“I believe in slowing legal (and utterly halting illegal) immigration for a time. I support English being the official language.
Guess I better go shopping for swastika armbands, according to this writer ...”
You’ve exactly called the plan...typically a McCain tactic...turn off the conservative voters with charges of racism, etc.
What you have here, in this entire McCain vs. JD debate is the battle over immigration. McCAin and his squatter support squad want Amnesty. J.D. does not. THAT is what this is ALL about.
But, good ol’ McCain...what was he doing??
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Bill to improve health care…in Mexico! McCain strikes again!
What would Americans think, then, of a member of Congress who introduced legislation, not to improve health care in the United States, but to improve health care in Mexico?
Insane? Drunk? Unworthy of public office?
What would Americans think, then, of a bill introduced in Congress that required federal agencies to come up with a plan, not to expand health coverage in the United States, but to expand health coverage in Mexico?
Impossible? Unthinkable? Wildly irresponsible?
What would Americans think, then, of the motives of a senator, who not only introduced a bill to improve Mexico’s health care system and extend coverage to a growing population of 120 million people, but gave health insurance companies the right to help devise the plan?
Blatantly corrupt? Grossly indifferent to the well-being of the American people? Downright treasonous?
Unbelievable as it may seem, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 contained a provision giving insurance companies the right to help devise a plan for extending US health care to Mexico (Sec. 1004. BINATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH INSURANCE).
Even more unbelievable, the senator who sponsored the bill is not on the verge of being thrown out of office for this odious piece of legislation. No, the senator who introduced the bill, Senator John McCain of Arizona, is on the verge of locking up the Republican nomination to be our next president[snip]
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=john+mccain+fred+thompson
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 12, 2005
Mr. MCCAIN (for himself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. GRAHAM, and Mr. SALAZAR) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
TITLE X—PROMOTING ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE
Sec. 1001. Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.
Sec. 1002. Prohibition against offset of certain Medicare and Medicaid payments.
Sec. 1003. Prohibition against discrimination against aliens on the basis of employment in hospital-based versus nonhospital-based sites.
Sec. 1004. Binational public health infrastructure and health insurance.
http://opensourceactivist.org/content/legislation/S1033/text.php#sec1004
What I don’t understand is how rarely, if at all, the pro-amnesty/ open borders types DEBATE THE ISSUES instead of just name-call.
I HAVE had one open-borders-ey friend, a WSJ sort of guy (on this issue), calmly lay out why it would be good, long-term, for the USA to legalize illegals and admit (IMO) millions more largely unskilled, non-English-speaking, poorly-educated folks. (He thinks that raw population numbers are somehow very important in competing with China.)
He’s wrong, but, hey, at least he doesn’t engage in OMG YOU RACIST sorts of tactics.