If not, I'll pass.
This bill is an amnesty. No thanks.
Fred and Mort. The Beltway blowhards!
Bush says we’re unpatriotic racists, Barnes says we’re crazy.
Neither appears to have read “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.
Why would anyone bother reading Fred Barnes anymore? He is part of the problem, not the solution.
Just one more beltway idiot.
It’s also got a lot of definite and indefinte articles like a, an, and the. I love articles!
I bet if I keep looking I’ll even find some nouns, my second favorite part of speech!
Sorry Barnes, there’s nothing I would like in a “chunk” of dung.
“Fred Barnes pimps the Bush Amnesty”
http://thetarpit.blogspot.com/2005/11/fred-barnes-pimps-bush-amnesty.html
Fred Barnes is a Globalist/Elitist/Country Club Republican.
He can go stuff it.
Hey Fred, take your neo-con babble and peddle it elsewhere.
Neo-cons and their policies have literally destroyed the GOP.
Don’t piss down my leg and then me that is only rain.
Right there is Barnes' opinion of conservatives. Kinda ends the conversation before it ever got started...
Fred Barnes, of Fox TV Yah? You’re telling me, he wrote this cr—p?
What Kennedy knows and Fred does not is that giving the 12 million permanent legal status is the WHOLE battle.
Because whatever the liberals give up now, can be taken back later once they have the WH and Congress.
And Kennedy understands one clear fact: Once the illegals are legalized, it is but a much smaller step to make them voters.
So they have to submit their citizenship application at a US consulate outside the country? So what? They don't even have to go their own country to do this. And "civil rights groups" will be eager and ready to help them with the paperwork. The importance to the Democrats of ensuring that large numbers of these legals become voters is huge, and they and the immigrants "grass-roots" advocacy organizations will move heaven and earth to get the paperwork done.
And if that proves in any way difficult, they'll adopt some regulations to make it easier, or if necessary a techical amendment to allow these people to apply from this country.
I mean think about it. Why SHOULD we not allow people who are fully legal, working here, making their permanent home here, raising their families here, paying taxes here, to vote? The logic is compelling, and it will happen.
Kennedy knows the biggest strength the conservatives have is the unwillingness of most people in the country to grant amnesty, i.e., legalize the illegals.
But the Republicans are willing to give this away, for empty promises of border security and real enforcement.
The country is pretty much 50/50 split right now, electorally. But the new voters (which will include the children in these large families of illegals, when they reach 18, so for each each illlegal head of household now, that is probably 4-5 voters within a decade) will give a decisive edge to the Democrats, even if it might take 10 years to play out. But the Democrats can afford to be patient. Once legalization is granted, it's just a matter of a few years before the Democrats are in control electorally, and they will then be in a position to enforce the laws or not, as they please, or pass such changes to the laws as they wish.
So the government must certify that so many miles of fence and vehicle barriers are in place? They will simply treat cattle-rancher's fences as fences, and creeks and ditches as vehicle barriers. Heck, they will probably count the Rio Grande River as a vehicle barrier, and thus have already met the requirement from day one!
Did you ever try to listen to Barnes and that other senile old creep named Kondracke? They can’t keep their train of thought long enough to complete a sentence. Their minds keep wondering. That is probably why old Kondracke wants Embryonic Stem cell research because he thinks it may cure his 100 year old Alzheimer disease problem. I wish I could reach into the TV and punch that old ba$tard! :-)
Apparently Fred hasn't figured out that a probationary Z visa does the same thing, and the vast majority of applicants won't go any further than that. He's also laboring under the illusion that a group of people who have (by and large) ignored our immigration laws, our identity theft laws, our drivers license laws, our financial responsibility laws, and our vehicle registration laws is suddenly going to develop scruples when it comes to signing a document under penalty of perjury that allows their relative to stay in the country.
I wish I could get the elitists on both sides of this issue out of their rarefied atmosphere and expose them to the daily life of a convenience store clerk for a couple of days. I wonder how long it'd take them to figure out how all those guys who don't speak english got North Carolina drivers licenses?
The bill is in need of a large dose or realism, and it's not going to find it among the majority of our elected officials.
It’s sad to think that there are “conservatives” such as Barnes who are insane enough to believe that this feckless government will do anything to control our borders when every immigration bill of the past has only resulted in millions more illegal aliens invading the country.
We have NO FAITH in the government that issued a renewed pilot’s license to Mohammed Atta on the sixth month anniversary of 9/11, Fred.
Fred.....
You ignorant slut!
Thats like saying a Turd sandwich is not all bad, because it has a Pickle in it.