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?
Won’t happen until Christ cleans up at the literal Armageddon.
. . . which is looming closer . . . though to be preceded by 7 years of hell on earth, first.
Well put.
Sure, three sixes embedded in the center!
But it will billed as three 9's so as to not cause alarm. and to make it handy for people with out pockets lets just inscribe this card on our foreheads, yeah that's a good idea. /sarc
Scary times we are living in.
IS Mike kissing lightfoot’s rear end again?
LLS
We are in the second month of year two, right?
I don’t think so.
I don’t think OThuga is the real AC . . . just an also ran forerunner preparing the way.
I think the real bloke will be overtly crowned or revealed on the world stage at the beginning of the 7 years.
OThuga has too much baggage, is too stupid, too clumsy etc. etc. to fill the role.
No way can OThuga convince the Jews that HE is their true MESSIAH.
. . . just . . . imho . . .
If OThuga were to suffer a serious Biblical wound and display a miraculous resurrection live on prime time, I might have to reconsider.
You must develop a plan to destroy tyrants. When tyrants are disallowed and extinguished tyranny will abate
The two problems should not be linked. you should not stop a heartbeat to relieve bleeding
Trouble is, the tyrannical nature is in the heart of man.
. . . until . . .
THE RETURN OF THE KING . . . WHEN HE writes HIS law on our hearts.
And when they are returned to wherever they came from, they should have a deep RFID implant so they set off border alarms when they try to sneak back in.
But, as much as the pro-illegal/anti-American crowd wants to force Americans to carry a nat’l ID card.....the same ones will biatch if we did anything like that to the Illegal Alien lawbreakers.....it will be the Graham/McCain crowd, the Liberal Media, the La Raza/Hispanic Ku Klux Klan crowd that will whine if those tactics are used on Illegals.....of course, they support such for American citizens
“I still think the cure is worse than the disease.”
Congress is also pushing through piecemeal legislation while we’re not looking by way of ‘Ag jobs’.
UFW, growers push for path to citizenship for undocumented farmworkers
BY COURTENAY EDELHART, Californian staff writer
cedelhart@bakersfield.com | Monday, Mar 08 2010 05:34 PM
Supporters of immigration reform are making another push to pass a
congressional bill that would give undocumented farm workers a path to
permanent residency and ultimately citizenship.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is the sponsor of the AgJobs bill in the Senate, and
representatives Howard Berman, D-Van Nuys, Calif., and Adam Putnam,
R-Bartow, Fla., are backing it in the House.
“We’ve been close to getting it passed for years, but we feel like this is
really the year to do it,” Arturo Rodriguez, president of United Farm
Workers of America, told The Californian’s editorial board Monday.
The cause has united farm labor advocates and agricultural interests,
groups that in the past have lobbied on opposite sides. But this is one
issue the longtime rivals strongly agree on.
“To the credit of the UFW, they’ve gone to their traditional allies and
said, ‘We have a window, here, we can’t waste it waiting for the perfect
bill,’” said Bryan Little, director of labor affairs for the California
Farm Bureau.
That window is a president and congressional leadership that want to
reform an immigration policy that isn’t working.
“UFW is working on their people, and we’re working on the people we can
bring to the table, generally Republicans,” Little said. “That’s not to
say it will be easy, but we’re trying to do everything we can to make
folks understand that we’ve got to do something.”
The proposal would allow illegal immigrants who have worked in agriculture
for at least two years to get a new “blue card” that would give them
temporary permanent resident status if they commit to continue working in
agriculture for another three years.
During that time, their spouse and children would also be eligible to work
in the United States, and they would be able to travel freely between the
United States and their home country.
After their years of service in agriculture, they would be able to apply
for a green card and permanent resident status, but only after paying a
fine of $500, showing that they are current on their taxes and passing a
criminal background check.
The United States hasn’t created an amnesty program for undocumented
immigrants to legalize their status since 1986.
Subsequent efforts to do so have been met with heavy resistance from those
who say it rewards people who have entered the country illegally.
Moreover, with a massive federal deficit and an unemployment rate of 9.7
percent, the last thing the country needs is millions of low-skill,
low-wage workers who would depend heavily on government services, said Ira
Mehlman, spokesman for the conservative Federation for American
Immigration Reform.
“There’s no evidence of any sort of labor shortage,” Mehlman said. “If
there were, farm worker wages would be through the roof, but there
continues to be high unemployment among farm laborers.”
Plus, he said, the last amnesty did nothing to help growers. “As soon as
they got their green cards, they got out of agriculture and took jobs in
other sectors of the economy because they pay better,” Mehlman said.
Rodriguez said it’s in everyone’s best interest for a broken system to
change, because for the first time, the United States is importing more
food than it’s exporting.
“That doesn’t help growers, it doesn’t help farm workers and it doesn’t
help consumers,” he said. “It’s very hard to control pesticides, how
workers are treated and food safety when food is produced overseas.”
1. Stop "entitlements". Stop the handouts, and people will stop coming to collect them. Remember Boone: "not yours to give".
2. Secure the border. We have troops for that purpose, use them on OUR borders, not on other continents.
3. Let states handle the issue. NY does a fine job of voter verification by comparing signatures. No need for a uniform easily-abused national final solution.
4. Deport. Find 'em, send 'em home. After a prolonged stay at the Graybar Hotel first.
5. Stop compelling businesses to solve the problem. They're in their own business, not the Border Patrol business.
.....Deport. Find ‘em, send ‘em home......
Until we have a national ID you can do neither
He didn’t bring up the National ID, just the immigration thing. Graham said if they push healthcare through using reconciliation, the immigration thing is dead. Graham also said that this administration is not protecting our borders. So some stuff he says makes sense, other actions though, like this, are ludicrous.
I agree. They are costing tons to our system, I don't care how much it costs to send them packing.
One thing lindsey has proved to me... NEVER TRUST the little basturd... on anything... ever!
YUP.
Though with the North American Union . . .
sigh.
READ THEIR GOALS HERE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
THEY WILL NOT
tolerate any of those patriotic things.
They are in a literal rush—in the opposite direction—literally to hell.
They have the power.
They have the money.
They have the technology to enforce their will.
They have the demonic assistants.
They are led by the king of hell.
literally.
Yeah. It’s really too bad.
Ah, so we’re doing the impossible right now? Yes, they can be identified & deported without a National ID; happens every day.
Now, what happens when YOU don’t have your NID with you? “Papers, please” leads to “oh, you don’t have one? well, that’s presumptive evidence that you’re an ‘illegal’, so we’re going to toss you in a cage until you can find yours.” Haven’t read much history, eh? National IDs become a license to exist, an internal passport, the official version of you. Harassing 100 people just to identify 1 (who won’t be cooperating anyway) leads to oppression of the 99, as you’ve just made it really easy for would-be tyrants to track, indict, and prosecute everyone for darn near everything.
You want a National ID.
I don’t.
Who’s willing to push harder? Guess.
The North American Union will make it a moot issue.
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