See this?
Hispanics and Democratic lawmakers furious over Arizona’s harsh crackdown on illegal immigrants expect huge weekend rallies across the United States, piling pressure on President Barack Obama to overhaul immigration laws in this election year.
Don’t kid yourselves. They were going to do this whether Arizona passed a law or not.
The Dems and the left are replaying what they did in May of 2006: organizing nationwide marches with preprinted signs (courtesy, I am sure, of A.N.S.W.E.R.) and they’re going to pull the same street theater that got the right into an screaming “send them all back, right now!” uproar in 2006, which the media and dems capitalized on, to the detriment of the right.
The left went on to win that election, and since then have you seen these “uprisings” every May 1 or May 5? Since then, in fact, has much been said or done on immigration?
Nope.
Of course not. But it’s an election year, as in 2006, and the Democrats are in deep trouble. Back then, even with “Bush’s increasingly unpopular war” they were not quite sealing the deal. Playing this street theater, and the race card, helped to divide the right, weaken further weaken Bush’s support within his own party, and terrify the GOP congress; being called “racists” from the left, and “shamnesty-promoting traitors” from the right, that spineless crew decided that doing nothing was the safest bet.
As I said – unpopularly – yesterday:
Demanding a sudden and perfect solution to the problem after 30 years of relative neglect, the right chose doing nothing at all over compromising with President Bush, and so now the issue is still alive, still a potent election tool, and it is in the hands of an opposition that has already proved itself to be ruthlessly willing to do whatever it takes to win, and wholly disinterested in what polls may say.
Having demonstrated its inability to address this issue calmly and comprehensively when they had the chance, the right is being tempted to repeat its mistakes again. The provocation worked beautifully in 2006. The Dems are counting on it working well this time, and saving their majority or at least tamping down on their losses.
The right does not need to replay their reaction, though; the left is counting on the sight of nationwide rent-a-mobs and obnoxious signs to drive the right into shrill, passionate, uncompromising and self-defeating spams of hate and hysteria.
If they manage that, the left will have obliterated the images of peaceful teaparty demonstrations that they have been working so desperately to define as something else. That alone will be a huge victory for them. If the right gets really exercised and emotional about this, they will be weakened. Emotionalism does not convince people to get behind you. It makes people run in the other direction.
Keep the powder dry. This plan is one of extreme provocation, and if the right allows itself to get sucked into it all -and defined by the left and the press – then the left will have won a huge PR battle, and that is the win they want.
Bookworm has more thoughts.
UPDATE:
A little O/T, but only a little. Isn’t it just damn strange how Democrats in power seem to be incapable of doing anything, anymore, but cry “racism” at every turn? This is not the sign of a party (or an ideology) secure in itself.
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Bravo, novaculus.
Antimedia:
I don’t care what kind of deal Reagan thought he struck, the point was he did not close the border and it became very evident very soon that the deal was an amnesty deal.
The difference is conservatives liked Reagan better than they liked Bush so they are willing to make excuses for him and his amnesty deal while at the same time they dump all the blame for all the neglect on Bush.
And I am not saying that conservatives should not stand their ground either. The point is do not let the left provoke an incident. Watch what you say and how you say it.
When Nancy Pelosi sashayed through that crowd on the day Obamacare was voted on, she hoped for an incident. She carried that big gavel and hoped someone would say something and when that did not happen, the left invented an incident and claimed names were called etc.
Right now, Soros is probably buying every Mexican flag he can find in the hopes of creating the same kind of situation. It is what they do. Don’t make it easier for them.
novoculus:
The compromise with Bush would have created a great deal more security for that border. I would think that if people were really that concerned about that border, they would have been willing to put up with a guest worker program and program that would have required back taxes be paid, a fine be paid and people leave the country and come back in if they wanted citizenship.
And Bush never pretended he was Tancredo on this issue. Never. When he ran both terms of office he made his attitudes about immigration plain and it was not even a big deal. Until Soros handed those people those Mexican flags and told them to put on a show.
The truth is the left thought the bill was too far right and the right thought the bill was too far left and there were too many poison pills to pass it.
Now, you have a guy in the White House who thought that limiting the size of families for illegals was too harsh.
The USA should treat illegals in the same fashion as Mexico does. Then lets dig a moat along the Mexican border and fill it with blood thirsty dhimmierat lobbyists.
I live in Arizona and I’m of Mexican-American descent. I welcome this bill.
I live in fear of illegals that are gang bangers, drug dealers and come here to steal and run back across the border. When are WE going to be heard?
There is a middle of the road solution and a guest worker program like the Bracero program of many years ago could work. Why isn’t anyone talking about that?
I’ve been greatly challenged for days by The Anchoress’s thoughts on this subject. I’ve had to explore my own unexamined operating system.
Bottom line conclusion for me is this: We would not have this mess if people simply valued THE RULE OF LAW. If the laws become too burdensome, well then we can always fall back on The Ten Commandments and The Beatitudes, after all The USA *and* Mexico *are* Christian nations.
When we start compromising on The Rule of Law in order to justify getting “our way”, having our little idol elevated, then, in a nutshell, we have climbed on board the express train to hell.
Have we reached the point where we are going to make illegal immigration a crime?
ArizonaGirl,
Because that solution does not provide the real goal. “La Raza” and the “Reconquistadores” are essentially the Southern U.S. version of the Palestinians. Its about “taking back” what they think is theirs. That’s it. They march tomorrow in L.A. (May Day- which tells you their ‘political persuasion’). The Left see’s future voters. La Raza gains incremental reconquest. Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega see a foothold.
What they don’t see is the hammer. They start it. We finish it. Prayerfully and compassionately of course.
Archangel, as much as I dislike La Raza and like-minded Marxists, they haven’t started blowing themselves into tiny bits in order to murder gringos. The Palestinian comparison is unfair.
I’m primarily worried about reconquistas gettting control of the Golden Gate Bridge and/or Napa Valley, and taking long siestas while they decay and decline. Everyone knows that they couldn’t have accomplished either feat. Maybe selective screening of those who care about what gringos built up in their alleged former “lands.”