Posted on 11/10/2006 4:23:47 PM PST by jamesrichards
Hagel expects an OK on immigration bill
Sen. Chuck Hagel predicted Wednesday that the new Congress will pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul bill in the next session. The Nebraska Republican had strongly criticized his fellow GOP lawmakers in September for failing to update immigration law. He said then that it would cost them in the midterm elections.
Hagel is (ostensibly) a senator. Osborne was a congressman. A do-nothing, in-over-his-head congressman at that. He had no more business representing Nebraska in Congress than he did coaching water polo.
You call Bush's pro illegal position waffling? Hardly. He is clearly pro-illegals.
Bush keeps the doors to our country wide open while he closes and locks his own front door.
I certainly hope so and I will be helping to campaign against him in the Grand Island area. I also told him this in an email I sent to him when he was trying to tell Israel that they shouldn't defend themselves. Funny, but I never got even an automated response from his office.
You may think that his ACU rating is all that matters in defining a RINO, but no true conservative (at least in my book) sells out Israel to the Islamofascists. Hagel was all over the place telling Israel that they were the ones who needed to back down after they were attacked by the pagan moon god worshipping followers of the pedophile non-prophet.
Nice try pal, but there is still the problem of our open borders President.
Hagel - Another fine example of a RINO.
Nebraska just reelected their Democrat Senator, Ben Nelson by 28 points over the Republican. Nelson has a mixed record on immigration but he is probably the most conservative Democrat in the Senate. He was endorsed by the NRA and is also pro-life.
Oh, good greif. Immigration IS a FEDERAL issue...you know, protect the borders....
The GOP made itself look bad, they didn't need any help. The dems pounded "culture of corruption" over and over. Their voters bought it, with good reason....Cunningham, Safavian, Ney, Delay, Haggard, foley, Abramoff and on and on.
They sound just like the perpetually in denial democrats.
No, Wilson is NOT good on immigration, unless you like the status quo. All I've seen from you in the past 2 days is totally wrong information. Is that by accident?
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=NM&VIPID=550
OVERALL GRADES Career Recent Rep. Wilson has earned an overall career immigration voting grade of D-
Voted against bill to increase interior enforcement in 2006
Voted against amendment to end special amnesty for certain Central Americans in 2006
Voted against amendment to fund employment eligibility verification system in 2006
ted on floor of the House against final passage of border security and enforcement bill in 2005 Rep. Wilson voted againstH.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. H.R. 4437
Voted on House floor against amendment to increase security with border fence in 2005
Voted in favor of sanctuary policies for illegal aliens in 2005
Voted against amendment to increase interior enforcement in 2005
More at link.... Rep. Wilson has earned a recent immigration voting grade of D 2005 - 2006M
McConnel has a C- rating on immigration.
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.php3?District=KY&VIPID=328
Voted in favor of motion to invoke cloture on S. 2611 to increase overall immigration numbers and reward illegal aliens with amnesty in 2006
Voted for huge increase in 1990
Voted against amendment to limit proposed guestworker program in 2006
Voted in favor of amendment to create additional guestworker visa categories in 2006
Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.
Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998
Voted against amendment to extend border fence in 2006
Voted against amendment to provide funding for additional Border Patrol and ICE agents in 2005
Cosponsored bill to create an amnesty for illegal agricultural workers in 2003-2004
Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996 Sen. McConnell voted IN FAVOR of the Abraham Amendment to S.1664. He was part of a coalition of pro-business conservatives and liberal civil libertarians who tried to use the amendment to kill the establishment of voluntary pilot programs in high-immigration states.
THIS is the problem...Santorum is NOT a "border security" senator. At the end, he tried to turn around, but it was too late. Voters belive the soundbites instead of the voting records.
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=PA&VIPID=683
Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996
Voted in favor of amendment to create additional guestworker visa categories in 2006
Voted in favor of amendment to increase foreign-worker importation in 2005
Cosponsoring legislation to increase H-2B workers who are present in the U.S. at any one time in 2005-2006
Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.
Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998
Voted against amendment to fund additional immigration investigators in 2006
Voted against amendment to provide funding for additional Border Patrol agents in 2005
Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996 [snips]
Sweetie, Santorum voted NO on S2611. That was (and is) the most amnesty-laden bill since the last amnesty 20 years ago... both times with Ted Kennedy as co-author.
See, I have to tell you... hard-liners like you and JustPiper and the NumbersUSA crowd are too interested in trouncing legislators wholesale based on these "report cards" without paying attention to any good deeds that a representative might do.
The S2611 vote was the most important, most recent development and the litmus test for who is FOR and who is AGAINST amnesty.
By the way, did you vote in the midterm election and how did you vote?
Because I suspect that many of the NumbersUSA hardliners did not vote at all...
The immigration "report cards" are bunk created by permanent malcontents to up their own organization's donations.
But.... that's just MHO.
Doing one's own research and analysis might yield different results.
"Thanks Michael Savage. Thanks Pat Buchanan."
Thanks Bushbots. It's Bush who is for this crap, even with a lost election amnesty would go nowhere without Jorge.
Good point, Pablo. I don't put stock in such ratings.
Mark Twain said, "There are lies and then there are lies and then there are damn statistics."
Exactly. Hagel is slick enough to know which key issues will keep him labled as a "conservative" but if you really pay attention to him you see the true politician come through. Our dem senator Ben Nelson votes on the side of some fairly conservative issues, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a Reagan democrat (although sometimes he seems more conservative than Hagel!).
Yes, but Bush was not on the ballot genius! It was the Republicans in the house who were on the ballot. And they were the last bulwark against the amnesty. So by what logic do you express your anger with by Bush by voting out the only folks in power who agreed with you?
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