“as God is my witness I'll never be without a National ID Card Again”
Posted on 03/12/2010 6:21:58 AM PST by b4its2late
Senator Lindsey Graham, ever the faithful follower of uber-RINO John McCain, scored three RINO initiatives in just one week.
Reminiscent of the "the band's getting back together" scenes from the movie "Blues Brothers", Graham and McCain reached back to the good old days of bipartisan shafting of conservative judicial nominees and offered the Democrats another "Gang of Fourteen"--this time to shaft the public with a bipartisan Obamacare bill.
The offer must have been tempting to the Democrats who remember how "bipartisan leadership" from Graham and McCain spiked conservative guns when the Republicans were in the majority in the Senate. But this time around, the action on Obamacare is in the House. Senate Dems said no -- maybe next time.
Graham tried again.
With the House version of the "cap and trade" global warming tax frozen stiff in the Senate, Graham urged the GOP to stop demonizing climate change.
He told The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman that calling climate change into question puts "at risk the party's future with younger people". Graham explained "I have been to enough college campuses to know if you are 30 or younger this climate issue is not a debate. It's a value." Graham called for bipartisan leadership to enact the climate change legislation.
Progressive bloggers seized on these remarks to try to unfreeze "cap and trade" in the Senate--or build support for Obama's alternative plan to have the EPA dictate a "cap and trade" regulation and tax scheme without Senate approval.
Meanwhile, Dem Senator Jay Rockefeller and other Democrats sought to block the EPA move to regulate carbon dioxide as a health hazard (on behalf of the 44% of American electricity generated in coal fired power plants.) Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer also asked Obama to stop stimulus grants for "green power" projects after learning that a wind farm in Texas was owned by a foreign firm and the stimulus money would stimulate jobs in China and Japan where the turbines were made.
So, no new "Gang of Fourteen" on "cap and trade." Graham tried again.
President Obama promised Latino activists a new illegal alien amnesty bill--last year. Mired in the health care "reform" debacle, neither the President nor his party wanted another partisan stand off. Senator Chuck Schumer had promised an immigration "reform" bill by last Thanksgiving but had produced nothing.
Lindsey Graham to the rescue.
Graham and Schumer have been meeting on a "new" bipartisan immigration bill. The President beamed his approval, and the new Gang of Two had a press conference to announce the breakthrough.
The "new" immigration bill includes a "path to citizenship" for illegals, border security, and biometric I.D. cards for every American to insure that only those here legally can get jobs.
Meet the new bill--same as the old bill. Since 1986, Americans have been promised some variation of the three legged stool--amnesty, border protection, employer sanctions. Every time a bill passes, the illegals get the amnesty, the border remains open, and millions more illegally enter the country.
In 2007, the McCain/Kennedy bipartisan Immigration "Reform" bill was supported by the leadership of both parties in Congress and by the President. It contained the same three components. It was defeated because the public "won't be fooled again."
The public was right to be skeptical. Following that bill's defeat, both Bush and Obama failed to control the border (the Boeing "virtual border" is an expensive flop) or verify employment eligibility (e-verify is said to have a 54% failure rate).
Graham says this time will be different. The "path to citizenship" will have to be earned by registering, paying a fine, paying any back taxes, and waiting in line.
Once again--we've had this debate. Many illegals do not want to become citizens. They just want to work and send home some money and go back home when they have enough. Many others are content with the current situation. As illegals, they can escape taxation, get welfare through their U.S. born kids, and still work here. Who needs "citizenship"?
Even worse, the "new" bill will still amnesty all illegals with a "temporary" visa while they are in line for citizenship. This visa removes any incentive to get in that line.
But there is something new and more dangerous in the Graham/Schumer bill.
To ensure that only people legally in the U.S. can work here, the bill will propose a biometric I.D. for EVERY AMERICAN before anybody can get a job.
Graham, apparently too desirous of playing a role in a in his own remake of "Inglorious Basterds", wants you to show him your Papers before you can work in your own country.
Opposition to this tyranny will come from all parts of our divided political spectrum. In a truly free country, the right to work cannot be granted (or withheld) by the government.
Graham wants to solve the problem of 11 million (or more) illegals working here by restricting the right to work of over 300 million who live in the "land of the free" legally. This is the TSA approach. We know who the terrorists are likely to be, but we will pat down and invade the privacy of all airline passengers to show how "fair" we are.
Worse, what does "biometric" mean ? Apparently, this I.D. debate is going on in many other countries as the technology allowing government to monitor our every move gets more feasible.
A biometric card allows government to include a lot of information about you on the card. How long before you must show the card to get health care ? Education ? Or to Vote ? Remember that the Social Security card morphed into an I.D. when proponents in the 1930s called such fears paranoid ?
Graham wants a SS card on steroids. He told the Wall Street Journal, "We've all got Social Security cards. They're just easily tampered with. Make them tamper proof. That's all I'm saying."
Practically speaking, there is no tamper proof card. The same technology that reassures Graham is available to others to tamper with the card and game the system.
This time, Graham's “bipartisanship” is a real threat to liberty.
Graham's RINO tactics will enable the President to turn illegal aliens into documented Democrats. And in the process, hand the Federal Government yet another way to monitor and control our lives.
The real solution is the same as it has always been. Congress must secure the border first, and enforce e-verify. Illegal immigration is a problem caused by Federal non-enforcement of existing law.
Liberal Lindsey Graham is -- like Rahm Emanuel -- trying to use a crisis to political advantage. But unlike the crises Emanuel peddles -- which are concocted -- the immigration crisis is real. And solving it need not be done by shredding the Constitution as Sen. Graham would do.
Why do the good people of South Carolina keep re-electing this guy? For that matter, what’s so wrong with Arizona that they keep inflicting John McCain on us?
What exactly did Lindsey Graham do in the military? Do JAG's have to go through boot camp? He should go again but in Mexico cuz he's not serving America's best interest.
“as God is my witness I'll never be without a National ID Card Again”
O’Reilly has made enough dough and is jumping the shark? I’m through w/O’Reilly. He’s no conservative.
On the other hand, I pray every day for the incapacitation of Graham, Oabama, McCain, Reid, Pelose, et al.
Me too!! It’d be fun to watch a Guillotine in action
(excepting McCain—his head is made of iron)
There are lots of days when I seriously question being registered as a Republican.
All that is on their list.
There needs to be a requirement that all immigrants are completely fluent and articulate in English.
Anyone who fails to be that gets deported.
Please, rethink this. This is NOT about getting a job. If it were why would they need all the information about your health, finances, etc? THAT's what is going to end up on the card.
You are so wrong on so many levels.
You are employing leftist scare tactics to try to get people to run face first into the dark embrace of totalitarian fascism.
Troll.
Was it the time BOR said on his show “I’m not conservative” and shook his head in disgust that anyone would think that he was conservative? Or, did you miss that episode? It was the same episode when BOR said he would raise taxes if he were in charge. To be fair to BOR, he then said he would lower the taxes when the debt was paid.
Once again, I quote BOR = “I’m not conservative.”
Something is really wrong with him (Trojan horse? I don’t know) but BOR, along with others on FOX, are incessantly plugging the new world order, including the national ID card.
I can hardly stand watching any of them anymore, with their incessant line-up of RINOs.
How do you intend to ID the aliens?
OK, so I’m gonna make you 0’Reilly. You basically have to say to Graham “yeah, we’re gonna do it all day long” ‘cause that’s what the folks want. And if you disagree, you might be a pinhead. What say you?
It's ridiculous that it's come this far. Just like everyone got frightened into accepting roadblocks (DUI, Border Patrol, Agriculture, along with cameras every 10 miles on holiday weekends in Arizona) and "papers, please" everywhere, TSA, etc.
I'm having visions of needing to to chew/extract the dam# microchip out of myself after their National ID cards fail and we the sheeple must line up.
No nation in history has survived intact the mass invasion of foreigners who want to take, not give to the country, respect its laws, learn the dominant language, and basically want to be a part of it, not to take over the host country.
And...we are bankrupt.
Implementing a National ID to prevent an overrun by illegals is like the feds requiring you give them your entire paycheck, and clearing every purchase with them, to ensure you don’t buy snacks with it. It’s like banning autos and requiring bicycles to prevent traffic fatalities. It’s like ... hey, this sounds familiar ... requiring handgun licensing to prevent murders.
Requiring a NID to stop the surge of illegals overlooks the fact that they’re _already_ here _illegally_, and it’s already illegal for them to do much of what they do. You’re expecting compliance from people who are already not complying. You overlook under-the-table cash-for-work jobs. You overlook the multitude of ways paperwork is circumvented or forged already. And you overlook that the border is STILL open.
And I’ll reiterate the core point:
Requiring everyone to have a license to exist is not an acceptable alternative.
You don’t understand how unacceptable that is.
As I replied to another poster:
You want a NID.
I don’t.
Who is willing to push harder?
Do you care THAT much? I do.
2014
Truly the most EVIL, DISGUSTING bunch ever assembled in D.C. They are egging each other on, emboldening each other. I have a fear that after these bills are defeated, that JM & LG will introduce RINO bills that are similar, that might actually pass or even try to convince the new group of Republicans who gain power this fall to do so. If things go as planned and we get a fresh new crop of conservative guys and gals, these young people will be looking for older, more experienced pols to model themselves after. We need to make sure they understand NOT to pattern themselves after yesterdays rinos. Because you can bet that McCain if he is still there and his pals will try to corrupt as many of these young folks as is possible.
He is liberal, but SC people swear by his conservatism. What are they missing? Maybe they are unable to discern.
Will the card also have sexual preference noted?
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