Posted on 11/27/2006 5:55:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Thanks.
Incidentally, there is nothing at all to stop a Republican potential (and viable) presidential candidate from taking the same position, plus being good on taxes.
I wonder why he didn't proclaim that BEFORE the election?
Do you know how hard it is to get any press coverage much less airtime with Obama sucking all the '08 air out of the atmosphere of late?
Say it ain't so, Joe.
If anyone here believes one word that Joe Biden says about anything, shame on us all.
D-Mass., gets advise
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Honist Injun :-)
"Erstwhile democracy" should say "emerging republic," but I cannot tell whether the journalist or the senator bears culpability for the error. The antics of defeated Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador notwithstanding, the future prospects and present state of Mexico get better all the time. This assertion does not deny the enormous influence that transnational criminal enterprises, thieves, and rapists enjoy in Mexico. Our lackadaisical attitude toward border security and our ridiculously sluggish and bureaucratically intesive legal immigration process contribute to the power of these terrible gangs.
I'm still chuckling,,
when his brain stent plugs, no telling what's gonna come out of Joe..
I know; I checked the original.
Thanks senator Idiot, but no thanks. The Mexicans wouldn't come if we didn't let, and in fact encourage them.
Holy Toledo. Snowmen are break dancing in Hell.
I aspire to be a caption writer, being a proof reader is too easy.. well, for a few anyway. ;-)
How did he vote on that monstrosity of an immigration bill? He had to have voted for it.
So when Biden implies (or tells you) that you're giving up your money for this specific purpose, he's blowing smoke, IMO.
No surprise to me, the republicans have left their right flank open vis a vis illegal immigration.
Reports that illegal immigration was a loser issue in the recent midterm election were completely bogus and here we have the proof.
A pandering politician? Saying all the right things? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
You're spot-on. Absolutely correct.
The open-borders wing of the GOP simply refuses to believe this. But I completely agree with your assessment.
Here's when I knew that the DNC was going to move to the GOP's right on this issue: When Hillary wasn't going to toe the open-borders line back in March. That was the signal for me that some crafty people in back rooms in the DNC saw an opening -- a way of cleaving the GOP's conservative base from the GOP.
The GOP greybeards simply refuse to believe this. Talk to most anyone in the southwest and southern US -- the geographic strongholds of the GOP - and ask what their #1 issue is. It isn't taxes -- the majority of people no longer pay substantial taxes aside from FICA/Mediscare payroll taxes. It isn't foreign policy.
It is immigration. Immigration in all forms is a big, big issue with people, but they're burning under their collars about Bush's refusal to face facts on the border. They're fed up with the number of criminals flooding over the border. They're fed up with hospitals closing because they're being fiscally bled dry by illegals walking into the ER and never paying. On and on and on. The elites in the northeast (and despite his Texas address, Bush is a northeast elite, just like his daddy -- if George W. had gone to A&M instead of Yale, *then* I'd believe he was a Texan) just refuse to believe that a substantial and persistant majority of voters out there are pissed as hell on immigration. They just cannot believe the numbers, so they keep tweeking the polling, trying to get a different result.
And now, we have the GOP greybeards spinning the election results.
For the GOP greybeards, listen up: Joe Biden has very, very few original thoughts in his head. This one is no different. He's been given his marching orders. He's the guy making this statement because he's in a safe seat. This is not a slip of the tongue -- this is seismic policy shift inside the DNC.
Talk to some actual Mexicans and ask them what they think of Mexico's politics.
The Mexican nationals I've talked to are under no illusion that theirs is a democracy. They're also under no illusion that their elections are reliable, either. We anglos might think of Mexico as a nominal democracy, but most all the Mexican nationals I've talked to don't seem to think so.
Again, Senator Biden's choice of words is telling us something here.
If the GOP doesn't wake up here and quick, the DNC is going to really own the immigration/border issue, even if they don't actually *do* something about it.
I think they listened to their own voters.
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