Senator Coburn on Fox and Friends.

This is a transcript of Senator Coburn's remarks on Fox and Friends.

Doocy:
Good Morning Senator. Its a pleasure to have you here.

Coburn:
Its a pleasure to be here Steve.

Doocy:
Ok we brought you on here to discuss the Supreme Court situation. What do you think?

Coburn:
I believe its the Presidents prerogative. You know its like one of my Democrat colleages in the House said. If you want to nominate judges to the Supreme Court you need to win the Presidency.

The demand for input is just that. Its a demand. There is nothing constitutional about it. Its the Presidents decision. He's being very gracious to reach across the isle and to talk with almost every Senator about their thoughts on the Supreme Court Nomination.

But when you get down to it, the decision is his and his alone. He will decide who to pick, and then its our job in the Senate to decide if that person should have a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

ED:
When Bill Clinton made a nomination he actually brought Orin Hatch in and talked with him about it, and said what do you think. And Hatch would say you're gonna have problems with that one. There is a background of this happening isn't there?

Coburn:
But there's nothing that requires that precedent for this president. Again if you look at the constitution its his option. I don't believe he has to say here somebody I'm thinking about what do you think?

What he's doing is he's talking to everybody and getting their thoughts. Being from Oklahoma. I think all the hype on the nomination...I'm not sure that doesn't hurt the process rather than help the process.

Doocy:
Plus Senator the atmosphere down in Washington is so bitter right now. Folks across the country are hoping there's not just a big bloody fight over whoever it is.

Coburn:
Well you know if you bring it back to what should be the characteristics of a Supreme Court nominee. Number one the person should have a stellar personal history. Both in terms of their ethical behavior. And jurisprudence behavior.

Number two is they should in my mind understand that the constitution is the law that we depend on. Not foreign or international law. Which is a disturbing trend of the supreme court as of late. Also its not the job of the Supreme Court to make new laws. Its their job to interpret the old law.

Doocy:
Senator Coburn from Washington thank you for joining us.

Coburn:
Thank you Steve and God Bless.

I am very concerned that he is so set on not closing the borders.

Today I opened an email from Eagle Forum that says:

" CFR's Plan to Integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada July 13, 2005 by Phyllis Schlafly

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."

"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

"Community" is sometimes called "space" but the CFR goal is clear: "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital, and people flow freely." The CFR's "integrated" strategy calls for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."

The CFR document lays "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." The "common security perimeter" will require us to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations" with Mexico and Canada, "harmonize entry screening," and "fully share data about the exit and entry of foreign nationals."

This CFR document, called "Building a North American Community," asserts that George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal when they met at Bush's ranch and at Waco, Texas on March 23, 2005. The three adopted the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.

It was at this same meeting, grandly called the North American summit, that President Bush pinned the epithet "vigilantes" on the volunteers guarding our border in Arizona.

A follow-up meeting was held in Ottawa on June 27, where the U.S. representative, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, told a news conference that "we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders." The White House issued a statement that the Ottawa report "represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership."

The CFR document calls for creating a "North American preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages.

Just to make sure that bringing cheap labor from Mexico is an essential part of the plan, the CFR document calls for "a seamless North American market" and for "the extension of full labor mobility to Mexico."

The document's frequent references to "security" are just a cover for the real objectives. The document's "security cooperation" includes the registration of ballistics and explosives, while Canada specifically refused to cooperate with our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

To no one's surprise, the CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico.

The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.

The CFR document calls for allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR document calls for adopting a "tested once" principle for pharmaceuticals, by which a product tested in Mexico will automatically be considered to have met U.S. standards.

The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.

Here's another handout included in the plan. U.S. taxpayers are supposed to create a major fund to finance 60,000 Mexican students to study in U.S. colleges.

To ensure that the U.S. government carries out this plan so that it is "achievable" within five years, the CFR calls for supervision by a North American Advisory Council of "eminent persons from outside government . . . along the lines of the Bilderberg" conferences.

The best known Americans who participated in the CFR Task Force that wrote this document are former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and Bill Clinton's immigration chief Doris Meissner. Another participant, American University Professor Robert Pastor, presented the CFR plan at a friendly hearing of Senator Richard Lugar's Foreign Relations Committee on June 9.

I think I am going to post it on another thread after I search to see if anyone else has.

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