Monday, August 29, 2005

Test-firing the "I" Word

Pat Buchanan turns up the heat on illegal immigration.
Twice, George Bush has taken an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Article IV, Section 4 of that Constitution reads, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion."

Well, we are being invaded, and the president of the United States is not doing his duty to protect the states against that invasion. Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging George W. Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath and defend the states of the Union against "invasion."
Can't argue with that, can you?
In a day and age when all you hear is security this and security that, when the media takes every opportunity to instigate a panic about the next potential terrorist attack, we have people waltzing into our country without the slightest screening taking place. We have no idea who is here. Its just as easy for alQaida to cross over from Mexico as it is for some drug trafficker from Mexico City.
The question of whether America is going to remain one nation, or whether our Southwest will wind up as a giant Kosovo – separated by language and loyalty from the rest of America – is on the table.

Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska.
What good is democracy in Iraq, when people sworn to uphold the laws of the land here, fail to do so, without consequences?

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