Posted on 03/09/2019 2:15:43 PM PST by Kaslin
In the Democrats’ rush to pass HR1, a serious snag emerged for Nancy Pelosi and the rest of her party’s leadership. Republicans were able to force a vote on adding language to the supposed voting rights bill condemning the idea of illegal aliens voting in any elections. It simply read, “allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.”
Sounds fairly basic, right? It’s already against the law for illegal aliens to vote in federal elections, though a few liberal municipalities have moved to allow them to cast ballots on the local level, such as in school board elections. Surely this is one area where we can generate some bipartisan consensus, yes? Apparently not. Out of the Democrats’ significant majority in the House, they only managed to find six people who were willing to support the measure and it went down in flames. (Fox News)
Nearly every House Democrat on Friday opposed a measure condemning voting in U.S. elections by illegal immigrants, as part of a sweeping election reform bill…
The motion was voted down 228-197. All but six Democrats in the House voted against it. Just one Republican opposed it.
Lauren Fine, a spokeswoman for House GOP Whip Steve Scalise, pointed out that an identical resolution was adopted by the House last September. But on Friday, 41 Democrats flipped to oppose the latest measure.
“These 41 Democrats must now answer to voters why they were against illegal immigrants voting in elections six months ago, but are suddenly in favor of it now,” Fine said.
With a presidential primary kicking into high gear, you’d expect the Democrats to toss a few bones to the furthest left reaches of their base. But this is one of those issues that’s going to come back to bite them in the general election. This idea is so far out of the mainstream that it would be funny if it wasn’t so insulting to the United States Constitution. In a 2018 poll conducted by The Hill and the HarrisX polling company, it was found that Americans reject this idea by overwhelming margins. The idea of illegal (or “undocumented”) immigrants voting in any elections was opposed by 71% of all voters, including 91% of Republicans and even 54% of Democrats
I realize this theme gets beaten to death in the early days of any primary, as the numerous candidates race to shore up their support with the base, but just how far left can they go? Opposing the idea of allowing non-citizens, particularly those in the country illegally, to cast votes in American elections is not a fringe or even particularly right-wing idea. It’s baked into the fabric of the national consciousness. Even beyond the folks who will eventually wind up running for president, each of these Democratic House members is going to have to answer for this vote when they come up for reelection themselves. (And particularly in the more purple districts, you can rest assured that their Republican opponents will make sure they do.)
Tack on their votes in favor of infanticide recently and you’ve got a large chunk of the party – not just their POTUS hopefuls – who are veering so far to the left that the GOP may end up having a much better season than anyone is anticipating. What’s up next for the donkey party? Shutting down all Christian churces as “hate groups?
Ugh. Double negatives confuse me.
Pelosi photo:
As you all can see from the wrinkles of concern in my forehead , I really care about this issue.
What? You can’t see any difference? That darn Botox. Look, take my word for it, I am concerned.
Somebody caption Nancy in that pic. She looks like somebody ripped one.
The anti-American DemonRATs keep providing awesome fodder for 2020 campaign ads.
It would be very difficult for external enemies of the US to come up with a more destructive anti-American force than the Democrat party. Very difficult.
me too - modern “journalism” without the English grammar.
What’s the point of voting if it’s not meant for citizens only? Today’s democrats want a democracy unencumbered by Republicanism. In other words, they want mob rule and they want all of their new brown skinned friends included in their mob. So, to hell with citizenship and to hell with America, as long as they get the power to rule over our lives, they couldn’t care less what and who they have to ruin.
You are...and they are betting that citizens will not make them pay dearly for it in 2020. And maybe they won't - they haven't done it yet.
The problem constituency lives affluent, middle-class lifestyles but has proven they will vote for any Communist who promises to "Save Our Schools" without so much as a glance at the actual details.
Horrible. It’s everywhere, the short supply of copy editors.
Quick, register Putin and Kim.
They’re foreigners. Foreigners aren’t allowed to vote in our elections. Democrat party is a subversive organization. It should be treated that way.
They don’t teach grammar in journalism any longer because they only have the time to teach them how to be Marxists and Socialists!!! There aren’t enough hours in the day to teach them both SO grammar takes a back seat!!! The insane money spent on these educations just WASTED!!!
Now we KNOW who the traitors are. Treason should be punishable by death.
Translation: the Rat party now believes there’s no such thing as an American citizen, and that people who criminally invade the United States have the right to rule us.
No such country is “free” except for the freedom of criminal foreigners to take what they want.
Its not surprising that Constitution-ignoring Democratic and RINO lawmakers don't accept that their politically correct push to ignore that undocumented Democrats are probably voting in US elections is not simply a matter of federal law or votes in Congress.
Here are major constitutional problems with illegal aliens having the power to vote.
From related threads …
After decades of unconstitutionally funding the murder of unborn Democrats to win votes to stay in power, Democrats are now frantically trying to compensate for their unthinking loss of Democratic voters, trying to stay in power by unconstitutionally weakening the voting power of patriots by unconstitutionally giving the power to vote to illegal aliens. (Three Democratic “unconstitutionallys” in one sentence!)
Evidenced by Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A) which describes a penalty for activist states that weaken the voting power of citizens to try to swing the outcome of an election, by promoting voting power for illegal aliens Democrats are arguably still trying to win the cold war of the Civil War for the South imo. (War is Hell!)
”14th Amendment, Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens [emphases added] twenty-one years of age in such State."
Note that subsequent voting rights amendments to the Constitution have effectively changed how the enumerated voting rights criteria of Section 2 are interpreted.
Regarding Section 2 of 14A, the congressional record shows that post-Civil War federal constitutional lawmakers had pointed out not only that ONLY citizens have the right to vote, but when a renegade state lets undocumented Democrats vote (my wording) the state is effectively nullifying the Constitution’s “Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause" (1.8.4).
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;"
" If the States can admit to the elective franchise those who are not citizens, thereby neutralizing the votes of citizens, not only the Federal power of naturalization becomes a nullity, but” * * * * "a minority of citizens by the aid of aliens may control the government of the States, and through the States the government of the Union [emphasis added]." —Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1868. (See near middle of 1st column.)
" Whatever difference there may be as to what other right appertain to a citizen, all must agree that he has the right to petition and also to claim the Protection of the Government. These belong to him as a member the body politic, and the possession of them is what separates citizens of the lowest condition from aliens and slaves. To suppose that a State can make an alien a citizen or confer on him the right of voting would involve the absurdity of giving him the direct and immediate control of the action of the General Government [emphasis added], from which he can claim no protection and to which he has no right to present a petition." —Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1868. (See bottom half of 1st column.)
Regarding PDJT's common sense argument that we don't want illegal alien criminals entering the US and harming US citizens, Justice Joseph Story had clarified that this was one of the reasons the Founding States drafted the Constitution's "Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause" (1.8.4).
"… There is great wisdom, therefore, in confiding to the national government the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization throughout the United States. It is of the deepest interest to the whole Union to know, who are entitled to enjoy the rights of citizens in each state, since they thereby, in effect, become entitled to the rights of citizens in all the states. If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4 (Citizenship), Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1098--99, 1833.
It's not surprising that PDJT is keeping his eyes open for Democratic ballot box fraud in 2020 elections.
Patriots need to support PDJT in working with the states to allow only citizens who present valid citizenship / photo ID cards to be allowed to vote, such cards scannable or containing security chip to facilitate “vision-impaired” Democratic voting officials.
MAGA!
But But But But But But
So, through this measure, Democrats are proclaiming that they need foreign intervention and collusion to win in 2020. The fact that Democrat backed groups are in Central America helping and encouraging people to charge the border in order to win votes for an election is colluding with a foreign government
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