Posted on 05/31/2007 3:10:09 AM PDT by OneHun
Comprehensive Crack-Up? By W. James Antle III Published 5/31/2007 12:09:09 AM
When President Bush traveled to Georgia Tuesday to promote the Senate immigration bill, he didn't sound like he was happy with the way the debate was going. "If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill's an amnesty bill," he complained. "That's empty political rhetoric trying to scare our citizens."
And that's not the rhetoric of a politician who feels like he is currently winning a policy battle. This debate wasn't supposed to get so heated. When a bipartisan group of senators announced the immigration deal two weeks ago, Democrats and Republicans alike were predicting swift passage, perhaps before Memorial Day weekend. What gives?
We've been down this road before. When the Democrats took control of Congress, it was widely assumed that President Bush would finally get the path to citizenship for illegal immigrants that his own party had denied him. But when Congress convened this year, there were reports that key Republican senators -- including a couple of presidential candidates -- were backtracking on an immigration partnership with Ted Kennedy.
Then Congressmen Jeff Flake and Luis Gutierrez introduced their bipartisan bill to a flurry of favorable editorials. Yet instead of blossoming into the fruitful immigration compromise Washington editorialists hoped for, the legislation quietly withered. Whenever a bipartisan consensus on this deeply controversial issue seems close at hand, fissures appear and ultimately nothing much happens.
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Bipartisanship is code for sacrificing core conservative principles for socialism.
America does not trust her lawmakers. America needs a serious attempt made at enforcement and border security before any other revision considerations.
Jeb Bush for President? Never.
I will never vote for another Bush. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a third time, just kill me.
I’m finding there is a general aura of disgust and/or frustration with the Bush Administration and associated legislators right now - even among GOP hardliners.
I agree with you. This might seem completely crazy, but I suspect that even abject losers like Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich would stand a good chance of beating Bush in a head-to-head presidential election right now.
My question is what took them so long?
Bush has presided over:
1) Loss of the Senate
2) Loss of the House
3) Failure to make tax cuts permanent
4) Illegal immigration / Amnesty
5) The borders
6) The arrest of Border Guards doing their job!
7) Shall I list more?
I hardly call the president and twelve senators agreeing bi-partisan anything
I don’t recall other mentions of the provisions on the “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America” in this proposed legislation. Can anyone else provide links that illuminate this?
Immigration ‘Compromise’ Sells Out Our Sovereignty
by Ron Paul
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst052507.htm
The much-vaunted Senate “compromise” on immigration is a compromise alright: a compromise of our laws, a compromise of our sovereignty, and a compromise of the Second Amendment. That anyone in Washington believes this is a credible approach to solving our immigration crisis suggests just how out of touch our political elites really are.
The reality is that this bill will grant amnesty to virtually all of the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in the country today. Supporters use very creative language to try and convince us that amnesty is not really amnesty, but when individuals who have entered the United States illegally are granted citizenship – regardless of the fees they are charged – what you have is amnesty.
What is seldom discussed in the immigration debate, unfortunately, is the incentives the US government provides for people to enter the United States illegally. As we know well, when the government subsidizes something we get more of it. The government provides a myriad of federal welfare benefits to those who come to the US illegally, including food stamps and free medical care. Is this a way to discourage people from coming to the US illegally?
Additionally, one of the most absurd incentives for people to come to the US illegally is the promise of instant US citizenship to anyone born on our soil. That is why when Congress returns next week I will be re-introducing my Constitutional amendment to deny automatic citizenship to individuals born on US soil to parents who are not US citizens or who do not owe permanent allegiance to the United States.
There are many other very troubling items buried deep in the Senate’s immigration compromise. The bill explicitly calls for an “acceleration” of the March 2005 agreement between the US president, the president of Mexico, and the prime minister of Canada, known as the “Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America.” This somewhat secretive agreement – a treaty in all but name – aims to erase the borders between the United States, Canada, and Mexico and threatens our sovereignty and national security. The SPP was agreed by the president without the participation of Congress. It should be eliminated, not accelerated!
According to the pro-Second Amendment Gun Owners of America, the legislation also makes it easier to target gun dealers for prosecution. Even gun clubs could find themselves targeted under this immigration reform legislation.
Immigration reform should start with improving our border protection, yet it was reported last week that the federal government has approved the recruitment of 120 of our best trained Border Patrol agents to go to Iraq to train Iraqis how to better defend their borders! This comes at a time when the National Guard troops participating in Operation Jump Start are being removed from border protection duties in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas and preparing to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan! It is an outrage and it will result in our borders being more vulnerable to illegal entry, including by terrorists.
I will continue to oppose any immigration bill that grants amnesty to illegals or undermines our liberty and sovereignty.
If GW keeps pushing this amnesty and does end up signing it, George W Bush of The Great Invasion will have succeeded in replacing Jimmy Carter as the worst president in history.
But, Bush2, like Jimmy Carter even now, is trying to latch on to a legacy. He has already ceded the WoT to a War Czar. About the only remaining opportunity GW has is amnesty for 12-20 million illegals.
Next year, the pols will be too busy with primaries, conventions, and the general election, so GW only has a few months to secure his legacy, and the Comprehensive Immigration fiasco is about the the only major legislation on the table.
You left out a boob for attorney general. and a dunce for home land security. The biggest expansion of government employees in history, they biggest trailer purchase, etc, etc.
Mr. Bush, we no longer trust you to do your job. If we could, we’d fire you for malfeasance of office, because you have refused to secure the borders and enforce the immigration laws.
Also, last year’s border fence law required a fence to be built, and so far you have not seen to it that ANY of it is completed. And the immigration bill you are pimping reduces the amount of fencing way below the requirements of last year’s fence bill.
If the Dims were to begin impeachment, I would not defend you AT ALL.
I hope I don't offend the innocent, but he (Chertoff) resembles a last stage AIDS patient.
That possibility hasn't totally expired yet. When, through incompetent stubbornness, one damages the public credibility of the party that's their lifeline of political support, well - we're all smart enough to realize where that puts one in the political playing field.
O.K., Jorge; you’ve been in Washington too long and have become tainted. Get Laura and the dog and go on back to Crawford and turn the last two years over to Dick.
Congratulations. I nominate you to join the ranks of Natttering Negative Nabobs
1) Tax cuts (impermanent).
2) Quick military victories in Afghanistan and Iraq (impermanent).
3) Justices Roberts and Alito (after a misstep).
4) Social conservative sensibility in the White House (vetoing stem cell funding).
5) Routinely enraging the moonbat Left without really trying, providing endless humor for dispassionate observers. ;)
Those are things we would never have gotten from Gore or Kerry. But for a Republican President who had a nominally Republican House and Senate to work with for six years, it's not a very long list.
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