Posted on 02/19/2006 11:19:46 PM PST by Rick_Michael
There has to be election reforms with the Senate, I know that would be like pulling teeth but 6 years is way too long for a term and gives them an almost unlimited ability to thumb their noses at us. The House is more responsive precisely because they're up every two years.
They're almost above presidents in ways.
It baffles me how senators like Mcinsane gets into office.
Each senator use to have to answer to the states, at any time they betrayed core values; now they virtual can be bought and sold without much retribution. This isn't how it was meant to be.
Many would self-deport if interior enforcement took place, and if various rewards and incentives for illegals were removed.
Interesting that it says the number of guest-worker visas can be increased, but no mention is made of decreasing them.
But anyway, his official statements on the bill verify that it is an amnesty and a massive increase in legal immigration -- two things the majority of Americans oppose. Of course, it doesn't come out and say it explicity, which keeps with the deceptive nature of almost all bills that increase immigration, such as Ted Kennedy's fraudulen 1965 bill and his proposed one now cosponsored by Mr Straigt Talk Express himself.
At the very least, politicians should be upfront with what they are proposing. They should state that such legislation would likely result in current levels of legal immigration being doubled, at least! That public support for that is almost nonexistent probably wouldn't matter to the Senate, where both parties are arrogant in their attitudes on this subject.
In preparation for a debate in the Senate next month on immigration policy, Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) has introduced legislation that would grant amnesty to an estimated 12 million people now living illegally in the U.S. and admit an additional 500,000 new guest workers plus dependant family members every year.
People like this douche and the other one from Arizona are going out of their way to get Tancredo nominated. Not that I believe they want to, but they sure as $hit are trying.
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Bump. We're well on the way with that one already.
Just did.
Is every politician out of New Mexico a total a$$hole?
I don't either. It almost sounds like a deliberately over-the-top bill introduced to make Bush look reasonable when it comes to his guest-worker plan.
Not that I'm paranoid or anything like that!
... would grant amnesty to an estimated 12 million people now living illegally in the U.S. and admit an additional 500,000 new guest workers plus dependant family members every year... all of the "guest workers" would eventually be allowed to become permanent residents... would vastly expand existing guest worker programs... limits on H-1B high tech workers would be virtually eliminated, and foreign student visas would be almost automatically convertible to permanent residency.
I wrote him too, about his traitorous ways.
That was exactly my first thought too!!
If I were "Petey", I wouldn't be harboring any presidential ambitions.
We try real hard not to elect traitors.
On this issue, just like Bush.
Sure getting to be that way. Domeneci, up until this little bit of insanity, was a pretty reliable conservative; Apparently he has gone 'round the bend' this week.
Steve Pearce isn't bad; He actually listens to and works for his constituents and always acts like normal, regular guy in person, not some priveleged perfumed prince;
Heather Wilson never really struck me as trustworthy (and she proved it last week). I always sent her money before because her challengers are always total socialists and/or 'La Raza' types.
The rest really aren't worth a bucket of warm spit. And of course our current Governor was a slimy, opportunistic incompetent politician long before he became a Clintonista.
Just great.
All for interior enforsement, now, how do we get the courts from stopping it?
There is probably a lot that Congress can do by way of changing the laws, and giving judges less leeway.
To the extent that judges are substituting their own views for the law and its intent, there isn't much that can be done. So long as the judiciary is supreme, the only solution is to appoint as many good judges as possible. Its almost impossible to imagine an open defiance of the Courts by either of the two inferior branches.
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