We all know that politics and hypocrisy go hand-in-hand these days, but sometimes the level of hypocrisy to which some politicians will stoop is truly astounding. House Democrats John Dingell (D-Michigan) and Bennie G. Thompson (D-Mississippi) filed a brief at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday "that questions the constitutionality" of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security waiving laws to make it easier to build a congressionally mandated security fence at the southern border. With the authorization of Congress, the DHS filed waivers last week that would suspend over 30 laws so that the border fence could be finished without being locked up in endless court challenges. Representative Thompson said the following in a press release:

"The American people entrust Congress to ensure that the laws of this land are faithfully executed not excused by the Executive Branch."

Representative Dingell echoed Thompson's sentiments with a statement of his own:

"The blanket waiver of laws like the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act is a clear and disturbing abuse of the secretary's discretion." 1

If these Democrats are so concerned about how the Executive Branch enforces the law, it might be nice to see them speak up about how the Bush Administration continues to refuse to enforce immigration laws. However, based on their voting records, the likelihood of that is about as remote as Al Gore repudiating global warming. Pro-border enforcement lobbying group U.S. Border Patrol gave both Thompson and Dingell the same rating in 2005 and 2006 they gave the blatant open-borders apologist John Cornyn: 0%. 2 Not sure how one could get any worse than that on border issues. Both Representatives also voted against the tough H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. 3

It is obvious that the real agenda here, like always, is to defeat any policy that might limit illegal immigration. One cannot help but be impressed at the audacity of the hypocritical demands of these two clowns.