Posted on 04/29/2006 4:53:59 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
April 29, 2006
Give Ellen Ratner credit for consistency - if not for logic. For the second week running Ratner used her 'Long & Short of It' platform on Fox & Friends Weekend to tout her solution to the immigration problem - sheer surrender in the form of 'open borders'. Here is Ratner's rant on the same subject from last week's show.
Ratner: "I want to say again . . . I know it gets a lot of mail, why I am in favor of really having open borders between Canada and Mexico, because there is not going to be a way -- you will have lots of -- "
A palpably shocked Kiran Chetry, hosting the segment, interjected: "Open borders? Who else is saying open borders besides you?"
Ratner: "I may be the only one in the world. I will continue to say it."
Ratner's conservative counterweight, Newsday and TCS columnist Jim Pinkerton, explained the consequences of Ratner's proposal:
"If we have open borders we won't have a country. America will cease to exist. The 250-year experiment in democracy will stop. I disagree with you Ellen. I think most people do. Most Democrats do."
Ratner had no reply to Pinkerton's seemingly unassailable logic, focusing instead on the politics of the matter: "I understand most Democrats want an election-year issue. Face it. You can have all the power point presentations [you want] about closing borders and if you need people to pick . . . tomatoes they will come through. Period."
By the way, to answer Kiran's question, I can cite at least one other person promoting open borders. On last week's edition of 'Right Angle,' the public-access TV show I host in Ithaca, a Cornell campus radical, Danny Pearlstein, also advocated open borders.
He even managed to up the anarchistic ante on Ellen, taking the position that not only should we open our borders, we shouldn't screen people for criminal backgrounds . . . or even for being active members of Al-Qaida! Now, I wouldn't expect Ratner would go that far, but these are the eccentric circles in which Ellen swims!
Fox & Friends Weekend/NewsBusters ping.
The Dems and RINOs may not have the guts to come right out and say it, but that's what they're supporting.
"Ratner: "I may be the only one in the world. I will continue to say it.""
No dear, the nice folks over at the CFR beat you by years. They must have needed someone to start honking the totally open borders theme and picker Ratner.
Bush is so concerned about the borders of Iraq 10,000 miles away and he ignores the borders IN our own country.
I bet he get's an eye-opener on Monday.
I'd bet he knows exactly what will happen, and will continue to keep quiet about it. Being the *globalist* that he is, he doesn't care what the 'sheeple' think, as long as the results suit his goals.
Didn't work for France. But if 43 and the RINOs aren't educable, the party'll pay for it at the ballot box.
Ellen Ratner need to have that bottle taken from in front of her and have a frontal lobotomy.
Ellen Ratner is a fool.
He certainly will. Monday is going to change this nation.
Right on....... and George is a tool too.
It's all theatre.
No it's not. And you know it.
This needs to be repeated again and again, the MSM must stop saying May 1 is the "great American march" There is absolutely NOTHING Great about this militant defiant act of terroism!
Think back in history who marched into countries and took them over?
On March 15,1935
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-rhine.htm
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF???
That's what is happening on May 1 here in the Free World, these illegal aliens and all their suppporters which includes leaders of a third world country to march in defiance of all we hold dear and no one is denouncing or stopping them!!
Amnesty by any other name...
It's going to be a very upsetting mid-term election for the GOPers and RINOs, this November, IMO.
You appear to be one of those with a shoe-size IQ who will replace the GOP because they give you what you don't want, with Democrats, who will give you MORE of what you don't want.
The good news is that the Pubbies at least have a history of learning from their mistakes. Which is why I may very well pulling the lever for some Dems in November.
And you too. If you put in the Democrats, you will have to live with it, too.
LOL!! You are punishing yourself.
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