Posted on 03/23/2007 2:38:45 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Enemies foreign AND domestic.
"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.
This is a picture they are going to regret deeply in a few months. "Congress yanks support for troops' mission: Top Democrats laugh."
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.
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.
Bunch of IDIOTS!
tHANKS FOR THE LINK~~~~
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.
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~~~
They be smiling cuz, they are drunk with P-O-W-E-R.
Reality will hit them come next election! Fruit loops!
See post #55 for the lowdown on Mr. Murphy.
The "Copperheads" are back.
YAY!
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!!!
Cation for that pic is,
Buck-ugly, f***ing ugly and ugly.
You can buy those anywhere now...........LOL
I love it!!
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