The ultimate in taxation without representation, the Bush-Senate amnesty plan is revolutionary in its provocation and in its consequences. Perhaps we should stop calling the plan’s patron President Bush, and instead start calling him King George.
A general pardon granted by a government, especially for political offenses.
an act of clemency by an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individuals <illegal-alien farm workers seeking amnesty —National Law Journal>
n 1: a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment 2: a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense [syn: pardon] 3: the formal act of liberating someone [syn: pardon, free pardon] v : grant a pardon to (a group of people)
Immigrants are Our Future
I didn’t watch the President’s May 15 national performance. I had a choice between napping with my son ("The children are our future") and napping through the Liar-in-Chief ("Immigrants are our future"). But the transcript of his current lies is all over the ‘Net.
When George Herbert Walker Bush was the Republican presidential nominee for the first time, in 1988, he told the Republican National Convention, “Read my lips: No new taxes.” It became his most effective campaign slogan, and one of the keys to his electoral victory.
But Bush the Elder ended up violating his campaign promise, and raising taxes. And so, on Election Day 1992, his base responded variously by staying at home or by voting for third-party candidate Ross Perot, which brought about the election of Bill Clinton.
Come on Down!
Bush the Younger fancies himself much smarter than his father. Thus, he did not announce, during either of his presidential campaigns, his plan to grant an amnesty to what now amounts to over 20 million illegal immigrants plus their parents plus their children plus their siblings plus anyone who will pay them to say they are blood relatives, much less his plan to bring in another 200 million legal immigrants over the next 20 years, or to mention the tidal wave of new illegal immigration (another 100 million?) this amnesty would bring about. He knew it would cost him the election, if he did. And so, he bided his time.
Well, George W. Bush still isn’t taking any chances, and so when he finally did announce his amnesty plan, he did the equivalent of saying, ‘Read my lips: No new amnesty.’ (“What I have just described is not amnesty.”) He figures that if he lies enough about his planned amnesty, people won’t figure it out until it’s too late. “Too late” means after the coming fall elections. And to sweeten the pot for his social and religious conservative base (or as Karl Rove would call it, "the suckers"), he will propose a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
This is all a word game. Bush is simply calling amnesty by other names: “temporary worker program,” “rational middle ground,” etc. He insists that he seeks amnesty, er, rational middle ground only for veteran criminals, but not for rookies.
That middle ground recognizes that there are differences between an illegal immigrant who crossed the border recently and someone who has worked here for many years, and has a home, a family, and an otherwise clean record.
And yet, as Bush well knows, under the Treason Plan he champions and the Senate just passed, 62-36, on Thursday, we will end up with amnestied, naturalized, “temporary workers;” amnestied, naturalized, recently arrived illegals; and amnestied, naturalized, long-term illegals. The Treason Plan is known variously as the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act” (CIRA) and as S. 2611.
That Burning Sensation
The man who for years portrayed himself as a straight talker, is peeing on our leg, and telling us that it’s raining.
I voted for George W. Bush in 2000, and again in 2004. As the saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
But I am not going to keep going down the same road. I have learned certain lessons, one of which is that, as with assertions made by the New York Times, I no longer accept as true anything the President says, unless and until I have found triple independent corroboration for it.
In a sophistic sense, I suppose President Bush can tell himself that his proposal isn’t really an “amnesty” for “illegal immigration,” because, along with immigration law and America’s borders, he is eliminating the very concept of American citizenship. No legal citizens, no illegal immigrants.
The President says he is sending 6,000 National Guardsmen to the Mexican border, but he is sending them unarmed, forbidding them from guarding the border or interdicting foreign invaders, and in fact, not stationing them on the border at all, but rather in offices, where they will do “paper work.” (Yeah, probably reading the daily newspaper.)
But that’s just a stopgap. Mr. Bush’s plan is, by the end of 2008, for the 6,000 do-nothing National Guardsmen to be replaced by 6,000 new, do-nothing Border Patrol agents. That’s over $400 million of nothing per year, courtesy of the American taxpayer.
If El Presidente gets to force his plan on what is still known as the American people, there will be no more American citizenship and no more America.
If Citizens Didn’t Exist, We’d Have to Invent Them
And yet, there will still have to be something. The ruling elites will need something to distinguish themselves from the rest of those whose pockets they’re busy picking. And so, there will still be illegal immigration in-between serial amnesties that will occur every few years, because the elites will demand ever cheaper baby sitters, gardeners, cooks, cleaning ladies, dog walkers, car washers, etc. The elites’ll show how morally superior they are to us paupers who can’t afford illegal servants, by periodically demanding amnesty for their servants. This will also endear them to the servants. Then, as soon as the newest mass amnesty goes through, they’ll fire their newly legalized servants, and replace them for even less with new illegals. (‘I’m sorry, Maria, but I just can’t afford you anymore.’)
In order to distinguish themselves from commoners (the people living in the shadows aka the people formerly known as Americans), members of the ruling elite will in all interactions with strangers make sure to mention their “immigrant” employees. Thus, if a member of the elite smacks a commoner who got in her way on the street in front of the Free Range Chicken Mart, when the police come she’ll mention that she must call her immigrant employees to tell them she’s being held up, so the cops will know to arrest her victim, instead of her. (That’s assuming the cops even speak English.)
The commoners will also be identifiable by virtue of their being increasingly dressed in rags, but not the chi-chi kind that costs thousands of dollars.
Soy Un Yahoo
Neocon godfatherette William Kristol has his own word for commoners: “Yahoos.”
Echoing the Liar-in-Chief, and apparently cognizant that consistency is one of the three laws of lying, Kristol denies that the Bush amnesty plan is, in fact, an amnesty plan. Unfortunately, however, like President Bush, Bill Kristol seems unaware of the first law of lying: Plausibility.
At this rate, George W. Bush’s greatest political achievement will obtain in having rescued Bill Clinton from historical infamy. The Clintons’ reign of crime looks better with each passing day.
Taps?
On Memorial Day, in honoring our war dead from the Revolutionary War unto today’s War on Terror, we say “Lest we forget.” At Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln exhorted, “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”
In the new dispensation according to George W. Bush, however, those men did die in vain. For all of the father and the son’s New World Order philosophical commonalities, the father is a patriot, who during World War II was the Army Air Corps’ youngest bomber pilot. I just can’t see the Old Man simply giving away our patrimony. Bumbling and stumbling and dropping it, perhaps, but not consciously, deliberately, surrendering it.
And yet, if the House goes along with the Senate, and the People permit it, this Memorial Day will prove to have been a time to grieve for America itself.
The new Bush plan is the ultimate in taxation without representation. It is revolutionary in its provocation and in its consequences. Perhaps we should stop calling the plan’s patron President Bush, and instead start calling him King George.
(Reader Michael R. Mallinson has pointed out that many illegals “don't pay taxes and thus are in the enviable position of enjoying representation without taxation.”)
Let’s consider Abe Lincoln’s words once more:
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
We the People survived a civil war, but can we survive George W. Bush?
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Well said! I voted for Bush during the first election, but I voted Constitution party during the second election; I knew Bush would betray us over immigration, but I was surprised over how many traitors are in the Senate. I say we withdraw support for anyone who supports the Senate bill. If that means the Democrats win in November, so be it. At least we can recognize Democrats as the enemy. Republicans have turned out to bee wolves in sheep's clothing.
Comment by Rob Lopez | May 30, 2006
There is no doubt that Mr.Bush has soured my hopes and dreams of America. An America that didn't rape and pillage its own taxpayers, an America that valued life, an America that believed in and protected its sovereignty . I truly believed that under GOP control of the Senate, House, and White House, those dreams could come true. Mr. Bush and the rest of his RINO Republic have destroyed those dreams. His second term in office may well go down as the worst on record. Jimmy Carter was just a coward, this guy is an idiot. Can you imagine what Reagan could have accomplished under today's political landscape?
When Mr. Bush looks at the American dream, he sees the plight of the Mexican people and wants to help. I do not blame him, but like all liberal policies they are short sighted and doomed to bankrupt the moral and financial fiber of people. Mr. Bush needs to clean up his own backyard before he starts with our southern neighbor.
Comment by honker | May 30, 2006
I still believe I voted for the best candidates (i.e. conservatives) in the past few national, state and local elections. Apparently, something happens when you get in office. You apparently forget about the citizenry that put you there. You apparently understand there is a limitless pool of money available for handouts that'll make you look good. You apparently get self-important enough to believe you are a "statesman" and earnestly hatch new ways to enlarge the posse — more RINOs, more voters, more … Mr. Bush apparently needed a final chapter to his memoirs. I think it should be entitled "Rearranging The Deck Chairs".
Comment by Ed Modzelesky | May 31, 2006
This illegal immigration plan has more to do with the Council on Foreign Relations
and the Organization of American States. Both of which work together to form what they refer to as the American Union. This "Union" eliminates borders between Canada and Mexico. It is the Globalist Elites gone mad. They are eliminating USA sovereignty. I urge everyone to go to the CFR website and read the files there. King George and his cronies care nothing about the USA and her Constitution, and her people are but serfs. The two parties are in bed with each other and nothing seperates them except how quickly they can destroy this nation.
Comment by Sweetjustusnow | June 1, 2006
I, too, voted twice for Bush. Even with his dereliction of duty in protecting the border and his ridiculous amnesty plan, when I consider the alternatives, Gore and, next, Kerry, I would not act differentlyu. What we need to do keep telling the President that our borders must be sealed immediately and illegal immigrants must face consistent, ongoing application of our immigration laws. No need to round up and conduct wholesale deportations. Just apply the law when the illegals show up at schools, hospitals, welfare offices, DMV, etc. Process and deport. Soon the other illegals will get the point and begin deporting themselves.
Comment by Bill White | June 1, 2006
Two time Bush voter here also. I was a loyal Republican. I sat quietly on the sideline watching this administration muck things up for six years. Irresponsible spending, letting Iran getting a foothold in Iraq, the Harriet Meirs nomination? Outsourcing jobs, manufacturing sector vanishing by the day. Listened to the bs about how things are so good here. Trade deficit! Now he wants to open the floodgates. If this passes the House as it is now, we won't recognize this country ten yrs. from now. Think this country is fractured now? I am still stunned and shocked that out government is so Anti-American. I have no representation. I will not vote for an incumbent ever. Get them out of office before they become this arrogant.
Comment by James Thompson | June 3, 2006
I too voted for GW twice and had high hopes. Do not give up friends…not yet. In 1974 Richard Nixon resigned. A reporter was doing a "man on the street" interview and spoke with someone from Europe that really put the whole thing in perspective. This man said "You have just forced the most powerful man in the world from office and there was not a shot fired. Anywhere else in the world there would have been tanks in the streets…and you people act like it happens every day. YOUR SYSTEM WORKS!!"
The House is holding. The voice of the people was heard and made a difference on Dubai and Harriett Mierdp it up. We do have a more conservative supreme court that will last for many years and is already chaning things. Call every congress man or woman you see mentioned in a news article that supports a rational immigration plan. Make them listen.
Comment by Michael | June 3, 2006
Who decides what "rational middle ground" is anyway? The Pres? Congress? How about who decides
what represents moral and acceptable behavior. The American populace. We are the real 'deciders' of
what is OK and in our undeniable opinion the middle ground is deport all illegals, seal the border
and after our government proves sovereignty then we'll talk about any kind of program.
Harsh? No, harsh would be two years in prison, a twenty thousand dollar fine and then deportation.
After hundreds of years of melting pot, any obligation to immigrants has been satisfied.
We don't owe anyone…anything. Americans are fed up, action now votes later…maybe.
Comment by Dear America | June 3, 2006
We stood behind President Bush. He now, has forgotten about America.
The New World Order is taking America, inch, by inch. Will it make a difference who's elected? Clinton is still in the picture. God forbid, if the other one gets
elected, it will come sooner.
Comment by Catherine Caseber | June 12, 2006
representation without taxation is what the illegal aliens are getting. a supermarket tabloid headline said the First Couple are contemplating divorce.evidently no one is sold on his amnesty program.
Comment by e.b.miller | June 13, 2006