The Gang of Eight - Sounds like Mao's Communist Backers

And will try, like Mao, to bring down America. m/r

Radio Derb Transcript  by John Derbyshire April 13, 2013
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Gang of Eight seals America's fate.     It is depressing to turn from a public figure of that stature, that integrity, to the worms and lice in charge of America's affairs today.

The so-called Gang of Eight can be taken as representative. These are the four Democrat and four Republican senators who have cooked up a fifteen hundred page amnesty bill they intend to ram through Congress before anyone's had a chance to read it. My VDARE.com colleague Nicholas Stix has opined that in an America that hadn't lost her way, they'd be publicly hanged — a point of view to which I'm entirely sympathetic.

The objectives of the bill are perfectly plain to anyone who's paid attention. The big lobbyists who keep Washington, D.C.'s high-end restaurant industry afloat work for businesses that prefer cheap, compliant foreign workers to the more expensive, more rambunctious American sort. When these lobbyists crack the whip, congresscritters of all parties jump.

That's most of what's going on ... Democrats are drooling at the prospect of twenty to thirty million new citizens who will vote two to one Democrat. That's not to mention the hundred million, two hundred million, who knows? further Democratic voters these new citizens will bring in via chain migration. ...

... And to those cynical souls who ask impertinently why we should believe the feds will enforce all these wonderful new laws, when they have been wilfully refusing to enforce the old ones, the Gang of Eight reply that this time we really mean it. Honest Injun!

And we all believe them, don't we, America? … Don't we? 

Sessions for President!     In fairness to our federal lawmakers, not all of them are lying, traitorous, venal, worthless, scum-sucking bottom-feeders with their slimy hands in our pockets. Most are, but not all.

Here's one of the exceptions: Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. On Monday, after the Gang of Eight had generously allowed us a quick peek at their fifteen hundred page bill, Senator Sessions put out a list of ten questions he had for them.
The list runs to nearly two thousand words, so I'll leave you to read it for yourselves. We posted in on VDARE.com on Tuesday. Here's just a very brief executive summary, just the headings, of Senator Sessions' ten questions.

1. Is this bill enforcement first or legalization first?
2. What are the concrete metrics used to measure border security?
3. Does the bill complete the border fence and secure all ports of entry?
4. Who gets amnesty and how many?
5. How will the bill impact American workers and wages?
6. Is the guest worker program truly temporary?
7. Does the bill put a stop to sanctuary cities and resume cooperation with local law enforcement?
8. How does the bill guarantee that the Administration will not ignore future laws as it has with the laws already on the books?
9. How does the bill ensure that federal public charge law is enforced and that illegal immigrants do not access the welfare state through the granting of green cards and citizenship?
10. What is the long-term cost of the bill?

There are ten questions the ruling class does not want to hear asked, you may be sure; and which, if they are asked, will be answered with shameless and — if you'll pardon the expression — comprehensive dishonesty.

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