Can Pence-Hutchison help save the GOP from itself?

Can Pence-Hutchison help save the GOP from itself? That is quite a headline from a liberally-biased newspaper like the Houston Chronicle. Those people really are hoping that the GOP continues with the way things are right now so that their buddies can get back into power.

A couple of quotes from the article from Craig Hines.

I agree with a Wall Street Journal editorial about every fifth Tuesday, give or take a decade, but only in months with a blue moon. I hold the hardly original view that they are most often brilliantly written and unfathomably wrong.

Now that does not surprise me in the least, liberals will never admit that someone else could be right unless they follow their talking points in lockstep.

Pence-Hutchison was near the top of my list of column topics anyway, so I'll use the Journal's welcome foray to chime in.
Pence-Hutchison is far from a perfect piece of legislation (and several nitpicks in a moment), but it is a serious attempt to move forward on a comprehensive approach to remedying the increasingly untenable status quo.

Quick side bar here, for those that do not know what he is talking about. Pence-Hutchison is the compromise legislation that has been proposed to deal with the immigration debate that is going on in congress. Here is the link to the Executive Summary and here is the Detailed Summary and finally here is what they want to do to Secure the Borders, and track those that enter the country legally. Granted the plan has it's questionable ideas, however it does close the borders and sets up a program for increased immigration and better controls on who is entering the US, It also provides an opportunity to the millions of illegals to stop living in fear and possibly earn a chance to gain citizenship.

What the House should do, of course, is pass the comprehensive Kennedy-McCain bill that cleared the Senate on a strong vote. It addresses border security as well as labor issues and regularizing the status of the 11 million or so illegals now in the United States. The path to citizenship it offers to some currently undocumented immigrants is stringent enough — including a fine — that in no way is it "amnesty." The Senate hoops also include a criminal background check, payment of any back taxes and English proficiency.

But House passage of Kennedy-McCain is not going to happen, if for no other reason than House Republican leaders will not let it come to the floor. No, those leaders, instead, are sponsoring a series of show hearings (yes, they're ludicrous, but I'll stifle the urge to use the adjective "Stalinesque") around the country, attempting to keep anti-immigrant sentiment at a now-to-November hard boil.

Shamefully, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., is baying at the head of the pack.

Oh, the article had potential until I got here. Look at what he is saying, pass legislation written by the biggest liberal in the Senate and the biggest panderer in the Senate. Yeah what they want does nothing to secure the borders, all it does if allow the Democrats the chance to pander to nearly 12 million voters, saying that they are the ones that got them citizenship. That and then the shameless liberal tactic of name calling but not calling some one a name.

Despite pleas from President Bush for a comprehensive immigration bill (such as Kennedy-McCain), the most vocal House Republicans are insisting that they will not retreat from the Berlin Wall approach in the legislation that their side of the Capitol has adopted. It's not hard to picture Hastert and House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., flying to the border to help affix the broken bottles that they seem to want to crown their cherished idea of a fence from the Gulf to the Pacific.
Given the House Republicans' attitude, you would think that illegal aliens were all gay married couples intent on opening abortion clinics where they will burn U.S. flags and resolutely refuse to say "under God" in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Ok, one more time Berlin Wall? broken Bottles? Illegals = Gay married couples. These 2 paragraphs are just proof that the liberal press does not want anything changed, nor do they want anyone held accountable for their actions. I could rant forever on those quotes but I chose to let them stand on their own level of maturity.

As drafted, the measure would require illegals to return home to apply for a guest-worker visa. There's no reason such paperwork could not be accomplished in this country (even if it's to be handled by private U.S. employment firms, which got the Journal's free-market juices flowing). Why would illegals take the chance that they would never be allowed back into the United States?
Pence-Hutchison's 17-year path to prospective citizenship is too long, feeding the idea that the labor market, rather than our nation's democratic principles, is driving the process.
So there are many issues to discuss, and House Republicans should get down to business.

And finally why should the time needed to get citizenship be 17 years, besides if Mr. Hines had carefully read the documentation and plans for the program he would realize that during the time these people are in this program, they can at any time go back to their home country and start the process for legal permanent residence at any time, it also has a provision to keep families together during this process. Check out the clips below from the detailed summary

· Undocumented residents currently in the U.S. will not receive an automatic path to citizenship by virtue of participating in the Good Neighbor SAFE Visa Program. However, participation in the program will not preclude participants from returning to their country of origin at any time, surrendering their Good Neighbor SAFE Visa, and applying for legal permanent residence under current law.

· Spouses and minor children of Good Neighbor SAFE Visa holders will be allowed to enter the U.S. on an accompanying Good Neighbor SAFE Visa as long as they pass the criminal background check and public health screening.

So in conclusion the author again shows that the Chronicle and it's staff are so far to the left and uninformed that they cannot be considered a serious news outlet.