OUCH! Don't you guys just HATE IT when Pat Buchanan lobs one right on target?
"Guest worker" is a LIE. It's nothing more than a politically-correct code word for "amnesty". How many of those guest workers are _ever_ going to return home?
The Immigration Bomb is going to cost the Republicans seats in the 2006 elections (even if they don't lose control of the House and Senate), and it's going to cost them the presidency in 2008.
The Democrats are going to edge by "to the right" on the immigration and border enforcement issues enough so that they will steal it from conservatives as _the_ issue to run [and win] with in the '08 election. Yes, yes, yes, I know, I know, I know (does that convince you not to repeat it to me) that their position is a false one, and that they have no intention of doing anything but encouraging _more_ illegals to pour in. But politics is no longer about fulfilling your promises (hmmm, was it ever?) - it's about winning and KEEPING power. This has become as true for the young _Republicans_ as it ever was for the Democrats. With very few exceptions, they ALL stand to betray American citizens.
As Bill Clinton suckered gullible Americans in 1992 with his promise of "a middle class tax cut", so will Hillary again sucker them in 2008 with her promise of a "secure" America. You and I know she has absolutely NO intention of closing the borders or rounding up anyone (except the ultra-righties, haha). But that ain't the way it's going to play to the American People during the campaign.
As one who lives in a suburban Connecticut town that has been inundated by illegals, perhaps my view has become tainted. But I'm reaching the point where I realize, sadly, that we are fast approaching that point in American history where it is becoming all but impossible to do much of anything to reverse, or even slow, the onrushing tides of illegals.
We are like New Orleans facing the onrushing hurricane Katrina.
The immigration problem will never be confronted because the ONLY guaranteed, no-nonsense means to halt the onrushing hordes is seen as extreme and undoable - that is, a well-constructed security barrier (OK, let's be blunt, a WALL) between the U.S. and Mexican borders, and quite possibly along portions of the Canadian one, as well.
They will never be built. The media would scream "Berlin Wall" and any national politician who dared suggest the notion of a barrier will be forced to slink away in shame.
But having actually been on _both_ sides of the Berlin Wall when it still stood, I can attest to you that such barriers indeed work - they do exactly the job they were built for. That's why a wall between the U.S. and Mexico can never be built - because, quite simply, it would WORK.
There is an awful, awful truth that we of the right must face:
1. The Democrats do not want an immigration solution that "works".
2. The Republicans do not want an immigration solution that "works".
Where does that leave us?
- John
I'll tell you exactly where. We are in the pre-stage of a civil war right here on American soil. The entire southwest is a tenderbox just waiting for the right match. When it is lit, that fire will spread across the country and blood will run in the streets. Stock up on ammo and supplies now because dark days are ahead of us because no one in either party and I mean NO ONE has the courage to address this issue in a sane and sensible manner before things reach the point of no return.
I don't think that matters a bit to the globalist string-pullers. There's not much difference in the "two" parties anymore. They're both going left faster than I can say "socialist".