The election returns are in; Republicans have lost the majority in both the House and Senate for the first time in twelve years. Whatever previous reciprocal arrangements you may have had with Republican leaders in both houses of congress to stay out of each others' spheres of power are now null and void. If you are to salvage your legacy it is now up to you, and you alone, to seize that opportunity. It will do you no good to look for help from those who are now assuring you that if you only "go along" with the new majority's policies your place in history will be viewed in a positive light. Those are false voices, Mr. President.
Your party did not lose the 2006 election only because of the war in Iraq; Sen. Lieberman won re-election while so-called conservatives drafted by Democrats also won. Republicans lost, Mr. President, in large part through the refusal of many in the GOP, including you, to recognize how deeply the American people resent the invasion of illegal aliens that your administration has been so reluctant to prevent. It's true that illegal immigration is a sticky issue, but attempting to secure votes with a "path to citizenship" scheme was properly read by the majority of Americans as yet another blank check to be cashed in the future by non-citizens setting foot on our land in defiance of our law who will then demand "reform" which includes amnesty.
You can begin today to rebuild your party and your legacy by refusing to approve any congressional bill which would grant amnesty to illegal aliens. The massive, undocumented flow of people across our borders presents the most visible and immediate threat to national security; taking emergency steps to quell the invasion would assure the citizens of America that you're as committed to protecting the nation's security as you were on the day the World Trade Center was destroyed.
There is absolutely no defense for you to fall back on in allowing dozens upon dozens of hospitals and emergency rooms across America to close due to the financial holocaust forced upon them by the cost of treating people in this country illegally. These medical establishments no longer exist for the common good of your fellow citizens, Mr. President. You and others who have forced unfunded mandates upon the various states and local communities have no defense in allowing the status quo to continue. None, Mr. President.
While school districts beg for more funding your administration continues to burden them with the ruinous cost of educating the children of illegal immigrants. Those who advocate the same failed amnesty policies of your predecessors have no defense for telegraphing to other countries that they can solve their economic problems by dumping those problems onto the people of the United States; and you surely undermine the trust of those who voted you into office by ignoring a policy that tells them that children of illegal immigrants are due a free education at the taxpayers' expense. Wouldn't it be morally right and politically savvy for Republicans to advocate financial relief for our own citizens living in poverty while at the same time securing our borders against the ongoing invasion of those who have no right to be here?
Therefore, Mr. President, when immigration reform again becomes the issue of the day stand firm with the majority of Americans who demand that America's domestic and financial security be safeguarded. Refuse any immigration policy that is a real or perceived amnesty, for anything less will signal untold millions more outside our borders that the quickest path to citizenship and American largesse is by stepping over those patiently following our laws. Most galling to millions of us is seeing our government assisting the massive violation of our laws to the detriment of would-be immigrants patiently and lawfully following those same laws. The persistent problem of illegal immigration and the depth of America's feelings regarding the correct way to deal with it is something you cannot afford to misjudge again, Mr. President.
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