Posted on 06/29/2007 10:51:23 AM PDT by gpapa
For months, the establishment dismissed those of us opposed to amnesty as a tiny minority of the public and the Congress. On Thursday, that “tiny minority” outnumbered the pro-amnesty forces in the Senate, dealing a humiliating and well-deserved defeat to President Bush. The same White House that insisted that there was no realistic alternative to “comprehensive immigration reform” had better recalibrate its realism now. There always were better alternatives, and the president and his party have no way out of the immigration morass he has created unless they pursue them.
Nor does the country. The public is rightly dismayed at our incapacity to exercise a key attribute of sovereignty: control of the borders. For decades, our elected officials have passed immigration laws that they lack the political will to enforce.
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Not gonna happen. From what I have seen of GWB he will dig his heals in now and refuse to enforce our laws. I can almost guarantee you that he is angry with the American people and wants to pay us back.
You know that stubborn streak everyone always talks about? Well I think with the stubborn streak and his arrogance you will get obstruction, plain and simple.
Why not a ‘Grand’ lawsuit against the Federal Govt to mandate enforcement that is on the books?
Who can we call?
He has proved himself to be so far out on immigration that I can't trust his judgement on anything else. Remember that even with the Supremes, where we've now got Roberts and Alito, he tried to give us Harriet Meiers (sp?).
We need to pressure hard the RNC to clean up the party using this statement and action from the article as a starting point. Wonder if that would get their attention and drive home that the RNC left us we didn’t leave them?
The president should accept that consensus and act on it. If necessary, he should request additional authority and resources for the purpose.
Not gonna happen. From what I have seen of GWB he will dig his heals in now and refuse to enforce our laws. I can almost guarantee you that he is angry with the American people and wants to pay us back.
You know that stubborn streak everyone always talks about? Well I think with the stubborn streak and his arrogance you will get obstruction, plain and simple.
Payback is a b!tch. He is going to try to run this through the back door now. And, by the way, the border will still be wide open. I can see Cherkoff actually pulling officers off the border now. We did the right thing on beating this POS bill, and now unfortunately we have to work EVEN HARDER.
Yes and no. The President can continue to do everything he can to get Democrats elected in the next contest and then the globalists will get the bill they want. This is what we are truly up against.
I am up for the work and the fight. This issue has made me angrier than any in many years.
I watched the destruction of the town I grew up in. It is 97% hispanic and it happened in 15 years.
I am now watching the smaller city I live in become a place I can’t stand to live in. This will be the 3rd place we have been run out of because of this crap. It happens at an exponential speed. Anyone who tells you....in our lifetime.... uh uh, it is 10-15 years, that’s all it takes.
I may be getting older but my anger is still red hot.
Then Freepers, NumbersUSA, Grassfire should begin a campaign to flood the WH with calls for his Ex. Priv. to build that fence and enforce first. Keep the pressure up on him. His arrogance on this issue must be answered. Also, Freepers could support the GOP House members today who began an ENFORCEMENT bill only via Bilbray-Rohrbacher et al right now.
We'll just have to work hard, give to good conservatives, organize protests more rapidly, and basically make any reaction to this nonsense stronger than the action.
WRIT OF MANDAMUS
A pleading for the writ of mandamus to be enforced should be able to show a legal right to compel the respondent to do or refrain from doing the specific act. The duty sought to be enforced must have two qualities:
1. It must be a duty of public nature
2. The duty must be imperative and should not be discretionary.
Right on the mark. Jorge and company are subverting us - deliberately.
Here are two links that all Patriotic Americans, in other words, "Conservatives" need to pay attention to, Roy Beck's chilling video: Link
Recall Mel Martinez Link
"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 followed the Senate votes on immigration from June 6 to yesterday.
Repeatedly, RINOs voted with straight Democratic blocs to keep the issue alive.
At the end, it was only the overwhelming outcry from the people who prevailed.
My senator George Voinovich went along with the RINOs most of the time, while Sen. Sherrod Brown voted pretty much with the Democratic bloc.
Sen. Voinovich is through with the voters of Ohio. He promised a conservative approach, but he fell into the spell of the RINOs. I notice that he almost always voted with Senators Lugar, Hagel, and Warner.
As Sen. Hagel said, “It’s time to quit Washington politics and go home to sell shoes.” I’d like to look at some 13W black wingtips please.
How the Bushbots can continue to idolize Shrub after his attempt to sell us out is beyond me. His refusal to defend the border is leaving us wide open for another 911. Like his father, he is a globalist who considers old-fashioned patriotism to be a quaint carryover from the past. Can’t wait to see him pack up his Uhaul and go.
I suspect you’re right. If Dubya had respect for the American people and his oath of office he would have been enforcing the laws all along, despite his personal wishes.
Bush acts like a king, above the law.
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