Of course, who’s to say that the information wasn’t deliberately leaked, given that the Bush administration is weak on immigration in order to please the business community.

This was pathetic if it was meant only for show at the most superficial, ridiculously ineffective level. Who on the right or non-left would take this seriously, the kind of fools who believe Romney or Giuliani are “true, honest-to-goodness conservatives”?

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So: Gutierrez and Chertoff have already come out and promoted “reform” after the announcement, with the second saying:

“We have been crystal clear [presumably to employers] about what the consequences would be… I’m not a lawmaker, but I presume at some point somebody’s going to take a look and say we’ve got to find a way to address this problem, and that’s probably going to require some legal changes… this is not an effort to punish Congress…”

If they get a panic going in business and then get a panic going in the public, through the use of the media, they could appear to sway opinion in their favor.

I already see a sort of panic on the rise anyway. The economy appears to be correcting itself to all of the scams and lawlessness.

We’ve run up the price of our homes just like we did stock in the thirties. We were willing to out-borrow the next. It works okay on the way up. Not so great on the way down.

Then you’ve got the presses running full speed to finance all of the wars.

I have seen this sort of article over and over recently.

If this is a trick, I would expect a huge backlash to follow their actions.

And if it is just a tactic, it is a very dangerous tactic and the streets are no longer as safe as they were two days ago.

They had no right allowing the situation to get like this or play these games with our lives.