The whole Mike Pence scenario is fascinating. As for the Senators, they've been worked over and bribed with campaign contributions for years to satisfy the wage depression profiteer lobbies ambitions. But Pence was a quick purchase. I think what happened is he haas dreams of running for president in 2008. The Rove/Bolten attacks to demonize conservatives backfired yet a MSM "mantra" still exists where "conservatives" are seen as the problem. So the lobbies approached Pence as the "conservative" who could "bridge" the false dilemma. Pence accepted and deals were made to give him money for his presidential bid. The lobby put a new immigration bill into his hand and he totes it like it's his own.
I wonder what Mary Kay Hutchinson's price was too.
I'm opposed to the expanded guest worker program they are trying to sell. We need to discourage the notion of a two-tier labor pool, some who have rights and some who don't.
Of course, we already have that, with the widespread dependence on illegal labor, but the answer is to secure the border, not to enshrine our two-tier labor pool in law.
We actually do have a guest-worker program already in place, and have had for years. Sheepherders are typically brought in on three year contracts, they go home and come back on a new contract. I don't have an issue with that, but it should continue to be the exception rather than a massive new rule encompassing a significant percent of our labor force.
My position is that if you need someone's skills badly enough to bring him into the country, then you need him badly enough to grant him permanent residency. If you don't need him that bad, then you don't need him that bad.
We already bring in a million immigrants, legally, per year. No one has yet to make the case that a million isn't enough. There is an enormous backlog of applicants for residency, they could easily double or triple the number of resident visas just from the applicants already in the mill, there is no need for another kind of devalued second-class immigrant. If a million a year isn't enough, make the case. But don't create a new class of indentured laborers when it goes against everything this country stands for.
"I wonder what Mary Kay Hutchinson's price was too...."
I wonder as well...see what her former colleague from Texas-Phil Gramm -is up to http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/07/news/companies/warburg/index.htm
Seems like these "opportunities" would be universal if the Senator chooses to play ball...
You don't have any evidence of this.
It's about as kooky as the NAU threads.