Excellently stated by Victor Davis Hanson:
…With unemployment near 10 percent, with unprecedented violence pouring over the border, and with a divisive health-care debate not yet healed, why go down that road? Most of the arguments of the last century are now dated: Already we are seeing more Californians mowing their own lawns, and students as never before willing to take most jobs that come up. (Unemployment is near 20 percent in the interior of California and most are not picky about the few jobs out there.)
The public is starting to correlate the massive amount of remittances sent back to Latin American (perhaps well over $40 billion) with commensurate rising public subsidies to illegal aliens, funded by the now-strapped taxpayer.
And Mexico has become far more violent than Iraq, suggesting to most that the border should be less, not more, porous…
All of which is not only true, but easily seen by anyone with sense, at all. And yet, here come the Democrats pledging to press for comprehensive immigration reform this year, which already looks rocky enough for them. Why?
1. The leaders of liberal hispanic groups have demanded it. This is the price for their continued loyalty: immigration reform which works out to de-facto amnesty.
2. Visions of electoral majorities as far as the eye can see. Democrats are hoping that hispanics will vote overwhelmingly Democrat for generations to come,thus ensuring strong Democrat power.
3. Democrat leaders just have not registered the change in the political landscape.
That last bit might prove most important – because if the Democrat leaders do not very swiftly understand that they’ve blown their 2008 mandate, then what is shaping up to be a bad year for Democrats will turn catastrophic. If it goes that way, then there will be no loyalty to buy from hispanic voters as Democrats will be finished as a majority party for a generation.
It’ll just take a bit more to turn 2010 in to a blowout for the GOP – I’m already seeing even very far down ballot Republicans catching fire with the electorate. One more push, and 2010 will make 1994 look like nothing. Immigration reform would be just that push – the only way to make it better for the GOP is if someone high up in the Democrat party were to call for gun control.
Now we’ll also get to see just how stupid Democrats can be.
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