The Goat Pen

First Wife Ann wrote:The actual Republican Establishment –- political consultants, The Wall Street Journal, corporate America, former Bush advisers and television pundits -- are exhorting Mitt Romney to flip-flop on his very non-Establishment position on illegal immigration.

Both as governor of Massachusetts and as a presidential candidate, Romney has supported a fence on the border, E-Verify to ensure that employees are legal and allowing state police to arrest illegal aliens. He is the rare Republican who recognizes that in-state tuition, driver's licenses and amnesty are magnets for more illegal immigration.

These positions are totally at odds with Establishment Republicans who pander to the business lobby by supporting the cheap labor provided by illegal immigration, and then accuse Americans opposed to a slave labor class in America of racism. If this continues, America will become California and no Republican will ever be elected president again. Big business doesn't care and Establishment Republicans are too stupid to notice.

If you're not sure how you feel about illegal immigration, ask yourself this: "Do I have a nanny, a maid, a pool boy, a chauffeur, a cook or a business requiring lots of cheap labor that the rest of America will have to subsidize with social services to make up for the wages I'm paying?" Press "1" to answer in English.

If the answer is "no," illegal immigration is a bad deal for you. Cheap labor is cheap only for the employer.

Today, 70 percent of illegal immigrant households collect government benefits -- as do 57 percent of all immigrant households -- compared to 39 percent of native households.

Immigrant households with the highest rate of government assistance are from the Dominican Republic (82 percent), Mexico and Guatemala (tied at 75 percent), based on the latest available data from 2009. Immigrant households least likely to be on any welfare program are from the United Kingdom (7 percent).

British immigrants aren't picking the tomatoes Karl Rove doesn't want his son to pick. (That's how he justified Bush's amnesty proposal.)

Professor Tiger wrote:Romney is the R Establishment. Ann Coulter is the pin up girl/dominatrix of the R Establishment.

No conservative is buying this attempt to distance Romney from his base for one minute.

When it suits him, Romney will turn 180 degrees and adamantly support amnesty for illegals. That's what he does.

When it suits him, Romney will turn 180 degrees and adamantly support amnesty for illegals. That's what he does.

sardis wrote:I guess the guy is now just old and senile...

http://news.investors.com/article/60904 ... change.htm

Professor Tiger wrote:As always, George Will (Peace Be Upon Him) nails it. In this case, he nails the fiscal insanity of the state government of Illinois. Will (Peace Be Upon Him) was born and raised here.

http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op ... insolvency