October 10, 2006
Bush Betrays Republican, Backs Open-Borders
Lieberman In CT Senate Race
From
Peter Gadiel
[Recently
by Peter Gadiel:
“I've Had Enough”—An Open Letter To President George W.
Bush]
In Connecticut, there's a three way
race for the US Senate seat now held
by Democrat Joe Lieberman. But the way many
Republicans are talking you'd think that there are only
two people running for the seat: Democrat Ned Lamont and
Almostrepublican sore loser
Joe Lieberman, whom he defeated in the Democratic
primary.
For some reason, many who profess
to be Republicans are
ignoring the fact that there is a Republican nominee
in the race:
Alan Schlesinger.
In a way, it's understandable. (I
write here as a
long-suffering Connecticut Republican.) For
decades the state's Republican Party has failed to
provide a clear philosophical alternative to the
McGovernite-dominated Democratic machine. Presenting
itself as nothing but me-too
Democrat lite, the Connecticut GOP has succeeded in
making itself an ever smaller, irrelevant minority.
With that long history of failure
and ineffectiveness, it's no surprise that national
Republicans might decide to bail out on a Connecticut
Republican whom they perceive as a no-hoper.
It's one thing, however, for
national Republicans to abandon one of their own. It's
quite another for them to pretend that a
liberal Democrat in the race is really not so bad
because he's "almost a Republican."
Well, I guess it depends on the
kind of Republican you are. If you're a
George W. Bush/US Chamber of Commerce Republican,
then yeah, Lieberman is your guy.
That's because Joe Lieberman shares
two beliefs with the Bushies:
Lieberman (recent Americans For
Better Immigration grade:
D-minus) stands at the furthest edge of the
opposition to secure borders. His votes in the Senate
permit no doubt that he favors giving all illegal
aliens, and the unknown violent felons and terrorists
among them, absolute freedom to enter the United States
and remain here unmolested while they carry out their
crimes. His record is so clear no one should be fooled.
In 2004, Lieberman was one of the
main obstacles in the Senate to passage of a 9/11
Commission Recommendations Act that would have included
meaningful border security and
document security provisions.
This is particularly ironic given
Lieberman is a prominent supporter of Israel, which is
intensely security-conscious and has actually
built a border fence that many of us regard as a
model for the U.S.
The 9/11 Commission emphasized that
the terrorists were able to carry out their mass murders
because they'd had
no difficulty entering our country—no problem
remaining here for up to two years while they planned,
rehearsed, financed and carried out their mass murders;
no difficulty obtaining at least
thirty-five authentic, US-issued drivers' licenses and
state IDs. (They used these licenses to obtain all
the goods and services they needed to hide in plain
sight among millions of other illegals.)
Consequently, the 9/11 Commission
recommended
"targeting terrorist travel" through
implementation of
biometric identity requirements for all those
crossing our borders—that is to say, actually verifying
the true identity of travelers—and passing legislation
to require that all applicants for US driving licenses
prove that they actually are the person whom they claim
to be.
The House of Representatives passed
HR 10, a bill that included these requirements. But
Lieberman would not permit that bill to go anywhere in
the Senate. He and Senators
John McCain (R-AZ) and Susan Collins (R-Maine)
introduced and won passage of S.2845, a bill that
contained impressive language about the need for secure
drivers' licenses but which made participation by the
States in the program strictly voluntary.
Lieberman's bill specifically
allowed any state that wished to do so to continue
issuing licenses to "undocumented,"
unknown aliens—possibly including the terrorists among
them. And, as if this language was not sufficiently
meaningless, Lieberman
added wording to the bill that allowed for groups
such as the
American Immigration Lawyers Association and other
"interested parties" to negotiate even the
voluntary standards into utter worthlessness.
Lieberman misrepresented to his
fellow Senators and the American public the true purpose
of his legislation. He claimed his bill would
"require minimum security standards for these documents."
(Congressional
Record, October 1, 2004, page S 10215) This
statement was a flat out lie.
As a result of Lieberman's devotion
to the Open Borders Lobby, his fraudulent
"9/11 Implementation Act" was the bill that was
signed into law by George Bush in December 2004.
Lieberman engaged in similar
misrepresentation about the border security measures of
his "9/11 Implementation Bill." All the
provisions of his bill that dealt with border security
affected only those travelers who legally crossed our
borders and bothered to submit to examination by a
Customs officer. There was absolutely nothing in
his bill that would have restricted the ability of
illegal aliens to cross our borders—nothing that
would have prevented the
next Mohammed Attas from crossing our borders any
time they chose.
Not content with this achievement,
Lieberman led the unsuccessful attempt in 2005 to defeat
the REAL ID Act, a secure driver's license bill with
teeth.
Lieberman has also been among the
most aggressive of those demanding many other benefits
besides drivers' licenses for illegals—benefits that are
the magnets that encourage aliens around the globe to
ignore our law and join the gravy train. He has, for
example,
championed the
DREAM Act that would give
in-state tuition to illegals at taxpayer supported
colleges.
As recently as September 29 he
proved himself among the most radical open borders
fanatic in the Senate by being one of only
19 Senators voting against construction of a fence
along the Mexican border.
George W. Bush and his
compadres in the national Republican Party have
established an interesting pattern in 2006 of destroying
selected Republican candidates. In addition to Alan
Schlesinger, other Republicans marked for defeat by
their own party include Stephen Laffey in the Rhode
Island Republican Senatorial primary and
Randy Graf, candidate in
Arizona's 8th Congressional District.
What these three Republicans have
in common is that they took strong positions in support
of border security.
Laffey's primary opponent, Lincoln
Chafee, was given the Bush/national party endorsement
despite being against
nearly everything Bush is for, including Bush
himself. (Chafee says he
wrote in the name of
George H.W. Bush.) There is almost nothing on which
Bush and Chafee agree.
"Ah," the Bush compadres
say, "Laffey is too conservative and can't win the
general election and we were forced to support Chafee."
Trouble with this logic is that Chafee is as wooden in
public appearances as a marionette. He is as
patrician as FDR but has the warmth of
Thomas Dewey. This is the Bushies' anointed
candidate. However, he's a committed Open Borders guy,
so he gets the national Republican seal of approval.
In Arizona, the Bush party has
heaved Randy Graf over the side even though he is the
Republican Party's candidate. If he loses, the seat goes
Democrat. But hey, that's okay with George and the US
Chamber because his opponent is an Open Borders clone of
Bush and McCain.
Back in Connecticut, poor Alan
Schlesinger, like Graf and Laffey made the mistake of
bucking Bush on border security, so he too gets the
heave-ho.
So all this talk about Lieberman
being "Almostrepublican," don't you buy it. What
he is is an Open Borders extremist.
And that, plus the Iraq War, is
what makes him acceptable to the Powers That Be in the
national Bush Party.
Peter Gadiel (email
him) is president of
9/11 Families
for a Secure America.
His son, 9/11 World Trade Center victim James
Gadiel (North Tower, 103rd floor),
was 23 at the time of his murder.
