Or a tunnel.
Posted on 05/21/2006 6:47:06 AM PDT by Grendel9
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), fresh from the ongoing Senate debate over an immigration bill, offered the following explanation of his vote in favor of 370 miles of fence at the U.S.-Mexican border (estimated cost $3 million a mile) at yesterday’s New England Council breakfast:
“I voted for it because, first of all, a lot of it is the repair of the existing fence. A lot of it is just in the Arizona area, where we have the worst problem, the most numbers of people coming over.
“And if you go down, and you look at the numbers of border [patrol] people that we have right now, and even the numbers - I put in an amendment, which passed, and we raised the number up to about 3,000 [additional] that have to be trained and put out there. But even when we get there, we’re only going to have a couple of people or so per mile, which is simply not enough. So we’re way behind, in terms of the training and production of people. And in the short term, I think this can serve us well.
“If I were making the long-term decision, I’d announce, you know, hopefully it’s a temporary measure, and we can take it down as soon as we have enough people, and we’ve established a process where we’ve reduced the level.
“And I think that should be America’s goal, absolutely and positively. But in the temporary, we’ve got to have a comprehensive approach everywhere, and change forms of behavior everywhere. It begins with enforcement. Enforcement not just on the border, but enforcement against employers who are hiring people illegally, which is supposed to be illegal.”
That clarifies everything, now doesn’t it? Who says this guy doesn’t have what it takes to make another run for president?
“If I were making the long-term decision, I’d announce, you know, hopefully it’s a temporary measure, and we can take it down as soon as we have enough people..."
OK. So as soon as he's imported enough Democratic voters from Mexico, he'll close off the border.
Should make tyson chicken pay for the repairs.
His problem is that either he can't read the script the Shrum gives him, or Shrum is no longer writing scripts for him.
There should be a laugh track running every time Kerry opens his mouth.
What a friggin weasle! By the time these jerks get done talking, we could have built a 12 lane highway along the border.
Series, I'd turn this project over to the Army Corps of Engineers to run the project using civilian contracors. If we can build the Pentagon in 18 months in a swamp, we can sure as hell grade 2,000 miles of sand and pour a concrete.
http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/vehicles/engineer_vehicles/bulldozers/D9_D10.htm
Furthermore, cost is cheap. Anyone want to think about Boston's "Big Dig" fiasco?
/rant
Or a tunnel.
Kerry's response: "Really? In Massachusetts we call big round smelly things 'Teddy'."
Was he "For It"(The fence)before he was"Against It"(The fence)?
I'm just sittin' on a fence
You can say I got no sense
Trying to make up my mind
Really is too horrifying
So I'm sittin on a fence
I'd agree with "traitor", "coward", "metrosexual fop", and "turncoat".
His explanation of his "border fence" vote above appears to be an attempt at:
Taking A Flying Flip At A Flopping Donut",
....or whatever that old saying was.
WOW, I've never seen that letter before! No wonder Kerry would never release his military file. Where did you find that letter if you don't mind me asking?
Read to the end. "Fake but accurate."
At least, the font doesn't use superscripts. Old Courier, with uneven strikes (indicating an actual typewriter was used) would have been better, though...
LOL, thanks for setting me straight. It sure looks real!
I'm pretty sure it qualifies (in a legal sense) as "satire", but you'd find plenty of folks here who'd swear to the veracity of its contents. Unless and until Kerry releases ALL his service records, we won't know what's really in there, and can only speculate like this.
got that right
sounds right. He does sound more befuddled - it that's possible
Hope you took note of the
"Certification" on page 2!
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