Posted on 06/14/2007 6:16:04 AM PDT by radar101
I just sent you a private reply.
Yellow stars, how appropriate.
” ...leverage to get votes (in other words, “vote for the bill or we’ll have to waste your vacation time until you do”).”
This should incense every American, that they can force a Senator to vote ‘their way’ so the Senators can go off on vacation. Senators have many extended breaks during the year that your typical office worker can only dream of; they take long weekends at home. They can give up one holiday and get the thing done right.
Let them stay in DC through the Fourth of July, there’s a nice Independence Day festival on the Mall they can go to .. fireworks, even ;)
The sense I’m getting is that Red and Blue don’t matter anymore. Elections are so close anyway, that as long as we can divide the population evenly, the parties can take turns stealing elections from each other.
Almost like the late stages of the cold war. There were as many people in the CIA working with the Soviets, and vice versa. The Cold War became a sort of industry.
...wondering if one could live out the remainder of days in Scotland?
Thanks, I did forget he’s the world’s only living spine donor.
Can you find out why Inhofe’s office and people aren’t bringing attention to his ENFORCE bill?
Here you go, a representative sample. Be sure to check the bona fides of each group (use Google) to see the power and money that's behind Shamnesty, behind Congress, and behind George W Bush.
Apologies to those seeing this for the 5th time.
The American Meat Institute ran this ad in Congressional Quarterly last year (AMI members including Hormel, Tyson, Cargill, and several hundred other companies process 70 percent of America's annual meat output). Regarding immigration Amnesty, the "trade associations" are allied with many powerful unions and immgration "advocacy" groups.
This list is representative, and by no means all-inclusive of the hundreds of groups supporting immigration Amnesty.
"Though no one wants to reward illegal behavior, we must find a way for these workers to come forward, make good on the past and participate in a program that leads to permanent residency and eventual citizenship."
http://www.meatami.com/1CQImmigrationAd030206.pdf
The Rogues Gallery Of Co-Signatories To The Above Statement:
That's one approach. Certainly there will be huge buck$ for immigration lawyers and document forgers.
Call your entire state's House delegation, regardless of district or party. One by one.
Ironically my state GOP suggested this when I told them I was going to change to Independent registration.
It was OK, I discovered that 80 percent of our Congressional reps were dead set against Shamnesty.
That was three weeks ago, might be time to do it again.
You are not going to get me to disagree with your statement.
..but I called mine specifically because I know someone on the 'inside'.....just needed to talk.
They are trying to make it see the light of day and having no success. Cannot get Judiciary to hear the bill. That’s why I kept asking people to call to have the Inhofe bill heard in Judiciary but the President and his henchman Rove don’t want to even know about it and have helped bury it.
Maybe we should do another thread and get people to call and demand his bill be heard in Judiciary. What do you think?
Thanks for that list! Disgusting!
CAn't hurt, if its okay to post. I'll help you bump it. Here's a ref.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837422/posts
Common Sense 'ENFORCE ACT' introduced By Sen. Inhofe
Our OK Reps are all against it and have been told if it passes the Senate it is DOA in the House. Even the Dem is opposing the bill I was told by his office. That makes two Senators and five Reps against this travesty of a bill from Oklahoma! We are doing our part and in fact, the Inhofe bill ENFORCE has been unable to get heard in Judiciary. We need everyone calling their Senators and demanding that the Inhofe Bill ENFORCE see the light of day!
I don’t like to encourage it, since we’re not finished yet.
However....
We bought a house in SE Asia a couple years ago.
My neice loved Ecuador, she didn’t want to return after teaching there for a year (I said Uruguay earlier, meant Ecuador). She was down in Cuenca, nice climate.
Anyway, it’s called “migration jujutsu”. They come, we leave.
I would go and I am in Ohio. This hole thing really sucks!
SCREW YOU RINO’S AND ELITES! SCREW YOU!
That's the entire point. There is literally no other reason.
We might as well try. We need calls to get this bill heard and out of Committee so there are two competing bills. Think I will go find out who is on Judiciary and post their information with the thread. Will take me awhile but will get it up as quick as possible.
BTW, Sen Coburn had surgery and won’t be back in the Senate until the end of June according to a news release. This vote cannot be taken until he gets back IMHO.
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