Posted on 05/16/2006 7:07:22 PM PDT by Drew McKissick
I say the speech marks a low point because the Administration has made a conscious decsion to push full steam ahead on an issue that has the potential to turn the GOP's majority into a minority - fast.
Somebody please tell me what we elected a Republican majority for? To pass programs that make a mockery of our laws? To open our country's borders to upwards of 200 million immigrants over the next 20 years...just so we can, (as John McCain suggests), have someone to clear the tables in our restaurants and pick our vegetables.
Some day's I think that some elements of the GOP have lost their collective minds. It's one thing to do something stupid, have someone point it out, learn from it and not do it again. It's another to rush headlong into something so monstrously stupid that everyone with half a brain is pointing it out to you and you stubbornly continue to do it. In this case, putting the Republican majority at serious risk. OK, that was being charitable. We're probably already at serious risk, at least in terms of one of the two houses of Congress, but this thing threatens to split the party down the middle.
And of all the issues for the President to "make a stand on", why oh why does it have to be this? Geez, how about the budget, runaway spending or something. Maybe vetoing a bill now and then. That terrible piece of "reform" known as Campaign Finance Reform comes to mind. But no, it has to be this.
And as we go through this debate, might I just say that there are several phrases that should be banned completely, as I am utterly sick of hearing them. Such as "comprehensive reform"...as in, we can just fix one problem, we have to leverage "your" desire to do border security to get "our" amnesty plan. And how about "out of the shadows"? With all the rallies lately, I don't think anyone's in the shadows anymore. And heck, it's not like the government doesn't know what "shadows" their hiding in...they've just made a conscious decision not to enforce the law. Just like they made a conscious one to showboat by busting some illegals a few weeks ago. And I am sick and tired of supposedly intelligent people suggesting that our economy is going to crumble if we don't import tens of millions of poorly educated, unskilled laborers. Please. Let's call a spade a spade. That's the business community talking. It's almost enough to turn social conservatives against business.
And what's with this straw-man the proponents of "comprehensive reform" keep promoting when they say their plan is necessary because, "we can't possibly deport 12 million people". I'll say it once again for the hearing impaired. WE DON'T HAVE TO! Just enforce the border and fine the heck out of any business that hires them. They can either sit hear and a) go hungry, b) try and fraudulently collect welfare...at which time they should be shipped back home, or c) eventually go home.
And since when where the proponents of this program so all fired up about the fact that we have illegal aliens in this country. You'd think they just woke up and discovered it. Now they claim that any proposal must address their status and "get them out of the shadows". Please. They're just trying to ride on the coattails of the momentum created by conservatives over lax border enforcement.
I for one and thoroughly and completely sick. Will the real conservatives please stand up? Thank the good Lord we managed to get a few good judges and Justices on the Supreme Court out of the sweat everyone put into the last few campaigns. It doesn't look like real conservatives will get much else.
I'll leave the racism to you.
Actually, I was as serious as a heart attack.
And don't call me shirley.
Goodnight, Mojave.
And of those people that perform such jobs, the ones that entered this country illegally are criminals.
It isn't rocket science, as they say.
They're not doing any of those things for me.
If they are here illegally, they are criminals.
Defend illegal immigration by attacking blacks. You exposed yourself.
You're too stupid to refute that, so you accuse me of racism.
Re: lawn work, for one, there are plenty of young American guys who do this kind of work, some to earn money for college, etc. Roofing your house? C'mon now! We've had this work done twice, both times by American firms.
There are United States CITIZENS in the business of every one of these jobs.
Is that why 95% of murder warrants in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens? Equating criminals to blacks is despicable, even for you.
When you get as incensed about some blacks and white trash who do the same thing, let me know.
White trash, eh? You will never win an argument by referring to "white trash".
How old are the majority of those murder warrants?
I'll bet you don't know. Some are 30 YEARS OLD.
Stuck on stupid, Mojave.
I have a friend who has been threatened off job sites by illegals. A black guy, like Sinkspur enjoys smearing.
I'm sure your mobile home is very nice. I didn't mean to include you in that group.
Which job sites?
Not that I don't believe you, Mojave. You understand, I'm sure.
So happens I do, Shirley. Takers are takers. I have no time for them.
Who did you mean to include? Certainly not *black* "trash", eh?
Racists frequently use the term "white trash" because it contains the implication that all blacks are trash.
I know. You figure blacks deserve anything that happens to them.
---Can someone, anyone give me one actual reason why illegal aliens should be given a path to citizenship? Anyone?
Because they'll be grateful, and won't bellyache like an inflamed hemorrhoid.---
You are seriously delusional and your simile, "bellyache like an inflamed hemorrhoid", is unbalanced. But, heh, thanks for sharing!
What we're seeing now from the left is the attempt to elevate the status of *illegals* to the detriment of "whites", and we're all supposed to be self-loathing. Capiche?
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