McCain: Bush Must Do More on Immigration

AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/21/06 | Suzanne Gamboa - ap

[South40]

I am as happy as the reality of the recall election allows me to be.

You, however, are mired in your obsession.

It's freaky, really. But, hey, if that is what you're all about so be it.

[NormsRevenge]

Would you vote for the Gub in a Recall today knowing what he was bringing to or should I say under the table to the party?

If you answer as I expect, that Is truly freaky. ;-)

[South40]

I would determine my vote after comparing him with the other candidates who stood a REAL chance of winning.

I certainly would not vote for some dream candidate who I know never could.

[NormsRevenge]

Your answer is not unexpected.

Go hug Tom while you can, a dem will likely be Gub and Tom Lt Gub after November and the GOP will have no one to blame but themselves for letting a Trojan Horse pull the apple cart over the cliff. Hang on..

[jordan8]

McCain's running.

[John D]

Anybody notice that McCrazy sponsors more bills with dimwitocrats than Republicans?

[old republic]

The States can use the Militia on the border with or without the President's consent. According to Article II Section 2 of the US Constitution:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.."

The key thing to realize from that sentence is that the President is only the Commander in chief of the states militia when they are called into the active service of the United States by Congress. That means that all of the States' National Guards are in the Service of their state governments until Congress calls them forth to the service of the United States. (The President cannot call troops into the Service of the United States as Article I Sec 8 makes clear.) Thus it would be Constitutional for a state to use its sovereignity to deal with the border issue even if the Federal government isn't involved.

[Caipirabob]

They say that traumatic cyclical changes in the Earth's gravitational field could actually exert so much force upon the moon as to draw it out of it's current orbit and cause it to crash into the Earth, dooming billions of people and ending all life on Earth.

I, for one, refuse to wait until the inevitable occurs...

BUSH'S FAULT!

[JediForce]

Then the governors should deploy them and let the chips fall where they may. If they have the courage they will. If not...their bluster about the issue will be just that...political wind.

JEDI.

[old republic]

lol. Are you suggesting that governnors use the force?


At one point in our history the states were seen as co-sovereign and routinely resisted unconstitutional encroachments upon their sovereignity. They were supreme in regulating social issues and so forth. The problem is that Americans now seem to think that the states are provinces rather than states. (A state is a sovereign unit, whereas a province is unit subservient to the national government.) Ever since the civil war states have hesitated to assert themselves and even were removed from the federal government. The Senate used to represent the state governments as sovereign units, but after the 17th made the Senate popularly elected the states lost their voice in the national government and can no longer protect themselves from any federal encroachment upon the powers of the states.

[JediForce]

And maybe 5% of the American people understand that or could even comprehend it. Thus the part of the reason we have some of the problems we have today and the size of our federal government.

JEDI.