Don't underestimate Bush and the Democrats. The administration has pulled out all the stops, labeling the conservative base as bigots, or worse, if you listen to Chertoff's vitriol.
The Dems see it as the perfect storm; do nothing, say nothing, and let Bush, the Rinos and those he can browbeat into submission destroy the Republican party. The Dems will gladly turn America into a balkanized welfare state in return for the prospect of remaining in power for decades, and Bush obviously cares not a whit about the damage.
Yes, Lindsay Graham called us "bigots" while speaking to a meeting of La Raza ("The Race") in March.
It doesn't take much to see the irony or monumental stupidity of his comment.
Absolutely correct and they (Dems) are right. The Dems are going to put GOP finger prints all over this and then enjoy watching the blood bath in 08. Can't blame them, they are just giving the GOP all the rope it needs to hang itself.
They do this because it has worked in the past to derail any real 'reform'. It's happened before, and it's the same players. Norquist is the man in charge of immigration policy for the White House.
1996...... “ Grover Norquist, a social conservative and anti-tax Republican lobbyist, reveled unapologetically in the tactics he used to undermine the verification initiative and to mock Simpson personally. The peel-off bar-code tattoos were supposed to remind people of the way Nazis tattooed Jews during World War II.
“It was great,” recalled Norquist, who is close to House Speaker Newt Gingrich. “We had our guys walking around with tattoos on their arms. It drove Simpson nuts because the implication was he’s a Nazi.”
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