Posted on 05/18/2006 6:43:57 PM PDT by lancer256
Why don't you just say off the coast of Florida, because that's what it was about. Jeb was against it and even if it had past it would not made it anywhere in the senate, because it would have been objected to by one or both of the Florida Senator's. So the whole thing was just for show, like your post.
Hardly for show...just slipped conveniently under the door while everyone was looking elsewhere.
It's a threat.
Basically they are saying they'll only enforce the border IF we sell out our country.
It's an empty threat, though, since we know if we step down they won't enforce the border and they'll sell us out anyway. Given it's empty, and we know it to be so, the only thing to do is keeping hammering away at them. Their position is extremely unpopular and infuriating the majority of Americans. Just keep hitting them every single day.
"Are Republicans in the Senate and the House, asleep?"
NO, THEY'RE NOT ASLEEP, BUT A LOT OF THEM ARE RINOS - CHAFFEE, SNOWE, COLLINS, MARTINEZ, GRAHAM, SPECTER, DEWINE, VOINOVICH, MCPAIN, LUGER, HAGEL, ETC.
7 generations in my case.
We share the views of the vast majority of Americans that granting amnesty to people who broke our immigration laws is wrong and a prescription for chaos," continued Rodriguez. "Enforcing our nation's immigration laws is the first obligation of President Bush and Congress and that priority must not be held hostage to the demands of illegal aliens and a few special interests"
I've known for some time that many American Hispanics -- who have lived and worked here LEGALLY for a long time -- do not endorse illegal immigration; but I didn't know a representative group had been formed. This is good news!
"7 generations in my case."
Right!
People need to be reminded!
Thanks for the link!
"7 generations in my case."
Right!
People need to be reminded!
Thanks for the link!
The question I have is: are we at a real tipping point yet - the ones where real everyday people say "this shall not pass!" or are we at one of those "throw our hands up in disgust" points where we stay home and gripe.
The world is going insane. And we in the US are not exempt from the madness of the season.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I like that. What's it from?
W.B. Yeats: Slouching to Bethlehem. I read it again today and got the cold shivers...it suddenly seemed prophetic:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
I think the politicians are missing the boat by pandering to the pro illegal sentiment. I think there are many more people like you than they realize. The others, backed by the left, just seem to be more plentiful than they are.
That is how the left rules. They use a loud vocal minority to seem as if they have more support than they do.
In Rugby football, you still have to actually touch the ball onto the ground in the end-zone before it counts -- several times a defender has got hands or body between the ball and the ground and negated the score. American football is derived from Rugby, with the addition of allowing blocking and the forward pass. The drop-kick score is common in Rugby, while still legal, but rare, in its American cousin.
Thanks! - I can use that!
GE
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