Halley on June 2, 2007 at 6:49 AM

Yes. It is lining up for a real spanking.

Oh I need to get it right! enjoy….

sonnyspats1 on June 1, 2007 at 9:28 PM

What does Savage’s site have to do with anything? You posted it before and it didn’t make sense then.

Make no mistake about it, for these people, this is about cheap labor and they are willing to play any PC card necessary to get it.

TheBigOldDog on June 2, 2007 at 11:09 AM

I guess it’s one big conspiracy that stretches all the way to the White House! A friend of my mother owns a shop in Colorado, she hired illegal immigrants to work for her, we visited and they were nice. They weren’t being hired because their labor was cheap, they were getting paid the same as any other employee would, but they were being hired because they were good at what they did. She even commented how “I’d like to hire high school students, but these guys do the work three times better and don’t complain.” If I were an economist I’d see illegal immigration as healthy competition. But I guess that was your point, that these economists “don’t care what the long term consequences are,” (which can be applied to drilling in the arctic or NAFTA agreement, but that’s another topic), which makes me ask: “what are the long term consequences?” Hypothetically if the borders were 100% secured and the working illegals in this country paid a fine and took some tests to become legal what would be the long term consequences?

Henninger was particularly reprehensible in this video. I’ll never be able to read anything he writes again without thinking of this.

And did I see Gigot make scare quotes in the air with his fingers? Wonder what Taranto thinks about that.

Make no mistake about it, for these people, this is about cheap labor and they are willing to play any PC card necessary to get it. They have no problem passing their true labor costs onto the taxpayers in order to fill their own pockets. The represent the worst instincts of capitalists. They don’t care what the long term consequences are so long as they live well now and accumulate wealth to pass on so that their bloodlines can remain part of the gentry.

Does anyone else suspect that that uneasy rumbling under our feet is the sound of huge tectonic plates shifting and the GOP about to split apart?

Halley on June 2, 2007 at 6:49 AM

No Halley.

I think just the opposite.

This is an issue with the potential to consolidate the Conservative movement (which now resides with the Republicans, and will for the forseeable future continue to)
and make it stronger than ever.

It’s all about their servants. But they can’t say that….

Dear Mr. Gigot,

Guess what? The vast majority of Americans WANT THE BORDERS SECURED and see through this shamnesty bill for what it is. Is this so hard for you to understand?

Rather than call us names and insult us, perhaps you should step down from the plantation house veranda, put down your mint julep, take off the white cotton massa suit and put on a pair of blue jeans like us regular folk and listen to what the majority of Americans want.

We don’t want AMNESTY for illegal aliens. It isn’t a “National Review” talking point but the heartfelt opinion of the majority of Americans.

We don’t want 1 million people sneaking over our boarders every year. The majority of Americans view this as a threat to NATIONAL SECURITY.

We don’t want OUR income driven down through the use of illegal aliens just so that YOU and YOUR cronies can build a bigger vacation home in Vail or buy a newer Gulf Stream jet. Because we are smart enough to realize that the pro-business lobby’s endorsement of this bill has only one purpose: make more money for YOU by lowering our wages through illegal competition in the job market.

And while YOU were pontificating on how stupid and racist WE are, I noticed that “the token chick” wasn’t sitting at the table with the rest of you “movers, shakers, and opinion leaders,” but was relegated to sitting on a table behind John Fund, like the (no doubt) “good little second class citizen women are” mindset warrants.

Sincerely,
Gerogej, a nobody who, because of the generosity of a woman (that would be Michelle Malkin), is allowed to comment here at Hot Air.

I’ve always known that the WSJ gang is about money and making as much of it as possible, but I knew they were willing to whore their own country for it!

The WSJ is bought by businessmen. They post this video gladly because they believe it shows them to be “pro-business”. But in doing so, they are pulling classic liberal dodges and min-maxing of arguments.

I dare them to find a reasonable conservative who is actually anti-immigration. It’s patently untrue and unfair to characterize opponents of this worthless bill as being racist or anti-mexican, the proper label is pro-enforcement.

The idea of letting someone, who has managed to successfully break the law for years, suddenly be rewarded with the goal of their lawbreaking at the expense of a small fine (fee), is like discovering that someone was embezzling from a business for 15 years, and giving them a promotion if they’ll just pay back 5% of what they took. It’s insane, and I defy the WSJ board to refute that analogy.