If you heard Harry Reid talking last week you may have thought you heard wrong. Maybe you do need that hearing aide after all, or maybe those pranksters who monkeyed around with the Sopranos ending are tinkering with other broadcasts as well...
No, would that it were so. It's true, Harry really did say this:
"This week we will vote on cloture and final passage of a comprehensive bill that will strengthen border security, bring the 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows, and keep our economy strong."[Emphasis mine]
Scary right? You went to bed a citizen of the USA and when you woke up you were just another "documented American," one of the many hundreds of millions of humanoids inhabiting the "Americas" of the Western hemisphere! Gee, you'd think they'd have sent us a memo or something...Do we have to get new passports?
Mark Steyn summed it up pretty well:
Talk about "a fast track to citizenship"! Never mind probationary visas, Z-visas and Green Cards, in the eyes of the Democrat steering "comprehensive immigration reform" through Congress these guys are already "undocumented Americans." Was it simply a slip of the tongue? Or did Senator Reid mean it?If he did, the very concept of citizenship is dead, and the Senate might as well opt for really comprehensive immigration reform" and declare everyone on the planet a U.S. citizen with backdated Social Security entitlements.
All kidding aside, this really is a big problem. When our leaders in D.C. stop respecting our sovereignty, they've violated their oath of office. People like Harry Reid should be stripped of power, effective immediately, but they won't be. Instead, most of the population they've so painstakingly (through the government run schools) indoctrinated into the cult of national self-loathing and guilt is too busy fretting about the fate of Paris Hilton to worry about the fate of their own country.
So it's up to us then, the millions of people who aren't content to see our culture balkanized overnight, those of us who want to preserve the UNITED STATES of America for the next generation of "documented" citizens. This bill isn't as dead as I'd hoped, it's just dormant, and we have to keep the pressure on the GOP hold-outs, let them know they are doing the right thing in refusing to compromise our sovereignty away.
In the meantime, let's just hope that Dennis Miller's message was received by Senator Reid in the spirit in which it was intended, as Dennis said, "without all due respect."
Posted by insomnomaniac at June 12, 2007 1:43 PM | TrackBack