The really good news about Obama’s assault on Arizona and its SB1070 law is captured in both the headline and the lead of this report by the very Politically Correct Associated Press:
“As Dems lay low, GOP hits Obama on Arizona lawsuit
“WASHINGTON -- Republicans denounced the Obama administration's challenge of Arizona's new immigration law Tuesday, a fresh sign they may try to paint Democrats this fall as soft on illegal border crossings. [VDARE.COM comment: whaddya mean, “try”?]
“While Democrats stayed largely quiet, a host of Republicans said the federal government has no business challenging Arizona's new law. Slated to be implemented July 29, it would require state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic stops.
“ ‘If the president wants to make real progress on this issue, he can do so by taking amnesty off the table and focus his efforts on border and interior security,’ said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky….
“They included House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio. He said the federal government should not sue Arizona but should help it and other states ‘stop the crime and lawlessness along the border.’
“Top Democratic elected officials had little to say, leaving the defense of Obama's move to liberal allies such as the ACLU.”
[By Charles Babington, July 6. 2010] (links added)
The immigration issue, which immigration enthusiasts have fought desperately to keep bipartisan (and thus out of the reach of American voters), is finally precipitating out on party lines.
It’s not that Republican elected officials want to take a strong stand on illegal immigration, legal immigration or anything else for that matter. McConnell and Boehner, quoted above, are the single most important reason not one congressional Republican can be found to introduce a “Time Out” or moratorium bill in the teeth of record unemployment—even though they have no other ideas to reduce unemployment, and even though Senator Harry Reid (of all people) introduced one during the much less serious recession of the early 1990s.
