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Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:00 AM

The GOP begins to implode

Bush's immigration speech was a desperate attempt to keep his delicate coalition together -- but all it did was accelerate its shattering.
By Sidney Blumenthal

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  • Wednesday, May 17, 2006 08:41 PM

    Amnesty?

    All the blowhards pounding the table about the rule of law and "the right of the country to defend its borders against invasion" ought to reflect on how their own ancestors got here, how they ended up living on land that belonged to Native Americans, and how the Native Americans ended up corralled in "reservations" in the least hospitable parts of the country. Perhaps they should be asking for a little amnesty themselves?

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