I remember thinking the same thing and now it has come to pass.
Doesn't look like this one will be voting Republican:
Posted on 03/25/2006 3:48:03 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
As of the writing of this article, Republicans in the U.S. Senate are working on an immigration bill to ‘match’ an immigration bill already passed by the House. It appears as if the Senate will back the bill proposed by Senators Ted Kennedy and John McCain.
To call this a loser of a bill is an understatement. For starters, anything Ted Kennedy proposes or supports cannot be good for Americans (remember Teddy was the main sponsor of an immigration reform bill back in 1965 that has helped to cause many of our immigration problems today). The fact that John McCain, a Republican that has proven he’s a straw blown in the wind, concerning his political ideology, is a co-sponsor lends no serious weight to the credibility of the bill.
How is it that the Senate, controlled by ‘conservative’ Republicans, can back a bill that clearly advocates amnesty for illegals? Senator Kennedy claims it isn’t an amnesty bill, but the bill would allow illegals to stay in the country, merely paying a fine for breaking our laws, for avoiding paying taxes, and for depressing our wages. Illegals would then get a temporary status for six years, would need to have a job, pay taxes, learn English and ‘show an understanding of U.S. government.’ These four requirements would make them better qualified to be U.S. citizens than the Senators supporting this bill.
What part of ‘illegal’ don’t Senators understand? Shouldn’t people who break our laws pay for their crimes? Using the U.S. Senate’s logic, if the police were to discover the identity of a murderer two years after the murder took place, we should then tell the murderer, “Well, you did break the law, but since that happened so long ago, just pay a fine and promise us you’ll behave from now on and you can go on your merry way.” Politicians can call their amnesty plans whatever they want to, but if illegals aren’t made to pay for their crimes via jail time, and then deported, then the government is not enforcing our laws. Anything less than punishment and deportation is a form of amnesty; period.
Simply put, Congress needs to build a long, high barrier along our land borders, and inspect every ship and container that comes into our ports. Strict enforcement of our laws should include seriously punishing employers hiring illegals and aggressively working to deport illegals. Anything less is a violation of their oaths of office and a betrayal of American citizens.
Now, I know some folks will whine about how all these illegals ‘contribute to our society.’ That simply isn’t true. According to the National Research Council, an estimated net cost for illegal immigration is between $11 billion to $22 billion a year. Much of this burden falls on local and state governments. There is an incredible burden on our medical and educational resources, which illegals participate in, but pay nothing to support.
It is estimated that 27 percent of the U.S. prison population is made up of illegals. Mind you, this isn’t illegals ‘just coming here to provide for their families,’ but illegals who’ve done something else to break the laws of our land besides just enter our country illegally (usually their crimes are of a violent nature). These criminals are often not deported, but cut loose back on our streets. This is insane, and our politicians want to reward these people for coming here, depressing our wages, financially destroying our medical and education institutions, and terrorizing our citizens. Who elected these politicians; American citizens or terrorists wanting to destabilize our country?
What’s really sad is that the overwhelming majority of citizens want the government to enforce our laws and stop rewarding people who break our laws, but the government is actually looking to encourage more of the same illegal activity. Everyone knows the Democrats will do nothing to protect the people. Unfortunately, there is a large segment of American society that mistakenly believes that the Republicans will. The Republicans have controlled Congress for a number of years now, and what do we have to show for it? Increasing debt, expanded, invasive government, and practically no enforcement of our immigration laws.
The so-called ‘conservative’ party, the Republicans, have turned into Democrats. Both major political parties are struggling to define their ‘message’ and unify their ranks for the 2006 elections. The sum total of their efforts so far is this:
Democrats: “The Republicans got us into a war we can’t win.”
Republicans: “Just think how bad things would be if the Democrats had been in charge.”
How pathetic. The Democrats haven’t changed. They are still the communist party they’ve been since George McGovern ran for president. Their goal is to destroy our constitutional republic, and in its place establish an egalitarian democracy that will put us on the same footing as the now-defunct U.S.S.R. The Republicans on the other hand are acting more and more like Democrats, rather than a principled, conservative political body.
Can the Republicans do no better than to basically advocate spending more money, blow people and things up, and let foreigners overrun our borders? Yes, I believe things would be worse under the Democrats, but there isn’t a whole lot of difference between getting stuck in the eye with a red-hot poker and a white-hot poker. It’s still going to hurt, and you’ll still be blind. If American citizens want their laws enforced, they should go looking for third party candidates who actually care about their oaths of office and putting America first. We need new blood in D.C. in the House, Senate and White House, and not just replacing old establishment insiders with new establishment insiders.
Sorry, but if we are fighting a war, then we also need to be serious about border security. Bush has not been serious.
"Sorry, but if we are fighting a war, then we also need to be serious about border security. Bush has not been serious."
I guess your plan is to say, "piss on it, we quit"! I am through talking with you dirtboy.
LLS
Thanks for the ping. I'm through with any candidate who will not uphold the Constitution, Article IV, Section 4. Most of Congress and the President have failed to obey their oaths of office.
I remember thinking the same thing and now it has come to pass.
Doesn't look like this one will be voting Republican:
I have never in my lifetime voted for a DemocRAT for anything!
That being said, I want to puke everytime I leave the voting booth having voted a straight Republican ticket.
The Republican Party is loaded with so-called "moderates" (those who stand for nothing) and those who are RINO (Chafee, Snowe, Collins, et al).
Poo-pooing those who say we need a legitimate third party (not a club for nincompoops like Peronistas) that truly represents (Right-Wing) Conservative values for this nation is truly counterproductive.
Detesting The RNC and it's blind support for establishment Republicans (Arlen MacSpecter just came to mind)has caused me to never donate a dime to that gaggle.
These two parties aren't poles apart; they're both on the same track to national destruction!
You DNC mouthpieces don't fool anyone by posturing as ultra Conservatives while posting 100% Hate Republicans propaganda. Your actions betray you.
Somehow I have the feeling that good GOP supporting Hispanic voters do not want to open the floodgates either.
After all, what's the point of coming to the US just to turn the US into a Central American tin-horn country with hoards of illegal bottom feeders.
Excuse the seeming slight on good Hispanics, but the people I see border jumping in Texas, Ariz., Calif, etc. are NOT two parent families looking to work and attend church.
To me, they look like young hucksters, gang-bangers hoping to prey on susceptible Americans.
First they came for the gardening jobs
and I did not speak out
because I was not a gardener.
Then they came for the construction jobs
and I did not speak out
because I was not in construction.
Then they came for the computer jobs
and I did not speak out
because I was not a computer programmer.
Then they came for my job
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
paraphrased from
Pastor Martin Niemöller
Before stuffing, what is a Christmas turkey full of?
That's what your insult to me amounts to!
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