Reports are flying that the an agreement has been reached between the Bush Administration and Senate leaders. As usual, Hot Air has good coverage: Breaking: Bush, Senate leaders reach immigration agreement.
After first hearing about this pending disaster on Hugh Hewitt’s show last night. I let the GOP leadership (McConnell, Lott, Kyl) hear from me that I was not on board with any plan that did not give us Fortress America with a very secure border that would keep terrorists and illegals out BEFORE we have any discussion about immigration reform.
This is what the majority of Americans want. We want to be secure and have out country defended. What sense does it make that we send our best off to fight overseas and the leave the doors wide open at home for anyone and everyone to come in?
Allahpundit said it best at Hot Air:
We had a Republican Congress and a Republican White House for six years. Six years, and it’s come to this.
The GOP better start praying that they still exist in 6 years. This issue is that big.
Update: Michelle Malkin It’s here: The Bush-Kennedy amnesty Report: Potential cost = $2.5 trillion. Also, vote Hell No! in her poll.
(Update: link added to Fortress America post.)
Jack Cashill recently looked at The Answers To The OKC Committee’s Questions
“Could the al Qaeda explosives expert [Ramzi Yousef] have been introduced to the angry American who proclaimed his hatred for America,” writes Richard Clarke of Nichols’ visit to the Philippines in his book Against All Enemies. “We do not know, despite some FBI investigation.”
“Some FBI investigation?” Why was there not a massive FBI investigation? The House subcommittee now asks this very question. Although the committee may be too polite to say so, the reason Islamic terrorist links were ignored has more to do with politics than with security. Once arrested, McVeigh and Nichols served as poster boys for the natural progression of the “Republican revolution.” The Clinton administration and its media allies spun OKC so hard to the right that it left America dizzy. If, however, the arrested bombers proved to be mere “lily whites”– that is stooges recruited by Islamic terrorists to take the fall–they would lose their political value.
As an added bonus, the “lily white” factor encouraged America’s progressive to scold those who had publicly presumed that Islamic terrorists were behind the bombing. This included not only the political right but also non-partisan terrorist experts like Steven Emerson, who had already been upbraided for “bigotry and misrepresentations” and “creating mass hysteria against American Arabs” for his PBS documentary American Jihad. In fact, it was in Oklahoma City in late 1992 that Emerson, covering an unrelated press conference for CNN, first stumbled upon the jihadi presence in the United States.
Then too, as with the first World Trade Center bombing and possibly with TWA Flight 800, an Iraqi connection would have forced a serious military response, about which the Clinton administration was always queasy.
To the detriment of our national security, the orchestrated Democratic reaction to Oklahoma City shamed reporters and investigators from pursuing Islamic terrorism aggressively. This, Jayna Davis documents all too painfully from her personal experience. The scary thing is they are still trying to shame us. As to the FBI, its veterans are just trying to cover their tracks and protect their reputations—business as usual.
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