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Dobbs and O’Reilly stump for ID card and push for Immigration Reform

RINO Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC running lead on comprehensive immigration reform along with his liberal friend Senator Chuck Schumer, D-NY, is calling for among other things a national ID card to stem the flow of illegal immigration with comprehensive immigration reform the final goal. They are not alone. On the O’Reilly Factor Tuesday evening, host Bill O’Reilly said he favored a National ID Card citing among other things the additional taxes that would be collected through reduced fraud and called it a “moneymaker for the US”. He said he wanted it “fast -tracked and done this year. On Illegal Immigration though he did not believe the Obama Administration had the political cajones (my words not his) to actually put forth a bill in the current environment, especially with Healthcare on the bubble.

Guest Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN disagreed and said he was putting the Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill on his calendar for six weeks out. A scary thought. Dobbs, a media firebrand credited with bringing Illegal Immigration to the forefront of the political debate “reluctantly agreed” with O’Reilly on the National ID Card. “For the same reasons I supported REAL ID, I support this.” He said. Privacy concerns are no doubt taking a back seat here.

O’Reilly has been Mr. Compromise throughout the debate on illegal immigration. In 2007 he said at one point that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, otherwise known as The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act (talk about spin), was the best we were going to get. While I sincerely respect O’Reilly I would be reluctant to have him represent my interests in a negotiation. Amnesty for 12-20 million illegal immigrants wasn’t even close t o the best we could hope to obtain.

The real surprise was Dobbs. Considered by most to be an illegal immigration hardliner he used the “C” word (compromise) more than once saying it is time to get something done and in other words the fringe players on the right and left need to come to the table and play nice.

Really Lou? If I didn’t know better I’d swear that sounds like the words of a budding politician. Since when do you begin a negotiation in the middle? The strength of the argument presented by the hard left and right drive the debate one way or another. Those in the middle are there because as Sean Hannity says “they stand for nothing.” Don’t get me wrong. Hannity hasn’t done us any favors either on illegal immigration but when you’re right…you’re right.

So as talk show pundits and political prognosticators start ramping up for a coming show-down on illegal immigration, RINO’s on the right and Donkey’s on the left are lining up to kiss the Messiah’s ring. It is all a big show, a game if you will, where the American people are always the ones who lose. Truth be told, I've seen streetwalkers in Vegas with more class and better business sense than many members of congress...