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on Friday, May 18, 2007 4:28:52 PM
Apparently many Senators, and President Bush, either have never heard the above expression, don't get it, or are ignoring the wisdom of it and hoping we all forgot about it.
Only abortion rivals the emotionalism involved in illegal immigration. From the "Everything I'd Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" department we learned that our political so-called leaders didn't learn one of life's earliest lessons: NO CUTTING IN LINE!, which, in essence, is the crux of the immigration issue.
The idea that people who broke the law to get here will get all the rights and benefits of those who waited in line is just fundamentally wrong. It is about basic fairness, which us dumb old Heartlanders still think means something. The idea that any rhetorical rationale could possibly justify this travesty only shows how stupid those leaders think we are.
In the end, if this passes it will be for two very obvious, and very politically self serving reasons:
1) cheap votes for Democrats
2) cheap labor for Republicans.
On point one it boggles the mind to think that Republicans can't grasp how this could well be a dagger to the heart of the party, one that could prove fatal. It uses one side of the blade to sever the base, and the other to carve out a fresh new contstituency that will vote Democrat, if past history holds, by a ratio of 3 to 1.
Seems to me that if someone had the charge of destroying the Republican Party their scheme for doing so would look a lot like this.
As for point 2 above, cheap labor, this shows the worst side of captalism, where the short term profits completely obscures long term vision, and basic ethics were never even considered. This is not to mention the new breath of life into a dying union.
All curious beyond my comprehension but, if there is any fairness at all, it does have a silver lining, as the beginning of the end of the McCain Presidential bid. it is only fitting his career will die along with the party he killed.