Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Immigration
And in further news…
Alec Baldwin uncorks on Hannity. LOL. Just listen.
Scalia uncorks on the media. Is this guy actually a Supreme Court justice?
Veterans for “Truth” author Jerome Corsi is a plagiarist? No! Such a truthful and upstanding citizen would never steal!
The Memo. Please. NOW the media actually discovers there are, like, memos in Britain of Bush’s interactions with Blair where Bush, long before the war started, revealed he was determined to go to war. Ha! It’s called the Downing Street Memo, you retards, and it’s been public for a loooong time. Is this media payback for Bush’s “the media isn’t reporting the good news” bullshit?
Helen Thomas spends some time having fun with Scott McClellan, making poor Scotty run in circles, trying the say the memo isn’t accurate without actually denying the memo is accurate. Truly tortuous prose, that. Olbermann, Matthews, and others are piling on. Take that, Drinky!
Now, regarding the massive protests in L.A. recently, I seem to recall a certain Victor Davis Hansen citing similar protests in France as evidence of the rottenness of their socialist culture…hmmm…what do these protests say about us, Victor? Is this evidence of our rotten capitalist culture? Of course not, he’d say, it is just evidence that our borders have been open for too long. Indeed…and who has controlled our executive branch for six years, Victor? Who is in charge of safeguarding our borders?
Immigration has been a major issue for conservatives for years, but when your leadership only pauses from looting the treasury long enough to throw you an occasional bone, problems like this tend to build up. With Terri Schiavo GOP lawmakers could throw a bone to cultural conservatives with no downside, with a law with no national impact, written specifically for one person. But with immigration the corporate donors have a very different idea of what good immigration policy looks like.
Michael Savage was apoplectic yesterday about this issue. I laugh. This is what happens when your party is run by corporatists, you bloviating xenophobe.
Immigration is one of the issues that will split the corporatist head from the fundy body of the conservative establishment. If I were a democrat on the hill I would pound this issue until the cows came home. If I was calculating I would have no problem with outflanking Preznit Drinky on this issue and forcing him to veto the bill.
I doubt he would, but just making him speak out against a bill with restrictive rules on immigration and “guest workers” would send his JARs into Gehenna and keep GOP congresspeople up late at night with chills and cold sweats. They might actually even have to buck their corporate masters for once and write a bill that reflects the will of the majority of their country and their party.
If I was calculating I might rewrite that law a few years in the future, if democrats are in control of the congress, to loosen it a little, just to give something to immigrants once we’ve had a chance to regulate and monitor the immigrants coming to our shores. Give it a little test spin, I say.
So far, Dubya is obliging with his “Screw my base” policy of pushing for loose borders and guest worker programs, though he is a little short on specifics, his base gets the idea. Bwahahahaha!
At this point in his presidency I can’t tell if he is deliberately trying to get a job approval rating in the 20s or if he is so mindlessly devoted to his corporate masters that he has no idea of the trouble he’s in. Remember what the Dubai Ports Deal did to his JARs? How about lopping another five points off?
His father and Jimmy Carter saw JARs this bad, but they were the victims of bad economies that were largely out of their control. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were never this foolish. I remember being angry with Bush 41 because he seemed out of touch and he didn’t seem like he had a plan for the economy (if that even would have done anything). He is positively brilliant compared to his witless son.
No president since Richard Nixon has suffered like this when the economy was strong. JARs are a measure of popularity, not necessarily ability, but I won’t deny I take a malicious delight in watching the worst president in American history slowly roast under an unending flamethrower of vitriol from the press, the world, the left, and the right.
The sad part is that, due to the stupidity of fifty million voters, he is our president. Some of us saw this coming from a mile away, but some of us took six years to figure out that this man is not a good conservative, a good American, or a good man.
He is also not alone. John McCain recently teamed up with Ted Kennedy to write a nice, loose immigration bill. Ha! You likey that, conservatives? Your war hero hooked up with the Antichrist, Ted Kennedy, to write a bill that includes those guest worker provisions your president wanted!
Frist is going to be coming to the Senate with a tough immigration bill. I don’t think I’m being cynical by saying that “She does Respond” is posturing for 2008. He recently flip-flopped (oh, yeah, only John Kerry does that) changed his mind on stem cell research, like he had suddenly been presented with new evidence, last year. We’ll see what the bill looks like when the piranhas—I mean senators—are done adding amendments. She Does Respond is, after all, himself a master of completely altering bills with last-minute amendments pasted on in the dark of night by the light of the smoldering kindling of the congress’s procedural rules.
I must say I am disappointed in Harry Reid’s determination to thwart She Does Respond what seems like partisan political reasons. The reason he gives (Frist’s measure will bypass the Judiciary Committee) reeks of intellectual dishonesty. Hillary has picked out one provision in the bill (turning undocumented workers into felons and criminalizing aiding them) and is using that as justification to oppose the whole bill.
Give me a break, Nanny State (that’s my new nickname for Hillary). When are you going to tack the right on an issue that has some gray area in it? I think we both know this bill won’t lead to mass arrests of people who did nothing other than give water to dehydrated border crossers. How about demanding compromise instead?
Well conservatives, we all know you find many advocates for stronger border security in the Democratic Party. What amuses me is how your preznit wants to loosen up the borders with a guest worker policy. I’m sure none of those guest workers would ever consider jumping ship once they get inside the border.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 4:54 PM 
