Posted on 06/11/2007 7:20:30 AM PDT by VictoryGal
The EU also. It’s like the world is lining up. Asia, EU, Middle East alignments and SPP. That leaves Israel. Gee, I think I’ve read about that somewhere before..
Plenty of Republicans are dumb enough to believe that amnesty will secure the Hispanic vote, never mind that Hispanics have never been a swing vote (Reagan in '84 and Bush in '04 received no more than approx. 35% of the Latino electorate, and those were high-water marks for the GOP) and that Hispanic Republicans are overwhelmingly anti-amnesty.
The La Raza Republicans are looking forward to that which comes after they leave Congress - appointments to cushy jobs like judgeships and ambassadorships offered by Bush or a Pres. McCain or Giuliani, or lobbyist jobs offered by the business interests demanding cheap labor. For instance, if Chuck Hagel is ousted, look for him to become a lobbyist for the meatpacking industry.
The La Raza Republicans have heard an earful from their constituents when they've gone out among normal people. The opinions they really care about, however, are those of their cronies at the country club.
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I would have gone with Elián González. At least China coughed up lots of money and support for Clinton.
What did the only illegal alien the government has hated in the last generation do to deserve to merit the personal attention of a full SWAT team goon squad?
The simple fact of the matter is that for whatever reason, Bush chose not to prosecute dissidents of the WoT. Without firm media support, he needed to isolate foreign policy from domestic criticism regarding the economy.
So what's the guaranteed, sure fire way of growing an economy? Is it tax cuts, low interest rates or expanded money supply? No, the absolute, never fail way is to simply increase the gross number of mouths.
More people means more demand for housing, transportation, food, energy, etc. IOW, sheer numbers cycle through the entire economy. Now, granted, if you get less productive people, a disparity will result from short-term unemployment/income (eg the often touted 4% unemployment), and longer-term social welfare costs/balance sheet items (ie hospital closings, prison/school overcrowding). That's the beauty of accounting: you push balance sheet items onto the next generation, long after you've gone.
To recap, this all gets back to the WoT; Bush cannot afford a recession, which is exactly what we'd get if we shipped home 12-20m illegals. However, if we don't ship them home, we'll lose the very cultural heritage our ancestors built (and died) for our OWN benefit & welfare.
Bush essentially financed his foreign policy actions with 'credit card debt', for which we now have to pay the price in either losing the WoT or losing our country. He will go down in history as the most disastrous president in the history of the US.
However, there is one out, but it is so bold & decisive, it may well take a new president to enact. Simply put, while we should drive out the 20m illegals, we should simultaneously open up Z visas/guest workers to 10m Indians & 10m Chinese. This would not only serve to dampen the net demand effect of losing 20m consumers, but it would bring in more diverse, higher value-add immigrants.
Of course, it will never happen, but what the hey.
Take your pick.
Either the imbecilic illegal immigrant amnesty bill survives, or you do!
Why continally thwart the will of the people who supported your presidency twice?
If you persist in you misguided obsession your 'library' will be viewed with the same degree of disdain as is the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor!
Stop!
I wonder what Bush would see if we put a UAV orbiting over our southern border.
The National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Only 210 new border agents have been funded. 2/10ths of 1%.
The Secure Fence bill included the requirement to construct 700 miles of secure border barrier, of which only two miles of new and nine miles of repaired structure has been put in place. 3/10ths of 1%.
This American holds out little hope any enforcement provision will be given even so much as a half-assed effort - say tops a 3/10ths of 1% effort. Until what was already promised, negotiated, and enacted into law becomes reality, I don’t see how Americans can do anything but look upon those on Capitol Hill with disdain and shame.
American Patriots are saying, “We simply do not trust you. Prove you’re worth our trust, fulfill your obligations. Otherwise, accept your well earned vote of no confidence.”
It was almost like a bad SNL or MadTV script last week:
Scene in Senate:
Kennedy in the Senate well, giving a floor speech supporting this bill. He is ranting and raving and blaming the Republican administrations [which would be Reagan and Bush2 for failing to secure the borders since 1986.
Kennedy is stabbing Bush in the back [again] in a floor speech.
Scene almost simultaneous with Bush:
Media switches to Bush giving a speech praising Kennedy for his hard work and effort in pushing this amnesty bill through the Senate.
Scrappleface couldn’t make that up.
And, watching it, who do you get mad at? Kennedy for stabbing Bush in the back in the speech? Or Bush for praising Kennedy while Kennedy is stabbing him in the back.
It is surreal.
If this immigration bill survives, our nation will not, at least not as it has been historically. It will be a balkanized lawless nation and may even end in Civil War.
Nothing is to be gained by this bill except for cheap labor for big business and another step toward a North American Union. Nothing in it for Americans, only foreigners. We must defeat it
I agree with you in respect to what VG stated.
I must admit, however, that our president is making me sick at my stomach!
I feel slapped in the face over that comment too. We've always been a nation where the dignity of a job was what you brought to the job, not the work itself. Bush is talking like some European elitist. There's no frigging nobility here.
Europe has the problems they have because they bring in their inferiors to do the sh_t work. How insulting. In this country we don't need second class citizens. We don't need slaves, we don't need to feel superior to other humans because our job has more status. We're a nation of equals. Bush must think he's better than the rest of us to if that's his standard. Maybe he thinks the jobs the rest of us do are too good for him... maybe he's not a citizen representative, but a king -- nobility -- better than the rest of us.
Personally, I think Bush is betraying the principles this country was founded on.
In spades!
What a slap in the face - better yet - a taunt, to us the taxpayers who have made our wishes known loud and clear.
I’m with you, see you at the impeachment.
The American Citizens Should VOTE On This Issue!
ping
What, exactly, is the downside of having Bush impeached?
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