Posted on 06/03/2007 1:06:14 PM PDT by Politicalmom
JEKYLL ISLAND - U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., usually finds friendly audiences in Southeast Georgia.
Perhaps none more so than Saturday's annual conference of the National Guard Association of Georgia on Jekyll Island where the nearly 200 officers gave Chambliss standing ovations.
But it hasn't been that easy the past couple of weeks. Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., helped forge an agreement on immigration that would let about 8 million illegal immigrants remain in the country. When the news broke, Chambliss said his office was getting 1,000 calls a day, almost all negative, Lindsey Mabry, one of his aides, said last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...
Come on, Georgians, we need to pressure this weasel until he gives.
His message - especially the part about border security being the top priority - must be getting out because the calls have eased up.
They are totally stupid and think we are too.
A new round of phone calls starting tomorrow for me.
We're killing him with calls and emails. They're not truthin'.
I'll start again tomorrow am. I will make 50 calls this week - 25 to chabliss and 25 to isaakson.
Having those toll free numbers posted on FR helps too.
I guess those elected to office no longer REPRESENT the people of their states. Rather, they are too busy pleasing the chicken butchers and corporate farmers and the National Homebuilders Association. They should all lose their next election.
(English number) The message is pro amnesty, but if you just wait, it will automatically connect you with your Senator.
This number needs to be slapped all over FR - maybe even put on the home page.
Where did they come up with this stupid a** 8 million number? Trying to make it look better and to say the calls have eased off, they are hoping they will ease off but I don't they have or Bush wouldn't be telling us what bad Americans we are for wanting the law enforced and wanting to keep our countries soverienty.
These conservative turncoats are merely assuring Teddy Kennedy, Ken Salazar, et al, remain in power forever!!!
More accurately, they represent themselves.
The illegal alien issue is a tug-of-war between the governors and the governed. The governors are trying to sell a scheme that would alter the electorate in their favor -- permanently.
Accordingly, it is essential that the governed prevail.
In the story Chambliss claims misinformation is being spread by talk show hosts. Nope I don’t think so, illegals would get immediate legalization under the bill and that’s amnesty, I don’t care what he or anyone else want to call it. So a message to Saxby and all the rest, stop insulting our intelligence.
“I guess those elected to office no longer REPRESENT the people of their states. Rather, they are too busy pleasing the chicken butchers and corporate farmers and the National Homebuilders Association”
Folks, we have a WINNER !
The Gospel Truth!!
I had the pleasure of hearing the booing and cat calls at the state convention. That was the highlight of the day.
Saxby has to a great degree been a real disappointment. There must be something in Washington water that turns them all want to “go along to get along.”
Saxby will hear from me again. And again.
They just need to bring back John Ashcroft. He just said there were 10,000 Middle Eastern men he wanted to talk to and they all got scared and hightailed it out of the country any and every way they could.
http://www.theorator.com/senate.html
This week, I will be pointing out to weary staffers that the NYC pipeline plot comes from Guyana, that the Fort Dix Six are from Albania, and the all of these people are Muslims. Don’t bother talking about Mexicans, that’s what the gov’t wants you to believe. VT killer Cho came here when he was 8 yrs. old. His parents were uneducated peasants. How did they get in here? KENNEDY 1965.
p.s. Let’s not forget Utah Mall Shooter (Albanian) or Seattle Jewish Center Shooter (Palestinian). There are lots more...
I have called both at least 10 times each, at numerous offices. I think I will switch to my cell phone and use my maiden name this week. :)
It’s pretty bad when Vernon Jones looks CONSERVATIVE next to Chambliss.
Fool us once, shame on you.
Fool us twice, and three times, and ...shame on us.
So prove to us you are able to secure the border by actually doing it. Build the fence. Make a real attempt to enforce existing law on employers hiring illegals.
Then we'll talk about a guest worker program.
Your "path to citizenship" for these many millions of illegal uneducated low-income foreign nationals who, from all indications have no special love for this country, only for their paycheck and welfare benefits, will hand electoral control to the Democrats for a long time to come.
Those who say anyone who is in the U.S. illegally must be arrested and sent home are not dealing with reality, Chambliss said.
There are an estimated 12 million people in the country illegally, a number that could be pared by a third under the proposal, Chambliss said.
If he is saying that the best case effect of the bill is that we still have 8 million illegals afterward, then the bill is an utter failure from the start.
If he is claiming that 4 million will be sent home and we will be left with only 8 million who will all now be legal, he is an idiot.
The 8 million number estimate is a joke. These people would bring in their family members from Mexico, and they have large families when they are here. And the 12 million figure is a low-ball figure to begin with.
If, according to him, it is impossible to deport any of the 12 million now, why should we believe him when he says we will be able to deport these 4 million who he says will not become "legal"?
Even if it was possible, the deportation of 12 million illegals would result in a collapse of the U.S. economy because there aren't enough people to fill the jobs, he said.
Businesses who employ the cheap illegal foreign nationals have an unfair advantage over law-abiding businesses.
These businesses are unfairly able to pass on hidden costs of the illegals, like healthcare expenses and high crime rates, to taxpayers.
These foreign nationals use the various welfare programs at a much higher rate than Americans do.
By law, hospital emergency rooms cannot turn the illegal foreign nationals away. So emergency rooms become their primary healthcare-giver and the cost is borne by taxpayers and higher insurance premiums for the rest of us.
Each illegal foreign national household will cost FAR more in government benefits that the US will ever receive in taxes from them.
They do not help solve the social security problem, they make it much worse because they pay very little in and eventually will taking a lot out.
Importing such a vast army of illegals with much higher disproportionate crime rates results in a heavy cost on the criminal justice system, borne by taxpayers and not these businesses.
Chambliss is protecting his buddies in the big businesses using cheap illegal foreign nationals who in effect are getting a huge, unfair subsidy from taxpayers in order to price their services and goods below that which they otherwise could and to obtain a higher rate of return on their businesses than they otherwise could.
Many people may falsely believe we are getting away with, for example, cheap lettuce, thanks to the illegals,but we really aren't -- the hidden costs are simply shifted to other bearers, for the most part taxpayers.
Bring back Ashcroft, I think that would be a good idea since on illegal immigration he had it right. Maybe that’s why he resigned, or was forced out...
Are either of the GA Senators up for reelection in ‘08?
He proved very easily how enforcing the laws scares illegals to deport themselves, something Eisenhower did 50 years ago. But open border apologists don’t want to hear it.
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