This is a seminal piece of legislation and the unveiling of the Senate Bill could prove to be a seminal political event: for never before in Congressional History has such a deliberate fraud of such a magnitude been perpetrated upon the American Public.
Naturally, maintaining such an opinion will subject me as well as the approximately 75% of other Americans who think the bill is a stinker to charges of xenophobia and racism. Homeland Security Chief and Bush political hack Michael Chertoff’s disparaging and demeaning remarks characterizing those who don’t think it is a good idea to increase the flow of poor low skilled immigrants as yahoos is illustrative of the intellectual mush that eager proponents of this scamnesty bill offer in support of an indefensible position. Said Chertoff to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “You know, Wolf, first, I understand there's some people who expect anything other than capital punishment is an amnesty. The reality is the proposal here requires people who came in illegally who want to stay to pay a penalty. Like a fine. That's a punishment. That's not an amnesty.”
Chertoff’s elitist and haughty comments are almost as laughable as those of Republican National Committee Chairman, Mel Martinez, who exclaimed that the Senate bill, “could be the saving of the Republican Party.” Martinez needs to put down his Bong Pipe: this legislation will insure the extinction of the Republican Party. Karl Rove notwithstanding, where is the evidence that Hispanics ever have been in the Republican camp? Do Rove and Martinez seriously believe that the next wave of low skilled, uneducated workers, many of whom are crossing the border for the welfare goodies America will provide them are going to vote Republican? Republican supporters of this bill are engaging in a reckless act of collective suicide.
The Senate bill degrades, cheapens and utterly debases the notion and value of American citizenship. It represents a veritable goodie bag of giveaways to illegal immigrants both current and those yet to come—financed by the American Taxpayer. Next time you, as an American citizen, owe the IRS back taxes, see if you can dispense with the inconvenience of repayment by telling them it would be too complicated to figure out how much you are in arrears