Posted on 10/01/2015 2:53:49 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Half a century ago, Democrats looked at the country and realized they were never going to convince Americans to agree with them. But they noticed that people in most other countries of the world already agreed with them. The solution was obvious.
So in 1965 – 50 years ago this week – Sen. Ted Kennedy passed an immigration law that has brought 59 million foreigners to our shores, who happened to vote 8-2 for the Democrats.
Democrats haven’t won any arguments; they changed the voters.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hart
and Emanuel Celler:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Celler
themselves.
Celler in particular tried to block the 1924 immigration reform act as a junior representative. He always maintained that particular burr in his bonnet until he got the 1965 law passed.
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I wish I could remember it exactly as it was the most succinct explanation of America's last 50 years.
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“Half a century ago, Democrats...”
Hate to say this, but Republicans are also at fault.
Nobody is currently building up America.
Nobody.
That was Cong Luis Gutierrez of Chicago.
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And, at about the same time, the snarling lobs started the government funded breeding program for DRAT voters, we call welfare.
“Gerrymandering” has been defined as the process by which politicians choose their voters, rather than the other way around.
This is gerrymandering on an international scale.
A milestone in my life was when I was a senior in high school, standing outside of my chemistry class in the hall and hearing the announcement that President Kennedy had been killed.
Little did I know at that time that was the beginning of the end of the America I knew for a Bastard named Lyndon B. Johnson would bring “the great society” down on us like a plague. Today, we see the total destruction of all levels of our society, freedoms, liberties and morals.
If we can bring them IN, what’s wrong with Trumps idea of shipping the OUT?
“So in 1965 – 50 years ago this week – Sen. Ted Kennedy passed an immigration law that has brought 59 million foreigners to our shores . . .”
Ted Kennedy favored the bill but he did not pass it. Congress passed the 1965 bill.
The vote in House was 320 to 70.
The vote in the Senate was 76 for, 2 abstain, 17 no.
Only 3 Republicans voted no in the Senate and 10 GOP members voted no in the House.
Teddy Kennedy can be blamed for many things but this legislation was passed with strong bipartisan support. In fact far more Democrats voted no than Republicans.
As a result we now have what I call the progressive liberal democrat/rino communist uniparty, and they are in total control of every branch of government, embedded deeply in all institutions and bureaucracies.
Cruz and a small handful of other conservatives are doing all they can to destroy the communist uniparty, with the eventual goal of restoring our Constitutional Free Republic, they are proven fighters on all fronts, getting beat on, bloodied and still standing, yet so many conservatives would rather have as their leader a silvered tongue magic man.
As if we don’t know how that will turn out; been there, are there, doing that right now, and they all say “play it again Sam” everybody loves a magic show, its been going on for 7 years and they want more.
Correct, it was passed by congress, not just Kennedy.
I too believe LBJ was the beginning of the end, always have. I was 8 years old, hated LBJ the minute he got on TV to announce he was taking over as prez.
I said, aloud, this guy is a liar or something similar, and was chewed out for it. But I had a gut feeling LBJ was a liar and hated him at first sight. Always did, still think he was the beginning of our demise.
John and Bobby Kennedy hated LBJ, he hated them, Bobby called him an ogre, John though LBJ embodied everything he hated about Washington politics. They kept him on a short leash and made sure he got little power, knowing he would be running the white house in a couple of weeks if he was turned loose, most in DC knew him as an overbearing, intolerant tyrant who browbeat people into doing what he wanted. Or blackmailed them...
Find and read “The Dark Side of Camelot” sometime, excellent book. Lots of info on JFK and his run as president, and with a pretty good chapter on how LBJ ended up VP and what he was like. He was never on JFK’s list of potential running mates, the common assumption was he blackmailed Kennedy. Corrupt slimeball if there ever was one.
A reasonable editorial— I seem to recall it was Teddy Kennedy — the waitress sandwich Senator —was the guy who wrote the law placing the Churches 501C3 status under the IRS . politicizing the Sunday Sermon just like Hitler attempted in Germany.
First thing that needs to go in our immigration laws....the Diversity Lottery.
Specifically written into the law by Teddy, it allows people in most other countries to walk into a US Embassy and toss their name into a hat to become the lucky winner of a Green Card.
I once spoke with an Irishman who entered this as the result of a bar bet, and astounded himself when he actually won. Some random bloke off the street in Yemen can do likewise.
Only countries that are already “oversubscribed” are barred from participating. That means a brain surgeon from India or some comparatively productive Mexican citizen are not eligible. But millions of Jihadists are.
Johnson had dirt on everyone in Washington. Certainly the sexual escapades of John and Bobby were known inside Washington. LBJ could very easily have told the Kennedy’s if they didn’t make him VP, he’d leak solid evidence of JFK’s infidelities to the press.
The Kennedys were no saints either when it came to wielding political power against their enemies and helping out their friends. Jack was probably center of the road in his political leanings for the time, an FDR Democrat. Both Bobby and Ted were left of center.
A retired military officer I knew, who worked in the Kennedy White House, told me Bobby was the most power hungry and ruthless person in Washington, even worse than LBJ. He feared Bobby ever becoming president.
That’s true also, the Kennedy brothers were certainly no saints. LBJ probably did have the goods on a lot of people, I don’t remember if he was good buddies with J Edgar Hoover or not, that would make a difference. Hoover was no saint either and did have a dossier on everybody that walked into the white house. JFK’s womanizing made Bill Clinton look like a choirboy. That’s the common assesment, LBJ threatened to make that public, everyone in the white house was shocked by the announcement he would be JFK’s running mate, only the public was not aware that the two hated each other. LBJ was the last person anyone would have ever guessed JFK would pick.
Your friend may have been right about Bobby, I’m not really sure, don’t know much about that aspect of his career. He and John pissed a lot of people off because they kept them mostly out of the loop, but they still managed to do a pretty good job of things. Boy have the Democrats gone downhill since those days...
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