Lessons From the Immigration Debacle

HUMAN EVENTS ^ | 07/06/2007 | Gary Bauer

[2ndDivisionVet]

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!!

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Take a look at their hidden agenda: http://www.mexica-movement.org

[Graybeard58]

the media used the bill's demise to declare electoral suicide for the GOP amongst the nation's fastest growing demographic

So much crap. Illegals who would become legal under the shamnesty plan would vote Republican? Like I said, so much crap.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>Even some conservatives got into the act. Columnist Linda Chavez predicted, “...blah blah blah...”<<

Linda Chavez conservative?

[longtermmemmory]

BEWARE, the left may try to revivie the debate thought the HOUSE!

[GOP Poet]

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[vetsvette]

Columnist Linda Chavez predicted, “...Republicans who believe this is going to help them at the polls in 2008 may well find themselves sitting on the back benches for years to come.”

It’s too bad the Linda Chavez doesn’t seem to understand that one’s standing in the polls isn’t the most important thing in life - even for a politician.

[nj26]

Another good resource for expressing our discontent with the pro-amnesty “masters of the universe” in the Senate:

http://www.recallmel.com

[Blake#1]

Headlines for July 8, 2007:

#1 Savage Nation Works, Borders Flooded with Mexicans Returning to Mexico.
#2 Anglo-Saxon Workers pouring into cities and towns now willing to do work!
#3 Employers Firing anyone that looks like a Mexican
#4 New Song Tops the Charts: We Are The Savage Nation and We are in your Face!

Thanks to the Savage Nation these headlines describe the victory!

Isn’t this what the opponets wanted? Now what?

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links & numbers.

[Dick Bachert]

The periodic Congressional recesses should afford us the opportunity to get some valuable “face time” with our respective congress critters. Some of these folks will be holding Town Hall Meetings around their states/districts. A call to one of their local offices or a visit to their web sites ought to give you the schedule.

Actually, the LOCAL TOWN HALL MEETING is the best – and least costly — way to get to these folks. Many well-intentioned advocacy groups who urge their members to GO TO WASHINGTON are more interested in putting on a show than actually impacting legislation. The simple fact is that unless they can put a few million folks on the Mall, the political ruling elites simply IGNORE these sorts of events.

The OTHER problem with seeking an “audience” with these critters – ostensibly OUR EMPLOYEES (or, FORMER EMPLOYEES) — in their offices in D.C or even in the district is that you are at the psychological and emotional disadvantage of BEING ON THEIR TURF in the undesirable role of an “inferior” pleading with a “superior.”

These TOWN HALL MEETING take place on the closest thing to NEUTRAL TERRITORY as can be found. And, unlike those office meetings, they will be filled with OTHER citizens whom your public questions/comments can sensitize to issues other than the one that brought them there. (NOTE: IF YOUR CRITTER FORCES YOU TO SEND THOSE QUESTION CARDS UP TO HIS THRONE – WHERE HIS DISTRICT FLUNKIE WILL CULL ALL BUT THOSE HIS LIEGE WISHES TO ANSWER – GET A NEW CRITTER AT THE NEXT ELECTION BECAUSE THIS ONE IS TOO FAR GONE TO BE SALVAGED.)

The recent immigration dust-up brought a lot of new folks into the fray over who runs the country. Because the forces of darkness never rest, IT IS VITAL THAT THESE NEW FOLKS NOT GO BACK TO SLEEP. Sadly, most of them will.

I predicted that illegal immigration would be a hot-button issue over 10 years ago when more than 70% of those at Newt’s meetings – where I regularly went to gin up support for the Fair Tax (then called the National Retail Sales Tax) — were mad as hell and beating him up on the illegal situation. While he never has come out directly for the Fair Tax, more than once, Newt coupled the two issues by suggesting that the over 100,000 IRS agents be given a weapon and training and sent to guard the border with Mexico. Newt KNOWS how to couple.

If YOUR critters ARE having meetings – and if not during THIS recess, unless their names are Reid, Pelosi, Graham or Schumer, they will almost certainly have them in the run-up to the election – please think about attending, taking the mike and telling them what YOU think. Even if THEY fail to heed your words, you just may educate the audience to some new problem. Heck, you may even get a heart-warming round of applause.

If nothing else, it’s excellent THEATER to watch some of these folks artfully dodge questions, shuck and jive around a tough issue about which they have absolutely NO knowledge, have their overflowing drool-cups changed by one of their flunkies, etc. so TAKE A CARLOAD with you.

See you there???

[Jorge]

Linda Chavez conservative?

Probably more conservative than you are in many respects considering she is accepted and promoted on TownHall.com as a conservative columnist.

[Jorge]

It’s too bad the Linda Chavez doesn’t seem to understand that one’s standing in the polls isn’t the most important thing in life - even for a politician.

No, but you can't accomplish much politically if you can't get elected.

And for those who changed positions due to the public outcry were definitely thinking about the polls.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Linda really jumped the shark on this one...

[Dad yer funny]

FR *bookmark* , and Thanks neverdem

[Gritty]

[Publius6961]

It seems the D.C. establishment woke up last Thursday morning reminded that it governs only with the people's consent. Polls showed that the more people knew about the bill, the more likely they were to oppose it. The opposition of average Americans to the bill was so intense that it shut down the Senate's Internet server and flooded the phone system beyond its capacity. Senators were astonished by the volume and intensity of the reaction, and, in the end, they voted accordingly.

The survival instinct. The survival of their criminal outrageous pensions...

Most americans no matter how dense, know the basics of government:

There are three branches.
Legislative, they create the laws.
Judicial, they make sure that new laws conform to our Constitution and legally adopted Amendments.
The Executive, which is the only branch empowered Constitutional to carry out the laws.

Two observations.
Without the executive doing its job the other two are useless.
The first branch, the legislature, is not allowed to implement laws.

There you have it. All the laws passed and "approved" are totally useless if they're not implemented; e.g. the 1986 Amnesty Fraud.

[yldstrk]

Assimilation first.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“In the end, the question remains: How did a bill that had the support of the White House, the leadership of both parties in Congress and most of the so-called mainstream media manage to fail? The answer is that this absurd bill awakened a silent majority fed up with the perpetuation of policies that reward lawlessness, discourage assimilation and ignore potentially grave threats to our national security.”

There you are!!

[Sig Sauer P220]

BEWARE, the left may try to revivie the debate thought the HOUSE!

Oh, it’ll be back. You can count on that.