June 27, 2007
Mark Steyn isn't impressed
Mark Steyn nails what it is so disturbing about this slow-motion melt-down in the Senate.
There's something creepy about a political class so determined to impose a vast transformative bill cooked up backstage in metaphorically smoke-filled rooms on a nation that doesn't want it. It's an affront to republican government and quasi-European in its disdain for the citizenry.
It's hard to imagine Senator Trenthorn Lotthorn as an EU Commissioner but his position on this immigration bill is basically the same as that of Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and European "president", on the EU constitution. When asked what difference the referendum result in France would make, "President" Juncker replied:
If it’s a Yes, we will say ‘on we go’, and if it’s a No we will say ‘we continue’.
Same with the immigration bill. I think I say somewhere in my book that the first line of the European constitution is: "We the people agree to leave it to you the people who know better than the people."
That suits the US Senate, too. They'll teach this one as a textbook definition of "bipartisanship": both parties gang up on the electorate.
Why does this feel like the creation of a new-age ruling class, royalty for the 21st Century, if you will, dictating from on high how us plebs should leave the serious business of running the country to them.
Steyn's right; it is very European.
Pass the Brie and baguette, s'il vous plait?
Posted by Mike Lief at June 27, 2007 11:31 AM
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