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To: johnny7

No, I didn't, but they usually have good articles, so I'll look for it.

Here's Tony Blankley on realclearpolitics.com - I usually enjoy him - - good article, if you haven't seen it, here it is:

March 29, 2006
Mexican Illegals vs. American Voters
By Tony Blankley

It's lucky America has over two centuries of mostly calm experience with self-government. We are going to need to fall back on that invaluable patrimony if the immigration debate continues as it has started this season. The Senate is attempting to legislate into the teeth of the will of the American public. The Senate Judiciary committeemen -- and probably a majority of the Senate -- are convinced that they know that the American people don't know what is best for them.

National polling data could not be more emphatic -- and has been so for decades. A Gallup poll (March 27, 2006) finds 80 percent of the public wants federal government to get tougher on illegal immigration. A Quinnipiac University Poll (March 3, 2006) finds 62 percent oppose making it easier for illegals to become citizens (72 percent in that poll don't even want illegals to be permitted to have driver's licenses).

Time magazine's recent poll (Jan. 24-26, 2006) found 74 percent favor "major penalties" on employers of illegals, and 70 percent believe illegals increase the likelihood of terrorism. Fifty-seven percent would use military force at the Mexican-American border

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I commend to all those presumptuous senators and congressmen the sardonic and wise words of Edmund Burke in his 1792 Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe: "No man will assert seriously, that when people are of a turbulent spirit, the best way to keep them in order is to furnish them with something substantial to complain of."

The senators should remember that they are American senators, not Roman proconsuls. Nor is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee some latter-day Praetor Maximus.

But if they would be dictators, it would be nice if they could at least be wise (until such time as the people can electorally forcefully project with a violent pedal thrust their regrettable backsides out of town).

It was gut-wrenching (which in my case is a substantial event) to watch the senators prattle on in their idle ignorance concerning the manifold economic benefits that will accrue to the body politic if we can just cram a few million more uneducated illegals into the country. (I guess ignorance loves company.)

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Under such circumstances, advocates of guest worker/amnesty bills will find it frustratingly hard to defend their arrogant plans by their preferred tactic of slandering those who disagree with them as racist, nativist and xenophobic. When the slandered ones include not only the Washington Post and the New York Times, but about 70 percent of the public, it is not only bad manners, but bad politics.

The public demand to protect our borders will triumph sooner or later. And, the more brazen the opposing politicians, the sooner will come the triumph. So legislate on, you proud and foolish senators, and hasten your political demise.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/03/mexican_illegals_vs_american_v.html


156 posted on 03/29/2006 7:28:17 AM PST by Seattle Conservative (God bless and protect our troops and their CIC.)
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To: Seattle Conservative

Wow, Tony Blankley hit a home run with that one.


169 posted on 03/29/2006 7:34:43 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: Seattle Conservative
Blankley is spot-on... however I fear the only thing that will 'awaken' our spineless, Republican congressmen is ACTION. I bet you everyone of the 'appeasers' was glued to their TV sets watching Saturdays sickening images from LA... and wringing their hands.

For us to get their attention may take a statement of similar weight and scope. In fact, it may take that... and a bit more.

181 posted on 03/29/2006 7:38:35 AM PST by johnny7 (“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
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