Rush Limbaugh

Bizarro GOP, Ridge Offer Pass to Illegal Aliens

December 11, 2003


Tom Ridge, who is charged with securing our borders as the Secretary of
Homeland Security, took it upon himself recently to solve our huge illegal
alien problem - by suggesting we "legalize" eight-to- twelve million
lawbreakers. Did Ridge not take an oath to defend the laws of the United
States? Why are immigration laws, the lax enforcement of which was key the
9/11 attacks, somehow meaningless? Then there's this from the Arizona
Republic:

"U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing an agreement that would allow
millions of Mexicans to go home and still collect U.S. Social Security
checks." Does this not sound like we're throwing up our arms and caving in?
This is admitting that we're not going to enforce our immigration laws! Why?
Because some idiots who don't know or pretend not to know the meaning of the
word call it "xenophobic." We spend a little over $15 billion a year in
foreign aid, and now we're going to pay people who come here and break the
law though Social Security checks.

Where are the screams that this will suck money out of the (nonexistent)
Social Security trust find, you liberals? This just doesn't make sense. The
Bush administration actually backs this idea "as a way to improve
U.S.-Mexican relations." Need more proof that "compassionate conservative"
has nothing to do with conservatism? The very same Bush administration just
sided with the brutal Chinese communists and against our democratic allies
in Taiwan on independence. It's The BIG Theory: Karl Rove's scheme to
destroy the Democrat Party by picking off handfuls of their voters.

Everyone keeps trying to be the smartest guy in the room, "Once we get 60
senators, we'll clean up this mess..." It'll never happen. Even if we won
the seats, they will have come at too high a price. Besides, we don't need
to have conservative judges on the bench to stop these bad laws. GOP
legislators shouldn't have voted for them in the first place, and our GOP
president shouldn't have signed them. The idea that we pass bad laws to get
judges who'll overturn them confirmed is as harebrained as the 1992 mantra,
"Let Clinton win, so everyone can see how bad things get." That worked out
great, huh?

Michael Barone, postulated in U.S. News & World Reports that George Bush is
"redefining conservatism." Many GOP congressmen (See Rush's comments on John
Boehner of Ohio) have said that the 1994 Contract with America was cool and
all, but now they're in power and they have to do what the people want so
they can stay there. With that, they abdicate their responsibility to teach
people that government can't answer all their prayers and accept big
government and less freedom is facts of life. I disagree with Barone on
this. Conservatism isn't capable of being "redefined," and that's not what
the Bushies are trying to do anyway. They're just trying to get votes by
advancing the liberal agenda.