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Graham Pushes National I.D. Card
Human Events ^ | 03/12/2010 | by Roger Hedgecock

Posted on 03/12/2010 6:21:58 AM PST by b4its2late

Senator Lindsey Graham, ever the faithful follower of uber-RINO John McCain, scored three RINO initiatives in just one week.

Reminiscent of the "the band's getting back together" scenes from the movie "Blues Brothers", Graham and McCain reached back to the good old days of bipartisan shafting of conservative judicial nominees and offered the Democrats another "Gang of Fourteen"--this time to shaft the public with a bipartisan Obamacare bill.

The offer must have been tempting to the Democrats who remember how "bipartisan leadership" from Graham and McCain spiked conservative guns when the Republicans were in the majority in the Senate. But this time around, the action on Obamacare is in the House. Senate Dems said no -- maybe next time.

Graham tried again.

With the House version of the "cap and trade" global warming tax frozen stiff in the Senate, Graham urged the GOP to stop demonizing climate change.

He told The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman that calling climate change into question puts "at risk the party's future with younger people". Graham explained "I have been to enough college campuses to know if you are 30 or younger this climate issue is not a debate. It's a value." Graham called for bipartisan leadership to enact the climate change legislation.

Progressive bloggers seized on these remarks to try to unfreeze "cap and trade" in the Senate--or build support for Obama's alternative plan to have the EPA dictate a "cap and trade" regulation and tax scheme without Senate approval.

Meanwhile, Dem Senator Jay Rockefeller and other Democrats sought to block the EPA move to regulate carbon dioxide as a health hazard (on behalf of the 44% of American electricity generated in coal fired power plants.) Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer also asked Obama to stop stimulus grants for "green power" projects after learning that a wind farm in Texas was owned by a foreign firm and the stimulus money would stimulate jobs in China and Japan where the turbines were made.

So, no new "Gang of Fourteen" on "cap and trade." Graham tried again.

President Obama promised Latino activists a new illegal alien amnesty bill--last year. Mired in the health care "reform" debacle, neither the President nor his party wanted another partisan stand off. Senator Chuck Schumer had promised an immigration "reform" bill by last Thanksgiving but had produced nothing.

Lindsey Graham to the rescue.

Graham and Schumer have been meeting on a "new" bipartisan immigration bill. The President beamed his approval, and the new Gang of Two had a press conference to announce the breakthrough.

The "new" immigration bill includes a "path to citizenship" for illegals, border security, and biometric I.D. cards for every American to insure that only those here legally can get jobs.

Meet the new bill--same as the old bill. Since 1986, Americans have been promised some variation of the three legged stool--amnesty, border protection, employer sanctions. Every time a bill passes, the illegals get the amnesty, the border remains open, and millions more illegally enter the country.

In 2007, the McCain/Kennedy bipartisan Immigration "Reform" bill was supported by the leadership of both parties in Congress and by the President. It contained the same three components. It was defeated because the public "won't be fooled again."

The public was right to be skeptical. Following that bill's defeat, both Bush and Obama failed to control the border (the Boeing "virtual border" is an expensive flop) or verify employment eligibility (e-verify is said to have a 54% failure rate).

Graham says this time will be different. The "path to citizenship" will have to be earned by registering, paying a fine, paying any back taxes, and waiting in line.

Once again--we've had this debate. Many illegals do not want to become citizens. They just want to work and send home some money and go back home when they have enough. Many others are content with the current situation. As illegals, they can escape taxation, get welfare through their U.S. born kids, and still work here. Who needs "citizenship"?

Even worse, the "new" bill will still amnesty all illegals with a "temporary" visa while they are in line for citizenship. This visa removes any incentive to get in that line.

But there is something new and more dangerous in the Graham/Schumer bill.

To ensure that only people legally in the U.S. can work here, the bill will propose a biometric I.D. for EVERY AMERICAN before anybody can get a job.

Graham, apparently too desirous of playing a role in a in his own remake of "Inglorious Basterds", wants you to show him your Papers before you can work in your own country.

Opposition to this tyranny will come from all parts of our divided political spectrum. In a truly free country, the right to work cannot be granted (or withheld) by the government.

Graham wants to solve the problem of 11 million (or more) illegals working here by restricting the right to work of over 300 million who live in the "land of the free" legally. This is the TSA approach. We know who the terrorists are likely to be, but we will pat down and invade the privacy of all airline passengers to show how "fair" we are.

Worse, what does "biometric" mean ? Apparently, this I.D. debate is going on in many other countries as the technology allowing government to monitor our every move gets more feasible.

A biometric card allows government to include a lot of information about you on the card. How long before you must show the card to get health care ? Education ? Or to Vote ? Remember that the Social Security card morphed into an I.D. when proponents in the 1930s called such fears paranoid ?

Graham wants a SS card on steroids. He told the Wall Street Journal, "We've all got Social Security cards. They're just easily tampered with. Make them tamper proof. That's all I'm saying."

Practically speaking, there is no tamper proof card. The same technology that reassures Graham is available to others to tamper with the card and game the system.

This time, Graham's “bipartisanship” is a real threat to liberty.

Graham's RINO tactics will enable the President to turn illegal aliens into documented Democrats. And in the process, hand the Federal Government yet another way to monitor and control our lives.

The real solution is the same as it has always been. Congress must secure the border first, and enforce e-verify. Illegal immigration is a problem caused by Federal non-enforcement of existing law.

Liberal Lindsey Graham is -- like Rahm Emanuel -- trying to use a crisis to political advantage. But unlike the crises Emanuel peddles -- which are concocted -- the immigration crisis is real. And solving it need not be done by shredding the Constitution as Sen. Graham would do.

Why do the good people of South Carolina keep re-electing this guy? For that matter, what’s so wrong with Arizona that they keep inflicting John McCain on us?


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To: b4its2late
"I have been to enough college campuses to know if you are 30 or younger this climate issue is not a debate. It's a value."

Whatever you need to get down on your knees and service a constituency for votes, right Linseed? It doesn't matter that they're flat wrong...you want their votes at any cost to America.

You are a despicable whore with no values, seeking only new clientele for your infectious brand of stupididy. The worst kind of political whore.
101 posted on 03/12/2010 10:35:08 AM PST by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Thunder90

Yes, along with Student Loan Program.


102 posted on 03/12/2010 10:35:32 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: GeronL

This is Obama game time. Make a “mark” on every law abiding American, knowing full well illegals will buy a fake one.

Lindsay you can sign me up.............posthumously.


103 posted on 03/12/2010 10:36:25 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: ctdonath2
Requiring everyone to have a license to exist is not an acceptable alternative.

Then until we have a national change of heart, we are going to continue to be overrun with illegal aliens. The solution is to learn Spanish. If you are bilingual, your own job prospects increase dramatically.

104 posted on 03/12/2010 10:43:07 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: exit82

I’m more inclined to believe they will not enforce any law -just as it is not really enforced now:

**U.S. Can’t Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas **

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/us/12visa.html?pagewanted=all


105 posted on 03/12/2010 10:46:05 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: indylindy
Here's his partner in the whole things. Says so much of how bad of an idea this is. This dirtbags father left Russia for the same reason he is doing this:

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106 posted on 03/12/2010 10:46:59 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: 30Moves

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. -Ayn Rand


107 posted on 03/12/2010 10:51:43 AM PST by phelix
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To: b4its2late
It is way too easy to lose ID cards. Just tattoo the number on their arms, nicht weit?
108 posted on 03/12/2010 10:52:03 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: b4its2late

Why don’t they just imprint 666 on our foreheads and get it over with?


109 posted on 03/12/2010 10:55:01 AM PST by Wisconsinlady
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To: April Lexington

It’ll probably be an implanted chip.


110 posted on 03/12/2010 10:57:36 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: b4its2late
I am OK with this.

It's the ONLY way to cleanse the workforce of illegals.

Anyone who thinks this smacks of "the mark of the beast"...should get a grip. You're paranoid.

What the government doesn't know about you, they can find out any time they want. That's FAR scarier than an ID card that must be presented only to obtain work.

111 posted on 03/12/2010 10:58:33 AM PST by Mariner
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To: b4its2late

“Graham says this time will be different. The “path to citizenship” will have to be earned by registering, paying a fine, paying any back taxes, and waiting in line. “

Sounds like the same old “path to citizenship” amnesty. And NO ONE who supports it will get my vote.


112 posted on 03/12/2010 11:02:01 AM PST by Kimberly GG ("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
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To: b4its2late
Then they can implant it in me in the morgue.

But before they can do this, they would have to take our guns.

Impeach 0bmaa.

113 posted on 03/12/2010 11:02:39 AM PST by molybdenum ((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
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To: b4its2late

push him out!!!


114 posted on 03/12/2010 11:02:45 AM PST by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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To: b4its2late

Bye BYE GRAHAM!!!!!


115 posted on 03/12/2010 11:07:05 AM PST by pollywog (Psalm 91:4 ~ Under His Wings ~)
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To: b4its2late
Graham Pushes National I.D. Card

I'd like to push Graham....off a cliff! What a maroon!

116 posted on 03/12/2010 11:07:27 AM PST by luvie (DIMs?......start packin'--you're fired!)
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To: b4its2late

Sign up for your National Health ID card soon.


117 posted on 03/12/2010 11:08:59 AM PST by byteback
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To: 30Moves
Would cops have scanners so they could identify people in a crowd?

Well, if you kept it wrapped in aluminum foil.... Just sayin'...

On the other hand, I pray every day for the incapacitation of Graham, Oabama, McCain, Reid, Pelose, et al.

118 posted on 03/12/2010 11:09:02 AM PST by raybbr
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To: Mariner

It is NOT the only way! Cut them off of any & all benefits and watch the exodus! Fine the employers 10,000 or better , for any remaining aliens. And ship the million or so who are imprisoned in the US for felonies back to whence they came.


119 posted on 03/12/2010 11:09:35 AM PST by molybdenum ((A nation without borders is not a nation......Ronald Reagan.))
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To: b4its2late

Will they jail people who cut theirs up? They let the predators out to murder innocent women and children.


120 posted on 03/12/2010 11:12:58 AM PST by floriduh voter (Charlie Crist said about the summit, ..."I don't think a lot..." What else is new?)
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