I also want to add that it takes a lot of guts to cross the Rio Grande at the mercy of criminal "coyotes", and face the possibility to die of thirst and exhaustion in the desert, just to come to the U.S. in search of a better life.

If all the lazy, self-indulgent, willfully unemployed, American CITIZENS, had one iota of the courage that these people have, we would not even be having this immigration "debate".

So, before the pot calls the kettle black, perhaps the pot should be doing some rational thinking.

"Coded words"? What are you reading into this, DB? Your own prejudices?

"The trolls have arrived". Indeed, you have. Keep the Kool-Aid going, man...

The white trash Bush voters are the ones who are clamoring the loudest against immigrants. They are the ones who sit on their fat, lazy asses, and collect food stamps. Heaven forbids that they actually lower themselves to get a job. I guess you are one of them.

Curious how the Bushies trolling this blog get all huffy, puffy, and self-righteous, about illegal immigration, but have no problems with their President breaking the law by spying on American citizens. It all depends on what the definition of "criminal" is, I suppose.

Anyway, the immigration debate is just a smoke screen thrown out by the Republicans to divert attention from their abysmal lack of competence, profligate spending, and corruption. The President's approval ratings are stuck in the mid 30s. Those of the GOP- controlled Congress' are stuck in the high 20s. GOP operatives are scurrying around trying to throw sand in the voters' eyes to cover up their dismal performance. What better way to do it than by whipping their "base" into a frenzy of racism, jingoism, and mean-spiritedness?

I am a lot more concerned by the real issues that threaten the well-being of this country than by a few million illegal immigrants. The real issues are the spiralling deficits, out-of-control spending, astronomically costly wars of choice, cronyism and crass incompetence in the White House and key aagencies, law-breaking by a delusional President and his henchmen, and religious lunatics trying to force their antideluvian beliefs down our collective throat.

I am far more concerned with the

Why are you giving Limbaugh any publicity? We all know that he is a noxious lower form of life, and that he makes a living at spewing hatred and vitriol.

So, why do you highlight his predictable and putrid nonsense?

You like McCain? This is a free country, so you are free to like anybody.

I do not like McCain. I never have. He is no maverick. He is only a maverick when the cameras are focused upon him. He was the object of one of the most putrid smear campaign that the GOP operatives ever mounted in 2000. He was, however, not alone in this situation. The smear campaign also targeted his wife, depicting her as addicted to pain-killers, and it targeted their adopted child, implying that said child was born out of wedlock from a -- Gasp! -- black woman.

McCain went on shilling for Bush in the 2004 campaign. That he chose to overlook the nastiness that was directed toward him by the Bush apparatus for political gains, I suppose I can understand. That he chose to shill for Bush after the Bush operatives smeared his wife and child, I do not. It clearly says something noxious about him: that his raw desire for power overrides his commitment to his family. In other words, he is willing to override the ignoble insults hurled at his family if it gets him where he wants. That is repugnant behavior.

In addition, in the past few weeks, McCain supported the South Dakota ban on abortion, the one that makes no exception for rape and incest.

Finally, he now cozies up with a demented religious figure who thinks nothing of blaming gays. feminists, etc.. for 9/11, and who said, early last month, that Jews would not go to heaven unless they converted to Christianity...

McCain has finally shown his true colors. He is evidently willing, not only to insult his own family and disregard it in the most egregious way by allying himself with the very people who smeared his family, he is also now whoring himself to religious fanatics.

Come 2008, women voters will have not forgiven nor forgotten that family betrayal, nor will have they forgiven or forgotten his support of the SD's ban on abortion that does not except rape and incest. Moderate voters who may have been inclined to vote for him -- as I was -- will not forget his alliance with repugnant gay-bashers, Jew-haters, and otherwise revolting religious Christians (albeit it is an insult to real Christians to call those fanatics Christians).

McCain does not stand a chance at the presidency. Grass-root movements will see to it that he never makes it to the White House.

May he be headed for the slammer...

Let's please innundate George Allen's office with e-mail, phone calls, and faxes.

Does he really want people to think thet the inmates are running the asylum?

To get his hands on the campaign money already in his coffers, and use it to pay his legal bills...