Posted by
KsReaganite on Thursday, July 01, 2010 2:45:47 PM
If hypocrisy is staple in politics, then it certainly is doubly so in media and business, it would appear. Take the case of Rupert Murdoch, the effective ruler of the News Corporation empire that owns Fox News and New York Post. The Australian-American media mogul has become a key corporate supporter of immigration reform and makes no bones about telling everyone that the media should play a role in pushing for that reform while his own Fox News and
NY Post are the loudest opponent of this reform. Talk about talking from multiple sides of your mouth.
The fact is that President Obama, for all his promises, was key to wrecking immigration reform in 2006 when as a Senator he held up the compromise bill at the insistence of the labor unions. Those same unions are also responsible for creating problems for this year’s bill, if there is one, by their insistence that guest worker programs be severely curtailed. Just as he claims Republicans have been obstructing, he should admit the less-than-noble part played in the game by his own side. Only with such candor, can we reach for a bipartisan solution based on truth, commonsense, and compassion.
Like my hero Ronald Reagan, I have very little sympathy for populist outbursts of paranoia. The hard facts are recognized by real conservatives like Jeb Bush, Richard Land, and Chris Christie. Our national security, business capacity, and constitutional integrity demands reform that is faithful to our culture of freedom and improves our security and economic capabilities. If the President truly means to accomplish immigration reform, he has to engage and be willing to risk a lot of his political capital and lead by example for those who have much more to lose politically than he does in a year that had Congressional elections coming up.