More On The Corsi Foolishness
Last night I blogged on a column that is so ridiculous that its author has permanently discredited himself. We see a pattern here that developed on Harriet Miers, on Terri Schiavo, and on the Gang of 14 deal, among others – the President’s supposed ‘supporters’ get so fired up over one issue among dozens that they attempt to outdo each other with apocalyptic rhetoric that does nothing but alienate the very voters we need in 2006 and 2008.
So you end up with garbage like this. Jerome Corsi is the author’s name, but if you prefer to call him the Village Idiot, I won’t object. Dr. Steven Taylor at the excellent Poliblog has more:
Part of this, of course, is the typical response from US isolationists who see any international trade regime to be the US “surrendering its sovereignty.” However, as I like to point out about organization like the WTO, which is also seen by many as a group to which we have “surrendered sovereignty”: whose rules primarily shape the functioning of the WTO? The answer: ours. Further, could the US leave the WTO if it so wanted? Answer: yes. As such, the degree to which we have engaged in some alarming “surrender of sovereignty” is highly, highly questionable.
Even if we assume that the US is pursuing an EU-like structure for North America (which it isn’t), then does anyone in the class have any idea who would be the hegemonic power that would dominate such a North American Union? Yes, you in the back? Correct! That would be the United States. The power disparities among the US, Mexico and Canada mean that something like the EU is utterly impossible in North America.
Indeed, anyone who think that Canada and Mexico want to surrender real sovereignty to the US for such an organization doesn’t know much about inter-American relations.
Further, the notion that this could all be done in secret, and then unveiled by the President to the shock of the American people is utter nonsense.
Let me state once again that I understand that there are legitimate fears about immigration, and I couldn’t agree more that we have to start, at a bare minimum, enforcing the laws that are already on the books.
Let me state once again that I understand that there are legitimate fears about immigration, and I couldn’t agree more that we have to start, at a bare minimum, enforcing the laws that are already on the books.Mass deportation of existing illegals, though, is political suicide. Joe Klein is right on the money:
George W. Bush’s position on immigration has been consistent and honorable, even when he was clawing his way toward the Republican nomination in 2000, facing conservative audiences who inevitably asked hostile questions about the Mexicans coming across the border. “They just want the same thing for their families as you want for yours,” Bush would say—and his empathy paid off in the general elections, in which he won 35% of the Latino vote in 2000 and 40% in 2004. He stood by his principles again last week in his prime-time speech, promising to make a greater effort to protect the border while refusing to cave to conservative pressure against a pathway toward citizenship for the 12 million illegals already here. It can be argued that the position Bush took wasn’t very courageous: vast majorities of Americans support it. About 65% favor either a guest-worker program or simple legalization of current illegals, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll. But it is never easy going against your party’s base. For a Democrat, the equivalent would be opposition to affirmative action.
As for the ideas of Mr. Corsi, well, they belong in the ‘esoteric’ bin, with histories of the Rosicrucians, Templars, Illuminati, and the Grand Poobah…maybe Corsi can get a job writing the sequel to the Da Vinci Code with Dan Brown…
As for the ideas of Mr. Corsi, well, they belong in the ‘esoteric’ bin, with histories of the Rosicrucians, Templars, Illuminati, and the Grand Poobah…maybe Corsi can get a job writing the sequel to the Da Vinci Code with Dan Brown…
Maybe you’re right. Maybe mass deportation of illegal aliens would be political suicide. But enforcing the laws against employing illegals and making it painfully expensive (say, fines of $25,000 per day, per worker) to do so would certainly give any business owner pause before hiring them. And that would help dry up the pool of employers exploiting illegals with sub-standard pay and working conditions. And denying federal and state welfare and medical benefits (except for emergency treatment) would help dry up the pool of prospective employees willing to be exploited that way. And if we do those two things, it might even force employers to pay better wages and offer benefits and better working conditions for those “jobs that Americans won’t do.”
fatman, believe me, I’m all for enforcing the existing laws – and that includes business owners…
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