I hear ya, switched to EWTN radio or the Bible on CD when driving.
Oh yes. She has a lot of credibility with a statement like this.
Oh, Ms. Anchoress...you mean cleaned up like...McCain-Feingold? Is THAT how the clean-up process that we all trusted so much in is supposed to work?
If those arrogant pieces of bull crap we call Senators allowed an abomination like THAT to get through, we are supposed to trust them to do this correctly?
You live on another damned planet.
The America of 150 years ago, with a large demand for low skilled labor and virtually no government mandated social spending, could support a class of immigrants because they caused no real net drain on the nation. But what was fine in an age when few attended school and even less graduated is incompatible in an era of high tech business where people who fail to earn a simple high school diploma have virtually no chance to succeed beyond the poverty they were born into.
I don't see how anybody thinks that millions more entitled to benefits they never paid for in the first place will be a net benefit to the economic health of the nation.
But in the end the argument is not about economics. It is about the rule of law. America has always been the most welcoming nation on the face of the globe. But what we demand is that the law is followed. Those who wish entrance abide by the system that we as a nation have set in place. Failure to do so is a slap in the face to those who have shown the patience and fortitude to deal with a system that is both bewildering and glacial in pace.
It sickens me to see the criminal enablers in the left and the cheap and lazy right cry for this Amnesty-through-hoops program in order to secure their own economic security without thought to the effects on the nation as a whole.
"It’s all a plot and a conspiracy, you see…nothing could possibly simply be about stupid and lackluster career politicians trying to finally, finally, finally do something about an issue no one has wanted to touch for 30 years and doing it haphazardly, fearfully and imperfectly, and with the usual suspects trying to add their own flourishes, which must always be batted down, whether the issue is illegal immigration or almost anything else."
So is acnchoress admitting that liberal special-interests wrote this bill or denying the same? Her tortured language makes it impossible to make out.
It's funny that Anchoress is talking about a rant but in fact, Rush made factual point-by-point slams against the Senate CIRA bill and backed them up. Whereas the Anchoress article seems to be a rather content-free rant, filled with the usual suspects of strawman arguements and missing-the-point assertions. #1 missing the point assertions is the usual blather about immigration being great. Ahem, we have 1 million legal immigrants. There is NOT any proposal about cutting that number.
This is about whether we repeat the failed formula of 1986 again, and make ILLEGAL immigration worse, through the failed concept of amensty/legalization.
CIRA doesnt just do that, it has poison pill provisions to undermine enfrocement, gut the immigration courts, assure mexico before we build any wall, regulate wages heavily, allow 60 million immigrants in the next 2 year, quadrupling immigration flows. oh, and it will cost tens of billions a year for this.
A bad bill. Period:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15145
This is SENATOR SESSIONS whose own staff READ THE ACTUAL BILL AND EXPOSED DOZENS OF HIDDEN PROVISIONS THAT ACTUALLY GUT THE BILLS ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS...
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15165
"It is clear the people who drafted this legislation had an agenda and the agenda was not to meet the expectations of the American people. The agenda was to create a facade and appearance of enforcement, an appearance of toughness in some instances. When you get into the meat of the provisions and get into the bill and study it, tucked away here and there are laws that eviscerate and eliminate the real effectiveness of those provisions. It was carefully done and deliberately done. This is a bill that should not become law."
I deeply admire Catholicism. That said, this woman is a twit.
You forgot the 'Barf Alert' you illegal alien coddler. Coddle them on your own nickel if you must.
You've been read like a book.
There are a lot of third party people on Free Republic trying to gather support for just that "conspiracy" and they're leading a lot of good conservatives right off the cliff with them.
Okay...this convinced me (or at least until I quit reading at the part that erroneously stated that Rush was on the defensive in the Snow interview, which was blatantly untrue) Anchoress is really Barbara Bush.
I read the transcript, I would say that Tony Snow was destroyed by Limbaugh, and I am not a Limbaugh fan in the least.
It is all fine and dandy for "conservatives" to have ideals anhjd all, but the reality is this influx of illegals and even in many cases legals, and all one has to see what has happened to California to see the future, will destroy conservatism as a viable political force. The anchoress form of go along get along "conservatism" is not only wrong, its dangerous.
Forget any idea of "Limited Govt." Now it is just a matter of which side gets to grow Govt to what THEY want to those they don't like.
Is your support for illegals mainly because the vast majority of them are Catholic?
Our battle is not with the Senators who voted on the "Senate Version" on the bill....the two bill are "oceans" apart.. with the house version being a MUCH BETTER BILL !! our battle is with the Senators who will go to conference with house.. which I just found out will be ALL MEMBERS of the Judiciary Committee and then some additional Senators yet to be named by Reid and Frist !!!...
WE NEED TO LET THESE FOLKS KNOW that we SUPPORT THE HOUSE VERSION !! NOT THE SENATE VERSION !!! now get er done !!
---> for now we can focus our efforts on the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMEBERS !!!
Arlen Specter Orrin G. Hatch Patrick J. Leahy Charles E. Grassley Edward M. Kennedy Jon Kyl Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Mike DeWine Hrbert Kohl Jeff Sessions Dianne Feinstein Lindsey Graham Russell D. Feingold John Cornyn Charles E. Schumer Sam Brownback Richard J. Durbin Tom Coburn
I have written an OPEN LETTER to the conferees and I encouge EVERYONE who cares about this to do the same.... feel free to copy/edit/distribute my letter..
--- “The black kids all want to be rappers and athletes, and the white kids think the sweat is beneath them. The Asian kids are all going to college to become doctors.” But the Hispanic kids want to learn.---
Nice stereotype! Not much to do with reality though.
No facts, no reasons, just strawman arguments, and tired old rhetoric.