Great....the article title is going to have Hell Bent For Leather in my head for the remainder of the day. Side effects of misspent youth.......
Posted on 01/24/2007 9:30:44 AM PST by VU4G10
As is this president.
If a candidate insists on being a one-issue candidate, he better be shooting off fireworks all the time on that one issue.
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Congress is Hell
Great....the article title is going to have Hell Bent For Leather in my head for the remainder of the day. Side effects of misspent youth.......
....... and?
"that will leave Border Agents free to chase down drug smugglers"
LOL! Not if they are in the slammer.
As I understand it, any Senator can put a 'hold' on any bill in the Senate.
If any of the Senators are truly anti-illegals, they should be able to put a hold on an amnesty bill. They didn't last session.
That becomes the real question: Does any Senator have to backbone to stop amnesty?
Ironically, Senator Byrd (D-WVA) stopped the amnesty bill, on a technicality. It almost passed shortly after the 9-11-01 attacks.
the Border Agents that is.
I don't have a problem with a guest worker program. What I don't want is to give citizenship (or a path to) millions third world persons. I'll invite them to come and work, but not vote.
Actually, what is needed is at least 41 senators to filibuster in the senate. If there is not a filibuster proof minority then the senate will vote and most likely pass the immigration reform that the President wants. I believe that there will have to be some compromise between amnesty and enforcement only. Nobody gets everything they want in the legislative process, and I think something is better than nothing which is what occurred in the last Congress. If people don't want to understand this, then they are not being realistic.
This is the biggest fraud because it is politically impossible to do. Over 495 of the Fortune 500 have illegals ... probably all 500. I've worked in a large number of big IT shops. Every one had illegals.
Does anyone really think that it is politically possible to come down on these employers? It would force even more IT development offshore
Then there are the millions of homeowners who pick up illegals at Home Depot to work on their house. Does anyone think that it is politically possible to come down on these small employers?
One of the big problems of the immigration debate is that all sides make absurd comments that lack any credibility. The result is the debate really goes nowhere ... except for an occasional token raid or symbolic bread crumb.
These two are contradictory. Remember NAFTA and a hundred other bills?
A vanilla bill is proposed. Then it is loaded with earmarks, pork, special inclusions and exclusions. The only Free Trade thing left in the NAFTA bill was the name. By the time is had passed both houses, it was not recognizable as a Free Trade bill, except in the name.
Mass Amnesty and current or increased immigration rates spell the end of the GOP as a viable national entity within 50 years. Why do they not get this? They are writing their own death sentence.
Ah-hah!!!
I was right!!!
Politicians can only see as far as the next election, and you expect them to worry about 50 years from now?
BWAHAHAHHAHA!
Nothing of substance will ever be done about illegal aliens, deal with it, forget about it, adjust to it, and move on.
ping
One-issue candidate?
http://tancredo.house.gov/issues/
"Does anyone think that it is politically possible to come down on these small employers?"
Hopefully so. it would be the best thing to happen for legal legitimate business owners. Let's even the playing field, by all means
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