Lou Dobbs is Off His Rocker
So, for those of you who don't know who Lou Dobbs is, he's CNN's chief anti-establishment pundit who has made his career around attacking immigration in the United States. Anyone who drifts even close to allowing "amnesty" to undocumented workers in the United States is righteously flamed by Dobbs. He's a one-issue commentator, but that doesn't stop him from beating that drum over and over and OVER again.
So in today's Dobb's screed, he stated that "George W. Bush is a one-world neo-liberal." WTF? The man who chose unilateral action over UN approval; the man who came to define "neo-CON", is now both one world and neo-liberal? But of course, it comes down to one issue:
"President Bush has pressed hard for the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the first step toward a North American Union that will threaten our sovereignty. This administration has permitted American businesses to hire illegal aliens, encouraged the invasion of 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens and has given Mexico and corporate America dominion over our borders and our immigration policy" and;
"A vote is likely in the weeks ahead, and this Democratic-controlled Senate is the same institution whose leadership sought passage of the disastrous comprehensive immigration overhaul legislation."
Sure, I hate the president just as much as Dobbs (or the next guy) but does it always have to be about assaults on our sovreignty? We are a nation of immigrants, and while I favor clarifying and cleaning up immigration law, I don't think dedicating all our law resources to kicking any undocumented worker out of the States is addressing the root cause or going to fix the problem. Punish companies who exploit undocumented laborers, offer an path to citizenship for undocumented workers (because that will secure rights for them and ensure the tax money is coming in for the gov't - good for everyone) and most importantly ABANDON THE XENOPHOBIC, ISOLATIONIST MENTALITY IN THE FACE OF GLOBALISM that characterizes both the Bush adminsistration and Dobbs himself.
Welcome to the twenty-first century Lou.
So, for those of you who don't know who Lou Dobbs is, he's CNN's chief anti-establishment pundit who has made his career around attacking immigration in the United States. Anyone who drifts even close to allowing "amnesty" to undocumented workers in the United States is righteously flamed by Dobbs. He's a one-issue commentator, but that doesn't stop him from beating that drum over and over and OVER again.
So in today's Dobb's screed, he stated that "George W. Bush is a one-world neo-liberal." WTF? The man who chose unilateral action over UN approval; the man who came to define "neo-CON", is now both one world and neo-liberal? But of course, it comes down to one issue:
"President Bush has pressed hard for the Security and Prosperity Partnership, the first step toward a North American Union that will threaten our sovereignty. This administration has permitted American businesses to hire illegal aliens, encouraged the invasion of 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens and has given Mexico and corporate America dominion over our borders and our immigration policy" and;
"A vote is likely in the weeks ahead, and this Democratic-controlled Senate is the same institution whose leadership sought passage of the disastrous comprehensive immigration overhaul legislation."
Sure, I hate the president just as much as Dobbs (or the next guy) but does it always have to be about assaults on our sovreignty? We are a nation of immigrants, and while I favor clarifying and cleaning up immigration law, I don't think dedicating all our law resources to kicking any undocumented worker out of the States is addressing the root cause or going to fix the problem. Punish companies who exploit undocumented laborers, offer an path to citizenship for undocumented workers (because that will secure rights for them and ensure the tax money is coming in for the gov't - good for everyone) and most importantly ABANDON THE XENOPHOBIC, ISOLATIONIST MENTALITY IN THE FACE OF GLOBALISM that characterizes both the Bush adminsistration and Dobbs himself.
Welcome to the twenty-first century Lou.
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