Posted on 06/29/2007 6:43:14 AM PDT by Zechariah11
Immigration: The Senate's 53-46 defeat of the immigration bill Thursday was more than a victory for rule of law over alien amnesty. It was a triumph of citizens' will over politicians' disdain. Real reform must follow.
The Bush-Kennedy immigration reform bill is dead and unlikely to be served up again before a new administration takes office. No wonder. It was a pork-laden spending bill that offered de facto amnesty to illegal immigrants, federal contracts to the usual contractors, spoils for businesses that habitually hire illegals, and new layers of bureaucracy, supposedly to speed immigration entries.
The only people it didn't reward were those not looking for cash largesse, citizens who ask only that the federal government show the will to enforce existing laws.
The truth of the matter is that the opponents of immigration reform and for the North American Union, long ago stacked the deck so they could NOT lose.
No matter what happened, the bill would be worthless if passed, and if it failed the status quo remains.
“Heads we win, tails you lose.”
The African-American community was totally against this shamenesty and some of them will be one issue voters next time around. Any politician running on shamnesty is going to be beat and beat bad.
This bill woke up Americans to the fact they were going to lose their country and their way of life to illegal invaders. No one wanted that except crackpot libs and La Raza.
You’re confusing “common sense” with “politics”...........
I never said the battle was won.
I’ll revise my reply.
The battle IS won.
The war isn’t over.
Remember reading about Normandy? That battle was won too, and it was won by warriors who didn’t give up. WWII still had to fight on.
Not so different than this one, except it sounds like we have a bunch of ‘warriors’ who have already conceded the fight.
The voters spoke and will continue to speak. Any Republican that voted with the pro-illegal crowd should be a target in this election for defeat!
Another target — remove Martinez as head of RNC.
Not if we fire them in a very visible way, as a warning to others.
I agree that we’ve won this particular battle and we’ve sent a strong message.
I called my senator (Lugar - R, IN) no less than six times in the past two weeks. He’s one of those that caved and I let his office know that I considered him to be a “sellout”.
Even though this battle is won, the next one is starting right up again. The illegal lobby wants another bill brought up ASAP. They don’t want to wait until 2009, which the MSM is saying as a way of putting us off guard.
One thing we can count on when it comes to Dick Morris is that he’s seldom right. If he says being against amnesty will hurt the GOP then watch it retake the House by focusing on the ussue in the 2008 elections.
Exactly. Just the other day he suggested that W pull out of Iraq to save the GOP. Whatever Dick.
what kinda cr@p is in his FBI files.....or those of his relatives?
Wasn't there some savings and loan stuff back in the 80's with one of his brothers.
I voted for Bush twice....actually 4 times and can't figure out what the heck is going on.
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders!
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
I wish you were right. Deportation is the penalty for being here illegally. We are ruled by a man who has no intention of enforcing the law.
In California, absolutely.
Dick Morris is pro-amnesty and is shilling for it like the FoxNews beltway boys and some others. His claims about political impact of immigration are all wrong.
Hillary will be hurt by her pro-amensty vote ... if we conservatives have something to say about it.
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