Obama wants immigration reform by early next year [McCain, Graham, other Rats involved] [sick]

The Hill, Washington, DC ^ | 2009-06-25 | Sam Youngman

[rabscuttle385]

President Obama moved the goalposts on getting immigration reform accomplished, saying Thursday that he wants a bill he can sign either this year or early next year.

Shortly after the president adjourned a meeting with a bipartisan group of members from both chambers, a number of senators and congressmen from both sides of the aisle demonstrated why next year might be aiming too high.

The White House has said that the president would like to see something this year, but a number of skeptics have questioned whether Congress can or will take any floor action in 2009.

Obama said he is committed to getting something done, and he said the members he met with appear ready to join him.

[rabscuttle385]

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said it is now or never to get something passed.

"We've got one more chance to do this," Graham said. "If we fail this time, no politician's going to take this up for a generation, and that'd be a shame for the country."

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It's time to kill the amnesty bill.

[rabscuttle385]

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[Fred]

They're back!!!

[Larry381]

If this atrocity can be postponed until next year very few of these politicians in Congress will vote for it in an election year. Especially considering the vast percentage of US voters who are against it.

[rabscuttle385]

And so many Freepers said that McCain was utterly irrelevant and impotent after he threw the election for the 0. /sarc

[ABQHispConservative]

Talk about political suicide. An amnesty bill during an election year? Does 0 want to out do what happened to Clinton in 94? And how is McCain going to spin this for his reelection campaign?

[KansasGirl]

This is really going to infuriate voters and especially the 10% of Americans that are unemployed.

[umgud]

It won’t matter if Cap & Trade, National Healthcare and other leftwing programs come to pass. This amnesty will kill the nation as we know it.

[rabscuttle385]

This is really going to infuriate voters and especially the 10% of Americans that are unemployed.

[SharpRightTurn]

“Talk about political suicide. An amnesty bill during an election year? Does 0 want to out do what happened to Clinton in 94? And how is McCain going to spin this for his reelection campaign?”

Good points.

My bet is Emanuel, Axelrod, and the Teleprompter will promise STRONG (”and we mean it”) border control to sell the bill and, once amnesty is in place, look the other way as masses continue to cross the border as the Feds have been doing for decades.

[kabar]

Exactly ritght. If an amnesty is passed, this country is finished with the stroke of a pen. Everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Shove it, Hussein. And all your RINO buddies, too.

[sport]

obama and Congress are destroying our sovernty minute by minute and are driviging us toward one world government at the speed of light.

Does that concern most of the members of this forum? Apparently not. They appear to be more interested in some governor’s letters to some whore he was screwing than things that effect their future.

[kabar]

My bet is Emanuel, Axelrod, and the Teleprompter will promise STRONG (”and we mean it”) border control to sell the bill and, once amnesty is in place, look the other way as masses continue to cross the border as the Feds have been doing for decades.

The border is irrelevant if an amnesty is passed. We could have a fully secured border, but the damage will have already been done by an amnesty. It is game, set, and match for this country.

Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty. The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty alone would be $2.6 trillion. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.

[newfreep]

If amnesty passes with mcinsane supporting it, AZ voters MUST reject him in 2010!

[Madistan]

I am so grateful to Mr.Obama for letting me and my family stay in this contry, and I will vote for him in 2012.

[MaggieCarta]

Oh my goodness. I can no longer muster any surprise or shock for anything McQueeg does or says.

Thanks, rabscuttle, for making me unashamed of my third party vote last November.

[rabscuttle385]

I am so grateful to Mr.Obama for letting me and my family stay in this contry, and I will vote for him in 2012.

Either you forgot the sarc tag, or you're about to meet the Viking kittens.

[freespirited]

I think actual shamnesty has at best a 10% chance of passing.

Something short of shamnesty (allowing people to stay but no path to citizenship and no taxpayer-supported freebies) would probably have a better chance.