Are these folks supporting ILLEGAL immigration??
Amazing!
Rush saying that both parties are into groupthink.
Does Senate Bill 60 have to do with driver's licenses for illegals?
Are you LISTENING Mr. President?
RUSH IS RIGHT!
From what I gather last Friday, Rush changed his tune from a year earlier when he called Bush's trial balloon "Principled".
My personal view is that I like the idea a guest worker program, but have some major reservations. One is that an open border policy in a time of war is madness. Two, I think this idea will drive down American wages.
Who the hell cares what these leftist hypocrites think?
However, I wonder whether Karl Rove, President Bush and 92% of the Republican Party are.
Go Rush!
btttttt
We're ALREADY enraged Rush.
Maybe Kreiger and Manzerak were right not to tour with him.
Complex problem - simple solution
1)Take away the benefits
2)Penalize employers
3)Build a wall (optional if we enforce 1&2)
GO RUSH GO!!! Keep it up ..keep explaining the inconsistencies in the prosecution of illegal immigration. YAY!!! .. get the masses fired up and bring attention to this blatantly political attempt to ignore THE LAW, and allow potential terrorists in with the bunch. Bring up the driver's license issue, PLEASE!
Bush probably will NOT do the right thing on immigration ever because most of the illegal immigration comes from Spanish-speaking countries. He prides himself on being a fluent Spanish speaker (the first American president to be such), some members of his family have married into the Hispanic community (where it is more likely to be a political negative for a politician to speak against illegal immigration), and he's trying to win the Hispanic vote for the Republican Party. All these factors let me have a pretty good idea as to why he chooses this insanity, and I don't see that he's ever going to change on this issue.
I have the answer to the question: How can you solve the border problem and keep Republicans united.
The short answer is: State that the goal the US government is turn all the world's deserts green.
The deserts will be turned green by doing the research to kill the cost of water desalination and water transport such that the cost of water in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ireland, Poland, or Japan is the same as the cost of water in Arizona, Nevada, Eastern Washington and Oregon, the northern deserts of Mexico, central Australia, southern Algeria or central Saudia Arabia.
Turn the deserts of Mexico green and you double & triple the true size of Mexico. Under such circumstances how wise do you think the Federales in Mexico City would think their policy of vacating their countryside.
The US policy to turn the World's deserts green -- in effect would change Mexican assumptions about the future of Mexico.
This has been done before. It was called Star Wars.
Ronald Reagan's Star Wars won the Cold War by changing the assumptions about the future on the part of the Bad Guys. Star Wars meant the Soviets could no longer rely on their missles getting through to the USA and they could not affort to build a defense shield of their own. So they quit.
Now twenty years later Star Wars is still in trials. Who knows. Maybe 20 years from now a system will be place. But you know, people still expect a defense shield to happen in the great by and by.
How about turning the deserts green? This will also change assumptions about the future on the part of Mexicans both in the USA and Mexico. The Mexicans will not want to send Mexicans north and the Mexicans north of the border will know that the repbulicans are working for the future of their homeland as well as the USA. Under such circumstances maintaining the US Mexican border is merely a technical matter.
Likely too, an announced US policy of turning the world's deserts green would have some reprecussions in the middle east. Oh and also it would increase the effective size of the USA by one third.
The cost of water desalination has dropped by a third in the last 10 years. Now the best water desalination technology brings in bulk fresh water for about 650@acre foot. (That compares with government subsidized fresh water from the Colorado River for Los Angeles at $450@acre foot. Fresh water in New York and Virginia costs between $25 & $45 @ acre foot.)
The costs of water desalination and transport can be brought down in about the same time frame as hydrogen is expected to be competitive with gasoline --or about 10-20 years--and cheap hydrogen will solve the problem of water transport as water can be used to fuel the pumps that push water inland for a thousand miles.
Interestingly water desalination research problems and solutions are much like those of hydrogen research. What scientists are currently doing in Hydrogen research is using computer mathematical modeling of molecules to discover the cheapest/fastest/best semipermiable membranes and catalsts to lower the cost of breaking out(enabled by the catalyst) and purifying (enabled by the semipermiable membrane) hydrogen from the H20 molecule. Once they have the computer model they like --they build the material. There are some truely awsome research tools around today that were not available even five years ago.
Water desalination also requires better/faster/cheaper catalysts and semipermiable membranes to pull the pull the NaCl (salt) out of solution with the H2) water.Consequently the cost of funding water desalination would be about the same as funding for hydrogen research--or about 1+ billion over five years.
Senator Frist & Domenici are going to be announcing a major water initiative (S 2658) on about the 10th of February. The iniative will mainly be aimed at consolidating the various water agencies around the government in the DoD, DoE and Interior for the purpose of water desalination research. Frist is from Tennessee home of the TVA so he knows something about the relationship between water policy and ruling parties.
Frist and Domenici could use an over arching policy idea.
How about turning all the world's deserts Green.
Rush is spot on, thank God!
This is not good news for pro-illegal (R)'s.