Abe Lincoln: right once more
No issue discussed in this column has brought in so much virtually unanimous mail, so full of outrage, as the issue of amnesty for illegal aliens living in this country….
The media, the politicians, and the intelligentsia may all be overwhelmingly on the opposite side but the people will prevail. That is how bilingual education was defeated at the polls in California and why the amnesty bill is now dead in the United States Senate. Make no mistake about it. The elites always think they know better, that the public’s views are just mindless stereotypes or ugly prejudices.
They think we can always be fooled with a little rhetoric and clever political spin. Sometimes these elites succeed in confusing the issues and pulling a fast one on the public. But, as Abraham Lincoln said long ago, “You can’t fool all the people all the time.”…
The other big insult to our intelligence was the claim that amnesty is not amnesty when you call it something else. But, when the people didn’t buy it, the politicians had to stop selling it.
Outside of the ridiculous claim of Congressional privilege by Hastert and Jefferson to cover up Jefferson’s felonies, nothing has seemed as offensive of late as the nabobs of Washington lecturing the people on the subject of illegal immigration — and that goes for President Bush as well as John “Banana” McCain.