THE WORST SENATE OF MODERN TIMES

Get a few conservative Congressmen together over a few beers and a favorite conversational topic will be, Who’s the worst president in modern memory?

No, it’s not George Bush.  But a number of them can make out a good case that it’s his father.

Worse even than Jimmy Carter? will come the astounded response.  Yes, they say.  Carter inherited a lousy economy and the Soviets on the imperial march.  He was a disaster because the little wimp made a bad situation so much worse.   

Bush the Elder, on the other hand, inherited a revitalized America, a surging economy, and a collapsing Soviet Union.  He did everything to reverse all three.  Then he rescued Red China.

His Chicken Kiev speech cautioning Ukraine not to secede from the USSR and indulge in "suicidal nationalism," was only one of many examples of his attempt to keep the Soviet Union and the Soviet Empire intact.

He instructed his Secretary of State Jim Baker to tell Slobodan Milosevic of the US’ desire to keep Yugoslavia "united" – giving the green light for Milosivic to conduct genocidal wars in the service of creating a Serbian Empire.

He instructed his ambassador, April Glaspie, to tell Saddam Hussein:  "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait," giving Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait.

He infamously refused to order the destruction of Saddam’s Revolutionary Guard troops or remove Saddam from power in the wake of the US victory in the Gulf War – thus being the cause of the War in Iraq today.

But worst of all, these Congressmen say, was Bush Elder giving the green light for the Communist Chinese to crush the democracy movement in Tienanmen Square.

In June of 1989, Soviet Communism was in full collapse and the Chinese people knew it.  Now was their chance.  They turned Tienanmen in central Beijing into Democracy Square with a Goddess of Democracy statue and tens of thousands of demonstrators.

The movement was spreading rapidly to cities throughout China.  The Chicoms’ hold on power was tottering.  They didn’t know what to do.  Most particularly, they were worried about America.  Public words of support from the President of the United States for democracy in China could make the democracy movement unstoppable.

And what words did the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, utter?  None.  There was nothing but silence from the White House.  The Chicoms took this silence as the same green light provided to Milosevic and Saddam.  So they sent in the tanks and troops, and massacred thousands of demonstrators in cold blood.

Thus we have George Bush the Elder to thank for the continuing and massive threat of China today, rather than it being a democracy and American ally.

And then there was breaking the "read my lips" promise and raising taxes, causing a recession, Danny Deer-In-The-Headlights-Quayle, and so much else.

This provides the Congressmen with some perspective on the presidency of Bush the Elder’s son.

"It’s a Dog’s Breakfast Presidency," one of them says.  "There’s the good and the awful all mixed up into one big mess in the food dish.  But it’s better than nothing in the food dish except higher taxes, environmentalism’s moral crusade to de-industrialize America, and an anti-American national security policy.  That’s what we’d get with the Democrats in power."

So it turns out that as upset as they are with GW on a range of issues, what really gets conservative Congressional Republicans apoplectic is the Senate, including their Republican counterparts.

They have one word for the Senate’s emerging immigration bill:  Treasonous.

Yes, a United States Congressman told me he considers the Senate immigration bill "treasonous." 

As the Heritage Foundation has disclosed, the Senate bill would virtually replace the current population of America with over 100 million illegal aliens over the next 20 years.  The Senate bill is so destructively awful that the only good news about it is that there is no hope of a reconciliation bill merging it with the diametrically different House bill.

As the Congressistas explained, "We really don’t need any bill at all.  The only purpose of our version is to reinforce the laws we already have to deal with illegal aliens.  If we would just enforce those laws, the combination of disincentives and lack of incentives would dry up the flood of illegals to a trickle and get many of them here to return to Mexico."

Their conclusion:  "While there may be a debate about who is the worst president of modern times – there is no debate about what is the worst Senate of modern times:  this one right now.  It’s embarrassing that Republicans are in charge of it."