Taranto Demonizes Pro-Law Opponents

The Wall Street Journal's incomprehensible pro-illegal immigration demagoguery continues. In his two most recent editions of "Best of the Web," Opinion Journal editor, James Taranto hits a variety of snarky notes and is clearly following the White House strategy, i.e. a campaign to marginalize opponents of the President's plan (which is, I believe, leaving stacks of blank "citizenship cards" on 7-11 counters across the Southwest), including the editors of conservative master-journal, National Review and supertalented, hawkish hotty, Michelle Malkin.

With menstrual zeal, Taranto lashes effeminately out at what he refers to as "the nativist right" complete with a race-baiting attack on Malkin, "who celebrates America's wartime excesses" as he claims, by having "actually written a book defending Franklin D. Roosevelt's internment of Japanese-Americans." He even links to a page on her site that makes a damned good argument, that even if not fully persuasive,* should at least preclude the pretentious indignation that Taranto affects to support his cowardly and well, weenie attack. I mean he sounds like effing Al Franken or something.

Don't get me wrong; I generally really enjoy Taranto and love the Journal. I haven't missed a "Best of the Web" in probably 5 years. But when it comes to the subject of illegal immigration, there is a truly bizarre logical disconnect on the part of the Journal and her editors. I don't know if it's just a raw pro-business bent, or some slavish devotion to the Bush White House. Certainly the former is preferable, but either way, it's incredibly wrong-headed. Taranto doesn't even offer the slightest hint of his preferred solution to the situation, although I imagine it won't be a whole lot different than whatever our misguided Commander-in-Chief comes up with.

I pray that my party and it's representatives return to American Reaganite conservatism sometime very, very soon. The world is scary enough without a suicidal subversion of our laws, sovereignty, and national borders.

*I personally have considered the internment of not just Japanese, but of the Germans and Italians that made up nearly half of internees, to be unfortunate, but totally justifiable, and at the very least, far, far from the historical atrocity it's been made out to be.

Alright, the Doctor's Been Out for Awhile

Strangely, or not, my first post back begins with a rail against President Bush, whom I generally like, but of whose shenanigans I am growing tired.

The fact that he surrenders the debate on immigration by referring to people, whose very first act upon entering our nation is a crime against our national sovereignty, as "undocumented" is as egregious as any misdeed he's commited since ascending to the presidency. I am growing absolutely nauseated by our party's representatives continual usage of such malicious euphemisms. What's next? Bank robbers as "unregistered customers" making "coercive, unauthorized withdrawals?"

The President and the Republican leadership's relentless equivocation in the debate and marginalizing of the opposition, i.e. their own base, by employing such canards as "America is a nation of immigrants" and "there are some who argue that we should deport all 12 million" is just so incredibly infuriating that I am truly starting to hope for a Republican drubbing this November. Pragmatically, I believe that would be a disaster, but screw 'em; let them learn a few G-ddamned lessons about representative leadership and there just might be a chance for some guys to come in and renew the Reagan Revolution; hopefully they'll bring their testicles along with them.

That the President has caused me to share feeling with seditious fruitcakes like Kos and MM , namely doubts about his sincerity and character, is very disturbing. Mr. President, of course you know that America is not a nation of illegal immigrants. But you seem to be doing your best to make it so.