I am greatly unimpressed by your exegesis.
Sorry, but George Bush and the Republican Party are going to pay dearly on this one.
They cannot dump 15 to 45 million Z1, Z2, and Z3 peasant laborers on the American public without consequence.
Your reference to Fred Thompson and the 1998 immigration bill is extremely disingenuous (there’s a lot of that coming from your side these days).
Fred Thompson did not foist that bill upon Americans, nor did he try to ramrod it through Congress, nor did he push it on four separate occasions despite overwhelming opposition from his Party or constituents, nor did he insult and berate them, and finally, he didn’t encourage Republican legislators to spit in the faces of their constituents in an effort to “show leadership and courage”.
These are all matters of principle and belief.
Dear angkor,
I am not approaching this as a religious text, although you are free to do so.
So come up with something that will work and win. Why not reform welfare and health care so that the illegal immigration problem becomes smaller?
And I think that you are being hypersensitive about Fred Thompson. Sister Toldjah pointed out something in that post. Fred’s a big man, he can take it. Let him win people over or not.
I think the point that she was making was that a lot of conservatives are fed up with the holier than thou attitudes on immigration.