Recent remarks by one John Ellis Bush (Jeb) on the subject of amnesty very arguably encapsulate, in ways that no other words could quite as precisely, what is wrong with today’s Republican Party. Many conservatives are still unwilling to acknowledge just what the core vision of the still dominant Bush wing of the Republican Party -- which is scarcely distinguishable from the Democratic Party -- is.

Via Breitbart, here is all we need to know about John Ellis, and hence the Establishment GOP, on amnesty:

Bush, according to the New York Times, reportedly said that comprehensive immigration reform "will restore and sustain economic growth for this country." And even though a recent Gallup poll found that illegal immigration is now the top concern among Republicans, Bush said that if immigration reform is "framed in that way, I don’t think there’s a big debate in the Republican Party about the need to do this."

"And my hope is with a Republican-controlled Senate, we can begin to see a conversation about how to go about doing that," Bush reportedly said. 

Never mind the “restore…economic growth” language.  It’s a lie, we all know it is, and we know the reasons why it is a lie. 

The “will…sustain economic growth” language is as harrowing as it is confirmatory, especially since we are by now certain that words like “sustain” automatically imply phrases such as “sustainable growth”, which in turn implicate fictitious globalist constructs such as “climate change.”

But let us leave aside even this, partly because there are still too many “conservative” Bush, and therefore John Ellis, loyalists who will write these things off as shrewd politicking.

Let us instead turn to those of John Ellis’ words that no remotely sane person will attribute to politicking, since the meaning of the words is so unmistakably clear that only the most irretrievably deluded will deny their meaning.

So, John Ellis says that when immigration reform is “framed” properly, he doesn’t think there’s a “big debate in the Republican Party about the need to do this.”  And, his “hope” is that “with a Republican-controlled Senate, we can begin to see a conversation about how to go about doing that.”

Uh-huh.  Dear readers, please do tell me this: if John Ellis doesn’t think there’s “a big debate in the Republican Party about the need to do this”, who, exactly, does he think is in the Republican Party, and does he think of us as members?

I submit that the somewhat redundant answers to these questions are: not us, and no.

One therefore has very compelling reasons indeed to suspect that John Ellis’ anticipated GOP controlled “conversations” on immigration will be about as “conversational” as one Eric Himpton Holder’s “framed” “conversations” on race.

Dr. Jason Kissner is associate professor of criminology at California State University, Fresno.  You can reach him at crimprof2010@hotmail.com.