Building A Compassionate Disaster

Or how to piss off you entire base and destroy the country at the same time for a few votes

Katherine Jean Lopez at The National Review reports on the looming catastrophe that is the congressional immigration putsch that will grant immediate amnesty to 12 million illegal alien lawbreakers and open the door wide for lots and lots more. This bill is a huge neon sign at our borders that screams "COME ON DOWN", and don't worry about all of that legal stuff we have written on the books about having to go through a process to become an American citizen. No siree, you just have to sneak across the border without getting caught and those nifty folks in that thar Washington D.C. place will make you feel right at home with all of the wonderful money transfers that all of our own domestic indigent population has come to expect as a matter of right.

This bill, if it is enacted, will be nothing short of a disaster for the republic. We cannot deal now with the numbers of illegal aliens who have come into the country. We don't know where most of them are and even when we do, our leviathan government seems unable and unwilling to do anything about it at all. Now the elites in Washington want to put in place a program which will act as a magnet to millions more. Those who cross over illegally will not only not pay a price for breaking our laws; they will be rewarded with all of the benefits of instant citizenship at no cost.

And all of those "triggers" in the bill? Does anyone really imagine for a moment that they will really be enforced? They certainly have not been in any of the similar bills in the past. The only result has been more and more illegal immigration. Michelle Malkin brings us the lowdown on that nasty piece of business:

There have been seven illegal alien amnesties passed into law since 1986:

The 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act blanket amnesty for an estimated 2.7 million illegal aliens

1994: The "Section 245(i)" temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens

1997: Extension of the Section 245(i) amnesty

1997: The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act for nearly one million illegal aliens from Central America

1998: The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti

2000: Extension of amnesty for some 400,000 illegal aliens who claimed eligibility under the 1986 act

2000: The Legal Immigration Family Equity Act, which included a restoration of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty for 900,000 illegal aliens]

Guess what? None — not one — of those amnesties was associated with a decline in illegal immigration. On the contrary, the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since President Reagan signed the first amnesty in 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recipients, and this number was multiplied by an unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic US citizenship.

What is the reason for this? The answer is simple. This administration, as well as the liberal Democrats, do not want the law to be enforced. They want massive immigration. Republicans want it because big business wants cheap labor and Democrats are just drooling over vast numbers of new, welfare dependent voters to keep them in office. The Republican leadership is selling us all down the river and destroying the last of the Reagan legacy that they have squandered. If this bill passes you can kiss the election of 08 goodbye. Conservatives in the party will stay home on voting day and that means victory for the socialist Democrats.

Hugh Hewitt keeps trying to blame this on Tom Tancredo, but he is dead wrong. The problem is that we no longer have a conservative party in the Republicans and our President is a liberal on virtually every issue other than Iraq. There is no putting lipstick on this pig. Republican is not the same thing as conservative. But Hewitt is right when he talks about the GOP's collective contempt for the voter base and in particular he accurately translates John McCain's wonderful me-ness statement of solidarity with himself:

Deal's done. I am the guy. I made it happen. My opinion mattered, not yours. What I do in the middle of a campaign for president has nothing to do with politics. My critics are all motivated by politics. Since I have already made up my mind, no debate is necessary, so shut up. Republicans especially shut up. This is how things get done in D.C.: You roll over for Democrats. And by the way, cutting half the fence and leaving the other half subject to the whims of the anti-border security bureaucracy equals protecting national security, just like the Gang of 14 was good for the confirmation process and McCain-Feingold good for the First Amendment. So, if you didn't hear me the first time: Shut up. Sit down. I'm your nominee.

The current Republican party is a dead horse no longer worth beating. Time to get rid of the old nag and replace it with a young colt that can actually cross the finish line.