Posted on 05/21/2010 7:04:14 AM PDT by Desperado67
Yesterday morning Mexican President Felipe Calderon addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress. During part of his speech he stated that he strongly disagreed with the recently-passed anti-illegal immigration law in the state of Arizona. For that swipe at a U.S. state’s decision to take a stand against illegal immigration, the Democrats in attendance gave Calderon a standing ovation, as shown in the video below.
Take note that at about the 20-second mark of the clip, there is a woman wearing a turquoise-colored top standing up. That person is former Arizona governor Janet Napolitano, who is of course now the Secretary of Homeland Security. She recently admitted that she had not actually read the Arizona law but stated that it was not a law that she would have signed as governor.
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The Party of Incompetent Treason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldx8gZDwZWs&feature=player_embedded
http://mcclintock.house.gov/2010/05/response-to-president-calderon.shtml
Congressman Tom McClintock
4th District of California Responds
Response to President Calderon
May 20, 2010 6:26 PM
House Chamber, Washington, D.C. May 20, 2010. M. Speaker:
I rise to take strong exception to the speech of the President of Mexico while in this chamber today.
The Mexican government has made it very clear for many years that it holds American sovereignty in contempt and President Calderon’s behavior as a guest of the Congress confirms and underscores this attitude.
It is highly inappropriate for the President of Mexico to lecture Americans on American immigration policy, just as it would be for Americans to lecture Mexico on its laws.
It is obvious that President Calderon does not understand the nature of America or the purpose of our immigration law.
Unlike Mexico’s immigration law — which is brutally exclusionary — the purpose of America’s law is not to keep people out. It is to assure that as people come to the United States, they do so with the intention of becoming Americans and of raising their children as Americans.
Unlike Mexico, our nation embraces immigration and what makes that possible is assimilation.
A century ago President Teddy Roosevelt put it this way. He said:
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
That is how we have built one great nation from the people of all the nations of the world.
The largest group of immigrants now comes from Mexico. A recent RAND discovered that during most of the 20th Century, while our immigration laws were actually enforced, assimilation worked and made possible the swift attainment of the American dream for millions of immigrants seeking to escape conditions in Mexico.
That is the broader meaning of our nation’s motto, “e pluribus unum” – from many people, one people, the American people.
But there is now an element in our political structure that seeks to undermine that concept of “E Pluribus Unum.” It seeks to hyphenate Americans, to develop linguistic divisions, to assign rights and preferences based on race and ethnicity, and to elevate devotion to foreign ideologies and traditions, while at the same time denigrating American culture, American values and American founding principles.
In order to do so, they know that they have to stop the process of assimilation. In order to do that, they must undermine our immigration laws.
It is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to do so. And it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the White House and by many Democrats in this Congress.
Arizona has not adopted a new immigration law. All it has done is to enforce existing law that President Obama refuses to enforce. It is hardly a radical policy to suggest that if an officer on a routine traffic stop encounters a driver with no driver’s license, no passport, and who doesn’t speak English, that maybe that individual might be here illegally.
And to those who say we must reform our immigration laws – I reply that we don’t need to reform them – we need to enforce them. Just as every other government does. Just as Mexico does.
Above all, this is a debate of, by and for the American people. If President Calderon wishes to participate in that debate, I invite him to obey our immigration laws, apply for citizenship, do what 600,000 LEGAL immigrants to our nation are doing right now, learn our history and our customs, and become an American. And then he will have every right to participate in that debate.
Until then, I would politely invite him to have the courtesy while a guest of this Congress to abide by the fundamental rules of diplomacy between civilized nations not to meddle in each other’s domestic debates.
It would be nice to at least get the house back in American hands in Nov.
Even if it were, you know that Obama would just pardon them. After all, he said worse things about the AZ law than Calderon did.
That will be every last one of them. I bet none use it.
These worthless animals are OPENLY at war with American citizens.
The point has been made before - but this is what an occupation government is and feels like.
Examples that come to mind might be Manchuko in China in the late 30’s, Vichy France in the 40’s, fill in your own - no shortage of examples.
they applauded passing a bill nobody read and spending trillions we don’t have,they applauded the public smack down Odumbo gave the SCOTUS during his state of the Union message (world wide)....now they applaud going against state rights and our own Constitution!
ALL OF THIS will be brought back up come October....over and over again...
I would have held up photos of pre-1840s Mexico and post 1840s just to remind him that the nation that made them our bitch once is still here.
If Democrat congressman like Lloyd Doggett ‘feel’ so strongly about the plight of illegal aliens, maybe we should bus them to his front doorstep and he can invite them into his home in the name of compassion.
Friggin’ unbelievable.
Are they ever going to man up, speak up & quit being passive bystanders?!
Yet last year Michelle Bachmann was roundly criticized for saying the democrats were “un-American”.
What did you expect. Any GOPer that doesn’t use it is a silent fellow traveller.
Federal law is what protects the We The People, and these damn democrat bastards have again shown that they are OPENLY HOSTILE to the concept of protecting the American people.
I hope we eject their asses out in November, and get some common sense back in Congress and the Senate.
Thanks Dems, we’ll have plenty of time to show your Hatred for America before the Nov elections.
I was so livid when I saw the video of the standing ovation yesterday — Pelosi, Biden, especially Napolitano.
Has Napolitano already decided she’s not returning to Arizona?
Anyway, while I wouldn’t go this far, this Freeper made me laugh when I needed a good laugh.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2517805/posts?page=108#108
To: calif_reaganite
GREAT speech by Rep. Tom McClintock.
I’m calling my dimTURD rep fatso Tim Walz(D) MN-1 and will demand from whoever answers the phone as to whether or not Tim Walz was among those who cheered-— of which I already know the answer.
God I hate these socialist demoRAT bastards, especially the head bastard, RAT commie pig 0bozo.
I look forward to these traitors roasting in Hell throughout eternity.
108 posted on Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:55:12 PM by rcrngroup
Seriously, do we expect any different behavior from these socialist posing as Democrats? The Democrat party used to have me as a member. I was a classic liberal who believed in personal responsibility, small government, and the power of the individual.
Unfortunately, Democrats are now anti-American Marxists. And Republicans are weak-kneed Democrat Light.
All we can do is INSIST, under threat of massive job losses, that our Republican reps all grow a pair and align themselves with traditional conservative, American values.
There is no future in playing nice with the Dems. Game on.
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