Ping!
Wow.
How very, very... maverick.
Good God, what next?
Great job, GoP!
We got us a real winner in November..
for foreigners!
McPain can save himself in my eyes if he chooses Newt as his VP.
If McCain doesn’t pick a running mate who’s tough on illegals and agree to leave all decisions with respect to illegals to that VP pick he’s done.
Some of McCain’s other positions I could stomach but I will never accept his position on illegals and I’m not alone.
“Mr. Black and Mr. Loeffler also are listed by Mr. McCain’s campaign Web site as bundlers, expected to collect thousands of dollars in donations from several sources to bypass federal election laws limiting individual contributors to a $2,300 maximum donation.”
Why, there oughta be a law! Oh, there is? Never mind.
http://www.campaignfinancesite.org/legislation/mccain.html
I am now declaring the winner in the 2008 US Presidential race. The winner is.... Mexico.
The only way now to get Republicans to go conservative is to buy them, apparently. So, who’s our clearinghouse?
In the face of this economy staggering under the stupidity of all the financial bubbles amnesty and guestworkers ain’t gonna play. The old potato head is dead in the water, Jim Jones Obama is gonna eat his lunch.
Here’s a pertinent portion of (the ever-popular campaign finance reform act) McCain/Feingold:
SEC. 303. STRENGTHENING FOREIGN MONEY BAN.
Section 319 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441e) is amended—
(1) by striking the heading and inserting the following: `contributions and donations by foreign nationals’’; and
(2) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:
(a) Prohibition.—It shall be unlawful for—
``(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make—
``(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;
``(B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or
``(C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 304(f)(3)); or
``(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national.’’.
[[Page 116 STAT. 97]]
I’m sure this will be a popular statement here at FR, but I’ll say it anyway: Ross Perot was right!
But the spectacle of all those lobbyists in “thousand dollar suits and Gucci shoes” has progressed far beyond what it was in 1992. Now it’s probably “three thousand dollar suits and Gucci shoes.” Reading this article is beyond disgusting. The only conflict of interest anyone in DC is now concerned about are any laws or traditions that conflict with the DC insiders desire to cash in on the big foreign lobbying bucks.
We’ll never have honest, responsive government as long as these constant gaggles of lobbyists are swarming around every issue before our governement.
Wonder how Trent Lott’s new venture is going.
THIS LEGISLATON JUST PASSED IN ARIZONA--JUAN'S HOME STATE:
Fed up with the devastating effect of illegal immigration, Arizona has enacted the nation’s toughest laws to curb the problem and evidently its working. State legislators have passed laws barring illegal immigrants from receiving government services, posting bail for serious crimes and winning punitive damages in lawsuits. This year a new law makes it illegal for businesses to hire undocumented workers and those that do can be shut down.
The state legislator who sponsored the work bill, Representative Russell Pearce, says the law’s undeniably positive effects include smaller class sizes, shorter emergency room waits and an overall huge savings to taxpayers. The Republican congressman drafted the bill because studies revealed that illegal immigration cost Arizona taxpayers over $2 billion annually, not including the toll of crime and destruction.
It turns out that enough illegal immigrants have either fled the U.S. or been deported that officials in the Mexican state of Sonora, which shares an extensive border with Arizona, have complained that too many of their fellow countrymen have returned. They miss the remittances sent from the U.S. as well as smaller class sizes in local schools.
Mexican government officials knew Arizona’s tough employment verification law would become their worst nightmare, which explains why they tried blocking it. Earlier this year a delegation of nine legislators from Sonora toured Tucson and held a news conference to say that their beloved state cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools resulting from illegal Mexican workers returning home.
One baffled Mexican legislator, Leticia Amparano Gamez, asked in Spanish “how can they pass a law like this?” She went on to explain that Mexico is not prepared for the “tremendous problems” it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and sending money to their families return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs. Another member of the Mexican delegation, Representative Florencio Diaz Armenta, asked “what do we do with the repatriated?”
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MEMO TO MEXICO: We could care less what you do with repatriates. They're your problem. Too bad you're not "prepared" to handle it---maybe if you people weren't so corrupt you'd be able to care for your poor instead of tossing them over the border to sponge off Americans.
You need to be voting for Obama. He doesn’t accept campaign money from lobbyists and corporations.
Whew, the McCain apologisti are in full battle cry on this one!
So lemme get this straight. Hill and Bill’s minions take $ from the Chicoms and that’s a terrible, awful, very bad thing, but McCain’s minions take money from Mexico and it’s okay because we need to fix our laws? Am I reading this right?
How ‘bout we conservatives have some freakin’ integrity and realize that it’s just as bad when a guy with an “R” behind his name does it as when the evil Dems do it. The stench of situational ethics and moral relativism is stinkin’ up the forum lately.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED, that gambling is going on in the casino.
It would shock me to learn that folks in politics are NOT takiang money.
This makes me want to vomit. All over John McCain.
Obama's remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser: "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them... And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." *
PING!