Kos Diarists of the Right

More evidence that the spirit of the Angry Left pervades the Angry Right:

1. Steven Sailer has never been noted for responsible rhetoric, but one now needs to change only a few words to enlist him in the “Bush=Hitler” brigade:

Why is Bush doing this? I have suggested that his motives are dynastic—that he is selfishly sacrificing the GOP to build a family vehicle . . . Brenda Walker speculates he is a “MexiChurian Candidate.”

What he is not is an American patriot.

Earlier in the same screed, Sailer insinuates that Donald Rumsfeld routinely passes on military secrets to the Mexican army, which supposedly “has staged hundreds of incursions onto American soil while escorting Mexican drug and immigrant smugglers” (all covered up by the “Bush crime family” and its minions, I suppose).

2. Picking up where Sailer left off, Thrasymachus, a fervent admirer of his work, gives us another Kos meme:

Why does Bush try so hard to betray America? He is clearly not a Soviet spy—the Soviet Union no longer exists. . . .

Is he a Mexican spy though? Normal Americans might laugh at the idea that there is some “Mexican sympathizer” equivalent to “Soviet sympathizer.”

But from the point of view of a Bush, maybe it’s not so bad. Maybe a nation where the wealthy elite lord it over a poor peasant class appeals to him. Servants are cheaper and better behaved in Mexico. It’s always clear just for whom the laws exist and are enforced in Mexico. Bush looks south and sees a paradise.

Perhaps Vincinte [sic] Fox has promised Bush a retirement villa in Mexico where he’ll be able to live like a god, among people who know how to treat men of status. Maybe Fox has promised that he can be governor of Texas again after the annexation, who knows?

3. Not in a league with lunatics like these, but disconcerting nonetheless, is this assertion by a Republican Senator who doesn’t often spout nonsense:

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) today unveiled an impact analysis that shows the Senate immigration bill – should it become law – would permit up to 217.1 million new legal immigrants into the United States over the next 20 years, a number equal to 66 percent of the total current population of the United States.

Even if the maximum levels are not reached, the increase to the U.S. population caused by S. 2611 will be at least 78.7 million in 20 years, just over 25 percent of the total current population. This lower estimate assumes that the bill’s escalating caps on certain visas will not increase at all over the next 20 years; if the bill’s caps are hit each year, the total number will be the higher estimate.

Ahem. Senator Sessions’ “lower estimate” is three-quarters of the current population of Mexico. His upper bound exceeds the combined populations of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Venezuela and Colombia. Does he envision a vast empty quarter stretching from the Rio Grande to the headwaters of the Amazon? (And where will George W. Bush, progenitor of this mass migration, find the bevy of servants to wait on him at his retirement hacienda?)

Yet Power Line, widely regarded as among the crème de la crème of right-of-center blogs, uncritically repeats this preposterous projection and offers it as a reason why “No Senator who votes for this proposal, regardless of party, should be re-elected in November.”

This venting has passed the stage where one can attribute it to ordinary political overheating. If others are going to indulge in conspiracy theories, so shall I: What would it cost George Soros to hire a couple of hundred articulate leftists, instructing them to defend conservatism fiercely and effectively for several years, then, once their credibility on the Right, was established, mass together to drive a wedge through the Republican Party and splinter it beyond repair?

That strikes me as at least as plausible as President Bush’s personal political dynasty and retirement villa in Mexico.

Comments

[Tom Veal]

I had supposed that Steve Sailer and I agreed on one thing – that current U.S. border security is ineffective – albeit we drew different conclusions from that datum. Now I learn from his comment that he actually believes that the current system is so efficiently prophylactic that, if it were to be replaced by President Bush’s proposed guest worker program, the immigration rate would rise to several times its present level!

The total U.S. immigrant population, legal and illegal, is currently under 40 million. Senator Sessions, seconded by Mr. Sailer, supposes that at least twice, and perhaps more than five times, that number will arrive over the next 20 years if immigration restrictions are liberalized. The implication is that the existing enforcement regime has thwarted the great majority of potential immigrants. A corollary is that improving its record will require the deployment of vastly greater resources. In almost any project, 80 percent of the effort goes into producing the last 20 percent of results. Why the Angry Right thinks that it is would be a good idea to divert men and money from fighting Islamofascism to keeping workers away from employers mystifies me.

[Steve Sailer]

"Does he envision a vast empty quarter stretching from the Rio Grande to the headwaters of the Amazon?"

The Senate bill's "temporary worker program" is not restricted to Mexicans. According to the CIA World Factbook, there are currently 4,976,000,000 people living in countries with lower average per capita incomes than Mexico. I would predict that most of the guest workers would come from Asia, as was seen in the Northern Mariana Islands guest worker scandal, of Jack Abramoff notoriety.