Posted on 06/21/2007 8:28:26 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
President Bush’s latest attempt to salvage the Immigration Bill has made it crystal clear that there is indeed a political class of those we elect, who blatantly ignore the wishes of the electorate. Despite the overwhelming outcry against the bill in its present form, the president and many members of Congress seem determined to pass a collection of glued-together agendas, which are far from being a comprehensive solution.
The Senate responded to the outcry by voting to not end debate, which prompted Senator Harry Reid, the Majority Leader, to pull the bill from the floor for the time being. That time being until the president can twist enough Republican arms to change their positions to vote with the Democrats. The president’s attempt to do so in spite of the public feedback has alienated and disappointed many people...
When the president and Congress seem to defy the public’s outcry, people are doubly frustrated and feel that it’s the political class against the working class, namely, those of us who work to pay taxes, which fund government, out-of-control spending and ill-constructed public policy.
The more we say no amnesty, the more they say it is not amnesty. The more we say border security first, the more they say we are working on it. The more we say no shortcut to citizenship, the more they say the Z-visa is not a short-cut. And the more we object to this version of the bill, the more they say we have to do something even if it is not perfect. There is a big difference between not perfect and not acceptable.
It is not acceptable to not enforce current laws. It is not acceptable to not properly secure the borders first. It is not acceptable to catch and release illegal criminals because local, state and federal authorities are not working together... It is not acceptable to allow millions and millions of illegal immigrants to add additional strain to our already strained health care and Social Security systems...
Our only practical response against the continuing abuse by the political class on the working class is to vote them out of office. But that takes time and we must be patient and persistent. The good news is that, within the political class, there are more partisan disagreements than agreements on other issues. This causes potential legislation to move very slowly through the process, while we try to elect candidates who will not disregard us once they are elected.
In the mean time, the working class has to continue to scream loud and long to at least mitigate some of the negative and unintended consequences of ill-constructed legislation. The public wants an immigration bill, but not one that appears to make a bad situation worse...The working class obviously sees some serious imperfections in the proposed Immigration Bill that the political class chooses to ignore. And once again, those imperfections would be at our expense.
Could've been a great Senator!
Herman Cain is fantastic.
BTTT
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I don't know that Cain will run again (I hope so), but both Ga. Senators should be scared - especially Chambliss who is up next year.
A strong conservative challenger could dump him in the primary, IMO. There is strong resentment, and that photo of him, Isakson and Ted The Swimmer Kennedy ain't going to help Saxby if he faces opposition.
It's not enough to defeat this bill. We then need to go after the shills for the bill.
Just sent to one US Senator. Intending to send it to the other.
(Remember, contact Democrat and Republican senators, alike.)
Chertoff can’t be impeached because he is not an elected official. But he should be replaced because he is obviously not up to this job. Did you see him on TV explaining that the reason the fence isn’t being built is that they have “engineering problems”? For pete’s sake, they can’t figure out how to build a fence? On the planet Oh-Yeah-Sure.
The Framers are turning over in their graves!
Not correct. Alcee Hastings was a judge and was impeached and removed from office prior to being elected a congresscritter.
From what I have read, cabinet-level officials can be impeached and removed from office.
Oh I am sure you are right.
Great idea...impeaching Chertoff for his efforts to hold enforcement hostage in order to get shamnesty and his failure to come up with a means to track visa overstays nearly six years after 9-11.
Agreed. Someone who is speaking for me and most of the people I know.
Chertoff needs to spend less time lobbying Congress for shamnesty and more time doing his job - except that he hasn’t done his job to date anyway. IMO he was the key problem in the federal response to Katrina. He only has excuses for being unable to track visa overstays. He bleats about needing more tools, but workforce sanctions were vastly higher under Clinton. He is a political hack that needs to be shoved out of office, given the National Security importance of his position.
No, he missed the whole point.
We don’t want any more immigration laws right now - we want them to enforce the ones we have, and to build the fence that was signed into law last year.
And don't forget DHS complicity in the prosecution of the BP Agents - where the DHS has now admitted lying.
I like Herman Cain. So far he is the only one I heard (besides me) who called Mitt Romney’s “MittCare” health-care plan as Socialist.
He can move to FL and run for Senate here. He would womp Sen. Illegal Alien (Mel Martinez) in a primary.
We can’t do anything about it. Only the Senate can impeach him, and I am not expecting Dirty Harry to bring this up anytime soon.
Could I run this by you all? (Too shy to post a vanity).
I am going to hand-deliver this letter to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s office Saturday.
Would welcome any suggestions!
Senator Hutchinson;
(I identify myself).I am very hesitant to write a letter to any politician but the immigration bill currently before the Senate, S-1639, is an utter betrayal of our sovereignty and in defiance of common sense. I urge you to abandon all support for this terrible mistake of a bill. There is no need for a new bill. I have yet to hear why enforcement of our present laws is not an option. No political figure has ever once explained to the American people why our present laws cannot be enforced, why they have never been enforced. It is as if all those words on paper were some sort of Scrabble or lines on a Bingo card, meaningless.
There are so many things wrong with this bill I won’t bore you with listing them; not the least of which will be massive document fraud if it is passed. But what is more serious is loss of faith in our elected representatives, the contempt and dismissal of United States sovereignty by those streaming across the border, the appearance – and the substance – of weakness, helplessness and irresolution of America’s politicians and bureaucrats. We seem to have become a country that passes laws and then cannot enforce them. A law is passed to build a fence and yet Chernoff, head of Homeland Security, complains that there are ‘engineering problems’ that cannot be overcome. It makes him sound faltering, doddering, enfeebled.
Meanwhile criminals and would-be terrorists continue to come across the border. We live with this threat. Members of Congress, the media, and the lobbyists do not.
Why should we believe recycled promises? Senator Hutchinson, the more new promises and new laws that are passed to cover up for twenty years of non-enforcement of perfectly adequate laws, the worse it gets; the more our Congress and country garner contempt and derision, from citizens and non-citizens alike. Senator, we have become laughable.
Make a stand against this bill, and for American honor, probity, trustworthiness. Enforce the present laws, close the border, stop identity theft by cancelling section 6103 of the Internal Revenue code, get serious. Language means something. It is not just noise. Our word must be our bond, there is no other way.
Yours,
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