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Opinion: Frist derailed bill to keep illegal immigrants off airplanes
News-Press | 4-27-05 | Dick Morris

Posted on 04/27/2005 1:20:41 PM PDT by Charlesj

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1 posted on 04/27/2005 1:20:43 PM PDT by Charlesj
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To: Charlesj

Maybe we should start thinking of Sensenbrenner for Pres. at least he seems consistent.


2 posted on 04/27/2005 1:26:35 PM PDT by brooklyn dave (Catholic school survivor and proud of it.)
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To: Charlesj
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist may have just killed his hopes to be the Republican nominee for president in 2008 — by coming out against a proposal to bar illegal immigrants from getting driver's licenses.

Those hopes are very slim right now anyway. If he does happen to go Nuclear in the Senate (and win), then this and all the rest will be forgotten....
3 posted on 04/27/2005 1:27:52 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (I want my very own Ron Mexico jersey and the NFL won't let me!!!)
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To: Charlesj
Yet 10 states now permit illegals to get licenses. And many more have porous systems that, de facto, do the same by asking only that the applicant produce a Social Security number.

I can tell you from experience that it is tougher for a 16 year old teenager to get their DL in Tennessee than for an ILLEGAL ALIEN.

4 posted on 04/27/2005 1:32:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Charlesj

You know, Heaven forbid we ever get hit again like 911, but I am beginning to think that something like that is the only thing that will wake people up to the dangers posed by this type of insanity - open borders, drivers liscenses for all comers, etc...


5 posted on 04/27/2005 1:34:15 PM PDT by steel_resolve
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To: steel_resolve
Can they take out both NYC and chicago?

U have come to the conclusion that NYC was hit because it is full of rude and obnoxious people, who could care less about the rest of the united states

6 posted on 04/27/2005 1:40:49 PM PDT by dts32041 (Two words that shouldn't be used in the same sentence Grizzly bear and violate.)
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To: steel_resolve

Unfortunately the odds are we will get again, how will th epoliticians appease the American people, or will they be able to and still hold onto their offices?


7 posted on 04/27/2005 1:41:35 PM PDT by 26lemoncharlie (Defend the US CONSTITUTION - Locked and Loaded)
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To: Charlesj
"All but one of the 19 9/11 hijackers had a valid driver's license."

In large part because all had entered the country legally.

I don't at all support driver's licenses for illegal aliens, but the other side's argument is that the 9/11 hijackers were not illegals, so what good would it have done if a law prohibiting licenses for illegals had been in place at the time?

8 posted on 04/27/2005 1:48:03 PM PDT by Redbob
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IOW, if we don't want documentation given to illegals, let's just say so, not somehow contrive to tie it to 9/11 and homeland security.

I mena, why not just say, "We don't need any more wetbacks"?


9 posted on 04/27/2005 1:49:40 PM PDT by Redbob
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To: Charlesj
President Bush and House Speaker Dennis Hastert got Sensenbrenner to pull back that amendment — in return for their commitment to let him attach it to another piece of "must pass" legislation early in 2005.

This smacks of a set-up.....The party leaders (Bush/Hastert) get Sensenbrenner to hold off....and then they use a 3rd, Frist, to stab him in the back.

The GOP is starting to leave a bad taste in their doings.
10 posted on 04/27/2005 1:52:31 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

I will probably be voting for Tom Tancredo since, even ignoring the terrorism aspect, I believe the flooding of illegals into this country is the greatest danger we face. The costs for schooling, hospitals, jailing, etc. in California alone is about 10 billion a year. Different language, in which most are illiterate anyway, plus culture with the negatives of corruption acceptability and no emphasis on education and poor as dirt and millions of new poor babies....For my money, Bush has outspent any Democrat, is a one-worlder like his daddy, and is a traitor on this subject. But don't mention his wanting to mental health screen all our schoolchildren or I'll really get mad.


11 posted on 04/27/2005 1:58:09 PM PDT by Charlesj (I'd gladly fire Drier.)
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To: steel_resolve

Well, that's what I've said for a year. A sufficient portion of the American public still doesn't "get it."


12 posted on 04/27/2005 2:08:32 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

"I can tell you from experience that it is tougher for a 16 year old teenager to get their DL in Tennessee than for an ILLEGAL ALIEN."

I remember going to the testing station in West Nashville to get fingerprinted for my CCW. I have never met a conglomeration of more surly half-wits in my life. They give you the impression they are doing you a favor just to let you in the building. Or maybe it was just the ones I was dealing with.


13 posted on 04/27/2005 2:09:40 PM PDT by dljordan
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Must just be West Nashville. My sons all got their DL's in Lebanon where Tennessee State Troopers administer the tests. They are all neatly dressed and professional, and kind, but firm.


14 posted on 04/27/2005 2:13:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Charlesj

Illegal immigration is totally our of control, and the White House could care less about the American people. The only thing they care about is cheap labor, and to hell with the American public.


15 posted on 04/27/2005 2:14:32 PM PDT by GarySpFc (Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
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To: TomGuy
This smacks of a set-up.....The party leaders (Bush/Hastert) get Sensenbrenner to hold off....and then they use a 3rd, Frist, to stab him in the back. The GOP is starting to leave a bad taste in their doings.

This is the "Two-Party Cartel" owned & run by the elites who don't ever have the peoples interest ahead of theirs. If it weren't for talk radio & this Internet they so-called conservatives would be rolling with the dems on all issues. It is only us pushing these robots that we get a fair hearing. Now after Frist takes a hit it will be , let's say, Santorum, then another & another. This game has been played for decades.

16 posted on 04/27/2005 2:15:34 PM PDT by Digger
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To: Thud

ping


17 posted on 04/27/2005 2:27:26 PM PDT by Dark Wing
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To: GarySpFc

"Illegal immigration is totally our of control, and the White House could care less about the American people. The only thing they care about is cheap labor, and to hell with the American public."

ditto bump


18 posted on 04/27/2005 2:29:10 PM PDT by sasafras (Innocent blood is on Bush's hands for doing nothing to protect our border)
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To: Charlesj
You are a hoax.

This is an old article. Real ID was removed to try to stop other amendments.

Real ID is part of the bill.

Yesterday, minority leader Reid said the dems will not try to stop it.

Bush has endorsed passage of Real ID numerous times.

You are a hoax.

19 posted on 04/27/2005 2:35:46 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

You're an idiot, Benny. Bush is the hoax. The article was printed today, jerk.


20 posted on 04/27/2005 2:38:08 PM PDT by Charlesj (I'd gladly fire Drier.)
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