The political consultant Dick Morris is presumably able to continue his strange career because professional politicians find some of his insights helpful. So they may well pay attention to the most substantial idea he advances in America is shifting leftward - The Hill January 11 2006:

the fundamental reason for the liberal drift is the salience of issues normally identified with the left. To reverse the situation, therefore, Bush has three options:…

(B) Raise new issues that have a built-in skew right and a Republican orientation…

Two new solid Republican issues are begging for attention from the White House: immigration and drugs.

The administration’s guest-worker program is a good step …but it must be accompanied by some red meat for the base — the border fence passed by the House…guest workers without the fence will do nothing to move voters toward the GOP.

Of course the paramount task of a consultant is to be hired, which means telling the clients mostly what they want to hear. While Morris has long displayed an interest in the immigration issue, he is always careful not to challenge hispandering impulses of the Washington establishment.

So identifying with the Border Fence strategem is a brave step.

Obviously, trying to recruit the Hispanic vote is futile and destructive for the GOP, as Pat Buchanan wrote today, and VDARE.com has conclusively and repeatedly demonstrated.

Furthermore, anyone who has had any dealings with Hispanic immigrants established enough to be voters knows that their enthusiasm for the competition presented by subsequent waves of immigrants is low.

The real, barely articulated issue here is holding on to the native- born vote. On this, Morris is an expert. Perhaps the White House could console itself by giving the fence-building contract to Halliburton.

Via the NCPA I see there’s an editorial in the Dallas Morning News today, [password required , get it here] titled Throwing Stones: Fox has no room to criticize on immigration, [January 11, 2006]

[I]t does seem disingenuous for Mexico’s top leader to throw stones at Washington when his country’s treatment of illegal immigrants – mostly Central Americans – was recently condemned by an agency of his own government.

When dealing with illegal immigrants, Mexico employs some of the same methods it has criticized the United States for, such as prison sentences for detainees, according to the findings of Mexico’s Human Rights Commission.

Joe Guzzardi mentioned this situation recently, and in a Vdare.com note written in December 2001 we noted the existence of

“the Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico’s Southern Border Plan. Perhaps President Fox would provide his friend Jorge Bush with a copy, since a Plan Frontera Sur is what our Presidente chiefly lacks.”

It’s no surprise that the Mexican government is treating its prisoners badly, it always has. And when the Dallas Morning News goes on to suggest that if President Fox would be nicer to Guatemelans invading his country, on their way to the US, then his pleas “would better resonate,” they’re wrong.

That would actually make things worse on the Southern Border of the United States, and besides, nothing could make the Mexican Government’s support for the ongoing invasion “resonate.”

The title the Morning News gave to their editorial is proverbial, my title (above) reverses the proverb for the simple reason that one of the primary activities of illegal border jumpers is throwing stones at American law enforcement officers. They managed to force down a border patrol helicopter in August and the Washington Times reports that

A total of 218 rocking incidents occurred on the San Diego border last year, injuring more than a dozen agents. The rockings have gotten so violent that Border Patrol agents in San Diego now ride in “war wagons,” vehicles fitted with custom-made steel screens and bars.

No, Fox’s pleas shouldn’t “resonate” with anyone.