You've GOT To Be Kidding....

Two noteworthy quotes on the immigration amnesty bill today.

First, the good one:

Oh, and this line from E.J. Dionne jumped out at me today:

The best way to guarantee the rights and wages of all Americans is to give every immigrant the opportunity to become a citizen, with all the rights and duties that entails.

E.J., some might think the best way to "guarantee the rights and wages of all Americans" is to enforce the law. Beyond that, think about what he's saying here - "every immigrant" - meaning anybody who can walk across the border, get on a plane, get on a boat, or find some way to get to American shores - can become a citizen.

I'm not a Malthusian, but come on, man. The United States can't take in everybody who wants to come here, not all at once.

Indeed. Methinks Steve Sandmeyer's long-lost identical twin has a point.

And now, the not-so-good quote:

This reform is complex. There's a lot of emotions around this issue. Convictions run deep. Those determined to find fault with this bill will always be able to look at a narrow slice of it and find something they don't like. If you want to kill the bill, if you don't want to do what's right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it, you can use it to frighten people. Or you can show leadership and solve this problem once and for all....

Um, that was the President of the United States. You know, the guy who used to be a "cowboy unilateralist anti-terror warrior" before he decided to start imbibing from the several pallets of cases of whatever it is Senator McCain has been drinking (strawberry daqueries?) that the doomed, has-been "maverick" must have shipped over to the White House.

Well, at least it washes down the pretzels.

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Hillary Clinton wants to raise taxes because she thinks it leads to "balanced budgets" and "economic growth." Does she also want to call for the Republican Congress that actually balanced those budgets? It would certainly never pass her tax increase, which actually would preserve economic growth.

Hillary! wants to seize Big Oil's investment capital, dictate CEO salaries on shareholders' behalf, and plunder any corporate resources that the above two pillagings leave behind. She believes this will promote energy independence. And, of course, economic growth.

Oh, and Ms. Rodham is bringing back her health-care nationalization, to be sure, including dictating health care advertising budgets and even what language they can use in their advertising. Because, you know, it'll promote economic growth, and healthy colons, or something.

And this woman is going to be the next president of the United States.

If you think last November was a harbinger of doom, that was just the sprig of parsley on the appetizer plate.

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Here's yet more proof of why there will never be peace in the Middle East:

An independent human rights expert called Tuesday for the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union to fully recognize the Palestinian government - including Hamas members - as an "indispensable requirement" to peace.

John Dugard, the UN Human Rights Council's investigator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said the Mideast Quartet has to treat both sides equally if it wants to broker a successful peace agreement.

Israel has consistently rejected Dugard's reports and statements as one-sided. In March he compared the Jewish state's treatment of Palestinians to apartheid - comments that drew strong criticism from Israeli officials, who called them "inflammatory and inciteful."

"In order to prevent another season of violence and to protect human rights in the region, the Quartet must intervene immediately in a fair and evenhanded manner," said Dugard, a South African lawyer. "This means the recognition of both Hamas and non-Hamas members of the Palestinian Government of National Unity."

If you want peace, you must first destroy those who wish to destroy you. This is the peace of survival. The above insanity is the peace of enslavement and death.

Whoever it was that said "Never again" about the Holocaust clearly had no idea of just how irresistably cyclical history really is.

And that includes the collateral damage.