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May 15, 2007
A 'Do-Nothing' Congress Set to Become a 'Do-Something–Really-Dumb' Congress
The Democrats rolled into town earlier this year with an ambitious agenda. They were going to wind down the war, get gas prices under control, increase the minimum wage, institute fair trade policies and clean up the corruption in Washington. Let's see…so far they have accomplished none of these objectives.
Up to this point, the designation "do-nothing Congress" seems to fit perfectly. But now the Senate leadership seems poised to change all that by doing something really dumb. They are closing ranks with George W. Bush - who knows a thing or two about charging forward with a half baked plan - to implement an illegal alien amnesty and guest worker bill. They appear, also, to have signed on a group of Republican lawmakers - led by Arizona Senator Jon Kyl - to go charging over the cliff with them.
For a week, senators have been meeting behind hermetically sealed doors to work out a plan to legalize tens of millions of illegal aliens and provide the business lobby with an endless supply of cheap labor, in exchange for yet more promises to control illegal immigration down the line and end family chain migration. Not since Neville Chamberlain's Munich tete à tete with Herr Hitler have discussions been conducted with this much secrecy.
As negotiations near their conclusion, it seems that the long overdue reforms to our legal immigration policy - like establishing some national and public interest criteria - will be even longer overdue by the time they are implemented some time around 2020. From all accounts of what is being hammered out, by the time 2020 rolls around, nobody is going to care anymore after all of the current illegal aliens and their dependents have received amnesty, and the millions of "guest workers" who are contemplated will be demanding to remain here with their U.S.-born kids.
Somehow, a do-nothing Congress doesn't seem like such a terrible thing after all.
Posted on at May 15, 2007 06:05 PM