Thompson Soft on Illegals in Senate Votes (Wash. Times)

Washington Times ^

[CheyennePress]

Well, of course, different people have different priorities. I see tort reform, corporate taxation, and the marriage amendment as far more important to me than whether or not your average American can go out and buy a semiautomatic assault rifle.

So in that sense, I see Thompson as far from the ideal candidate for America’s future.

[CheyennePress]

Or this federalism ruse could just be a front put up by Thompson to deflect criticism on a crappy vote.

And frankly, he’s put up more than a few crappy votes in his term representing the people of my state.

[Tarpon]

Gun rights are the figure of speech and litmus test for individual rights, rather you want to buy anything that's your right. With all individual rights comes responsibilities, the responsibilities attached to being a citizen of the USA. When your individual rights are gone, your responsibilities are removed or surrendered, you revert to being a slave.

Too many people don't make the connections between all your individual rights and responsibilities and the right to own arms. Your right to defend life is paramount above all others. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." In particular, the phrase about "Life, Liberty".

Corporate taxation, don't you mean people are the only ones who pay taxes. Corporations just collect taxes.

Tort reform should be placed above national healthcare, call it national legal care and limit the salaries of attorneys.

[MEGoody]

Dictating state policy to states is not an enumerated power.

Neither is building a wall.

I simply don't have a problem with the feds saying public services can't be used for illegals. If you prefer, we can limit it to those public services where federal money is used at all in the provision of those services. (And lets face it, there are few if any local public services that don't use some federal money.)

Maybe the answer is to let the states do what they want, but those states who choose to provide public services to illegals lose all their federal funding. How about that?