The two groups that eagerly look forward to and pin their political hopes on successful terrorist attacks taking place in this country:

1. Islamist terrorists and their sputniki.

2. “True patriot” conservatives.

Why is that?

Dale – The traitor call may be a little strong but the Presidents desire to achieve his goal to give amnesty to 12-20 million illegals by forcing that abomination of a bill through the Senate without a final copy of the bill even being available to those that opposed it and by trying establish that clay pigeon maneuver as a new Senate precedent comes pretty close. The bill itself was a security loophole disaster.

Cobalt – Your scenario assumes al-Qaeda is single headed. It is not. Self-inspired Radical Islamists are worldwide and I believe some of the Fort Dix six were found to have come across the Mexican border. Also, I didn’t say these nuts are particularly smart but they are determined.

Rest assured, if that Mexican bomb does go off, impeachment proceedings will follow shortly. Remember the questions after 911, when did the president first know this was a national security problem??

http://www.banderasnews.com/real-estate/sales/homes.htm

It is currently all the rage for Silicon Valley retirement locations.

http://www.banderasnews.com/0704/re-puntamita.htm

Not to mention Mexico’s liberalized abortion laws will begin to trim the population in general. But watch what happens when the boomers retire and 1/3 of our workforce is out of the labor market. We are going to sorely need those immigrants then.

Or else factories and other businesses are going to close. Think about that for a sec … just about every small business owned by a boomer is set to close in the next 10 to 15 years.

See:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=062807C

Now this is a fine article, assuming the facts are all on the up-and-up (e.g., on Mexico’s fertility rate). The bit about Mexicans taking some of our culture back down to Mexico makes sense, too.

Wouldn’t that be a real kick in the head if the death-before-compromise hard right will have turned out to have shot themselves in the foot over a problem that just might be going away in a couple of decades anyway?

Now there you go being a genuine satirist… thanks. Made me laugh out loud.

How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself

As the debate over illegal immigration from Mexico rages in Washington and across the country, and as the administration’s reform bill hangs by a thread, few Americans are aware that this problem will automatically decline and eventually become a vague memory.

[...] The main point for the United States is that we have only a temporary problem with illegal immigration from Mexico. For another decade or a bit more we must attempt to limit such entry, but then the problem will fade like the smile on the Cheshire Cat. Lou Dobbs, Rep. Tancredo and their xenophobic friends can calm down and relax.

See:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=062807C

And there’s lots of data out there indicating many natural economic forces at work… none of which ever entered this “debate” because it wasn’t sexy enough or incendiary enough to generate a FoxNews Alert. The factors mentioned in the column, along with other common sense factors & variables indicate that this suicidal brawl was not necessary at all, but part of a small minority’s deeper paranoia and loony agenda. Did I mention that I actually heard Laura Ingraham laying out the “New World Order” conspiracy last week? Yeah, and guess who’s at the nexus of it… it’s a four-letter word that begins with B and ends with H.

Extremism always loses in a free society because nobody likes having what is “right” shoved down their throats by someone who won’t listen to reason and plays “my way or the highway”. Those are the people that end up out on the highway.

We will see.