Posted on 08/03/2010 5:55:10 AM PDT by paltz
Senator Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, called on the administration to “disavow” themselves from the Department of Homeland Security immigration memo that outlined how to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the United States without taking any legislative action in Congress.
“I hope that this memorandum designated a draft will be thoroughly explained by the administration and will be disavowed in terms of an intention to do an end around Congress,” he said on the Senate floor on Monday. “I’m hopeful that hearings can be held so that the authors of the memorandum or director can explain why this memorandum was written in the first place and what they intend to do about it.”
Mr. Kyl did not think the release of this memo to the public was some odd administration trial balloon. “No, I think they got caught,” he said of that.
“What kind of department do you have when you have four high level people like this taking their time to make this type of recommendation? If the administration wants to say, ‘we don’t want to have anything to do with that,' 'we’re not going to do any of those things,' 'it is not our policy,' that would be an informative response. It’s not very informative to say the obvious, which is to just say, ‘well that’s not a final product.’ No one said it was.”
Following Mr. Kyl’s floor speech, Senate Republicans called on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee through a signed a letter to Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, Independent from Connecticut, and Ranking Member Susan Collins, Republican from Maine, to hold a hearing on the DHS immigration memo.
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Exactly. The fact that we have to worry about our own elected government trying to circumvent the division of powers in the Constitution and push ideology driven policy down our throats is extremely disturbing.
I’d say a wholesale house cleaning is due.
Even the dumb dims should be able to clearly see that the administration is trying to eliminate congress as a branch of power.
Obama needs to be impeached, tried for treason and brought to justice.
THIS is the October Surprise.
“Amigos, to the polls! Viva Obama! Viva Obama! Viva!
The fact that we have to worry about our own elected government trying to circumvent the division of powers in the Constitution and push ideology driven policy down our throats is extremely disturbing.
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AGREED
file under “what Constitution?”
These are trying times. We need not only to get out the Conservative vote, we need also to talk in a rational way to our Democratic friends. I live in a state, Illinois, where very many Democrats vote that way just because their families have for generations, most are decent people whom are very uninformed or misinformed by the networks, which is their main source of news. Many I've talked to are very angry at what is happening since Obama and the Dem majority in Congress took over. They are willing to listen now and, though some may never be able to vote other than Dem, many will just stay home in protest. The more we talk, the more they hear. They aren't for illegal immigration, universal healthcare, stimulus packages or bailouts. We cant do much about Jesse Jackson bussing people around to vote five or six times in Chicago, voter fraud is condoned there, but without their real base (the common working man) Democrats cant win an election no matter how much they cheat.
Ping...
Yawn, the GOP learned Franken cheated and did nothing. The GOP can’t keep it’s members in the Senate unified (who would vote for Kagan and call him or herself conservative?)The GOP is one big waste of everyone’s time and are the ultimate Obama marxism enablers..
The GOP, a masochist crippled by a frightening one-two punch of Battered Women Syndrome and Stockholm Syndrome..
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