Posted on 01/24/2007 3:54:14 AM PST by beyond the sea
It really doesn't matter if you call a sweet potato a yam or a sweet potato.
;-)
"You know, I was going to start arguing this issue, but I decided that I will give up."
I'm inclined to feel the same way but I will say this: Congress got spanked over this issue last year. There were immigrant rallies and demonstrations all over the country but there were even more people that called and complained to their Congressman. If we do that again it could potentially derail Bush's amnesty.
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"Be able to find your clothes and your weapons in the dark."
"G.W. is certainly not to be blamed, at least not by himself."
No, but he certainly had the power to oppose the Senate amnesty plan before the last election; and he certainly has the power to pardon the two BP agents in prison. And he certainly has the power not to be complicit in the amnesty plan this time around. If He conspires with the Dems on this it will be interesting to see how it is sold to what's left of the base that got him elected.
"I can even bake cookies."
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It must be something like what citizens of the formerly independent nations of Western Europe felt, the few economically literate ones at least, about taking in so many countries that were far worse basket cases than their own. I believe they at least got to vote on it, though. Maybe that's what this is about ... front load millions of sympathetic, newly minted voters via amnesty, and then magnanimously allow U. S. citizens a say in the matter, knowing full well that the outcome has already been determined.
This is a mute point. The republican leadership has gone insane. The rats have been insane for a long time now. All we can do is vote these pieces of dog excrement out of office. By then the damage will have been done and there is not a damn thing we can do to avert this.My apologies to any dog excrement that may have been offended.
without burning down the house?
I think Bush is just in the wrong place at the wrong time. This was going to happen no matter who was President.
But, as you say I think< the Republican Party's allegiances are relatively limited, so this issue has severely hurt........ mortally hurt, perhaps.
It's the chemtrails!
Amnesty for Democrat votes. The ignorant, uneducated, stoop-laborer is what we now want, down from the educated, English speaking and productive. What a fall, all for the sake of having minimum wage workers and more Democrat victims.
Hundreds of thousands of illegals have falsified IDs or stolen IDs. That is a felony. All of them will be given a pass on those felonies.
That's amnesty.
Thousands of businesses have knowingly hired illegals. Thry will be given a pass on their crimes.
That's amnesty.
The simple answer is that the President is lying. He is, in fact, proposing amnesty.
(Flame retardant suit ON.)
All these "controversial" issues should be VOTED ON BY THE PEOPLE!!!
The politicians in Washington are helpless on these issues. The democrats and the MSM demagogue absolutely everything to their favor.
recently they promised bigger and better rallies soon, big difference this time will be the democratic control congress
I'm sorry, Newt's just wrong. Our greatest ex-President and his boy wonder fixed the bureaucracy, remember?
/sarc, just in case it's needed
"Last night he said "No amnesty"."
That's when I woke up. All the *WE NEEDS* put me to sleep, up to that point. IMO, he said that to throw the *A* word back in the faces of those who accuse him of such. The *smirk* on his face tells all.
It's their time.
It's true - GWB doesn't get to set his own policies on this nor on a lot of other issues that directly impact the Powers That Be. I think the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan was the catalyst - it scared the hell out the elites, and they vowed to make sure that no incompetent Carter or activist Reagan ever got elected again, and that whoever did get elected towed the mark on issues important to those elites.
So that's why who wins in 2008 really doesn't matter that much. The general direction of the country will not change. I guess the key to success in the USA in these times is: find a way to provide value to Goldman Sachs. And if you want real political change, start a proxy fight and vote out their board of directors. ;)
Politicians are totally ignoring Americans in their quest for the Hispanic vote.
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