Posted on 03/17/2011 7:18:37 PM PDT by WilliamHouston
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate soundly defeated five bills aimed at illegal immigration on Thursday in a marked departure from last year, when enactment of a tough local enforcement measure put the state at the heart of a fierce national debate over the issue.
Majority Republicans were split in their votes on the defeated bills, which included two measures intended to force a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants. The other three dealt with health care, public services and everyday activities such as driving.
With business leaders urging lawmakers to put the issue aside to avoid damaging the still-ailing economy, "it's time for us to take a timeout," said Republican Sen. John McComish of Phoenix. "It's something that the people don't want us to be focusing on."
Critics also said the bills rejected Thursday were over-reaching and flawed.
Supporters of the measures voiced frustration and said there could be political fallout for lawmakers who voted against them.
"The lack of political courage" is the only impediment to step up pressure on illegal immigration, said Republican Sen. Russell Pearce, the sponsor of the 2010 law. . .
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He has already expressed his disgust on his FACEBOOK page. I’ll talk to him tomorrow.
The scam covered by mealy mouth words is so apparent. Pass the buck and we can just keep our money pots. Having spent a few years around such people their forked tongue shows like a full moon on a clear night. Can’t see much hope for Arizona on it’s own or as a help for what ails the Nation. It is sad for me because I once had strong military and school ties with that beautiful state.
The scam covered by mealy mouth words is so apparent. Pass the buck and we can just keep our money pots. Having spent a few years around such people their forked tongue shows like a full moon on a clear night. Can’t see much hope for Arizona on it’s own or as a help for what ails the Nation. It is sad for me because I once had strong military and school ties with that beautiful state.
“Conservatives have to learn that large corporate interests are not always our friends.”
Wall Street, in collusion with big government, brought the US economy to its knees in the fall of 2008, just before the the election. The Wall Street CEO’s were bailed out by the US taxpayer and have been living on Federal Reserve and Department of the Treasury life support since then while collecting billions in bonuses. How may Wall Street CEO’s lost their jobs in 2008 and 2009? Last I saw Goldman Sachs, Citicorp, JP Morgan still have the same leadership.
To see the contrast, drive around your neighborhood. How many storefronts, restaurants and other places of employment have been shuttered since the fall of 2008. No bailouts for these small businessmen. This is 21st century capitalism as delivered by both the Democrat and the Republican establishments. The rich and powerful elites are protected. The middle class and small business is crushed under higher taxation, higher debt, and higher regulation. John Boehner is as much a part of the established order as Barack Obama.
Change will not come at the ballot box. The system is too corrupt and the Constitution is dead. The establishment has been laughing at the Tea Party since its inception and is just as powerful as ever. The public relations campaign to reelect Barack Hussein Obama is in full swing and the Republican leadership is under marching orders from the men behind the curtain to play the fools game. The only possible outcomes are financial collapse and a Marxist dictatorship or an uprising of the people and establishment of one or more new republics. Right now the odds seem to favor the dictatorship route.
If Obama is reelected, odds are he will have a leftist Supreme Court majority by the end of his second term. No doubt the military leadership will have been gutted and replaced by PC political hacks. No doubt the average citizen will be totally disgusted by the inability of the Republicans to put up any kind of real opposition. No doubt the bureaucracy will be filled with Marxists carrying out their leaders mandates using the full power of the regulatory processes and IRS to destroy anyone who gets in their way. The mainstream media will continue to spew the propaganda. Assuming Obama is reelected the groundwork will be in place to replace the republic with a dictatorship, no doubt with the acquiescence of Congress, the Judiciary, the military, and the bureaucracy. Wall Street and the multinational corporations will gladly fall in line as will academia. It will then be simple to regulate the internet and independent news outlets. Look at Venezuela.
Any prominent Mormons amongst them?
Like all of you, I too am disgusted with the lack of fortitude of so called conservatives.
I don't vote any more...haven't since Trent Lott slapped Tom Daschle on the back just before the vote to convict the already impeached clinton...I knew at that time that the fix was in...all of this going on today is just background noise..it's over.
what’s the % unemployment in Arizona? 10%?
these guys just stepped on their johnsons.....
STATEMENT OF FACT: So called “Fiscal Conservatives” are Pro-Illegal Alien Amnesty AND Anti-American.
This is disgusting.....the Collective of Communists (Chamber of Commerce) is one of the most destructive forces in America. They are more concerned with Illegal Aliens than American citizens. In saner times, the Chamber of Commerce would have been shut down and its supporters and members busted for treason.
Even scarier....we have The Mexican Drug Cartels crossing the US Border en masse....and the GOP is TURNING CHICKEN on it. Seal the border, deport the illegals, end NAFTA....if not, get out of my America
We already see that the Tea Party was not really conservative. Its candidates pushed are refusing to go after Obama Eligibility....and continuing to promote Open Borders/Illegal Aliens tells me that the Tea Party is really LIBERAL RINO.
Fiscal Conservatives are not Conservatives. Real Conservatives do not need a modifier next to “Conservative”
Conservatives have to learn that large corporate interests are not always our friends.
Large corporate interests are behind globalism, catering to Islam, supporting illegal aliens, moving American jobs and the money they generate overseas, contributing to liberal candidates for office, etc.
They are also behind bilingualism and multiculturalism. They were there with their hands out for tax payer dollar bail-outs when they screwed up their operations. Unlike mom and pop businesses which they have just about driven out of sight, they feel they need not be allowed to face the consequences of poor business decisions they have made as they “are too large to allow to fail”.
We need to strengthen and support free enterprise and capitalism, but we also need to identify and target those interests which are detrimental to our Republican form of government
Bleep the Chamber of Commerce. Support real free enterprise
Thank you for the kind compliment.
LOL. You think it's something they don't want? Why do you think we've had a 'drug war' for 30 years? What better way to maintain and guarantee massive profit? It's all about the Benjamins, and always has been. They'll be raking in the dough once the mexican cartels are integrated into our system.
For ANOTHER example of the criminal nature of global corporations, see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2690786/posts
No, it's actually TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED labor. WE are paying the difference while those f**ks pocket the money and the illegals loot US.
It's time for a slave revolt.
Then we’ll do it ourselves.
If you are a business owner, post signs proudly that say “Illegals Need Not Apply” and “If it ain’t in English, don’t effing bother even coming in my store”.
Stop doing business with companies that hire illegals, or think that their globalist inspirations trump loyalty to the nation whose (long since gone) values are what made them exist as companies in the first place. I have no problem with a US company wanting to grow overseas, but they have no right to do it at the expense of the safety, soundness, and sovereignty of their home nation.
Ping!
Heard this on the news last night; it was totally unexpected...
Why are the state Republicans worried about these guys? They vote and contribute Democrat anyway.
And Cindy Hensley McCain's affirmative action "ceo", Senor Delgado, is merely comical. Who cares what that doormat thinks? He does whatever Juan y Cindy tell him to.
Pearce needs to regroup his troops and charge...again.
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