Posted on 05/29/2006 10:52:30 AM PDT by cornelis
As President Bush's poll numbers drop dramatically even among his base, the question most frequently asked by angry Republicans is: Why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly rejecting the advice of his supporters even though that advice is consistent with the thunderous message from public opinion surveys?The reliable Rasmussen survey, for example, reports that by a 63 percent to 19 percent margin, voters want legislation that controls the borders before trying to change the status of illegal immigrants.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger encapsuled the typical reaction to Bush's May 15 televised speech: "I have not heard the president say that our objective is to secure the borders no matter what it takes. That's what I want to hear."
Bush's dogmatic statement that we can't stop aliens from illegally entering our country unless legislation is packaged "together" with a guest-worker program is a non sequitur, nonsense, and untrue.
So what gives?
Here are some of the speculations grass-roots Republicans are making in regard to Bush's behavior:
(a) Bush prides himself on being a man of his word and he gave his word to Mexican President Vicente Fox that he would never stop the migration of Mexicans into the United States;
(b) Bush made a Faustian bargain with the big-money guys who raised more political money in 2000 than all other Republicans combined in order to nominate and elect him president;
(c) Bush is a globalist at heart and wants to carry out his father's oft-repeated ambition of a "new world order";
(d) Bush meant what he said, at Waco, Texas, in March 2005, when he announced his plan to convert the United States into a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" by erasing our borders with Canada and Mexico.
Bush's guest-worker proposal would turn the United States into a boardinghouse for the world's poor, enable employers to import an unlimited number of "willing workers" at foreign wage levels, and wipe out what's left of the U.S. middle class. Bush lives in a house well protected by a fence and security guards and he associates with rich people who live in gated communities. Yet, for five years, he has refused to protect the property and children of ordinary Arizona citizens from trespassers and criminals.
Much attention has been paid to Bush's proposal to legalize the estimated 10 million to 20 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States. Despite his denial of the "A" word, friends and foes alike recognize this as amnesty.
However, amnesty for 10 to 20 million is almost a drop in the bucket compared to the mammoth legalization of immigrants hiding under the deceitful words "temporary" and "guest worker." Those words are lies because the workers are not temporary and not guests.
We are indebted to the Heritage Foundation for its stunning report proving that the so-called 614-page "compromise" bill being debated in the Senate (under the Martinez-Hagel names) is a stealth open-borders bill that would import permanently and put on the path to U.S. citizenship at least 66 million people, with the actual number rising to at least twice that amount when they bring in relatives. Every category of legal immigration will be quadrupled or quintupled, and the racket called "family-chain migration" will be dramatically expanded.
The so-called temporary workers in their fourth year will get the right to remain in the United States permanently if they have learned English OR are enrolled in an English class, and after five years will get the right to become a U.S. citizen who can vote in U.S. elections. At the same time, the guest worker's spouse and children, without any numeric limits, will get legal permanent residence and citizenship.
After the so-called temporaries and their spouses become citizens, they acquire the right to bring in their parents as permanent residents on the path to citizenship. Siblings and adult children and their families will be given preference in future admissions.
In the words of the author of the Heritage report, Robert Rector, this is "the most monumental bill ever considered" and its mind-boggling costs would be the largest ever expansion of taxpayer-paid social benefits. Adding these millions to Medicaid, and adding their parents to Supplemental Security Income benefits, will become staggering entitlement costs.
The Senate bill would make 25 percent of the U.S. population foreign born within 20 years (most of them high school dropouts), and the United States as we know it would cease to exist.
It is impossible in so short a time to assimilate 100 million people whose native culture does not respect the Rule of Law, self-government, private property, or the sanctity of contracts, and where they are accustomed to an economy based on bribery and controlled by a small, rich ruling class that keeps most of the people in dire poverty.
Phyllis Schlafly is the President and Founder of the Eagle Forum.
Copyright © 2006 Copley News Service
RADICAL. A transformation of the United States unprecedented in all of their history.
So what's "conservative" about either the bill or the people who voted for it?
"So what's "conservative" about either the bill or the people who voted for it?"
Nothing. Nothing at all.
Top Ten Conspiracy Reasons Why Bush supports Amnesty:
1) He's was replaced with a stunt double by Vicente Fox two years ago.
2) He and Vicente Fox are in love.
3) He froze out Cheney from policy making 2 years ago.
4) The Bush family is planning to run Jeb on the Democrat ticket, and thus want the Republican party split.
5) He feels guilty over his illegal maid/nanny from long ago.
6) He is being blackmailed over photos taken by the drug cartel or Mexican college roommates.
7) His choice and pronunciation of words proves he is an illegal immigrant himself.
8) He's controlled by the Catholic church and the labor unions who want to increase their memberships.
9) He wants to make whites the new minority so they can claim federal benefits.
10) He's tired of the job and thus mad at the political base that elected him.
The above is all in jest, but perhaps the real reason is: he made promises to business lobbyists that funded his elections. These are made up of two groups: North America Free Trade types and We-Want-Low-Domestic-Wages-To-Compete businesses.
Ms. Schafly is a Catholic. She should ask the hierarchy of her church why they are strenuously lobbying for this legislation, which - as she notes - would destroy America as we know it (and make it resemble one of the corrupt impoverished Catholic countries from which the new immigrants will be coming)
Phyllis asks:Why, oh why, is Bush so stubbornly rejecting the advice of his supporters even though that advice is consistent with the thunderous message from public opinion surveys?Interesting, as Phyllis herself answered this question almost a year ago when she wrote this.
The "bottom line" to all of this is found right here.
Nasty, nasty stuff that will put an end to our country as we know and love it.
Bush's open-borders policy gives the lie to his phony "war on terror." If he were serious about protecting the US from terror, he wouldn't have the national guard halfway around the world, bogged down in a country that had no military power, no WMDs, and posed no threat to America; he would have them on the borders of the United States to keep terrorists out.
If Bill Clinton were president and pushing this transform-America, impoverish-America immigration bill, freepers by the hundreds would be on this thread, howling in protest. But because the bill is pushed by someone with an R after his name, many freepers want to ignore it. Never mind that Kennedy is the sponsor. The fact that Bush has signed on means it mustn't be criticized. This is the kind of slavish "followership" that is more reminiscent of people in tyrannical countries; it's not way for free men and women to act. I'm an independent conservative - so, unlike Bushbots, I won't call Bush a conservative when he behaves like a liberal.
BUshbots want this thread to quietly die. That's why they're staying away in droves.
c) Bush is a globalist at heart and wants to carry out his father's oft-repeated ambition of a "new world order";
Bingo
It is as good as an explanation as any why he now walks with Kennedy and McCain.
"That's why they're staying away in droves."
Nah, they're on holiday at their weekend place in the Virginia horse country, or the Outer Banks of NC. They'll be back, manning their stations come tomorrow morning.
So well put. This Bush is NOT the man I voted for, he is a liberal wacko in disguise and I can't stand it, I will NOT stand/unite with him on the subject of ILLEGAL immigration, where is his head, oh I can just imagine some of the answers, !!!, one of which is politely "where the sun don't shine". You are correct in your observation, if this was slick this forum would be rockin' with FReepers condemning this, I am not a Bushbot and never will be, when he is right I will be the first to stick up for him, however, when he is wrong, I will be the first (or one of the first) to point it out. I hope Bush finally comes to his senses and realizes what he is proposing for this country, he seems to be so out of touch, it's scary.
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