(Image H/T: Powerline)
It is my belief that any movement on making the actions of illegal aliens now legal will not result in a brand new group of voters for the Republican Party no matter how much the R blowhards in the US Senate (McCain, Graham) would have us believe. Even the fresh face of Marco Rubio now has some mud on it as he as alternatively tried to parlay his “newness” in the Senate as being a “third way” on making millions of illegal aliens US Citizens.
Sure, I’ve heard the warbling of “it will take them years!”, and “they will have to prove residency!” and of course, the money issue of “Pay back taxes!”. Eyup! And yes, “we’ll secure the border or start yet another commission” does NOT warm the cockles ANYwhere in the proximate vicinity of my body. Right – I have NO hope that anything other than lip service will back up Marco’s claims that ANY of that will be done. In fact, I posit that our crack TSA security theater workers will catch 100% of all “test contraband” (think: guns, bombs) before these immigration strictures are actually working 100%.
Not my first rodeo here – and I have YET to see My Government keep its promises or properly enforce both the letter and spirit of the Law. Clinton didn’t. Bush didn’t (and we here at GraniteGrok were part of that effort back in 2006/2007 that help to melt the switchboards in DC). Bush II didn’t. And for all of the brouhaha that Obama “raised” deportations, let us not forget three things:
- His Administration works with Mexico to help their illegals get food stamps
- He has deliberately ignored the will of Congress (which decided to do nothing) and has created his own DREAM Act administratively, ignoring current law to curry voting favor from a now-new political correct class.
- Obama still has the majority of his second term left – do you REALLY think he’s gonna enforce “border security first”
That cartoon should be reminding people that the Republican Party has aided, abetted, and participated in this public humiliation in trying to copy Democrat Pandering – and it ended up #FAIL. It hasn’t helped the Party before and given the current scandals in the Big Government that Democrats (again, aided by Progressive Republicans who believe in “just a wee bit lesser Big Government than Dems), what confidence that ANY grassroot Republican have that the chuckleheads in DC would:
- craft actual legislation that would work as advertised?
- craft actual legislation that would be correctly enforced (e.g., does the IRS hate illegals as much as it does TEA Partiers?)?
- craft actual legislation that would refuse to have slush funds being sent to neo-ACORN groups just “helping” new immigrants (and, btw, waving voter registration paperwork in front of these folks along with EBT plastic)?
Yeah, me neither. You know what this effort by Congressional Republicans is analogous too? Yup – Boy Scouts of America. Both want a political issue taken off the table because they are weary of their political opponents using it as a club against them (a mostly self-induced problem, I might add) so have given in to those that want them to “compromise”. The fallout for the BSA is:
- The Gay Movement Militants and Secularists have already said “Great, gay Scouts – next on our list is to put gay ScoutMasters in play.
- Conservatives who believe that the part of the Scout Oath of “morally straight” actually means something (as opposed to being just fluff words) are now decertifying troops and packs at their churches.
If the Stupid Party can’t see this, that some large part of the Party refuses to be pushed in a direction they don’t want to go, they MAY get a few new folks into the front of the tent, but a whole lot more will be going out the back door. Why SHOULD they support putting a political noose around their own necks – they’ll either leave or sit on their hands.
The Stupid Party has to learn one and one VERY important lesson – if it continues, in the aggregate, to no longer believe and act on what it says it does, they won’t win nationally and they may start loosing locally as well. The Rule of Law, a limited government, an American identity built on the values of the Founders – if Republican activists (who generally pull along the “regular” voter) say “enough, can the Party succeed?
