Part I is here; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1636823/posts
Great Analysis.
ping for later.
This is the best piece I've seen that makes it clear we are being hustled by our wonderful Congress. The CIC is complicit. They're all really ducking the BORDER CONTROL issue. That's the reality, whether we face it or not.
The Senate and Bush will ignore it, as usual.
Sowell's at it again.... making way too much sense.
excellent post -- I've been cc:ing some of these articles back to Ken Mehlman and other senders of all those GOP emails ... wonder if it's sinking in at HQ....
The Simpson Mizzoli bill that passed in 1986 was just such a piece of "comprehensive legislation." The government chose to ignore the enforcement provisions of the law. Thus to accept ANOTHER piece of "comprehensive legislation" is an act of foolishness.
The principal reason for separating enforcement and border security from the "comprehensive legislation" and demanding that they be accomplished first, is that without that leverage, enforcement and border security will be ignored again.
The earmark, once fully grown, is known by its voracious appetite and diet, consisting of anywhere from millions to billions of tax dollars.
They frequently lurk in home districts and often appear unrelated to the Cmnibus sp., to which they are a symbiote, not a relative.
The most common variety, Earmarkus liberalis, is often recognized by the distinctive cry of "for the common good!" and "for the childrennnn".