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Note: I have an update to this post that addresses the labeling of those who oppose this plan as hardliners. This will be of special interest to those of you who are coming here from Captain’s Quarters whom I respect but disagree with on this issue for a couple of reasons: see The Problem With Labeling Those Who Oppose The Senate Immigration Bill.

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It’s official, Congress, led by Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy, have teamed up with the Bush Administration to ram the amnesty plan for illegal immigrants down the throats of Americans that opposed such a plan.

First and foremost, President Bush is in my mind one of the worst people to ever have been voted into the office of the Presidency. I have defended this idiot for way too long in the hopes that he would act like a conservative beyond the lucky appointments of Alito and Roberts to the Supreme Court. He has failed us on just about every other issue including the bullshit rules of engagement that Bush has forced down the throats of our honorable troops fighting for their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. George W. Bush is one if the biggest sellouts to have ever smeared the Presidency of the United States. He even is inserting a scapegoat General as war czar because he simply isn’t up to the task!

Here is the lie of the day courtesy of the AP news report, Bush hails deal on immigration reform:

Bush called it “a much-needed solution to the problem of illegal immigration in this country” and said, if approved, the proposal “delivers an immigration system that is secure, productive, orderly and fair.”

“With this bipartisan agreement, I am confident leaders in Washington can have a serious, civil and conclusive debate so I can sign comprehensive reform into law this year,” he said in a written statement. Bush planned to make remarks about the bill later Thursday at the White House.

Bullshit. This creates more problems than it solves. The price tag for such irresponsible legislation is estimated in the trillions by the Heritage Foundation.

Tomorrow, The Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector will share the following analysis in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. Virtually no attention has been paid to the enormous costs involved in legalizing millions of low-skilled illegal aliens. One problem is that immigration reform is being negotiated by Judiciary Committee lawyers who typically have little experience in budgetary issues. Some Members who might be expected to blanch at a potential price tag of $2.5 trillion on their handiwork are kidding themselves by naively expecting that government benefits will be denied to the newly-legalized. Some know so little about tax burdens and benefit costs that they wrongly believe low-skilled workers are a net benefit to the social security system. - NRO

Whose pocket do you think this will come out of? The businesses that benefit from low wage labor? Mexico? The people who get the discounts on education, health care, public schools, social security and social services? No, these perks will come at the expense of American taxpayers not to mention the added burden put on our public school systems all at the expense of our children who have to live with newly diverted resources.

Here is what some of the bigger liars in Congress have to say about the deal.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, his party’s lead negotiator on the deal, hailed it as “the best possible chance we will have in years to secure our borders and bring millions of people out of the shadows and into the sunshine of America.”

Anticipating criticism from conservatives, Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., said, “It is not amnesty. This will restore the rule of law.”

The accord sets the stage for what promises to be a bruising battle next week in the Senate on one of Bush’s top non-war priorities.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), D-Nev., called the proposal a “starting point” for that debate, but added that it needs improvement.

“I have serious concerns about some aspects of this proposal, including the structure of the temporary worker program and undue limitations on family immigration,” Reid said in a statement.

The key breakthrough came when negotiators struck a bargain on a so-called “point system” that prioritizes immigrants’ education and skill level over family connections in deciding how to award green cards.

The immigration issue also divides both parties in the House, which isn’t expected to act unless the Senate passes a bill first.

I will have to read the bill or what I can get of it as info leaks out. For now I have not seen any mentioning of how we are going to deal with the border, what we are going to do about the foreign criminals that are overburdening the jail system or anything about preventing the next anticipated wave of illegals. Don’t count on progress here. They have already decided to sell us out.

If this becomes law it will become Congress’s next Boston Tea Party.

Take Action!

Hugh Hewitt discusses how we might stop this runaway train.

Michelle Malkin has many links, but despite the obvious anger in the ranks of the party’s base, this bill will move quickly unless stopped immediately. Call 202-225-3121 and ask for the offices of Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott or Jon Kyl, the three leaders of the GOP in the upper chamber. Surrendering half the fence is the first step in surrendering half the seats they are trying to defend in ‘08, and Gordon Smith, Norm Coleman, John Sununu and others ought to be demanding the caucus stop this national security and political insanity. The Senate GOP can and should filibuster any bill that dismantles half the fence before it was built, and any bill that is vague on the details of amnesty-lite.

The Senate GOP may believe that the anti-illegal immigration absolutists are far noisier than their numbers justify, and they would be right. But the common-sense conservatives hate being told that the best the Senate GOP can do is lose gracefully. They will be the folks outraged by the sell-out of the security fence.

The only good news about the bill as outlined in the talking points is that it will effectively end the McCain campaign.

The spotlight is also on Fred Thompson. He was quick to respond to Michael Moore and this cheered conservatives. I hope he takes this opportunity to speak as clearly to his former colleagues about the need to stop this law in the Senate.

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