Posted on 05/29/2007 10:15:03 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
Our government has failed to build the fence and secure the border. There can be no mistake about that. The insecure border represents one wound which is bleeding in the nation. However, the current wound is this new bill (deal) and the path to citizenship is the bleeding in this bill. Although the new bill and the nation are related, they represent different patients. If the president wants a consultation on the bill, he must first stop the bleeding in the bill by removing the path to citizenship.
The ONLY candidate out there who WILL stop this is Duncan Hunter.
The damage the current incumbent has done to the Republican Party however, may be irreprable. His ability to create additional chaos is amplified by the the additional year he has to serve in office.
I’m not quite sure I feel as strongly as you do. I do think that Bush and Rove’s star is in the sunset. My point is that we should not be taking advice from someone who blew a mandate in 2004 and is a major reason for the GOP being in the minority now.
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Most of the Americans who came here legally in the nineteenth and twentieth century and even now are an asset to America. The problem is with the few bad apples - the Muslims in particular.
George, you have proven you are not qualified to know what's right for America...And as such, I have lost all confidence in your war in Iraq...I believe it's a set-up to keep Americans preoccupied so you can get away with destroying America...
I'd welcome an impeachment...
“I doubt Bush has even read the bill.”
Sometimes I wonder if Bush can even read. He certainly has a problem speaking. Perhaps he is more comfortable in say, Spanish!
Seriously, most bill sponsors never read these giant bills in their entirety. If they do, they only read sections they are interested in, or ask their legislative aids to read them and summarize them. SInce they often are written by legislative aids, that leads to further confusion.
Omnibus Bills should be forbidden by the Rules of COngress. Its too easy to sneak crap in there, which, of course, is why they are created in the first place.
Your link was to the Second Amendment Foundation’s Press Release dated 5/1/07 which says:
“BELLEVUE, WA – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ troubling support of legislation that would allow him and future attorneys general the arbitrary power to block firearms purchases without due process is cause for him to step down as the nation’s highest ranking law enforcement officer, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.
The bill, S. 1237, was introduced last week at the Justice Department’s request by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), one of the most extreme anti-gunners in Congress. Called the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007,” this legislation would give the Attorney General discretionary authority to deny the purchase of a firearm or the issuance of a firearm license or permit because of some vague suspicion that an American citizen may be up to no good.
‘This bill,’ said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, ‘raises serious concerns about how someone becomes a “suspected terrorist.” Nobody has explained how one gets their name on such a list, and worse, nobody knows how to get one’s name off such a list.
‘The process by which someone may appeal the Attorney General’s arbitrary denial seems weak at best,’ Gottlieb suggested, ‘and there is a greater concern. When did we decide as a nation that it is a good idea to give a cabinet member the power to deny someone’s constitutional right simply on suspicion, without a trial or anything approaching due process?
‘We’re not surprised that General Gonzales has found an agreeable sponsor in Frank Lautenberg,’ Gottlieb observed. ‘The senator from New Jersey has never seen a restrictive gun control scheme he did not immediately embrace, and S. 1237 is loaded with red flags. It would allow an appointed bureaucrat the authority to suspend or cancel someone’s Second Amendment right without even being charged with a crime.
‘Attorney General Gonzales has no business asking for that kind of power over any tenet in the Bill of Rights,’ Gottlieb said. ‘He took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not trample it. Perhaps it is time for him to go.’”
Post 274 by jamese777: “What can we do when the United States’ Chief Law Enforcement officer is an anchor baby.
That’s right, Alberto Gonzales’ grandparents snuck across the Rio Grande to Texas and if it wasn’t for an untested section of the 14th amendment, he wouldn’t be a citizen.”
Connecting the dots between these two posts makes me very nervous.
Yes it does.
They already call us “nativists” and “restrictionists”. How long before “suspected terrorists”?
The debate is being framed in ways that will be detrimental to true patriots. The words that are being chosen all have negative connotations. This is not accidental.
Maybe Bill, but NOT Hillary. It's as if President Bush wants to ENSURE that the Dems win the next election.
“The debate is being framed in ways that will be detrimental to true patriots. The words that are being chosen all have negative connotations. This is not accidental.”
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
“It’s as if President Bush wants to ENSURE that the Dems win the next election.”
He certainly wanted them to win the last election.
Of course not. They get the benefit of "The New Tone."
His base does not.
BUMP
Heh. This means we've got a shot at killing this bill...before it gets moving.
I don't know how he can look us in the face and talk about Iraq when he won't see to our borders, or shrugs and says "talk to the hand." If he can't be trusted with our borders, he can't be trusted with anyone's.
I read your post. Sounds like you live in my neighborhood!
I do believe it's all personal. He feels more obligation to Mexicans than to Americans, and thinks he can make a "gift" of America to soothe his anguished nobless oblige--and, who knows, his droit de seigneur/
I can’t stand it. I rarely go out anymore because I come home so danged angry. It is horrible to feel so trapped. Luckily I am self employed and do most of my work on the computer.
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