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Down in Flames
Investors Business Daily ^ | June 28, 2007 | Investors Business Daily

Posted on 06/29/2007 6:43:14 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; congress; deathofthegop; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigrantping; immigration; immigrationreform; noamnestyforillegals
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To: Zechariah11

The truth of the matter is that the opponents of immigration reform and for the North American Union, long ago stacked the deck so they could NOT lose.

No matter what happened, the bill would be worthless if passed, and if it failed the status quo remains.

“Heads we win, tails you lose.”


21 posted on 06/29/2007 7:22:19 AM PDT by Popocatapetl
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To: Zechariah11

22 posted on 06/29/2007 7:31:40 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: Zechariah11

The African-American community was totally against this shamenesty and some of them will be one issue voters next time around. Any politician running on shamnesty is going to be beat and beat bad.

This bill woke up Americans to the fact they were going to lose their country and their way of life to illegal invaders. No one wanted that except crackpot libs and La Raza.


23 posted on 06/29/2007 7:36:24 AM PDT by lone star annie
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To: Phantom Patriot

You’re confusing “common sense” with “politics”...........


24 posted on 06/29/2007 7:38:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: SJSAMPLE

I never said the battle was won.


25 posted on 06/29/2007 7:38:41 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: SJSAMPLE

I’ll revise my reply.

The battle IS won.

The war isn’t over.

Remember reading about Normandy? That battle was won too, and it was won by warriors who didn’t give up. WWII still had to fight on.

Not so different than this one, except it sounds like we have a bunch of ‘warriors’ who have already conceded the fight.


26 posted on 06/29/2007 7:41:59 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Phantom Patriot
Kennedy and his group....."


27 posted on 06/29/2007 7:43:02 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (CLEAN HOUSE! AND THEN THE SENATE!)
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To: Zechariah11

The voters spoke and will continue to speak. Any Republican that voted with the pro-illegal crowd should be a target in this election for defeat!

Another target — remove Martinez as head of RNC.


28 posted on 06/29/2007 7:46:18 AM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Inhofe for Senate 08 -- Broken Glass Republican -- vote out the RATs in 2008)
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To: Red Badger

Not if we fire them in a very visible way, as a warning to others.


29 posted on 06/29/2007 8:05:57 AM PDT by ex-NFO
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To: Balding_Eagle

I agree that we’ve won this particular battle and we’ve sent a strong message.

I called my senator (Lugar - R, IN) no less than six times in the past two weeks. He’s one of those that caved and I let his office know that I considered him to be a “sellout”.

Even though this battle is won, the next one is starting right up again. The illegal lobby wants another bill brought up ASAP. They don’t want to wait until 2009, which the MSM is saying as a way of putting us off guard.


30 posted on 06/29/2007 8:23:44 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: lone star annie
The African-American community was totally against this shamenesty and some of them will be one issue voters next time around. Any politician running on shamnesty is going to be beat and beat bad.

This is an interesting point. Dick Morris on with BOR last night said that this bill would hurt Repubs. He then went on to say that Mrs. Clinton had some scheme that if you stay hidden for 5 years, you'd be rewarded with amnesty.

So Bill says, well, wouldn't that hurt the Dems in '08 being FOR amnesty and wouldn't it be easy for anti-amnesty Repub to take this as a winning issue? Dick was stuck on talking about Hillary, figures, and never answered.
31 posted on 06/29/2007 8:24:24 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Miss Didi

One thing we can count on when it comes to Dick Morris is that he’s seldom right. If he says being against amnesty will hurt the GOP then watch it retake the House by focusing on the ussue in the 2008 elections.


32 posted on 06/29/2007 8:45:09 AM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Reaganwuzthebest

Exactly. Just the other day he suggested that W pull out of Iraq to save the GOP. Whatever Dick.


33 posted on 06/29/2007 9:32:22 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Zechariah11
Bush-Kennedy Bill ..... now the education bill was a Bush-Kennedy bill....and the medicare time bomb free med bill was a Bush-Kennedy Bill...

what kinda cr@p is in his FBI files.....or those of his relatives?

Wasn't there some savings and loan stuff back in the 80's with one of his brothers.

I voted for Bush twice....actually 4 times and can't figure out what the heck is going on.

34 posted on 06/29/2007 10:20:25 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: Zechariah11

Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!

U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121

U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121

White House comments: (202) 456-1111

Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep

Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Toll free to the US Senate:

1-800-882-2005. (Spanish number)
1-800-417-7666. (English number)

Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!


35 posted on 06/29/2007 3:21:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: yldstrk

I wish you were right. Deportation is the penalty for being here illegally. We are ruled by a man who has no intention of enforcing the law.


36 posted on 06/29/2007 3:26:36 PM PDT by Pelham (Deportation- without it you have amnesty.)
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To: Phantom Patriot
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.

In California, absolutely.

37 posted on 06/29/2007 3:28:05 PM PDT by Pelham (Deportation- without it you have amnesty.)
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To: Miss Didi

Dick Morris is pro-amnesty and is shilling for it like the FoxNews beltway boys and some others. His claims about political impact of immigration are all wrong.

Hillary will be hurt by her pro-amensty vote ... if we conservatives have something to say about it.


38 posted on 06/29/2007 10:09:01 PM PDT by WOSG (thank the Senators who voted "NO": 202-224-3121, 1-866-340-9281)
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