Bush's Immigration Plan Draws GOP Fire

POSTED BY: FutureMrsFIllion
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:49
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FUTUREMRSFILLION

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:18 PM

"Thinly veiled attempts to promote amnesty cannot be tolerated,' said Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. "While America is a nation of immigrants, we are also a nation of laws, and rewarding those who break our laws not only dishonors the hard work of those who came here legally but does nothing to fix our current situation."

OH NOW it is a nation of laws!

DALLASFIREFLY

Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:24 AM

Here is a post from DailyKos that has a sampling of reaction from right wing blogs, it makes for a pretty read:

Right-Wing tossing Bush under the Bus on Immigration
by Vyan
Tue May 16, 2006 at 10:54:29 AM PDT
Although the general response from the left on Bush's Immigration Speech last night has been tepid at best, apparently it has sparked a firestorm on the right.

As noted today by Glenn Greenwald

John "The Rocket" Hinderaker: "He had his chance and he blew it . . . President Bush is being destroyed by vicious people who hate him. So far, he hasn't seemed to notice. Apparently, he doesn't think he needs any allies. He certainly didn't win any with tonight's speech . . . . President Bush doesn't have many chances left to salvage his second term. After tonight, he might not have any."

Paul "Deacon" Mirengoff: "President Bush did wimp out, and fatally so I think, on his fourth point, i.e., what to do about illegals who are already here. . . . This means that Bush's proposal taken as a whole is probably self-defeating."

But wait, it gets worse -- there was even some talk on the right, just prior to the speech, about having the President Impeached for his lack of action on Immigration!?!

Details over flip...

Vyan's diary :: ::
Crossposted on Truth 2 Power

Other examples...

Ankle Biting Pundits: "Whether he likes it or not, the president did not carve out a 'centrist' position at all. He articulated one of the two conflicting positions in this debate. And by pretending to be a 'middle grounder' I believe he cheapened his argument."

Misha at Anti-Idotarian Rottweiler: "long on blather and emotion and amazingly short on actual solutions. . . . Take your 'virtual' fence and your hi-tech vaporware coupled with your amnesty plan and shove them up your ass, Jorge."

Wow, strong stuff that, eh?

First let's knock down the easy tenpins by pointing out that the likelyhood of the National Guard being able to close the Mexico-U.S. border is about as likely as their being able to close the Iraq/Syrian border or the Afghanistan/Pakistan Border. NOT. GONNA. HAPPEN.

As Howard Dean pointed out on the Daily Show, "Guest Workers are Indentured Servants", period. That is besides the fact that we already have Foreign Worker Visa program in effect. The reason many companies higher illegals, and don't care if their documentation is forged is because they don't want to pay worker compensation, unemployment insurance, Healthcare or have anyone complain about the dumping of toxic waste products into the storm drains after-work. (Keep your mouth shut or I call "Le Migra") The likelyhood of Bush devising a program that allows these companies to ignore OSHA and the IRS is pretty damn slim.

Bi-metric Id Card? Doesn't that sound a lot like Real ID (PDF)?

But none of that is what honks off the right. No, they want a freaking wall and they want all of these damn furrenurs out - and they want it now.

LeShawn Barber made the case.

I believe George Bush's failure to enforce immigration law and stop the foreign invasion, which he has the power and authority to do, warrants impeachment. Because of Bush, illegal invaders are emboldened, demanding that which they have no legal right to obtain.

While the invasion has caused incalculable physical and economic harm to legal citizens, the president proposes to offer amnesty and allow the harm to continue. To the detriment of those he swore to protect, Bush chooses instead to protect those he has no duty to protect. His actions are in violation of the Constitution.

Besides not understanding that there is no requirement in the Constitution that "only U.S. Citizens" are protected by it -- Barber also fails to realize that the strict language of the 14th Amendment requires the state to provide "all persons within the jurisidiction of the state... the equal protection of the laws". It doesn't stipulate how they came within U.S. juridicition largely because the Amendment was intended to provide equal rights and protections to former slav

RUE

Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:54 AM

The idiot really thinks he runs the country.

Edited to add: some day the good fairy will come along and make him a real boy. Until then he exists at the whim of the truly powerful.

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:37 PM

Now I need ANOTHER t shirt

IMPEACH NOW

CAUSAL

Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:49 PM

Honestly, I just want him out of office because he's such a divisive figure. I'm tired of all this vitriol.

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