Posted on 02/13/2008 5:53:55 AM PST by IrishMike
One thing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain all have in common is that they voted to give retroactive Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who committed document fraud.
Indeed, McCain voted for it before he was against it.
On May 18, 2006, when the immigration reform proposal advocated by McCain was on the Senate floor, Sen. John Ensign of Nevada offered an amendment.
As written, the bill immunized illegal aliens from being prosecuted for document fraud, including using a stolen, or a fake, Social Security number. Additionally, the bill did not stop the current practice of allowing aliens who are eventually granted permanent legal residency to go back and claim credit with the Social Security Administration for work they did as an illegal.
Thus, the immigration reform proposal advocated by McCain in 2006 would not only have added millions of illegal aliens to Social Security rolls, it would have protected these aliens from being prosecuted for fraudulently using other people's Social Security numbers.
Ensign sought to buffer the blow of this double-barreled attack on fiscal responsibility and the rule of law. His amendment let stand the provision granting illegal aliens immunity from prosecution for document fraud, but it denied them the ability to claim Social Security benefits based on work they did while fraudulently using someone else's or a fabricated Social Security number.
When Ensign's amendment came up, McCain tried to seize the moral high ground by suggesting supporters of Ensign's amendment were trying to confiscate someone's "nest egg." "If this amendment is enacted," he said in a floor speech, "the nest egg that these immigrants have worked hard for would be taken from them and their families."
"I believe the amendment is wrong," McCain said.
Ensign did not "calm down" and go away.
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What would one expect of criminals? This is only a scratch each others back moment.
Just end it.
Only one more non-amnesty candidate to get rid of...Ron Paul!
Gosh, it’s almost as if it were fixed beforehand and we never really had more than the thinnest wisp of illusion of a say in the process.
So said McCain then, so shall McCain say again - next time he may be speaking as POTUS.
So is there no line that a Republican candidate can cross, after which you won't vote for him? 'Immigration reform' the way McCain conceived it was the final straw for me - I won't vote for him - I'll vote 3rd party.
And I don't need your T-shirt. Why don't you print up one for yourself saying 'Will vote to sell out the country, just so the Democrats don't get the credit.'
I can’t believe any conservative could possibly be thinking about voting for McCain.
I want one of those t-shirts but you can just send it to me and pay the shipping yourself. McCain wouldn’t have it any other way.
I still keep expecting to wake up and realize that the GOP nominating a Democrat was just a bad dream...
You left out Bush and Cheney.
McCain would make a great President of Mexico.
His CIR bill had many perks for the illegal invaders than an average US citizens gets.
Can’t you and the rest of the idiots that think voting for any R is ok, get it through your heads that people, conservatives anyway, vote for their beliefs? If the candidates available do not believe the same way I do, why in hell would I vote for them? This includes Mclamea**. He does not believe in the constitution, he doesn’t believe in the rule of law, why would I want to vote for him? This whole primary business was screwed from the start. If we were to have one big primary right now with the original candidates all participating, I am sure McLamea** would not come out front runner.
No, it’s not.
Sure, we’re running a Democrat, but he’s sort of ok, just like Joe Lieberman. Wonderful guy if we ignore his positions on just about everything except Iraq and Israel.
I’m pumped to cast my vote in November.
WOOHOO!!!
Hopefully, the “conservatives” who vote for McKennedy will be the ones who have their SS numbers stolen by illegals. But chances are, it will be the number of your child or grandchild.
This man should have been kicked out of the Republican party long ago, thus avoiding the present debacle.
2) "Ass" is actually part of my name. I am destined by my nick. And,
3) Like anyone is going to argue with a balrog.
As a Reagan Republican this is just one more in a very long list to not trust or support McLame.
HEY GOVT. THAT’S MY MONEY.
Ensign for President!
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