Don't be fooled. McCain's amendment makes the back taxes due only if and when they get a green card. And there may be other loopholes we haven't found yet, that take more teeth out of this amendment. The lying continues.
See my tagline.
Posted on 05/29/2007 6:05:11 PM PDT by RWR8189
One thing is sure . If fat Ted and Eleonor Clift are for it. Its is a bad thing.
It’s a good observation. Why any Republican would help Ted get a bill passed is beyond me. What Ted wants is not what a Republican wants. And yet the Stupid Party helps him out time after time.
It was George Bush that keeps leading them to Ted with spending beyond our means.
Fred suffers from inside the beltway dementia. 2008 is gonna be something to behold.
And, yet, Fred is telling us this is, in reality, a Republican bill -- and that The Great White Whale from Massachusetts has been enlisted to sell it to his fellow Democrats.
If the GOP leadership is, in fact, responsible for this travesty, I'm even more enraged than I was.
Why, oh, why did they choose to fight on this indefensible ground?
Yeah, sure Fred, I can think of few things more fun than watching Kennedy spew his pro-illegal immigrant BS!!!
The Weekly Standard is a totally worthless rag.
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
“The four Democratic senators running for president—Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd—were not part of these talks, and it showed. Clinton and Biden, supposedly backers of immigration reform, voted with Dorgan (and the AFL-CIO) to eliminate the temporary workers program and blow up the compromise. Obama and Dodd were absent. All four voted with Dorgan on the five-year limit, also a deal-breaker.”
Fred Barnes is a fool, or takes us for one. This will get ‘fixed’ in the conference anyway so it doesnt ‘blow up’ the compromise, only make it better for Demcorats and worse for Republicans. As will most of the changes under the hood.
The guest worker program is of little interest to the people, except the cheap labor lobby, so their interest in voting against this is pure liberalism, but that doesnt mean the opposite is conservatism.
This bill is intended to fail to make our immigration system work. It is inherently flawed.
Having Senator Ted Kennedy author this bill is like asking an incompetent doctor who botched an operation to conduct the surgery to fix his own mistakes. In 1986, Senator Kennedy said “We will never again bring forward another Amnesty Bill like this.” Today, he brings forward the 1986-redo bill, only bigger. Kennedy has joined with La Raza and cheap labor lobbies on the business side to ensure that American immigration stays as out-of-control as possible, and the result is predictably bad.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2007/05/this-immigration-bill-is-built-to-fail.html
This stooge’s nose keeps browner and browner. What’s he going to do when Bush is gone and the democrats become a permanent majority, write more childish books?
“As Senate floor manager of the immigration bill, Kennedy gets emotionally wound up. He exaggerates. He raises his voice. He berates Democratic and Republican senators alike. He intimidates, or tries to anyway. He is a throwback to an older oratorical style. He is a bellower, a bully, something of a blowhard. He is enormously fun to watch”
No, he’s just a drunk.
Fred's not even very intelligent, but he does make for a useful stooge.
Many of us saw the 2006 election disaster coming down the tracks... but Old Fred did not have a clue.
I’ll make another prediction, pass this bill and the GOP is PERMANENT HISTORY... not just an ocassional train wreck.
Fred...i liked you when you came over from New Republic in the 80s but realize now that you are still a social moderate at best.
Ciao.
Say NO!! to amnesty for illegal immigrants!
Take a hike Fred, no one but your Beltway, elitist, Rockefeller Republican buddies are listening.
You should have watched Kennedy rip into Dorgan last week during debate over Dorgan’s amendment to remove the guest worker provision.
If it were printed on thin paper and came in rolls, it might have some value. Fred just wants to make the down stairs/upstairs maid.
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