons, Iran makes clear that if there is any trouble, the Jews will be the first to suffer. “We have announced that wherever (In Iran) America does make any mischief, the first place we target will be Israel,” said Gen. Mohammad Ebrahim Dehghani, a top Revolutionary Guards commander. Hitler was only slightly more direct when he announced seven months before invading Poland that, if there was another war, “the result will be … the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.”

Last week, Bernard Lewis, America’s dean of Islamic studies who just turned 90 and remembers the 20th century well, confessed that for the first time he feels it is 1938 again. He did not need to add that in 1938, in the face of the gathering storm — a fanatical, aggressive, openly declared enemy of the West, and most determinedly of the Jews — the world did nothing.

When Iran’s mullahs acquire their coveted nukes in the next few years, the number of Jews in Israel will just be reaching 6 million. Never again?