For President Bush and his shrinking group of minions, the people who elected him -- and have stood by him through thick and thin -- are now the enemy.

Reasoned and historically-based opposition to the Bush-Kennedy illegal immigrant amnesty bill is being attacked as bigotry. As the business lobby plays him like a marionette, it seems the only thing this stumblebum president has learned in seven years is how to sling mud like the Left.

While the Senate debate over this hurried and odious bill stumbles forward, every one of us should ask ourselves the questions posed quite succinctly by columnist Cal Thomas today: "Whose country is this? Does it belong to illegal immigrants and politicians, or to the citizens of the United States of America?"

-- Fran Coombs, managing editor, The Washington Times