As jobless toll rises, Dems invite more immigrants

When did we lose the loyalty of our exalted leaders? How did we turn them off to the point where their loyalty shifted to citizens of other lands? Will they ever give us a chance to win them back?

President Obama has declared himself a "citizen of the world," and apologized to foreigners whose feelings may have been hurt by the Texas cowboy who preceded him in the White House. Worse, he has ordered the closing of the Guantanamo, Cuba, group home where terrorists who have plotted against America are housed, even in the absence of an alternative destination.

The Texas cowboy, in turn, made it very clear that, faced with a choice between Americans and Mexicans, he sided with the Mexicans. President George Bush's eight years in the White House brought eight years of relentless hispandering and a to-hell-with-them brush-off of American workers and families.

Before the Texas cowboy there was President George Herbert Walker Bush, who famously said, "It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance."

That's the bad news. The good news is that, so far as is known, no one has been arrested yet for reciting the pledge to the flag or putting the interests of Americans first. But then, when was the last time our exalted leaders put the interests of Americans first?

Ostensibly, the objective of the ongoing hispandering was to corral immigrant voters for the Republican Party, a reasonable objective given the increasing role of hispanics in American elections. In November, they accounted for 9 percent of the total vote.

But the receptive teatment accorded by the Bush administration attracted a horde of illegal immigrants from Mexico, who readily took the low-paying jobs that traditionally have been filled by students and young workers eager to climb onto the first rung of the economic ladder.

I am familiar with that rung, having pitched manure, weeded fields and rebuilt railroad bridges.

The Bush administration and its apologists answered the critics by arguing that the Mexicans were simply "doing the jobs that Americans won't do." But the argument was flawed. There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Reports put out by the Bush administration showed that Americans made up most of the work force in every category of employment tracked by the federal government.

Bush and his apologists lied. It was more important to them that their party got hispanic votes than it was to protect vulnerable American workers trying to get a foothold in the work force and a chance at the American dream. The illegals not only took jobs from Americans, but suppressed wage rates for blue-collar workers who did have jobs.

The Republican Party is in disrepute because it deserves to be. Its most recent candidate for president, Sen. John McCain, often boasts about his forays "across the aisle" to vote for liberal proposals.

It is a measure of the arrogance and anti-Americanism of our exalted leaders that the Democrats, now in power, plan to try again to provide amnesty, as well as a probable pathway to citizenship, to illegal immigrants who are here. Because the border fence remains unfinished, that includes an untold number of Mexicans who will set out for the border as soon as the bill is passed.

So, it wasn't enough that young blue-collar Americans were denied a chance in recent years; now, they are to be denied again as a predictable new waves of illegals crosses the southern border to claim jobs and medical and educational benefits available here.

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has introduced the new amnesty bill, which is cosponsored by Ted Kennedy, Mark Begich, Jeff Bingaman, Sherrod Brown, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Amy Klobuchar, Pat Leahy, Carl Levin, Joe Lieberman, Claire McCaskill, and Charles Schumer.

The title of the bill is: "Stronger Economy, Stronger Borders Act of 2009."

If satire was intended, the title would be funny. But it isn't satire. It's a reflection of how our exalted leaders think. Words don't have to make sense. Titles on bills don't have to reflect reality. That is why, in the midst of rising unemployment and a dangerous recession, the Democrats are preparing to expand the work force, perhaps by millions of illegals from Mexico.

Since any new workers will be surplus, some will inevitably take jobs now filled by Americans. The unemployment rolls will grow.

How many Republicans will support this absurdity remains to be seen.

Their previous hispandering has not been rewarded. In the November election, hispanics voted for Obama by a two-to-one margin, even giving him a 57 percent majority in Florida, a state previously won by Bush.

There must be a word for people who do the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. Oh yes, now I remember; Albert Einstein's word for it was "insanity."