Posted on 09/27/2011 9:28:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What “mojo?”
He can start by not calling anyone who wants illegal immigration put to an end “heartless”
The best thing about the poor Perry showing is that the country is taking another look at Cain. He was my hands down favorite when I first read about his record and he only gained my respect from that point on with his statements and ideas.
Wouldn’t it be weird if we really could get a good conservative into office. If only Jack Ryan was running...
There is only one thing for J.R. Perry to do. Drop out. Now!
Hah! I didn’t ask “what’s mojo?”; I asked “What mojo?”
Every time he gets a question and or gets attacked about TTC, Gardacil, immigration, or whatever silly subject the moderators try to “get” him with, he just needs to deflect it by saying. Sorry, but that's just not true, I have a great record on this issue, and stand by it. But I really don't think with western civilization hanging in the balance that the American people really care much about Gardacil, I think they care about we are our plans to fix this economy and he is exactly how I will go about doing it ———— insert plan here.
If he does that, or some variation of that in all the future debates, he will cruise to the nomination, but if he instead tries to haggle with a good used car salesman (Romney), he's going to get the short end of the deal every time.
Perry is not a follower of the Christ.Perry does not understand "you shall not STEAL"
As a Texas PROGRESSIVE, he steals from Americans
and gives the money to criminal aliens.
I thought we already have a POTUS with magic powers?
I think he’ll be a good governor. Better than Kay Bailey Hutchison.
They (media pundits) keep trying to resurrect Perry’s political corpse after his suicide by “tuition for illegals” head shot.
—He can start by not calling anyone who wants illegal immigration put to an end “heartless”—
A few weeks ago I dug into some of Texas’ history. I can see why a Texan, born and raised, would say such a thing. And I think there is some truth to the statement. That is especially true if you follow the history of undocumented Mexicans in this country for the last century and back to when the western states, and Texas, were becoming what they are today.
Back in the 20’s my grandfather was paid to haul mexicans to the asparagas fields in southeastern Washington state on a flatbed truck. It was no big deal then. But then, workers, legal or not, did not cost the taxpayer anything. This was even before social security and the government gave only limited services to allow people to live their lives with significan autonomy.
Now that we are all children and wards of the state, and pay dearly for it in a myriad of taxes, fees, and licenses, we don’t like when someone else steps up to the banquet table (That we have paid for, many of us against our will) without paying.
The undocumented worker model is broken. It is not practical in our current socioeconomic culture.
The term you’re looking for is “illegal alien”.
Too late. He’s doubled down on that position, and as far as I can see, from that he cannot recover.
The polling on the illegal immigration issue is so overwhelming in favor of doing something concrete and verifiable about illegal immigration that it is mind-boggling that the political class cannot seem to get it through their heads that their position simply will. not. sell.
80$% +/- of the American electorate wants something done about illegal immigration. Now. It is only the political and chattering classes who consistently think that the 80% are deluded and wrong.
Perry decided to double down on this position. Before that, I thought he had a chance. Now I think he’s done.
—The term you’re looking for is “illegal alien”.—
Yes. It is what I normally call them. I intentionally avoided the term to see how long it would take for someone to notice. 8-P
lol - on this site it’ll get noticed in a second!
—80$% +/- of the American electorate wants something done about illegal immigration.—
I can tell you what would mitigate the situation hugely without deporting a single one: Simpley eliminate all the programs in which they cost the taxpayer money. It wouldn’t eliminate the problem, but it would be the equivalent of fixing a rip in a tire and leaving a slow leak that has to be filled every couple of weeks.
Imagine, no free education, no free health care, no free welfare. And none of the taxes currently collected to support them.
Most people would stop caring about “illegal aliens” to a huge degree. It would become a peripheral issue, like it was since most of our western states became states.
Well, except for that nasty Alamo thing.
Only if the electorate has only VERY short term memory loss can Perry redeem himself. The American people, Imho , proved in 2010 that heads are clear and eyesight vastly improved! Perry was in over HIS head.
Rick Perry, In-State Tuition, and Federal Law
September 23, 2011 5:43 P.M.
By Heather Mac Donald
Rick Perry defended his support for Texas’s in-state-tuition policy for illegal aliens in last night’s Republican debate: “If you say that we should not educate children who come into our state for no other reason than that they’ve been brought there through no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart.”
Perry is right: There are compelling humanitarian arguments for treating illegal minors who did not themselves choose to break the law with far greater leniency than the parents who brought them into the country illegally. How to deal with them is the thorniest problem resulting from our broken borders. But hard cases can make bad law. Giving illegal youth de facto legal status is deeply unfair to those immigrant parents and their children who obeyed the law. And once you start handing out amnesties, you inevitably create more incentives for illegal entry. Moreover, allowing illegal students full access to Texas’s university system while making them pay out-of-state tuition like every other non-legal resident of Texas — such as citizens from Arkansas or Oklahoma — hardly constitutes a denial of education, as Perry implies.
Perry justified Texas’s mini-amnesty on federalism grounds: “This was a state issue. Texas voted on it.”
That might be a minimally colorable argument but for a little problem: Federal law explicitly forbids just what Texas did. “An alien who is not lawfully present in the United States,” declares Section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), “shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State . . . for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.”
Notwithstanding this federal ban on in-state illegal-alien tuition policies, neither the Bush nor Obama administration has ever objected to such policies on supremacy-clause grounds. Even without this legislative ban, in-state tuition is far more intrusive a grab of federal lawmaking power than Arizona’s maligned SB 1070 (which officially authorizes the state’s police officers to check the immigration status of people they stop on legitimate law-enforcement grounds and whom they reasonably suspect of being in the country illegally). SB 1070 merely enforces existing federal laws. Texas’s law not only contradicts federal law, it creates precisely the patchwork of conflicting state immigration policies (i.e., amnesties in some states, not in others) which the supremacy clause is supposed to prevent.
The Texas attorney general’s effort to justify the state’s amnesty in the face of IIRIRA’s Section 505 almost laughably dodges the preemption issue with the meager argument that the “terms ‘postsecondary education benefit’ and ‘residence’ are not defined in the federal law.” His desperate defense is a reminder that once you start justifying law-breaking, however ostensibly compassionate your intentions (and one needs to ask here what position pro-amnesty Republicans would take on illegal immigration if they weren’t eager to court the Hispanic vote), you are led into further and further betrayals of the rule of law.
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