Encouraging News

A UPI Poll discovers that most Americans are against the proposed amnesty for illegal aliens:

UPI Poll: Most against immigration bill
WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- A clear majority of those asked in a UPI-Zogby International poll don't like the bipartisan immigration reform bill being considered by the U.S. Senate.
The measure, which has the support of the White House, would provide a path for the estimated 12 million illegal aliens in the United States to citizenship and would create a guest worker program.
Some 56.4 percent of U.S. participants in a June 15-18 Zogby interactive poll view the bill either very unfavorably (39.9 percent) or somewhat unfavorably (16.5 percent). Another 29.6 percent said they were somewhat favorable about it and 8 percent gave very favorable as an answer.

I hope that the clowns in Washington are paying attention. I could have told them this without needing a poll. It is amazing what a divide exists between most of the people in the country and the gnomes of Washington and New York. They don't understand what is going on in the heartland of America at all.

But I am reading that at least one senator understands:

It's not often a politician admits to making a mistake, but that's exactly what Sen. Charles E. Grassley says he did when he voted for the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens.
Twenty-one years later he has become one of the most steadfast opponents of amnesty and the strongest critic of the federal government's ability to handle a new legalization program.
"I was fooled once, and history has taught me a valuable lesson. Amnesties just don't work," the Iowa Republican wrote in a letter to his colleagues yesterday, telling them he is fulfilling a "duty to warn you of the mistakes" of passing yet another bill that would put illegal aliens on the path to citizenship — this time for an estimated 12 million to 20 million, far more than the 3 million from 1986.

You would think that this would be just basic common sense. If you make a mistake, you don't do it again. But thats too much to expect from most of the jackasses in Washington. They just don't get it. They don't understand that most Americans are fed up with illegal immigration.