Posted on 05/26/2006 8:02:07 PM PDT by Candor7
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They're actually out there saying that the conservatives don't want to be the reasons that we're standing in the way of progress and success here, and they're going to set you up for the blame if the Senate bill does not maintain itself or remain intact by saying if you don't sign on to moderate, unpopular things like this, that you will lose. It's just the exact opposite. This bill, this immigration bill was written by the open borders lobby, the La Raza-type groups. You can't read this and escape that conclusion. I mean, this bill includes all kinds of traps against enforcement. It confers all kinds of rights on illegal aliens. It's going to make it very, very hard to enforce any of this.
It was written by lawyers. I'm convinced this legislation has been written by lawyers who do this work day in and day out, who litigate on behalf of illegals and seek to change even the most arcane rules to their advantage. Let me cut through all of the noise here, folks, and just hit you right between the eyes. These senators do not want to control immigration. They want to expand it. They don't care whether it's illegal or legal immigration. What they did was vote in favor of changing our society so as to massively empower the federal government. The federal government will have far more control over wages than before. Entitlement programs are going to have to expand in order to accommodate all these new arrivals and their children. Taxes are going to have to go up in order to pay for all this.
Wealth will be redistributed from the middle class to a new class of poor that we are welcoming in here as Senator McCain has so excitedly said in his press conference yesterday. That is exactly what this is about. It's all being done under the rubric of immigration reform. What we're actually doing is importing poverty in order to enhance big government. It is precisely what is going on here. I cannot emphasize this enough. We went through all the details of this bill. You can't possibly assume from reading this that this is actually -- or conclude that this is -- about immigration. It just isn't, and I have been right about that from the get-go.
The editors at National Review have a little editorial today on their website. The Senate wouldn't even vote down the earned income tax credit for illegal immigrants that bop in here as a result of this. So you watch what happens. If this bill remains as is, the impact on the legal system incalculable, the impact on the economy, on the bureaucracy, local and federal level public services, the entitlement crisis. It is a massive, massive pro-poverty bill. Bring in some people here in poverty; get a number of new victims. Our economy is doing well, and there are fewer and fewer victims, fewer and fewer people in poverty. We need this. It's the country club Republicans and the blue-bloods trying to take back the party from the conservatives.
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I am afraid he is right. What are we going to do about it?
(The parallels to the slavery debate of the 1830s, the maintenance of a work force underclass are actually amazing to me. Illegal alien employers are the plantation owners, and supporters of the Senate Immigration Bill are taking their politics from Calhoun, while conservatives think that immigrants should be free men who contribute to the socio economic strength of the country, not bleed it dry and change our nation irretrievably to one with a permanant group of underclass citizens who are equivalent to slaves and indentured servants to the blue blood aristocrats of the Republican and Democratic parties.)
You might want to hop into this thread from a few minutes ago...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639133/posts
Ahhhhhhhhhh, no one wants to hear this. After Buchanan went off the res, he was an anti-semitic, then when Tancredo went off, he was unelectable, Lou Dobbs was pandering for ratings, Malkin is not REALLY conservative, Thomas Sowell is getting old, NOW Limbaugh is just wrong, probably happens once in a while.
He should sound the clarion call next week. Seems there is no one else that carries weight any more.
Gee, when I said this two weeks ago, I got branded a troll and a Bush-hater.
It's the country club Republicans and the blue-bloods trying to take back the party from the conservatives
This is true and most of who Rush is talking about are probably Trilateralists, Council on Foreign Relations, and wannabee Commissars of the NWO.
You must have been precient, a true curse in the field of political discussion, LOL
Things are much clearer now that the Senate and the Administration have shown their hands.
Wow. How did we let things get this far?
The elites and rinos are tying to kill the conservative movement and open up the coffers.
I need a level headed freeper to tell me we will survive this.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
The latest one is -- President Bush is going to feel bad that we don't trust him. So we'd better just support whatever he says.
Im gonna go watch Waltons re-runs and dream....
Who is the next real conservative giant????
We will survive!
Rinos will lose. I have faith in the House conservatives.
Good point. Well said.
uh. no. I'll riot first.
This is all a matter of "reality wins". If half of what Limbaugh says about the Senate bill is true, (and why would he make it up?), then... Houston, we have a problem. This is really bad, Republican Party ripping apart bad. I don't want to jump to conclusions. I don't want to jump to anything. But no party is worth the kind of roulette the Senate RINO's, Democrats, and Bush's people seem to be playing here with the destiny of our republic and country. I say that giving the power back to the Democrats wiould be tantamount to national suicide. This might not be far from that also. Sometimes, there is a line that must not be crossed. We may be looking at it. Just what are we going to do?
As did I, and many others.
Well this make 3 threads on this tonight. I guess it is worth it.
I have made it clear for a few years now, that listening to Rush was a thing I did rarely. I just usually browse the talk shows, and am I glad I did. I actually found out that he is back in form, and the reason is that he feels betrayed. Did you listen to his interview with Tony Snow? He actually got his opinion across twice, without bending to the party line after Tony gave it to him. It was a moment that made me change my mind about him. I say, Thanks Rush, and welcome back. Even the new parody of the immigration deal is a real doozer.
One thing about Rush, he understands the concept of sticking to his principles. One must do so to be a conservative. This is why the moral relativistic liberal-leftists consider us rigid ideologues. They cannot understand that to belive in something is the same as sticking by it. Limbaugh is a conservative first, then a Republican. Almost everytime I find myself disagreeing with Limbaugh, it is on a matter of detail or fact, which might hinge the issue, but not regarding his adherence to his stated principles. No doubt someone could find an example of where this is not the case, but the exception doesn't prove the rule here. Limbaugh has something here, and it is going to matter.
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