Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

Last night I heard bits and pieces of some Democratic pundit calmly insulting Dubya. Standard fare. He then mentioned something about Bush not having a plan for getting us out of Iraq, something I’ve heard almost daily since the fighting began.

Exit plans are for losers.

We had an exit plan for Vietnam. That certainly worked out well.

You go into a fight to win. If you do otherwise, you lose. Once you’ve won, you don’t need an exit plan. You walk away. That’s what we are doing right now in both Afghanistan and Iraq–setting up the circumstances so we can let them handle things on their own. Once that is done, we have won.

Please, please, someone ask one of these morons to answer in perfect 20/20 hindsight what the exit plan was for World War II, Korea, Kosovo.

Kerry has lots of plans. That sounds very forward-looking. Does he have an exit plan?

Last month, Michelle Malkin wrote something that really caught my eye.

To his credit, Texas Democrat Rep. Solomon Ortiz (call him the Dems’ Tom Tancredo) has been recently sounding the alarm about the al Qaeda/illegal alien gang connection–as well as our idiotic catch-and-release policies. Too bad more of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle have failed to join him in stopping the revolving door.

I’ve never seen anything to indicate that Ortiz, my Congressman, was interested in illegal immigration at all. So, I thought perhaps I had been ill-informed, and needed to learn some more. I don’t want to vote against someone here in South Texas who actually wants to do something to stop illegal immigration. Michelle linked to this press release which seems to indicate he cares about the issue.

I went to Project Vote Smart to find out how he has voted in recent years on immigration issues.

I wasn’t wrong.

Since 1997, he has voted against restricting Social Security, health care, and even a new form of Social Security card. He voted against prohibiting illegals from getting Medicaid benefits, and another bill requiring health care providers to notify authorities of illegals who seek health care. Immigration reform organizations give him terrible marks. Most, including Border Patrol officers, say he votes in support of their issues 0% of the time. The Immigration Lawyers give him a 50% rating.

I followed another link which took me to a recent news report.

Congressman Solomon Ortiz announced El Savadorian gangs members are in the Valley possibly to help Al-Qaeda members cross into our country.

It all became quite clear. When illegals are Mexican, it is apparently okay in Ortiz’s mind to welcome them with open arms. But when they come from El Salvador or Brazil, they need to be detained and sent back.

Must be an election year.