For years I've defended the President to allies and adversaries alike, particularly when names like ‘moron' or ‘idiot' were bandied about. How could Bush be a moron, I argued, noting that he held degrees from both Harvard and Yale and that he was a qualified fighter pilot to boot. Frankly, I am now officially beginning to wonder if the likes of Jay Leno and David Letterman didn't have it right after all.
My wondering about the President's intellectual health stems from listening to his speech Monday night about how he plans to deal with immigration. If I heard him correctly, he is planning to station some 6,000 National Guard troopers along the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to stop illegal immigrants from sneaking in from Mexico. It's a noble sentiment, guarding your border with troops but the scheme begs several questions: are the Guard troops used along the border to be indigenous to the state in which the border they are guarding is located or is he planning to use Guard troops from, say Kansas to guard the border in California? Since these Guard troops will not be armed and will not have law-enforcement powers (something about that pesky posse comitatus law) what, exactly will their function be? Will Bush have to declare martial law in order for these troops to be able to do their job or will they merely function as observers? This being a temporary assignment until the U.S. border patrol is able to hire and train 6,000 new agents to work the southern borders, does Bush think that this is enough to do the job?
Given that there are some 12 million illegals currently in the country, most of whom are presumed to have entered the U.S. in the past 20 years, can a total of 18,000 boarder guards really do the job of keeping illegals out? Some rough math shows that on average there are some 600,000 illegals entering the U.S. per year, that the border is over 3,000 km long and that there are a total of about 6,000 border guards per eight hour shift available to guard the border (not counting weekends, holidays or sick leave for argument's sake). This means that on average there are over 1,600 illegals entering the U. S. every single day. Our theoretical 6,000 border guards, if strung out from one end of the border to the other, basically have a one-half km stretch of border each to guard. Does that sound like enough to stop 1,600 intruders each day?
Then there is the non-amnesty. Does Mr. Bush really believe that the 12 million illegals will all give themselves up voluntarily, apply for permanent status, pay back taxes (and don't forget interest and penalty), pay a set fine, learn English and then become citizens? If Mr. Bush were to answer in the affirmative to the above, then I think it's way past time to relieve him of his position of President, not through impeachment, but through the succession process in place when a President becomes to ill to govern. We'd be better off taking our chances with Dick Cheney (if he agrees to stop hunting).
Finally the act that Mr. Bush supports and that is currently before the Congress provides for an additional 200,000,000 new immigrants to enter the U.S. over the next two decades. That is an additional 60% of the current U.S. population, which if it isn't assimilated into the melting pot, will result in a massive balkanization of america.
If Mr. Bush really believes this will solve our immigration problems once and for all, he must be imbalanced and needs to be removed from office post-haste. If not, then the american people are the ones deserving of the epithet ‘moron'.
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