Posted on 01/09/2004 6:33:02 AM PST by YoungKentuckyConservative
Will President Bush's proposal to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens affect your vote in the 2004 presidential election?
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government." ---George Washington, 1793
Please stop now. I've heard some absurd and embarrassing arguments defending this initiative, but this takes the prize. Border protection and immigration control are one of the few legitimate constitutional responsibilities of the federal government.
If you want to defend Bush and this initiative, fine, but please use honest arguments.
As far as others' suggestions on this thread that all who have expressed disapproval of this immigration farce are simply DU disruptors, then I guess DU disruptors have taken over the conservative media as well: National Review, Laura Ingraham and even Rush Limbaugh -- to name but a few -- have now been possessed by the Democratic devil.
FR used to be a place for reasoned discussion of federal, political and constitutional issues, not a dewey-eyed, paranoid fan club organized to defend every action of a man who is above all, a politician, and a damned good one at that.
Let's stay in the reality zone.
Oh yes, you are the Master Baiter, aren't you? Blackbird.
You have the debating skills and the wit of a thirteen year old.Your maturity is astounding.
If we have to embarrass the President to make our point, so be it. I would have liked to have embarrassed his father on the "read my lips, no new taxes" flip-flop back in 1992.
So stay on the attack. You've offered NOTHING to debate. Typical. Later troll. Blackbird.
This would be you. Dishonest and a name caller. I stand by my statement about your debating skills and maturity. You continue to verify them.
I certainly don't want to be inundated with people that have not only arrived here illegally, but don't believe in our founding documents as we do.
Meantime, I think this is all election year maneuvering by W, intended to smoke the 'Rats from their holes, forcing them further left.
Please stop now. I've heard some absurd and embarrassing arguments defending this initiative, but this takes the prize. Border protection and immigration control are one of the few legitimate constitutional responsibilities of the federal government.
But as I clearly and explicitly said, it is a fundamentally philosophical issue and not Constitution relevant. The issue is extremism in conservatism and this is a concept that pursues purity. A pure conservative would not be looking to the government to solve problems. Those who are cannot be pure conservatives. They are, instead, people who look to Big Brother to create a society they prefer.
H.R. 3534 ..Border Enforcement and Revolving Employment to Assist Laborers Act of 2003 by Tancredo
This is just the latest "single issue".
I supported Bush when he was passing the "No Child Left Behind" expansion of the federal education bureaucracy because I understood he was doing it for political reasons. Besides, it was important for Bush to be able to appoint judges.I couldn't have said it better myself. Oh, and don't forget his support for the "Assault Weapons" Ban.I supported Bush when he signed the "Campaign Finance Refom" bill, gutting the first amendment, because I understood he was doing it for political reasons. Besides, it was important for Bush to be able to appoint judges.
I supported Bush when he pushed for the greatest expansion of Medicare since it's inception in 1964 because he was doing it for political reasons. Besides, it was important for Bush to be able to appoint judges.
But this tears it for me. I can't support him. As for the judges -- well, it's not like the spinless jerks in the Senate have gotten us any judges anyway.
Yes. This issue was the last straw in a long list of issues Bush has parted ways with me on. When he signs the "Assault Weapons" Ban it will make me even more an opponent of his.
I will also work against Republican members of Congress in my area who go along with Bush's madness just as legions of Republicans blinded by loyalty to the man over loyalty to principle go along with him.
Perhaps so.What part of Texas are you in? I was living in ElPaso in 1965 when the Bracero program was ended .At the time, a lot of this was forecast and it looks like it is finally being addressed. Let's get on it with our Congressional delegations.We can make this thing work right.We cannot afford to give in to knee jerk hysteria.
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