“Foaming at the mouth”
Written by YellowJacket on June 2nd, 2007That’s the description the Wall Street Journal editors had of opponents of this immigration bill, including the editors of National Review and conservatives everywhere. Go here to watch the video. It’s astounding.
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Great discussion by the WSJ, thanks for posting it. The person who makes that comment “Foaming at the mouth” is the founder of Club of Growth. I somehow never associated Club for Growth with blind partisanship.
It seems to be the biggest organized opponents of the bill are Labor Unions. And I doubt that anyone would argue that they are the champions of “conservative principle.” One might say that this is just a coincidence and they just happen to be right this time. However, when it comes to Labor Unions, any position that Labor Unions take theses days is the wrong position, and is probably enough reason to take a different view (or at least reconsider it).
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It is not a conservative position to advocate the same failed legislation that we had in 1986 and for some reason think that it’s going to be different this time. Guess what? This administration has proven to be completely unwilling to enforce the border security laws on the books. The last amnesty/security bill was all amnesty, no security.
It should not be unreasonable for conservatives and Americans in general to seek real border security first, before any “bringing them out of the shadows,” (amnesty) that will only encourage more illegal immigration.
I really don’t see anyone’s justification in calling me and others who feel this way “foaming at the mouth.” Get a grip, WSJ, Bush, and Republicans inside DC: Americans want their laws to be enforced. What a concept! Try not to call us un-American and try to protect our country before any of your shamnesty shenanigans.
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>> “We’re not talking about deporting people, we’re just talking about making people so miserable that they’ll leave on their own.”
He’s onto something. One of you SaveTheGOPers said these same exact words on one of those threads.
I saw this vid earlier this week, I think they released this to stir up the discussion.
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I can’t take the WSJ and the rest of these big business puppets seriously as advocates of limited government. They want their cheap labor (with health care, education, and other costs footed by the taxpayer) and simply do not care about the political consequences of the creation of another permanent underclass in this country.
As for the unions, many of the unions who actually want to support their members do oppose it, but pretty quietly. You’re not seeing huge rallies organized by big labor against this legislation. However, come to DC sometime and you’ll see lots of pro-reconquista rallies organized by the SEIU and other pro immigration unions that are trying to organized unskilled labor. If we are supposed to be concerned because the AFL is kind of sort of maybe on our side in this one, we should be infinitely more concerned that the SEIU, the leftist organizers, the anarchists, and leftist intellectuals generally think this is one of the greatest things that has ever happened.
If this passes, conservatism is dead, because there will no longer be an electorally viable constituiency for limited government. You lose on this issue, you lose everything.