Just as I warned you here and on Tammy Radio, as the senate returns today from its week off, they would be desperate to cast your resistance to the amnesty bill as weakening. That’s what they want to be the case, whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter. At the very least they want you to think you’re the odd one out, as everyone else is somehow, for some reason, suddenly coming around. We know that’s a lot of Bravo Sierra, but how else can they justify to themselves and everyone else doing something that over 75 percent of American do not want? Unless, of course, they pretend Americans suddenly changed their mind.
Interestingly, despite the headline of this WaPo article, read the whole thing and you’ll find that not everything is suddenly rosy with the amnesty bill. The WaPo also resorts to what the NYT did last week–they cite a silly, one issue poll about one tiny element of the bill that gave them support numbers of just over 50 percent. The EM is loathe to report the extraordinary massive rejection of this garbage by Repubs and Dems alike.
Backers of Immigration Bill More Optimistic
After a week at home with their constituents, the Senate architects of a delicate immigration compromise are increasingly convinced that they will hold together this week to pass an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, with momentum building behind one unifying theme: Today’s immigration system is too broken to go unaddressed.
Congress’s week-long Memorial Day recess was expected to leave the bill in tatters. But with a week of action set to begin today, the legislation’s champions say they believe that the voices of opposition, especially from conservatives, represent a small segment of public opinion. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who led negotiations on the bill for his party, said the flood of angry calls and protests that greeted the deal two weeks ago has since receded every day.
“You just have to recognize you will get 300 calls, you’ll get conflicts at town hall meetings — all of them negative,” said Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who consulted with Kyl and hopes to carry a similar deal through the House in July. “The last few days have really turned things around.”
The one message about this is that monkeys like Kyl are absolutely in a panic to make you think that everyone is now on board other than you, and that you must now get with the program. “The last few days have really turned things around.” And exactly what would have prompted that? The president calling us unpatriotic? Linda Chavez writing that critics of amnesty are Nazi racists? The WSJ editorial board calling us irrational Nazi racists? Is that what supposedly made us all realize how wrong we were? Or is it the 40 percent fall off of small donor contributions to the RNC that somehow they’re reading as a show of support? I’m confused.
Read the whole article. It will remind you why your voice is as important this week as it was last, if not even more so. The Senate Monkeys are desperate to believe that Americans actually don’t care about this, have grown bored in the span of seven days and have moved on to something else. Let us show them the folly of underestimating us.
The Dems say we should leave Iraq because the majority of Americans no longer want us there, yet they have no problem trying to pass an amnesty bill that 75% of Americans don’t want. I wish someone would ask them to explain the difference — but then again, maybe not. The spin would probably touch off a number of tornados across the country, which would then be blamed on “global warming.”
I am so incredibly angry about this immigration bill. Republican elites just thumb their noise at those that have supported and voted for them. Out with the old in with the new. If that bill passes I am going to look for a new party. Republican will be a dirty word.
The Washington Post yesterday published an article, really a plea, that you must read, seriously. It is entitled, “Why Won’t We Let Them Fill The Ranks”. In it you see, we need college educated illegals to babysit our kids and deliver our pizza (the high schooler’s parents) and now we need their children (the high schooler in the article) to serve in the military so our children won’t have to. This middle class in the DC area, where I live, is willing to compromise our country so they can be left alone to live their quiet, little respectable lives. The article criticizes a mercenary hired military and says the illegal teen “feels like an American”. I had to read the whole article to find the missing punch line. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/01/AR2007060101854.html?sub=AR
Oh, Tammy, I wish you had not posted that link to the video of the WSJ editorial board. Are you sure abusive remarks need be deleted? I have several.
Now I normally am not a person to count the number of different minorities in any group but I thought it quite telling that there was a lack of anything but white men, whom I must assume are also fairly well off, with the exception of “token”(my apologies to Jason Riley) who gets one quip and one shot in 7 minutes but not a seat at the table and the silent woman who’s face is not shown up-close and who none of the “gentlemen” offered a chair.
From their remarks, their actual, personal interaction with “immigrants” appears to be very minimal. They seem unaware of the vast, dare I say, “barrios” within our cities? They even laugh at the mention of it as if it were a fantasy of the “right wing”. I live in Oklahoma City and there are plenty of places here where people do not speak any English! Oklahoma City!! Not L.A. or Chicago or Miami.
They misrepresent every position of their opponents and distort reality. Why is it irrational to expect laws to be enforced? Why is it irrational to object to open borders and the societal costs of the mass immigration of non-English speaking, largely uneducated people? Because these people can’t pay minimum wage to have their houses cleaned and their lawns mowed? Why on earth, is it such a burden on employers to find out if Julio, or Juan, or Hernandez, who does not speak a word of English and will work for less than minimum wage is a legal immigrant? How could Paul Gigot claim with a semi-strait (he is almost always smirking) face that there had always been anti-assimilation movements with mass immigration? Huh? All this time they continuously confuse legal with illegal immigration. Doesn’t the WSJ understand the meaning of the word “illegal”?
Mostly, how can they sit and pretend that we did not go through this before, in 1986? We were told back then that “doing anything is better than nothing” and “we MUST couple amnesty with border control”. History shows how we got the amnesty and no border control. How can these guys act as if THIS time, we will really, really, really control the border? While claiming we don’t really need to bother, anyway.
Talk about disconnected from reality.
WOW! Go Marshall! (And GO TAMMY this morning on Fox!!)
Senator Kyl is banking on the hopelessness that he and our reps have created themselves. The govt’s interest in honoring their Constitutional commitment to heed our will has, of course, been waning for decades. But this is the time to very forcefully remind Senator Kyl that HE is the lackey here!! When WE say no -*right or wrong* – then you say no.
I am wary of triggering the “Chicken Little†effect by hammering how terribly real is the threat. But the war analogy we’ve been using is not inappropriate in which a foreign power is poised at the border. The minute they cross that line we are no longer sovereign and are forever changed. The sick thing is that our SERVANTS are meeting them with nifty gift bags and a big eraser for that pesky bold coloring-book line on the ground in front of them. So this time, our screaming does not equal hysterical, hand-wringing, fear-mongering, wolf-crying rhetoric. The wail, “we have met the enemy and it is us,†is true.
Never have I been this concerned, nor purely dumbfounded, not even after 9-11. 9-11 foreshadowed violence on our soil, tragic losses, and a potential meltdown of our economic system which would have weakened us – but we still would have been a sovereign America with the balls and the power to defend ourselves. This is a twist of the same scenario, only this time we will have emasculated our ability to do a damn thing about it, because broad amnesty will have redefined us entirely. It will dilute a People that knows what America is/has been, with persons who neither know nor care – and who have no interest in defending America’s identity, strength or position in the world.
Maybe I am deluded and sound like an idiot. I do apologize that my specialty is not political science. But we are not Chicken Little’s, folks. We are the kids who are looking at the Emperor’s ass. I just wanted to join Tammy in encouraging us all to hang in there this week. It isn’t over. We are still great. J
Tammy
Thanks for bucking up a demoralized conservative from Kentucky. I called and faxed Sen. McConnell and got four others to call. His number has been busy all day so I hope he is hearing loud and clear from his constituents.
While its true that the Senators may forget who puts them into office, we can remind them at the ballot box. I can and will contribute to opponents, work in campaigns and talk to family, friends and neighbors to oppose any Kentucky Senator or Congressman who votes for this travesty.
Border security is national security. I do not understand why we cannot enforce our current laws. Any other issues can be dealt with though the regular legislative process rather than having some secretive “Grand Compromise” forced upon the country.
Keep up the good work.
Tammy,
Earlier today, I sent a copy of your views above to one of my Senators in Washington, Sherrod Brown. Senator Brown is a liberal Democrat who was voted in by the citizens of Ohio last November. I would like to share the response I received:
Thank you for contacting me about my views on the current immigration proposals being considered by Congress.
I have supported legislation to curb illegal immigration by increasing criminal penalties for immigrant smuggling and document fraud, eliminating the use of government documents that are easily forged, and doubling the number of border patrol guards. Better enforcement and tougher penalties for both undocumented immigrants and their lawbreaking employers are the way to fight unauthorized employment, and employment opportunities are what drive illegal immigration.
Unless we fix the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and enforce our own labor laws, we will continue to debate how high the fence should be and how many agents should guard our border – with no real solution in sight. In 1994, the U.S. signed NAFTA, which promised, among other things, to help create a thriving middle class in Mexico. At that time there were 3 million undocumented workers in the U.S.; today there are more than 11 million. In Mexico, 9 million more live in poverty than when NAFTA was enacted. NAFTA has failed the U.S. and Mexico. By creating an atmosphere where Mexican citizens feel they have no chance of a successful life in Mexico, these ill-conceived trade agreements increase the number of illegal immigrants coming into our country.
In addition to addressing the forces that are compelling illegal immigration, we must take action to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows. While I do not support amnesty and have serious concerns about guest worker programs, I do believe our nation should consider establishing a process by which illegal immigrants can eventually earn citizenship.
The solution to our immigration problem will not be a simple one, as many things in our country need to be fixed to stop illegal immigration. It is time to take a common sense approach to immigration reform. Thank you again for contacting me.
Sincerely,
Sherrod Brown
I never thought I would be writing this, but he makes a lot of sense. Perhaps there is still hope for the Democrats after all.
Hmm, why am I not surprised?
Especially since they don’t take calls from those who oppose the POS bill, yet “pro-illegal” factions get through on the George Soros toll-free, get directly connected to your representative (head of the line) line!
Called the local office; asked where to get a copy of the bill? Answer: Don’t know! Asked if my Senator’s where holding townhall meetings? Answer: Nope! Asked can I set an appointment to see my Senators?: Answer: Nope!
No wonder they can lyingly state that calls in opposition to their POS bill have subsided!
They’re not getting the message because they stopped up their ears, shut off their phones and fax machines and their incompetent staffers have obviously been instructed to bottle-neck and or derail our information pipeline…
Folks go to http://www.numbersusa.com – get involved NOW!
Thank God for Tammy Bruce whose efforts to keep us informed so as to defeat this crap being forced fed down our throats!