The cynicism being shown by the Republicans in the Senate towards their constituents is absolutely mindboggling. Here is how the game works courtesy of John Hawkins:

Before we finished up, I asked my source what he thought the prospects of passage were. He stated that it was a toss up, but that the pro-amnesty side had the momentum. I asked how that could possibly be given the outpouring of anger against this bill, and he told me that a lot of moderates were afraid of being called racists by people like Michael Chertoff, Luis Gutierrez, and Fred Barnes. He also noted that the Senate has a very insulated, clubhouse like atmosphere, and that a lot of these pro-amnesty Senators seem to be more worried about getting the President or Trent Lott mad at them than enraging the voters in their states. In addition, he told me that he thinks a lot of these Senators have “drunk the DC Kool-Aid”, and believe that they’re better off passing a bad bill, even one that won’t ultimately become law if, as expected, the House kills it, so that they can at least tell the voters in 2008 that they did something about immigration.

Source: The Inside Story On What’s Happening With The Senate Immigration Bill – Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

Remember the best defense against this is your phone. Get a list of the Senators who are planning on voting for this bill you can find that here, and call their offices in Washington DC and if you are really motivated call their local offices. Doesn’t matter if they are not YOUR representatives. What matters is your telling them that Republican support for this travesty will end your support for the Republican party. Here is a good example of a letter that was sent back to the GOP, this is exactly what I have done with the last two requests for donations to the GOP.

Tell your Senators to give us the Fence along with a some years of actual enforcement and THEN we will believe them when they promise enforcement. We have been promised enforcement since 1965 and its never been delivered. Tell them that employer enforcement is required to stop the enslavement of those south of the border. When they get self righteous about this tell them that working conditions that are the minimum for legal workers are the least you expect for illegals.

Tell them you don’t trust Edward Kennedy.

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Well isn’t this cheery news. This means we will be seeing Billary in office in 2008 because there just isn’t anyway that the base is going to turn out after this knife in the back by the Republicans. Why turn out when the results for the most important items simply won’t change that much no matter who we put into the Whitehouse?

• Defense spending has stayed at the same level it was when Clinton was in office. He had the excuse of no war and a hostile Congress. What was Bush’s excuse? He had a war and Republicans in both Houses for most of the time and Defense spending stayed at 3.6% of GDP. It got lower one year under Clinton.
• Big Government Programs…hmm lets see No Child Left Behind BOONDOGGLE after all Kennedy was involved in it. Then we have Prescription Drug benefit…BOONDOGGLE…
• Immigration? Hell it is entirely possible that a Democrat might actually be more prone to enforcement than Bush.

The Republicans can kiss my ass in regards to money to fund this idiocy.

If you are clear-eyed about this immigration proposal you can see immediately that it is the worst sort of demagoguery to claim that you are helping the illegal’s. Consider for a moment exactly how the illegals have been doing those jobs that Americans won’t do.

1. Undercut pay since they are off the books. Lower costs to employers
2. Since they are unlikely to report safety violations for fear of being deported working conditions can be appalling. Lower costs for employers
3. Since they are off the books no need for employers to pay various taxes and insurance. Lower costs for employers.
4. Since they are unlikely to report unsafe housing conditions housing can be appalling. Lower costs for landlords.

These are just a few of the ways that illegals gain market share over legal workers when both are competing for spots in the job market. But guess what? If we legalize them then all of a sudden they have priced themselves out of the market and the demand goes up for 20 million more illegals. Because all of a sudden you cannot underpay, overwork, badly house and poorly insure the current crop of illegals since they are now on the books. Ooops. All of a sudden they are a bunch of lazy Americans who won’t do the work that illegals will do.

You do realize that the Republican Elite understand this equation right? The Democrats understand it as well. They know full well what will happen. They are making it happen.

Exactly why should I continue to support the Republican Party? With nitwits like Ron Paul, John McCain, George W Bush and Hagel exactly what is it about the Republicans that makes them special? They are internationalists, ok except Ron Paul who is simply crazy, and I don’t support the idea that all people should be allowed into this country willy nilly. Mexico is a mess. Why are we allowing the very people whose country is such a mess to come into this country and make this country a mess? Because some meat packers, contractors, and various textile mills “need them”? Bullshit.

Link to FOXNews.com – Senators, White House Reach Agreement on Immigration – Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

More at JawaReport Michelle Malkin baldilocks is not thrilled and looking for a deeper meaning

More posts on Immigration:

Mickey Kaus makes some good points on immigration but…

Mickey, the question is, are we suffering a labor shortage or are we suffering a shortage of people who will accept below minimum wage. Are we suffering a labor shortage or are we suffering a shortage of people who will work without Workman’s comp and other workplace niceties that legal workers must by law be provided? Are businesses like Tyson foods and Mohawk Carpet employing illegals simply because no one will work for them or because no one can work for them on their terms aside from illegals? What will businesses like Tyson Foods and Mohawk Industries do after the current crop of illegals are brought forward into the system and those businesses are forced to treat them as legal employees with all the attendant costs?

Is it possible that these companies having developed this addiction for employees who cannot run to the E.O.C. and who cost so much less to employ through direct costs of wages and insurance and indirect costs in the form of workplace safety, will suddenly see the light and hire legal employees?

Additionally if those illegal employees see their advantage in the workplace over American workers vanishing should they become legal will they desire to price themselves out of the market just for the privilege of paying taxes?

Enforcement in the workplace and a border fence must come first. Real enforcement carried out over the course of years against multiple companies where executives find themselves in jail for violating all sorts of labor laws. That might go a long way to assuring the American public that this latest amnesty program isn’t merely some smoke and mirrors dog and pony show by politicians looking out for the most important person in the world, themselves.

By Hook or Crook The Senates Comprehensive Illegal Importation Bill.

Welcome to the Party Captain! President, McCain and Kennedy in cahoots…truth suffers. snippet:

This President and the Republican “Front Runner” Senator “Grandstand” McCain are rapidly approaching a stage where allowing Democrats into power might actually be a better choice. At least then we can spend our time forcing them to act like adults. At least then all Republicans will be rightly suspicious of the motives of a Democratic President or Senate or some combination thereof.

Vicente Fox telling us how to run our country some more.
So then if our pack of liars in the Government are so intent on interior enforcement here is a candidate for investigation, G&G Orchards. But we all know its all Kabuki Theatre in Washington DC and that there is no stomach for the sort of enforcement that would make a difference

On Immigration, are we better off now than when we had Democrats in office?

This is pretty standard stuff, we are all immigrants etc etc, but is it exceptional? Since this is the common refrain from those who advocate nearly unlimited immigration, exactly which nations in the world were NOT a products of immigration? None. All nations are nations of immigrants. Some nations because of unfettered immigration manage to change into something the original inhabitants would never have dreamed of agreeing to had they the chance to choose.

Several examples spring to mind, one that might be dear to liberals, the American Indian. Wonder about the Indians who broke bread with us on Thanksgiving day, would they be so welcoming if they could have seen the future? What about the Britons, did they think that the immigration of the Romans was a good thing? Or later, perhaps the Britons agreed with the changes the Normans brought to the Island. Maybe they did want to wait 300 years before the Royal Court Proceedings were again conducted in English. Unfettered immigration doesn’t look so peachy now and illegal immigration is exactly that unfettered. For an unvarnished take down of those who make that pious claim that we are a nation of immigrants please take a look at this article Time to Rethink Immigration? by Peter Brimelowfrom National Review, June 22, 1992 reprinted at VDARE.

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