Sure, there’s still a whole slew of people in Washington who put the "R" after their name. Problem is, there are not very many of them acting like they should be allowed to call themselves Republicans.

Bill Clinton and his cadre of crooks were not expected to obey the law. That’s how most Democrats are. The concept of the unalienable rights of life, liberty and properly for the people is foreign to them. Instead, they opt for a class system in which they and their supporters maintain the upper hand over the producers of America. And, as we saw for eight long years, most Clinton cronies got a pass on things like maintaining common decency and obeying the law.

We thought that Independent counsel Robert W. Ray was a Republican. The IC report states just what most good Americans knew all along: There was plenty of reason to prosecute Bill Clinton and many of his friends.

The problem is, Ray chose to not prosecute Bill Clinton or any other person involved in any of his illegal conspiracies. Why? Simple. Personal benefit. Robert W. Ray wants to run for a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey. He took the IC gig but then refused to play the tune because he didn’t want to anger any New Jersey voters.

Then we saw the fiasco of the Campaign reform bill. Congress wants to ban the political speech of the American people. Why? Because that bill is actually an incumbent protection act. They did it for personal gain.

Yet, nothing was done about all the voter fraud of the 2000 election. Not one thing! They punish good Americans by curtailing freedom of speech and give a free pass to the law breakers perpetrating voter fraud. What the hell is going on here?

And, remember when Republicans said they were going to get rid of that useless Department of Education? Instead, Education got a huge increase in funding -- as did every other department and regulatory agency.

Along with more funding, Republicans gave many regulatory agencies new and Constitutionally obnoxious powers with which to use to harass the American people. And, they even federalized (almost) airport security.

The federal government is spending so much time and money doing unconstitutional and extra-constitutional things that it has neither the time nor the ability to perform its most important duty: The most important function of government, of course, is the protection of the people.

The Border Patrol, INS and Customs departments are a joke. Customs will harass the average citizen for silly things like a carton of cigarettes, but tons of cocaine come into the country every month.

Last Wednesday, even President Bush had to realize the INS was a joke. He said he was "plenty hot" to learn that student visas for two of the Sept. 11 hijackers were delivered six months after they flew planes into the World Trade Center. That just goes to show what type of people are working at INS: Incompetents.

So, Dubya ordered Attorney General John Ashcroft, whose department includes the INS, to investigate and report back about what reforms are needed. Bush called the incident "a wake-up call for those who run the INS." The excuse was that the agency has antiquated information systems and clearly needs an upgrade. "They got the message and hopefully, they’ll reform as quickly as possible," Bush said.

No they won’t!

In truth, if there is anyone in Washington who does not know that the INS is useless for protecting the rights of the American people it is only because they are totally stupid. The INS has been incompetent for over a quarter of a century. About one third of the adult American population could go out any day and locate an illegal alien within an hour. But, the INS lets them stay here.

Government needs to free up a couple billion bucks and hire some agents who are serious about smuggling, illegal aliens and sending the illegal aliens who are here back to wherever they belong.

Dubya says they need a good computer system to keep track of the "visitors"? Simple! Six months from cutting the first government check, it could be a turnkey operation. There is no excuse in today’s computerized world. Absolutely none.

The most important function of government is the protection of the people! How the hell did we ever let them forget that?

They did forget, though. There were no campaign donations in immigration control for them so they did not pay any attention.

So much for "heightened scrutiny." Publicity programs like "Homeland Security" and the color-coded system to alert Americans of terrorism do nothing. Because, like they say in Detroit, "you got to do job one!" And "job one," in this case, is to protect our borders.

"Job two," then, is an old football chant: "Push ’em back. Push ’em back, waaay baack!" In this case, that would be the illegal aliens. Government must obey its own laws and get the illegals out of our country.

Adding insult to injury last week, the House approved a bill President Bush wanted -- for whatever reason -- to allow people in the United States to continue breaking the law. The bill, approved 275-137, would give amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants.

Again, this is little more than politicians looking out for their own welfare at the expense of the law-abiding American people. They want the Mexican vote. Some Mexicans, on the other hand, want to rip off a few States for their own country.

Who is representing the American people in this matter? I don’t see them in Washington.

This is becoming a real problem. And, any government that intends to protect the rights of the American people is going to have to make some very tough choices very, very soon.

Rewarding foreigners for breaking our law doesn’t get it. Because, maybe all us taxpaying citizens paying government’s bills might want to break a couple laws, too.

That’s it in a nutshell, actually: The underlying point is simple. If foreigners and politicians get a free pass to break the law, those of us who pay government’s bills damn well should, too. When the central government is so negligent it forgets "job one," why should any of us care what their laws are? They don’t.