Posted on 04/24/2014 4:53:24 PM PDT by Hojczyk
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/24/boehner-mocks-colleagues-immigration-reform/8101699/
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The list is much longer than that...
The key is the people that keep voting for these shmups...
Don't. The dems want "free" everything, paid for by taxes that everyone's more than willing to vote for. The institutional 'pubs are grand-style crooks, looking for the next construction job or next shady lease or land scheme. Boehner seems to have at least one decent opponent in the primary who gets it. But winning here is tough. Everybody seems to have a what's in it for me mentality. JMHO And I want to add, living here, that the people I meet and interact with every day are good, decent, people.
How bad is the OH Republican Party? Well, Governor Kasich made a deal that gave MORE MONEY to the Cleveland Public school system. He just tossed a whole lot of taxpayer money at construction projects at museums etc. He expanded Medicaid because that's what the hospital biggies needed for more profits. The Republicans got to gerrymander OH and they couldn't even do that right. Example...they saved Marcia "gang summits" Fudge and Kapur (Toledo's favorite commie) at the expense of Dennis Kucinich's seat. So what, you say? Kucinich's district would've given a Republican a reasonable shot when he stepped down. Kucinich was not on the side of corporate welfare, made him enemy #1.
So if Boehner gets unseated by a constitutional conservate, that's huge. Boehner is the product of Ohio's crony me-first mentality. Right now, though, it's getting discouraging to even think about the future. If the HOR constitutional conservatives can't use Boehner's disgusting tirade defending the invasion of the US to get rid of him NOW, we know it's all just theater.
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WASHINGTON — Inch your way through the Senate immigration bill and you’ll find special stuff for ski instructors, cruise line repairmen and Irish workers. You’ll see “committee’’ mentioned 152 times, and task forces cited 39 times.
Welcome to the Senate’s 1,198-page blueprint for overhauling the nation’s immigration system. Few lawmakers probably read the weighty tome (SOUND FAMILIAR), so we did. And we found it full of exacting details, excruciating bureaucracy and a little pork.Everyone with an interest in the subject is made to feel they have a say.
Like the Department of Homeland Security Border Oversight Task Force, which will oversee border security policies. It takes six pages to describe its mission and membership.
The task force would have 33 members, 19 from the southern border region, 14 from the north. Among its eventual missions: “a recommendation as to whether the DHS Task Force should continue to operate.” Sounds like Homeland Security officials would spend a lot of time getting advice. Once a border strategy is set, it must be submitted to eight congressional committees, as well as the comptroller general.
Chances are lawmakers have read those parts of the bill. But given the number of lawmakers who confessed they didn’t read the 2010 health care law, the question arises whether they’ve read the whole thing. The stock answer is that staff reviews each page and warns about politically troublesome pieces.
What are lawmakers missing by not snuggling up with S. 744? They would see how the bill dictates lots of stuff that has to happen _ and not happen _ as well as lots of stuff surgically implanted by senators to please folks back home. In the protect-yourself category is an elaborate system to control the cost of government conferences. On page 71, rules dictate that should certain grant recipients spend more than $20,000 on a conference, government officials’ approval is required. The provisions follow reports of a General Services Administration conference that cost more than $800,000.
For those so inclined, there’s a section starting on page 113 titled “protection of family values in ILLEGAL apprehension programs.” Should someone be deterred at the border, officials would have to determine if they were a parent, guardian or child. Then, when determining repatriation or prosecution, they have to consider “family unity whenever possible,” as well as “the best interest of such individual’s child.”
The back of the bill has stuff lawmakers tucked in to make constituents happy. On page 984, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., set aside 10,500 visas for Irish immigrants with at least a high school degree. That’s nearly half the 25,000 visas available to people with advanced degrees in technology, engineering or math from a U.S. college or university. Then again, New York has a huge Irish-American population.
Bilingual and multilingual ski instructors made the cut in the Senate bill, thanks to Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo. (The word “ski” appears six times). Pages 1037-38 describe how they could have an easier time entering and working in the U.S. under a visa program normally reserved for athletes and entertainers and allows them to stay in the country for up to 10 years.
Dave Byrd, who specializes in immigration issues for the National Ski Areas Association, said the multilingual foreign instructors are magnets attracting skiers from all over the world. The visitors might prefer lessons in their native tongue.
Currently, Byrd said, special visa programs are “designed for unskilled labor – think strawberry pickers, fishery workers, etc,” Byrd said. “Ski instructors, on the other hand, are skilled and certified.”
NB: The northern border and the southern border get different treatment. The bill lays out in precise detail the kind of security it wants along the U.S.-Mexico divide. In the El Paso region, for example, the bill specifies 71 fixed camera systems, 170 “unattended ground sensors,” 24 handheld equipment devices, 31 mobile surveillance systems, and so on. There are also provisions along the southern border for four unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, 30 marine vessels, 17 additional Huey helicopters, 10 converted and five new Black Hawk helicopters and more.
The northern border gets far different treatment. Starting on page 1011, under the section “Encouraging Canadian Tourism to the United States,” Canadian retirees can stay in the U.S. up to eight months a year, up from the current six, if they own a U.S. home or sign a long-term rental agreement. Canadian snowbirds pumped $4.4 billion into Florida’s economy last year, according to Statistics Canada. “We’ve been lobbying for this for two years,” said Evan Rachkovsky, research officer for Canadian Snowbird Association. “The rationale was to give Canadian retirees greater flexibility in terms of time in the U.S.”
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/15/196551/inside-the-immigration-bill-details.html#storylink=cpy
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SUMMATION 1198 pages---8 pages are devoted to the bill itself; 1190 are devoted to kickback, exceptions, what they forgot in the last bill and previous bills, slush funds, pork funds like why porn stars don't like condoms, naming of bldgs, & Hwys, bridges, airports and of course unnecessary spending and bailouts.
How will we fix the problem of Middle Eastern illegal alien terrorists that have already crossed over at the Mexican border are hiding in terrorist sleeper cells around US military installations, and high hazard facilities?
Why are politicians placing Cultural Marxism i.e. political correctness above our National/Homeland Security and the preservation of our Constitution? This is what is and has been happening with BOTH the Democrats and RINO/GOP leaders/followers in the Republican Party participating.
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This is a part of a letter to Pres. Obama, December 9, 2012 by the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO): “Among the many concerns relating to border security is the dangerous trend of an expanding presence of Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Mexico. Evidence of its increasing movement into the United States, and growing relationships between that group and Mexico’s violent drug cartels has been reported by multiple credible sources including on July 7, 2011 by the Committee on Homeland and Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. Those reports, and others, speak convincingly of the need to enhance rather than degrade law enforcement access on our southern border."
SOURCE http://peopleforwesternheritag...
Our government IS theater, nothing of real substance...
those very few who actually do make the right kind of noise are extremely outnumbered, and ostracized from the party they affiliate with anyway...
Given the true atmosphere of today’s politics, if a viable, organized third party (which I used to be very opposed to) gets cranked...I’m betting the Republicans that have been working in the trenches and in elected office that actually do what they say they’ll do, will jump ship...
I know I will...There is just almost no way to get past the old geezer squads at ALL levels, and the establishment elitists of that political party...
And that really is all that it is...
It is a political affiliation. plain and simple...
I know I am not alone...
And when I said I felt sorry for the folks in Ohio, I feel sorry for the ones like us, who are actually doing things, spending our time, effort, money to get this ship back on course...Much to the obfuscation of the likes of Boehner, McConnell, Cornyn, McCain et. al.
I could do without them in the mix...
This is who is on our side? What can REAL Americans do?
A successful third party would, I'd think, be an interesting mix. It would have to be anti-globalist warmongering and manipulation. It would be states rights according to the constitution. I suspect the compromise would be gay marriage as a states right but quite strict about abortion. The invasion of the US....those who support it already own both political parties. This new party would have to be "US jobs for US citizens", supporting the worth of the American worker. No compromises; enforce the laws already in place for immigration. The flat taxi would be a real appealing platform item.
I don't know if it's doable anymore. But it's only through a party such as that the US can be saved, otherwise the best possible scenerio is we break up somewhat peacefully into six to eight confederated regions. JMHO
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
I agree in part...
I believe it would be immediately subverted by a libertarian infiltration, because they have been trying to get their way in the republican party watering it down with their nonsense for years...
So that would be a risk, some people should be willing to take (put up with), and be aware of, before jumping ship from the republican “moderate” party...Or just do it and just call a spade a spade and be unapologetic about your political positions...
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