John LeBoutillier
Monday, May 15, 2006

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In the carefully orchestrated White House leaks leading up to Monday's prime-time Oval Office immigration speech, the White House has cleverly – or so they think – made a new move: President Bush is going to send troops to the Mexican border!

Oh, really?

If you read between the lines, you will find that in a Friday afternoon off-the-record White House briefing, a ‘senior administration official' admitted that they were going to propose a modest increase in National Guardsmen placed – temporarily – on the southern border until the Immigration and Border Control people can increase their own manpower.

This official admitted that this proposal was to mollify the right in order to get the amnesty aka guest worker program through a joint Senate-House Conference Committee.

President Bush's real agenda is clear: to continue the flood of cheap, illegal labor by granting them amnesty in the guise of some totally unenforceable guest worker program.

And he wonders why his polls have plummeted to 29 percent. And why his base is dissolving on a daily basis.

In the post-9/11 era, who would ever have thought a so-called conservative Republican war president would allow hundreds of thousands of foreigners to stream across our borders with virtual impunity? And that once they were here, they would go unpunished and, in fact, be rewarded for their actions by ultimately paying no penalty for their lawbreaking?

So, here is the thinking in this Bush White House: It is the conservatives who are blocking the immigration issue. So Bush will throw them a measly little bone: the illusion of beefed-up border security.

And that is all this is: an illusion.

This is yet another phony, cosmetic Bush ploy to try to keep his base with him.

Are true-blue conservatives so gullible as to fall for this?

If GW Bush was sincere, he would be genuinely outraged over these people illegally crossing into our country. He would do whatever it takes to stop it, including using U.S. Army troops on the ground, building a fence and employing the Coast Guard and Air Force.

He would make the top priority of his administration a simple one to articulate: We are going to seal our borders – period!

Furthermore, he'd launch the powers of his government to nail each and every employer hiring these people – and thus undercutting the law and the rights of American workers.

We have a system here – much of it for the benefit of the workers and enacted by lefties like Teddy Kennedy – which is being circumvented by this profusion of illegal workers. Minimum wages, Social Security and health insurance and other mandated rights and benefits all drive up the cost of labor. Employers are using illegals because they pay them off the books and scrimp on the pay and totally ignore the mandated benefits.

Ironically, Teddy Kennedy and the Left – aided yet again by another phony conservative, John McCain – are actually hurting the very same American workers and voters they always claim to want to help!

No wonder the bottom has dropped out in all polling for virtually all members of the political establishment of both parties. The American people are disgusted by everything that is happening in politics today. This immigration issue, Iraq, the gas prices and Katrina have soured the nation.

President Bush's credibility is virtually gone. Monday night's speech is not going to help his poll numbers; it is going to accelerate their further decline because he is trying to disguise his real position.

Leadership means staking out a position – and then trying to convince the people that they should follow. It does not mean trying to ‘buy' off one side with a phony bone so that you can adopt another agenda.

Mr. Bush is paying a steep price for assuming that his ‘base' – the right – would stick with him no matter what.

Indeed, it is this base that is now deserting him and driving down his poll numbers into Nixonesque territory. And those poll numbers weaken his ability to get a GOP Congress to do what he wants.

Tonight's speech will be yet the latest example of a president with the wrong plan to fix a serious problem – and an unhappy base that is rapidly losing fath in his presidency.

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