Bush: optimist on restoring order to Iraq, defeatest on restoring order to America’s borders

Dan Stein of FAIR quotes Richard Lowry of NR, who, as we can see below, on occasion says something useful and insightful:

Not all incremental progress is equal in the eyes of President Bush. When it occurs in Iraq, it is a sign that we need to forge ahead despite all difficulties. When it occurs on our southern border, it is deemed insufficient and a sign that—to use a favorite GOP phrase—we need to settle on a “surrender date” on immigration enforcement. That date would be whenever Bush’s latest “comprehensive” reform proposal kicked in. He wants to legalize illegal immigrants already here and invite in “temporary” guest workers…. The administration contradicts itself on enforcement. On the one hand, it touts the success of increased border patrols and occasional workplace raids, because it realizes, politically, that it has to be seen as trying to enforce the laws. On the other hand, it argues that enforcement can’t possibly work, so we have to adopt an amnesty and guest-worker program. The rational response to the promising signs from enforcement would be to do more of it, and to avoid undercutting its early success. But on immigration, the Bushies are—again, to use a term from the Iraq debate—defeatists.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 11, 2007 01:56 PM | Send