[Map Kernow]

That is true for 2004. But keep in mind that Bush will not back down and will give citizenship to the illegals one way or another.

I'm disheartenedly sure you're right. I'm also sure that Tancredo's statement that "anything coming out of Congress will be worse" is right.

For all their rhetoric about "working families" and so forth, operatives of both major political parties actually despise the American middle class. (Just look at all the statements from Bush partisans on this forum regarding the amnesty proposal: "I don't give a DAMN what 85% of the American people think," "Bush owes conservatives nothing," "fringe extremists," "racists," etc.) They fully approve the statement I recently read of a so-called "diversity consultant" that: "We have to get beyond white, middle-class America." The political class wants a less independent, more pliable work force and electorate, and they have decided that "white, middle-class America" should be replaced with a Third World population through evisceration of the immigration laws and elimination of immigration enforcement and border controls. And all the opposition they face from American citizens to these proposals only further convince them that they're doing "the right thing."

"The right thing," that is, for their smug, elitist, undemocratic, unaccountable selves.

[WayneM]

As I've said all along, it not just GWB that needs to be straightened out on this issue. It our entire group of elitist elected officials in Washington.

We've got an enormous job ahead of us.

[Dane]

For all their rhetoric about "working families" and so forth, operatives of both major political parties actually despise the American middle class. (Just look at all the statements from Bush partisans on this forum regarding the amnesty proposal: "I don't give a DAMN what 85% of the American people think," "Bush owes conservatives nothing," "fringe extremists," "racists," etc.) They fully approve the statement I recently read of a so-called "diversity consultant" that: "We have to get beyond white, middle-class America." The political class wants a less independent, more pliable work force and electorate, and they have decided that "white, middle-class America" should be replaced with a Third World population through evisceration of the immigration laws and elimination of immigration enforcement and border controls. And all the opposition they face from American citizens to these proposals only further convince them that they're doing "the right thing."

Whew, JMO, but the tin foil is running a bit thick.