APPLYING THE RULE OF HOLES
TO THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE
The
fight over “comprehensive” immigration reform in Congress isn’t so much between
Democrats and Republicans as it is between conservatives and Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid.
Reid’s
“Gang of 8” bipartisan group of senators patched together and passed a bill (S.
744) which the Wall Street Journal has described as having “no chance of House
approval.” Indeed, the
Republican-led/conservative-dominated House of Representatives may or may not
pass their own immigration reform bill, but the Senate’s Amnesty
Now/Enforcement Maybe bill is DOA.
As
Montgomery Scott (“Scotty” to his friends) - philosopher and Chief Engineer of
the Starship Enterprise - so famously
put it: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” As such, conservatives who were burned by the
promise of tough border enforcement in President Reagan’s 1986 amnesty bill
won’t get fooled again.
So
while 14 Republicans in the Senate played political “Hispandering” by voting
with Reid and the Gang of 8 – including, regrettably, our own Sen. Dean Heller
– the more conservative Members, the kind that presently dominate the House GOP
caucus, just said, “No mas.”
“This
bill is a historic missed opportunity for the United States Senate,” declared
conservative Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). “It
is a $48 billion border stimulus package that grants amnesty to politicians who
want to say they are securing the border when in fact they are not.
