Jane Chastain : Politically Direct

Less than a week after the election, a leak from Karl Rove delivered a slap in the face to the Republican conservative base: Florida Sen. Mel Martinez, the co-author of the president’s bill to grant amnesty to illegal aliens, has been handpicked by the White House to be the new chairman of the Republican National Committee. The next day Bush made it official, although this choice still must be approved by state party leaders.Did Rove learn nothing from the Republican bloodbath? What about his boss?

The Martinez-Bush amnesty plan is as popular as horse droppings. Cow droppings make good fertilizer, but horse droppings are a poor substitute. They have to be broken up or they pile up and stink. Read the rest of this entry »

These are dangerous times in Washington. President Bush is trying to chide the House of Representatives into a “compromise” with the Senate on the immigration bill. He wants amnesty for illegal aliens and a horde of new “guest” workers – skilled and unskilled – who will work for half of what employers have to pay American workers, in return for empty promises about securing the border. Behind the scenes, the White House is arm twisting your representative in Congress.

Those looking for a compromise on immigration reform should consider this: Simply annex Mexico. Make it our 51st state. Instead of giving the Mexicans our country, take over their country. Read the rest of this entry »

The American people are about to get “Bushwhacked”! The Republican-led House of Representatives is our only hope against a runaway president and squishy Senate leaders who have joined with Democrats in an attempt to ram a disastrous immigration bill down our throats. You must contact your House member and strengthen his or her resolve to support only those measures that would control our borders and enforce the law.To help you deal with members of the administration and Congress, I have prepared a primer to help you translate the rhetoric. Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday, on “Meet the Press,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., making a case for the squishy Senate immigration reform bill, stated that three-fourths of the American people support “comprehensive” immigration reform.”Comprehensive immigration reform” in the current political debate means making a lot of “feel good” promises about border security and enforcing immigration law while opening the floodgates to 66 million more legal immigrants over the next 20 years and granting amnesty to the 11 to 20 million people who are living here illegally.

Of course, Graham doesn’t use the word “amnesty.” He calls it “creating a path to earned citizenship.”

Do three-fourths of the American people really support that bill? Are we really that dumb? Read the rest of this entry »

A bad immigration bill is worse than no bill at all! A large number of phone calls to members of the U.S. Senate are urgently needed to prevent the upper chamber of Congress from passing an outrageous immigration bill that includes a guest-worker plan favored by the president and an amnesty provision. This would weaken the tough enforcement bill passed by the House of Representatives when the two are merged. Read the rest of this entry »