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Even In Defeat, The Elite Keep Insults Coming
IBD Editorials ^ | 4 July 2007 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 07/04/2007 12:26:18 PM PDT by Kitten Festival

With the White House, the leaders of both political parties and the media all solidly behind the "comprehensive" immigration "reform" bill, how could it be stopped in the Senate, as it was last week?

The people stopped it. That is what democracy is all about.

When members of Congress began to be deluged with angry letters, phone calls and e-mails from their constituents, they knew the game was over — and that their careers could be over if they didn't pay attention to what the voters were saying.

This bill was an insult to people's intelligence from start to finish, and the elites are continuing to insult people's intelligence after being defeated.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; collaborators; deathofthegop; illegals; immigrantping; immigrationlist; quislings
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Go, Thomas Sowell!
1 posted on 07/04/2007 12:26:19 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival
There is no inadequacy in our existing laws on border security that the new bill would have remedied. But no law is adequate if it is not enforced.

Non-enforcement of existing laws by the federal government and active sabotage of these laws by state and local officials who forbid the police from reporting illegal aliens to the authorities suggest that existing laws could be effective — if enforced.

When the new immigration bill gave the government just 24 hours to “investigate” each illegal immigrant before rubber-stamping him into legality, it is clear that there was no serious intention of investigating or enforcing the new law.

You can’t get a credit card application approved in 24 hours. But Congress was prepared to fling open the borders to millions of people on the basis of 24-hour investigations.

We don't want new comprensive laws. We want the old ones enforced. - Period

And if you are saying that we cannot enforce those laws then we want you out. - Period.

2 posted on 07/04/2007 12:39:18 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Kitten Festival

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.


3 posted on 07/04/2007 12:39:25 PM PDT by appeal2 (R)
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To: Kitten Festival

Go, Thomas Sowell!

BTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


4 posted on 07/04/2007 12:41:00 PM PDT by buck61
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To: Kitten Festival

You know a RICO lawsuit..involving the Congress and Executive branch...and their relevent political donors...by the American people as plaintiffs..for the financial consequences of their governments’ negligence of the existing border security laws..would REALLY put some people’s heads in
DC back on straight!!!


5 posted on 07/04/2007 12:42:58 PM PDT by mo
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To: Kitten Festival

More than anything else, this proves that the supporters of open borders haven’t given up. They will be back. Perhaps next time they will try the House instead of the Senate.


6 posted on 07/04/2007 12:45:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Open borders and outsourcing are opposite sides of the same coin)
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To: mo

“You know a RICO lawsuit..involving the Congress and Executive branch...and their relevent political donors...by the American people as plaintiffs..for the financial consequences of their governments’ negligence of the existing border security laws..would REALLY put some people’s heads in
DC back on straight!!!”

I don’t know that it would, but an armed uprising would damned sure get their attention.


7 posted on 07/04/2007 12:47:54 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (Famously frisky)
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To: Kitten Festival

They are bully cowards. They know they do not speak anything near the truth and they have no answers; so they resort to insult and speaking louder. That is a bully coward and that is what they are. Rosey being a perfect example.


8 posted on 07/04/2007 12:50:02 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: Clintonfatigued

Hopefully, we will have the fence built and the illegals deported.


9 posted on 07/04/2007 12:51:13 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: Kitten Festival

Right on...what is also an insult is the notion that
the desire to protect and maintain American culture
and law is driven by xenophobia...nativism...or outright racism...defined as: “a fear of the unknown...a fear of that which is not like ourselves...” is so draconian as to be laughable.... the influx of illegal aliens and the
resultant damage to the country likened to the landing of an alien race from outer space that we know nothing about...what their intentions are...friend or foe....we KNOW how the people of other countries and cultures live..we KNOW what sociaist cesspools other hyphenated countries are...it is not a fear of the unknown but a fear of what we KNOW will happen if the flood goes un-abated. I read on a site: “the Latinization of North America is nothing to fear”...WHAT?
People killing themselves to leave these other hell-hole countries and come here and we should not fear turning this country into the same???? The stupidity of that statement defies logic.


10 posted on 07/04/2007 12:56:01 PM PDT by Niteflyr ("People get the leaders they deserve" (hear that Mexico??))
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To: Niteflyr

B U M P


11 posted on 07/04/2007 1:00:56 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: mo; Liz

“You know a RICO lawsuit..involving the Congress and Executive branch...and their relevent political donors...by the American people as plaintiffs..for the financial consequences of their governments’ negligence of the existing border security laws..would REALLY put some people’s heads in
DC back on straight!!!”

PING


12 posted on 07/04/2007 1:02:20 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: Kitten Festival

the term ‘sore loser’ comes to mind.....


13 posted on 07/04/2007 1:05:57 PM PDT by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't represent me. I'm an American!)
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To: Kitten Festival

They will be back...They won’t let a little thing like the will of the People thwart their plans...

They may have thought the War in Iraq was enough of a distraction to the public to let this slip by...It wasn’t...

I suspect we’ll now get another ‘distraction’

Watch, the nexp spin will be; our National Security depends on open borders...


14 posted on 07/04/2007 1:07:28 PM PDT by Iscool (OK, I'm Back...Now what were your other two wishes???)
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To: Kitten Festival

Bump!!


15 posted on 07/04/2007 1:27:00 PM PDT by ears_to_hear (Pray for America)
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To: All; appeal2

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“The 2 greatest dangers facing America today are:

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1) IRAN with a Nuclear weapon.

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2) The GULLIBILITY of the American People.”

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...THOMAS SEWELL, Conservative Political Comuninist extraordinaire-2007

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16 posted on 07/04/2007 1:44:31 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: Kitten Festival

There are lots of superb columnists about these days. There are few, perhaps none, who write with such brevity, clarity and are such a pleasure to read as is Sowell.


17 posted on 07/04/2007 2:45:54 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Clintonfatigued

Heard Martinez is now working with some people in the House to bring this bill back. That man needs to resign as head of RNC like yesterday.


18 posted on 07/04/2007 3:16:53 PM PDT by PhiKapMom ( Inhofe for Senate 08 -- Broken Glass Republican -- vote out the RATs in 2008)
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To: Kitten Festival
Those in the government like Tony Snow,Trent Lott, Harry Reid,Ted Kennedy,and President Bush lie now and tell us the border can't be closed. It can be closed. They haven't built the fence on the border mandated by Duncan Hunter's 2006 law. The government hasn't protected the states against the invasion from Mexico . The constitution mandates that the government protect the states against invasion. The government and Bush can put the U.S. military on the border to guard against this invasion but instead they have the military guarding Iraq's borders.
U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4.: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion...

Instead Bush sent a small number of national guard members to the border but prohibited them from stopping illegals from crossing the border ( huh?). The fact that Bush could order guard units to the border shows that he could put millions of our troops on the border to guard the U.S. border. Instead Bush and the congress have hundreds of thousands of troops guarding Europe, South Korea , Japan, Iraq and who knows how many other countries. Bush can pull those hundreds of thousands of troops from Europe and put them on the southern U.S. border. Europe is rich enough to protect themselves .Plus Some European countries like France have nukes so no one is going to invade Europe.So Tony Snow lied when he said he needed Amnesty for illegals to close the border. Tony Snow you are a liar. I've seen you post on here and I hope you see this. Actually I hope you don't see it because you will just come up with some more spin and lies to negate my points. Why are you working so hard to destroy the United states, Tony Snow?

Republican President Eisenhower closed the border and deported all the illegals in the 1950's and he didn't need to give Amnesty to the illegals to do it. But Kennedy wants us to believe that the only way the border can be closed is to give Amnesty to 20 million illegals and their families. Does he think we are that stupid?

Kennedy and the Democrats lied in 1986 When they said the same exact things they were saying for this latest Amnesty: “That they would secure the border if we gave Amnesty to the illegals”.
Kennedy pulled that trick on the American people and Reagan back in 1986 and now they expect us to fall for the same trick twice.

The only things the 1986 Amnesty bill actually did was give Amnesty to 3 million illegals and bring in 20 million more illegals .It didn’t secure the border so that 20 million new illegals crossed the border..

So this new Kennedy Amnesty bill is just a version of the 1986 Amnesty . But now it will give Amnesty to 20 million illegals and allow those 20 million to bring in their families to the U.S.. Like the 1986 Amnesty bill this latest Kennedy Amnesty will increase illegal immigration and not enforce the border. 200 million 3rd world immigrants will turn the U.S.A into a 3rd world socialist hell hole.

Every Democrat leader Reid, Hillary Clinton, Obama, etc voted for and is for this horrible Kennedy Amnesty bill. Every Democrat politician is for even higher taxes(communism), socialist government healthcare, fairness doctrine (destroys talk radio), global warming regulations that will cripple industry in the U.S.. All this and that democrats are for raising taxes knowing that we have hundreds of taxes and that they are so high shows that the Democrat party is a threat to the American people and their way of life. 70% of Democrat Senators voted for this Amnesty the last time . It would have been higher but they saw it wasn't going to pass and many changed their votes at the last minute because Democrats didn't want to be known as the party of Amnesty which they are.86% of Democrats voted for the Amnesty (cloture ) 2 weeks previously.

Anyone that thinks that this America destroying Amnesty bill won't pass if Democrats gain seats in the congress and Hillary wins (steals) the presidency is not living in reality.

19 posted on 07/04/2007 3:34:24 PM PDT by rurgan (socialism doesn't work. Government is the problem not the solution to our problems.)
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To: PhiKapMom
Heard Martinez is now working with some people in the House to bring this bill back. That man needs to resign as head of RNC like yesterday.

He could wind up at the top of that evil "talk radio" hit parade in which case he might not need to resign. Simply cut off the money to the RNC until he is FIRED.

Dear Senator Mel Martinez,

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"

After careful consideration, your FIRED. Hit the bricks, Skippy.

Sincerely,
The American People.


20 posted on 07/04/2007 3:35:40 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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