Batfink's Beep -- 05-05-06

What happens when you won't take yes for an ANSWER

May 15, 2006

With Bush yet to give his address to the nation regarding his plans for moving the immigration impasse along, "Captain" Ed Morrisey of Captain's Quarters is reporting that pro-illegal immigration groups are planning a coordinated attack on the president in response. They are outraged because, as has leaked out in advance of the address, the president is planning to announce the deployment of the National Guard to help secure the border.

This is rich because it is the last thing Bush wanted to do, just a few weeks ago. Bush, as any angry Republican constituent knows, was all for what we are wont to call amnesty, and not at all interested in securing the border. He was quite clear in his opposition to anything like an actual wall. He was all for a guest worker program, which would confer legal status and a path to citizenship to all currently illegal immigrants in the USA. You'd think someone among the pro-illegal groups would have noticed that the president was willing to concede essentially everything they wanted short of immediate citizenship for all illegals and a throwing open of the border doors to all comers (which is how it currently is anyway, after all.) It was 9/10ths of the loaf they wanted. All they had to do was say they were for it, support the president's position, and it probably would have gotten all the momentum it needed to pass.

But they didn't. Instead, they started a series of extremely angry and outrageous protests demanding more. As a result, they motivated the silent American masses to make their own feelings on the matter known to their representatives. The media, as it does, ran polls, which made clear that the American portion of the public wanted much less concession than Bush was offering, and, more to the point, wanted the borders sealed first, before anything else happened. It soon became clear that there was now no way Bush would be able to give away the store on this matter. The people were forced to speak, and they came through loud and clear.

So now Bush will have to close the border for real, and we have the very immigrant groups that are against it to thank. They could be legal by now if they could have noticed in time that the president was with them.

How could they have been so stupid? Well, they made the mistake of falling into the "above all else, hate Bush" trap that ensnares their leftist sponsors. I'm talking about International ANSWER and the other leftist organizations that supported them as a way to further their "get Bush" agenda. That the illegals fell for it rather than notice that Bush was on their side, and against his entire base, who were at the time still keeping quiet... well, let's just say that it's hard to decide who was more stupid: ANSWER, or the immigrant groups.

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