Posted on 04/29/2010 4:13:34 PM PDT by Syncro
Edited on 04/29/2010 4:18:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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November can NOT get here fast enough!
Dems finding their way to get more Dem voters..buy them off with US citizenship
House Passes Puerto Rico Statehood Measure
The Puerto Ricans have voted on statehood several times before.
I don’t believe it’s ever gotten more than 20%.
Fine with me. While Puerto Rico is getting statehood, Texas will be leaving so you’ll still have 50 states.
Any mention of recent government allocations (bribes) made to Puerto Rico? Two more liberal U.S. senators would be very sweet for the dems.
Whats funny here...is that only one third of Puerto Rico cares to become a state. At least one third wants it to be totally independent as a nation. I don’t see this changing too much...but if we do ever broach the 51-state point...it won’t take more than twelve months for another island (probably Pacific region, like Guam), to claim the same deal. The senate guys will get nervous then...104 senators? And maybe another two or three other islands? And remember...the representatives...have to come from what you already have...so California or Texas or New York...coughs up not just one or two...but maybe eight to cover two new states.
If we don’t stop this in the senate, November may not matter at all.
Playing The Puerto Rico CardPolitics: Faced with losing Congress, the Democrats want to make Puerto Rico a state whether the people want it or not. The Democrats would get two new senators, new congressmen and a campaign issue.
Throw in voting representation for D.C., amnesty for illegals and voting for felons, all items on the Democrats' agenda, and in their cookbook you have a recipe for Democratic majorities as far as the eye can see. It's a plan to retain control at all costs and counteract a Tea Party movement that threatens to throw their big-government liberalism on the ash heap of political history.
You also have the added bonus of energizing Hispanic activists all too eager with administration help to paint the GOP as racists, particularly in the light of the new Arizona law that does nothing but say that since the feds dropped the ball on border security, Arizona will pick it up and run with it.
I think they’d rather be independent.
Last time they got 46%.
I know, I know, so many here see nothing but negatives from saddling the rest of the nation with debt to building in a permanent block of Democratic based entitlement voters.
I see their point.
However, if the people of Puerto Rico want to become a full US state, God Bless them and welcome. I would love to see them added.
America is an ideal. If they see it, then they are far ahead of those who are already blessed here and hold that blessing in contempt. (I’m thinking of the entire Democratic Party and conservatives that want their own little pest holes to secede.)
Who voted? please list the traitors so we can add them to the list of non returning statesmen
You don’t understand the language proposed by the Progressive Party in Puerto Rico may setup for them the changed the rules and declare that the Congress has approved of statehood
LOL that is horrible!!!
[I don’t believe it’s ever gotten more than 20%.]
Last time it got 46.7%. This time they are going to be forced to choose between statehood and independence, which is different than the votes held before in which they could choose the status quo.
I’m not sure that you understand.
If PR becomes a state, they will immediately seat two senators and six congressional reps. That means the Dems will have: A) a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate; B) a greater majority in the House; C) another 5 million democrat voters, along with whatever electoral votes they bring.
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