Right-Wing tossing Bush under the Bus on Immigration

Although the general response from the left on Bush's Immigration Speech last night has been tepid at best, apparently it has sparked a firestorm on the right.

As noted today by Glenn Greenwald

John "The Rocket" Hinderaker: "He had his chance and he blew it . . . President Bush is being destroyed by vicious people who hate him. So far, he hasn't seemed to notice. Apparently, he doesn't think he needs any allies. He certainly didn't win any with tonight's speech . . . . President Bush doesn't have many chances left to salvage his second term. After tonight, he might not have any."

Paul "Deacon" Mirengoff: "President Bush did wimp out, and fatally so I think, on his fourth point, i.e., what to do about illegals who are already here. . . . This means that Bush's proposal taken as a whole is probably self-defeating."

But wait, it gets worse -- there was even some talk on the right, just prior to the speech, about having the President Impeached for his lack of action on Immigration!?!

Other examples...

Ankle Biting Pundits: "Whether he likes it or not, the president did not carve out a 'centrist' position at all. He articulated one of the two conflicting positions in this debate. And by pretending to be a 'middle grounder' I believe he cheapened his argument."

Misha at Anti-Idotarian Rottweiler: "long on blather and emotion and amazingly short on actual solutions. . . . Take your 'virtual' fence and your hi-tech vaporware coupled with your amnesty plan and shove them up your ass, Jorge."

Wow, strong stuff that, eh?

First let's knock down the easy tenpins by pointing out that the likelyhood of the National Guard being able to close the Mexico-U.S. border is about as likely as their being able to close the Iraq/Syrian border or the Afghanistan/Pakistan Border. NOT. GONNA. HAPPEN.

As Howard Dean pointed out on the Daily Show, "Guest Workers are Indentured Servants", period. That is besides the fact that we already have Foreign Worker Visa program in effect. The reason many companies higher illegals, and don't care if their documentation is forged is because they don't want to pay worker compensation, unemployment insurance, Healthcare or have anyone complain about the dumping of toxic waste products into the storm drains after-work. (Keep your mouth shut or I call "Le Migra") The likelyhood of Bush devising a program that allows these companies to ignore OSHA and IRS is pretty damn slim.

Bi-metric Id Card? Doesn't that sound a lot like Real ID (PDF)?

But none of that is what honks off the right. No, they want a freaking wall and they want all of these damn furrenurs out - and they want it now.

LeShawn Barber made the case.

I believe George Bush's failure to enforce immigration law and stop the foreign invasion, which he has the power and authority to do, warrants impeachment. Because of Bush, illegal invaders are emboldened, demanding that which they have no legal right to obtain.

While the invasion has caused incalculable physical and economic harm to legal citizens, the president proposes to offer amnesty and allow the harm to continue. To the detriment of those he swore to protect, Bush chooses instead to protect those he has no duty to protect. His actions are in violation of the Constitution.

Besides not understanding that there is no requirement in the Constitution that "only U.S. Citizens" are protected by it -- Barber also fails to realize that the strict language of the 14th Amendment requires the state to provide "all persons within the jurisidiction of the state... the equal protection of the laws". It doesn't stipulate how they came within U.S. juridicition largely because the Amendment was intended to provide equal rights and protections to former slaves. If we could give lowly slaves equal protection, we can certainly give it to voluantary migrant workers.

Such misunderstanding is not the surprising coming from the right. I wonder if this thing has made them so angry, they might even start comparing Bush to (gasp)... Clinton.

Yep, they did.

I can pretty much sum up what El Presidente is going to say in his Monday address. He's said it all before:

I oppose amnesty, placing undocumented workers on the automatic path to citizenship.

Notice that Clintonian weasel word, "automatic." Notice his unique definition of "amnesty." "Undocumented workers" (or "illegal aliens" as they should properly be called) will not get "automatic" citizenship; therefore they're not getting amnesty.

And of course, let's not let Michelle (Bat-shit-crazy) Malkin get away without having center stage.

Here we go again.

President Bush is continuing the homeland security dog-and-pony charade in his quest to deliver a massive "guest worker" plan to the open-borders lobby. A few weeks ago, Bush's Department of Homeland Security put on a bogus performance of Get Tough Theater with a series of politically timed immigration raids...which, as I predicted, simply resulted in more catch and release of illegal aliens nationwide.

This new last-minute stunt to sprinkle National Guard troops on the border--temporarily of course, to appease Mexican President Vicente Fox--is more transparent than the Scotch tape used to hold together our dilapidated border fences. (That's only a slight exaggeration).

For all the new tough talk, these additional troops will be barred from actually doing what needs to be done: guarding the border. President Bush is already bowing and scraping to Mexico over the plan before he's even officially announced it.

Hey, somebody needs to fax these guys the memo that states - "Criticizing our Beloved Commander-In-Chief during a Time of War on Never-Ending-Terror undercuts our TROOPS and provides Aid and Comfort to the enemy". If our borders our indeed one of criticals lines of defense in the War on Terror™, people who dare to say such things should be arrested for treason.

Let me just let Pat Robertson sum it up...

one of the fundamental principles we have in America is that the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces and attempts to undermine the commander in chief during time of war amounts to treason. I know we have an opportunity to express our points of view, but there is a time when we're engaged in a combat situation that carping criticism against the commander in chief just doesn't cut it

Take that, Malkin.

And I wonder, just how much of a crazy moonbat leftist and Democratic Embarassment all this Impeachment talk makes of - Rep. John Conyers! Et Tu Right-te?

Vyan