The American Spectator

Regarding Bush’s immigration speech last night, as described in “Bush’s Balancing Act” — it was just what I expected from a President who seems absolutely determined to go on treating his party’s base as a bunch of dumb hayseeds who can rolled one more time.

Who does he and his rich friends in both parties think they are fooling? It is just another amnesty, as usual, with worthless public relations promises to secure the borders. The amnesty will, of course, accomplish nothing, just like the one in 1986, except to encourage even more illegals to enter the U.S. — plus their families and other relatives.

It is quite obvious that our rich sneering elites in both parties love illegal immigration, and that they will keep it going no matter what.

At least the speech wasn’t as bad as Senator Bill “I’ll surrender to anyone” Frist, and his proposal that he floated recently for a “virtual fence” — electric eyes and infrared cameras.

Can’t you just imagine Frist and other political titans conferring on this? Hey, what we shall we call the camera idea — almost fence, electronic barrier — no wait, we need to stick the word “fence” in somewhere, to roll the rubes — I know! “Virtual fence”! Hey, the dumb peons will go for that! A perfect answer!

I notice he hasn’t used the phrase since then — I assume it went over like a lead balloon.

I also notice that the Wall Street Journal is being careful not to repeat its earlier proposals for a Constitutional amendment — “There shall be open borders.”