Good question.
Anyone catch Condi Rice last night on the O'Reilly Factor? Bill questioned Rice about our Wide Open Borders. Below is the exchange:
O'REILLY: And this is national security. Polls say that 70 percent of Americans want the borders tightened up. The Bush administration hasn't done it.
Now you know (UNINTELLIGIBLE) put some more border patrol on there, but it's still a fairly open border for illegals and narcotics. Is there an explanation of why you guys wouldn't seal the border down?
RICE: Well, first of all, it's because we're an open country. And because we don't want to lose sight of who we are in what we do to protect ourselves. But I think if you talk to Tom Ridge, since the creation of the Homeland Security Department, and you talk to Tom Ridge about his relationships with his counterparts in Mexico and Canada, you would see tremendous progress on our perimeter.
O'REILLY: In what way? (UNINTELLIGIBLE) illegals in this country running around. We don't know who they are.
RICE: The focus on border control, the focus on in enhancing the borders, on technology borders -- you know President Bush was, of course, the governor of Texas. And he...
O'REILLY: And should know that he hasn't dealt with it successfully, with all due respect.
RICE: Bill, the fact of the matter is, as the president is fond of saying, family values don't stop at the Rio Grande.We've got to have a long-term plan also to make Mexico a more attractive place for Mexicans to work there.
O'REILLY: But if I'm an al Qaeda, I know I can get into Canada with phony I.D. I know I can sneak across the border, and I know I can get...
RICE: But it's a lot better than that. I mean, that's really not a reflection of the way that this is progressing. We have made tremendous progress with both Canada and Mexico on border control, on smart borders. Tom Ridge and his colleagues signed accords about a year and a half ago. They're using technology. We had excellent cooperation on the border between our...
O'REILLY: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) on the border. I agree with you on North Korea. I'm not sold on Iran. I think that they're going to do bad things. I'm certainly not sold on the border.
"Family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." is irrelevant.
As for: "The focus on border control, the focus on in enhancing the borders, on technology borders -- you know President Bush was, of course, the governor of Texas." ... what in the world is she yammering about? Technology borders?
I give up. I just plain ol' give up on this government.