Alway true in politics, but lately the show has become slarmingly absurd. What do the people sy? zzzzzz.....
Posted on 06/21/2013 10:16:21 AM PDT by servo1969
Senators John Hoeven (R-ND) and Bob Corker (R-TN) have made anti-gun New York Senator Chuck Schumer a very happy man. They are frantically working to give Schumer the 70 votes he needs to send his amnesty bill to the House with momentum.
And, if that bill were to be signed into law, it would add 8.4 million anti-gun voters to the rolls, and make gun registration, bans, and confiscation inevitable within 20 years.
Here’s where we stand:
Schumer’s original slimy deal was supposed to be this: We will add 8.4 million anti-gun Democratic voters to the rolls, but, in exchange, we will secure the border. It would supposedly do this by more fence and more federal agents.
Now the partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has come back with its numbers: On the one hand, 8 million (mostly anti-gun) illegal immigrants would be eligible for citizenship. And these are the figures from the liberal CBO!
On the other hand, said the CBO, illegal immigration would remain largely unaffected by the bill’s fencing and agents, going down a paltry 25%.
It was pretty apparent that Senate Republican negotiators had lost their shirts, even if you trust the liberal CBO.
So Hoeven and Corker began to negotiate over a path to pass Schumer’s anti-gun bill with a super-majority. A little more fence. A few more agents. A more Orwellian E-Verify system. But the big issue was whether to hold up citizenship for the 8.4 million anti-gun voters until illegal immigration had demonstrably been reduced by 90%. Schumer & Co. adamantly refused to agree to this.
Why? If Schumer had any expectation that the Obama administration was going to tighten the border, why would he be so averse to guaranteeing that result?
It was obvious to everyone that Schumer didn’t expect the border to ever be secure, and that was the reason he wasn’t willing to condition his 8.4 million anti-gun voters on quantifiable border security.
So what did Corker and Hoeven do? They agreed to turn the 90% border security REQUIREMENT into a 90% border security non-binding GOAL.
It should have told them something that every liberal analyst in town has been deliriously happy over the Hoeven-Corker sell-out.
ACTION: Contact your U.S. Senators. Tell them to oppose the Hoeven-Corker sell-out.
Hoeven is proving that winning the previously out-of-reach ND Senate seat was ultimately meaningless.
You probably thought Howard Henry Baker, Jr., was a conservative too, right? Nancy Reagan hired him in 1987 to rescue Ronnie, and they kicked out the other Regan.
FL will prove this beyond despair in the next month. A lot of these injustices are caused by the uninformed American people.
Nobody in TX will oppose Cornyn, it seeems.
That's what Tennessee THOUGHT it had elected.. believe me.
Both Corker and Alexander ( TN Senators ) are deep into the RINO kool-aid.
Not to mention more abusive IRS, DOJ, and SCOTUS. The people could stop this if they wanted to, but apparently they think post-amnesty America will not be much of a change.
Jr. was my Rep for several years. Just about anyone would be better than Corker.
Alexander Never was a conservative. He was just one step ahead of the Dem so, he got our vote,
That’s right.
Alway true in politics, but lately the show has become slarmingly absurd. What do the people sy? zzzzzz.....
Seeing the antics of his relative in the state house may change your mind about that.
And Ford jr. is even more ignorant than Obama regarding the private sector.
Very good.
The shock was that everyone knew everyone else,
I lived in Whitehaven for 30 years. I know all too well all about the Fords. I probably even know you. Memphis is a real small town. Culture shock when we moved from Los Angeles
That “earn-esty” line, douchey, just play douchey. Rubs is a douche bag.
They’re better than the two from IL-annoy:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/126485325/2012-Ratings-of-the-United-States-Congress#page=12
I’d trade in a heartbeat.
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