Senate Shocked by Opposition to Immigration Bill
by Jeff Davis
CNN news ran an article with the title “Anger over immigration plan surprises GOP senators.” The elitist snobs in the Senate must be seriously out of touch if they can’t figure out that granting citizenship to 20 million illegals isn’t going to outrage Americans. The CNN article reports “In his speech Tuesday on immigration reform, President Bush was trying to provide political cover for members of Congress to support the legislation. That could be tough. Republicans are getting an earful on immigration. ‘I have learned some new words from some of my constituents,’ Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona, said. The angry response comes as a shock. ‘The level of intensity and volume is, I think, surprising,’ CNN contributor and radio talk show host Bill Bennett said. ‘We’ve talked to a number of Republican senators, and they confessed to being surprised by the reaction.’”
Karl Rove sure seems to be losing his touch. The master of dirty tricks and manipulation has run into a brick wall on the immigration issue. The “immigration reform bill” (read amnesty for 20 million illegals) turned out to be a blazing hot potato which even the normally ponderous and impervious Senate has dropped for a few weeks after searing their fingers.
Yahoo News reports that democracy in action has triumphed: the Senate has postponed the bill for a month until June. The news article reports “Senate leaders agreed Monday that they would wait until June to take final action on a bipartisan plan to give millions of unlawful immigrants legal status. The measure, which also tightens border security and workplace enforcement measures,” (a fig leaf to cover the massive amnesty, window dressing which is not taken seriously by anyone) “unites a group of influential liberals, centrists and conservatives and has White House backing, but it has drawn criticism from across the political spectrum. In a nod to that opposition, Senate leaders won’t seek to complete it before a hoped-for Memorial Day deadline.”
Basically, Cheney and Rove and Ted Kennedy tried to slip this amnesty by while people were dreaming of Memorial Day trips and barbeques. Most likely this was a trial balloon to see if they could get away with it. Every two years, one-third of the Senate is up for reelection. Curiously the vote is running two-thirds for amnesty and about one-third against. You don’t suppose the third of the Senators voting against are facing voter retribution in 2008? Senators from both parties are up for re-election in 2008 and they’re more than a little nervous about betraying their constituents so blatantly and so openly so they’re putting up at least a public show of resistance. What’s going on behind closed doors in the smoke-filled rooms of the Capitol is another story. We all know that capitalism isn’t going to deport its own cheap labor and rich people aren’t going to risk losing their minimum-wage servants, nannies, pool boys and landscape gardeners for their lawns in Beverly Hills and the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard.
The Border needs to be fortified and mined and there must be massive deportations –if anything remotely resembling the America we know is to survive.