Posted on 06/14/2007 7:14:46 AM PDT by Cat loving Texan
Owen may, indeed, be correct. But it is a measure of the {appropriate} distrust we all have that we probably won’t believe them even if the audible voice of God confirms every word they speak.
$15,000,000,000 for some vague and undefined security measures.
I propose using the money to just pay illegals to leave the country. Give each one $10,000 in cash, collectible at the border on their way out, where they will also provide a photo, fingerprints, and a DNA sample. Maybe even a small tatoo in a hidden spot.
If they come back, and now we know who they are, they get thrown in jail for fraud.
One key question is how to go forward even though several amendments have already cut at the grand bargain -- including limiting the guest-worker program and making it easier to deport those who don't qualify for legalization -- and several other difficult amendments could pass before the bill is final.
Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, said those amendments will simply disappear when the House and Senate go to conference.
"No big deal -- you pitch those before you get to the Rotunda," he said.
and write or call your senators, Rush, Shawn, Laura, EVERYBODY to show them what a scam this bill is and Lott just admitted it.
This week, we will vote on cloture and final passage of a comprehensive bill that will strengthen border security, bring the 12 million undocumented Americans out of the shadows, and keep our economy strong. In the days ahead, we will work to improve the bill to protect and strengthen family ties while improving the structure of the temporary-worker program.
Is this one of the amendments which will be removed when the bill is to be reconciled between the house and the senate? The ones mentioned by McConnell?
Except that Lott said that "objectionable" (i.e., conservative) amendment would be stripped out in conference.
American lib? Precisely what they will be (in their own quaint way, of course) if this bill passes. This bill needs to be stopped dead. Keep calling and above all keep on praying.
Isn’t it pretty to think so.
They want to pass amnesty because they’re afraid if they don’t Fred Barnes might not say nice things about them. This is what we’re up against and the type of warped mentality that apparently rules in Washington today.
I don't buy that at all, quite frankly.
IMO some very powerful interests are pulling strings and the puppets at the end of those strings are dancing.
I asked how that could possibly be given the outpouring of anger against this bill, and he told me that a lot of moderates were afraid of being called racists by people like Michael Chertoff, Luis Gutierrez, and Fred Barnes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850026/posts
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I think that's just a smoke screen. I doubt any insider is gonna admit to a reporter that it's all about power brokers calling in markers.
Seriously, look at the overwhelming bipartisan opposition to illegal immigration. The GOP mayor of Hazelton who pioneered municipal ordinances against illegals won the GOP primary - AND the Dem primary with write-in votes. The polling numbers from honest polls are off the charts. If someone was interested purely in electibility, they would embrace this issue.
The fact that political animals such as Senators are standing in opposition to such a potent and growing political force, IMO, only means one thing: the power players who put these guys into power are pulling their strings.
Thanks, just got off the phone with mine.
The person I talked with in Lamar Alexander’s office said their phone lines are burning up, all against this legislation.
The person in Bob Corker’s office wouldn’t tell me whether or not the calls were majority opposed, said she couldn’t, but I told her I knew the answer anyway.
Both said they aren’t supporting the bill in its current form.
It may very well be. I know all this talk about border security going on by Bush and Chambliss is a facade to fool people into supporting the bill so attempts at deception is nothing new to them in Washington. They simply can't be that stupid to know that the overwhelming majority don't want this pos bill.
Oh, they are not stupid. Snake oil salesmen seldom are.
They are trying to fool enough of the people long enough to get this bill to Bush's desk. And give wavering Senators some kind of political cover.
We need to keep an eye on the pubbie senators who are not up for re-election in 2008. Those guys might be tempted to think the outrage would subside by 2010 or 2012. They need to be convinced otherwise - if they vote for this bill, conservatives will be tireless in working for their defeat by any means necessary.
It would be nice payback to see those supporters of amnesty in the GOP booted out, and I think many will be but by 2012 enough red states will have turned permanently blue that nationally the GOP is toast anyway and won’t have a prayer.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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