Arnold...The Appease-inator
I had to redo this post. Something odd happens from time to time when I paste from an article, it won't let me edit afterwards. Anyway, I'm all for compromise on some partisan issues, but illegal immigration isn't a partisan issue. At least, not with the public. Sometimes you have to take a stand and not compromise. No doubt there is a cadre of republicans that are happy to sell out the American people to business that wants a steady supply of cheap labor. Well, another amnesty won't solve that. And there are plenty of democrat politicians that are happy to sell out the people in the belief they will get more votes if illegals are made citizens.
WASHINGTON -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accused Washington leaders Monday of divisiveness and partisanship, chiding them to learn the lessons of California and start to cooperate.
"Politics is about compromise. It is about give-and-take. Doesn't anyone here in Washington remember that chapter from their civics book?" the Republican governor said in a speech to the National Press Club.
And he urged Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform including a guest worker program and path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country.
"It is time we reintroduced the concept of the mainstream back into American political life - and the place to start is with immigration," he said.
"Mainstream" my ass. The people don't want another amnesty. You lying weasels can't even use the word because you know how people feel about it.
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Arnold proposes a massive amnesty and calls it mainstream. Well it may be mainstream among the elites but it isn’t among majority of American voters. It’s also mainstream among the elites to lie about what they are doing and Arnold is doing just that. “A path to citizenship” is amnesty for illegal immigrants, rewarding them by choosing them among all the billions who would like to immigrate, because they are here in violation of the law. Arnold even backed away from the common useful caveat designed to obscure the truth that the amnestied that he used in his prepared text ” meet a certain criteria.” In a followup question he said don’t make amnesty too complicated because the Department of Homeland Security can’t even handle their current load; in other words, just hand out amnesty to anyone who asks. Massive fraud was part of the last amnesty and will be part of this one if it’s passed. The centrist and sensible thing to do is to say if the agency can’t handle it present duties, you don’t pile on 10 to 20 million amnesty applications. What Arnold proposes isn’t reform. Rather it’s more of the same mass immigration, legal or not agenda of the elites.
By the way this is coming from man who won’t accept State Senator Gil Cedillo’s latest iteration of his driver’s licenses for illegals bill. That bill now includes what Cedillo had formerly compared to tattooing Jews in Germany, the distinctions that Arnold had demanded as conditions to accepting the bill. So Arnold won’t give them differentiated licenses because he knows what the polls have shown on the issue (it helped him get elected in the recall) but he thinks they should be given the whole enchilada, to use the phrase Mexico’s former foreign minister gave to his amnesty demands. What a hypocrite and a liar.
Comment by jskdn— 2007/02/26 @ 10:44 PM — (Reply)