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Why Are These People Smiling? - Dems Celebrate
Sweetness & Light ^ | March 23, 2007 | N/A

Posted on 03/23/2007 2:38:45 PM PDT by Sam Hill

From the wire services:

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Democrats celebrate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2007, after a sharply divided House of Representatives voted to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year. From left are, House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of Calif., and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md.

The sad thing is we know why.

They are celebrating our country's imminent defeat by terrorists.



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KEYWORDS: betrayal; dhimmicrats; enemywithin; subversives; traitors; treason
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To: Sam Hill

Enemies foreign AND domestic.


61 posted on 03/23/2007 4:19:49 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (There oughta be a law against excess legislation.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

"One of Rahm Emanuel's "rent a vets" like former Admiral Joe Sestak. He was in Iraq as a lawyer. He was awarded a Bronze star for service as a lawyer. Now he using that to cash in and he knows very well what this bill means."

Can't be repeated enough.


62 posted on 03/23/2007 4:25:54 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill

This is a picture they are going to regret deeply in a few months. "Congress yanks support for troops' mission: Top Democrats laugh."


63 posted on 03/23/2007 4:26:40 PM PDT by cookcounty (Subpoena Schumer's emails in the criminal DSCC fraud case! We need to know how high it went.)
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To: SierraWasp
"You can't spit shine a turd!!!"

They will have to resort to lacquer like the guy did that sold buffalo chips mounted on a plague.
64 posted on 03/23/2007 4:27:44 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Angry Write Mail
Unfortunately, the Republicrats in Washington have lost (or never shared) Ronald Reagan's vision of what it means to be Republican. Even President Bush, has made it clear he has no intention of enforcing our immigration laws.

That's a funny/ironic example. By any objective criteria Bush has been FAR more energetic and proactive in enforcing emigration law and policing the borders than Reagan was. So was Clinton for the matter of that.

Look, I don't disagree that even more needs to be done, but don't buy into the intellectual dishonesty -- in fact, let's be blunt: LIES -- of conservative populists and demagogues who claim that nothing has been / is being done on borders and immigration, and that our borders are "open".

If we want to deal with this problem we need face up to the truth. Indulging in easy fantasy is not a conservative trait. The FACT is that we continue to have a problem in spite of truly massive increases in enforcement and border control resources. (Much of it in the 90's, and of course even more since 9-11.)

When Reagan was in office crossing the southern border illegally was, literally, a matter of a 5 or 10 minute walk, usually on the outskirts of a metropolitan area. There would probably be cabbies waiting for the illegal on the American side.

Today the typical crossing involves a one or two day hike, usually through desert or across other forbidding terrain. If you want a quicker route you'll have to pay a coyote hundreds, even thousands, of dollars.

The demagogues want you to think there's some easy solution, but the truth is we've already done the easy stuff.

They also want you to think that tighter borders are a panacea. The truth is that the borders are far tighter compared to 20 years ago, and that's actually part of the problem. Not that I'm saying we should go back to effectively open borders, but again just that we need to face up to the facts.

When it was cheap and easy to cross the borders there was a high rate of "circularity" among illegal immigrants. That is to say large numbers returned to their home country (mainly Mexico) each year. The rate was probably well above 50 percent.

Also few illegals back then would bring their families. Even if they did remain in America much of the time, they could always go back home to visit. Why not leave the wife and kids where the cost of living was far lower and where they had the support network of extended family?

Finally illegals were often satisfied with seasonal work, and would ebb and flow in reaction to the American job market. If the American economy was not providing readily available jobs, many would-be illegals would decide to stay at home in Mexico and tough it out until conditions improved.

Tighter borders have changed all these things. Now it's often impossible, or too expensive, to cross the border seasonally or multiple times in a year. "Circularity" has plummeted to below 25 percent (and that figure was based on a pre-911 study I believe). Illegals are more likely to remain here once they get here, stay here year round, bring their dependents with them, compete for the kinds of jobs that provide for the greater expenses involved in all of this (or turn to crime), etc, etc.

The number of illegals in the country has increased not because we have more coming in. That figure has dropped significantly. The problem is we have far more staying here once they get here.

65 posted on 03/23/2007 4:32:48 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Sam Hill

Smiling Surrender Monkeys
Toothy Traitors
Laughing Losers

And keep in mind that it took EVERY one of those who voted for surrender to get to 218. So if your congressman, like mine (Chet Edwards, D for Defeat-TX) voted with Obnoxious Pelosi and Benedict Murtha, he made this vote for our military defeat possible. These traitors should be buried in scathing correspondence from patriots in their districts.


66 posted on 03/23/2007 4:33:07 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Sam Hill

Bunch of IDIOTS!


67 posted on 03/23/2007 4:34:03 PM PDT by jaycee (Just looking for a tagline)
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To: RedRover

tHANKS FOR THE LINK~~~~


68 posted on 03/23/2007 4:39:01 PM PDT by jaycee (Just looking for a tagline)
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To: 4yearlurker
I still can't get passed the way the press lionized Murtha after he came out with his utterly moronic "Okinawa Plan."

Re-inserting from Okinawa in southern Japan, would require flying across the heart of China, then across Iran. to circumnavigate hostile territory, Okinawa becomes further from Baghdad than New Jersey.
----To say nothing of re-occupying Japan with 100,000 troops "for the good of the Middle East."

Yet the Press, in their Unanimous Suck-Up Mode (USUM) were so-o-o-o impressed.

69 posted on 03/23/2007 4:40:02 PM PDT by cookcounty (Subpoena Schumer's emails in the criminal DSCC fraud case! We need to know how high it went.)
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To: Sam Hill

I wonder if anyone has noticed that Nancy is always rolling her tongue around in her mouth. She did it a lot when she was handed the gavel. And in that first pic, you can see it~~~


70 posted on 03/23/2007 4:40:26 PM PDT by jaycee (Just looking for a tagline)
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To: Sam Hill

They be smiling cuz, they are drunk with P-O-W-E-R.


Reality will hit them come next election! Fruit loops!


71 posted on 03/23/2007 4:41:20 PM PDT by JFC
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To: Sam Hill
This guy here looks like everybody's retarded cousin.

 

72 posted on 03/23/2007 4:42:24 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: HitmanLV

See post #55 for the lowdown on Mr. Murphy.


73 posted on 03/23/2007 4:43:58 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill


They won't be laughing forever.....
74 posted on 03/23/2007 4:44:25 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Sam Hill

The "Copperheads" are back.


75 posted on 03/23/2007 4:45:45 PM PDT by ElevenB
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To: Sam Hill
YAY, we're destroying America, undermining America's reputation, and handing
Al-Qaeda a victory over our soldiers deaths while blaming Bush.
Ha Ha, Americans are soo stupid.

YAY!

76 posted on 03/23/2007 4:48:28 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Sam Hill

Okay folks....if hearing Babs Boxer tell Sen. Inhofe that "elections have consequences"..and then laughing at him, wasn't bad enough...

LOOK at these pictures..and SEAR them in your memory.

These are the ENEMY...they are laughing at the defeat of the patriots...they are the nazis laughing at the Brits..they are the terrorists laughing at the Americans on 9/11!!!!

They have to be defeated...this is WAR!!!


77 posted on 03/23/2007 5:05:49 PM PDT by Txsleuth (I don't know who I am voting for yet...just window shopping.)
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To: Moonman62

Cation for that pic is,

Buck-ugly, f***ing ugly and ugly.


78 posted on 03/23/2007 5:06:06 PM PDT by JRochelle (RudymccaINrOmney)
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To: Stayfree

You can buy those anywhere now...........LOL


79 posted on 03/23/2007 5:19:22 PM PDT by jaycee (Just looking for a tagline)
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To: Mo1

I love it!!


80 posted on 03/23/2007 5:21:01 PM PDT by Txsleuth (I don't know who I am voting for yet...just window shopping.)
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