Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:58:30 PM
From an article on the defeat of the Senate Immigration Bill. I have this much of it here because it
was good. Read it all here.
The Senate's 53-46 defeat of the
immigration bill Thursday was more than a victory for rule of law over
alien amnesty. It was a triumph of citizens' will over politicians'
disdain. Real reform must follow.
Over two decades, border and labor laws
have been so neglected that some 20 million illegal immigrants have
entered the country with impunity. No lawmaker blames himself for this
state of affairs. He just insists it's a question of more money.
Entrenched politicians not only tried
to shove this bill down voters' throats. They repeatedly implied that
voters weren't smart or reasonable enough to understand why they were
doing it. They blamed talk radio, as if their constituents were sheep.
They also made the bill long and secretive.
All that did was fuel voter anger. In turn, lawmakers declared war
on their constituents, calling any who questioned the bill "yahoos,"
"bigots" and "simpletons." President Bush, who had a key role in
crafting this bill, fell into some of this, warning against letting
details "frighten people."
The bill's co-sponsor, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, took a lower
road, calling the bill's opponents Nazis. What opponents really sought,
he bellowed on the Senate floor Thursday, were "gestapos" to remove
illegals, contemptuously confusing anyone seeking rule of law with a
proponent of a lawless police state.
Majority Leader Harry Reid called talk-show critics of the bill
"generators of simplicity" and vowed they'd eat their peas sometime.
"We will come back," he said. "It's only a question of when."