Down in Flames

Investors Business Daily ^ | June 28, 2007 | Investors Business Daily

[Zechariah11]

Immigration: The Senate's 53-46 defeat of the immigration bill Thursday was more than a victory for rule of law over alien amnesty. It was a triumph of citizens' will over politicians' disdain. Real reform must follow.

The Bush-Kennedy immigration reform bill is dead and unlikely to be served up again before a new administration takes office. No wonder. It was a pork-laden spending bill that offered de facto amnesty to illegal immigrants, federal contracts to the usual contractors, spoils for businesses that habitually hire illegals, and new layers of bureaucracy, supposedly to speed immigration entries.

The only people it didn't reward were those not looking for cash largesse, citizens who ask only that the federal government show the will to enforce existing laws.

[yldstrk]

Thank heaven we are still a country of laws not men.

[RKV]

Spot on.

[SMARTY]

Plagarizing my self from earlier:

Everything about what is happening is SO very wrong on every conceivable level. I have to wonder what the h%$# these ‘politicians’ are thinking and why they are so positively hell bent on turning this country into a global dump and making America unrecognizable to anyone who has any ever had any idea of home or community. I guess since ‘politicians’ live in their rarified space and manicured landscapes, our puny and hard earned little homesteads and communities are insignificant ... but to us they are EVERYTHING. Maybe they ought to come down here on the ground and look at the open sewer which they are creating for us while they remain and will ever be removed from the day to day and permanent mess we have to live in.

[Red Badger]

Do not let this won battle give cause to stand down. They will come again, and again, until the will of the fighters is broken an exhausted.........

[Don Corleone]

The Bush-Kennedy immigration reform bill is dead and unlikely to be served up again before a new administration takes office

Don't be so sure! They will try to sneak in their favorite provisions under cover of darkness with 'voice votes'buried in simple bills, late at night on Fridays or other times that we are not watching them like a hawk. They are an untrustworthy gang of self serving and basically unprincipled thieves.

[Texas Patriot]

This bill may be dead but the beasts that created it still live and could create another bill just like it. And then try to pass it behind our backs or they could try to do it piece meal by including parts of this bill in others that are more likely to pass.
We must remain vigilant!
oh and lets stop calling them illegal immigrants, for the most part they have no real intention of immigrating they are Illegal Aliens

[Balding_Eagle]

They will come again, and again, until the will of the fighters is broken an exhausted.........

THAT'S the spirit!

Seesh, I thank God you weren't at Normandy.

[SJSAMPLE]

He’s right.

They’ll keep coming at us with amnesty, just like before.

To say the battle is won is simply foolish.

[SJSAMPLE]

More evidence that the fight’s not over:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858240/posts

[Phantom Patriot]

Maybe they ought to come down here on the ground and look at the open sewer which they are creating for us while they remain and will ever be removed from the day to day and permanent mess we have to live in.

Very good suggestion. But I’ll bet you get no takers.

[Phantom Patriot]

Do not let this won battle give cause to stand down. They will come again, and again, until the will of the fighters is broken an exhausted.........

Kennedy and his group announced that last night on c-span.

[50sDad]

One of the Dem talking heads was lamenting on how "the system is broken", and how the alien issue couldn't be brought up again before the 2008 election.

The unspoken reason that the alien issue can't be brought up again before the election? Because with 73% of the population against it, any candidate that embraces the idea of letting in a bazillion illeagals is going to be shot out of the sky! Teddy, if it is such a bad idea that nobody wants to be associated with it, why do you guys keep pushing it?

[Red Badger]

Kennedy and his group announced that last night on c-span.

As did La Raza, The Klan with a Tan.....

[Phantom Patriot]

They will come again, and again, until the will of the fighters is broken an exhausted.........
THAT’S the spirit!

Seesh, I thank God you weren’t at Normandy.

Unfortunately he is correct.

[rabscuttle385]

Real reform must follow.

Starting with an exorcism of politicians from the Senate and House chambers and office buildings, accompanied by regime change in The White House.

The next elections are going to get interesting.

[ishabibble]

Don’t wait until the elections. The Congress is letting out in a few days, so call your Critter and make an appointment to meet with him/her.

If they march in the July 4th parades, be there.

MAKE THEM DO THEIR JOBS.

[Phantom Patriot]

As did La Raza, The Klan with a Tan.....

Did ya ever get the feeling that the Fore Fathers of this Great land must have felt similar to how some of us feel prior to the Revolutionary War. I mean really I don’t feel like this is my Country anymore. They expect me to brake my back just to get by and then reward EVERYONE else. It is mind boggling sometimes. Don’t the Politicians get that or is part of enlightenment being blind to the obvious?

[rabscuttle385]

did La Raza, The Klan with a Tan

LOL

[azhenfud]

Whilst men are linked together, they easily and speedily communicate the alarm
of any evil design. They are enabled to fathom it with common counsel, and to
oppose it with united strength. Whereas, when they lie dispersed, without
concert, order, or discipline, communication is uncertain, counsel difficult,
and resistance impracticable. Where men are not acquainted with each other’s
principles, nor experienced in each other’s talents, nor at all practised in
their mutual habitudes and dispositions by joint efforts in business; no
personal confidence, no friendship, no common interest, subsisting among them;
it is evidently impossible that they can act a public part with uniformity,
perseverance, or efficacy. In a connection, the most inconsiderable man, by
adding to the weight of the whole, has his value, and his use; out of it, the
greatest talents are wholly unserviceable to the public. No man, who is not
inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single,
unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the
subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine,
the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice
in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke, (1729-1797), “Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents”