Friday, May 25, 2007

Noonan on Immigration

Peggy Noonan writes for the OpinionJournal online, a part of the Wall Street Journal. Her view of immigration is certainly different than that of the WSJ's editors. The nut graph from her article says:

Naturally I hope the new immigration bill fails. It is less a bill than a big dirty ball of mischief, malfeasance and mendacity, with a touch of class malice, and it's being pushed by a White House that is at once cynical and inept. The bill's Capitol Hill supporters have a great vain popinjay's pride in their own higher compassion. They are inclusive and you're not, you cur, you gun-totin' truckdriver's-hat-wearin' yahoo. It's all so complex, and you'd understand this if you weren't sort of dumb.

Miss Peggy took a leave of absence to work for Republicans in 2004. When she says the White House is "at once cynical and inept," you know the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is in a world of hurt.