Posted on 05/16/2007 4:14:04 PM PDT by pissant
Word is leaking that the GOP in the Senate are on the verge of agreeing to an immigration bill that has --as a concession to the GOP-- less than half of the fencing promised by law last year.
White flag time on the border, and a national security and thus a political disaster.
The GOP are sending around talking points attempting to make this "compromise" defensible, but it won't and shouldn't fly. Agreeing to it takes the party down the tubes on the issue of border security --because it doesn't provide what the public understands to be border security, a very long, very high fence with a very wide gate.
This is McCain's continuing gift to the GOP, and the immigration absolutists' legacy: Lots and lots of promises and no fence worth calling a fence.
Aren't there 41 GOP senators willing to fight for border security? Apparently not. And they will see the result in their depleted coffers and diminished numbers come November '08. All they have to do is fight for border security, but they won't even do that.
UPDATE: Here are the draft talking points from the GOP. Four pages of crap:
BORDER SECURITY AND IMMIGRATION REFORM
Republicans Standing Together to Fight for Tougher Enforcement and an Immigration System That Better Serves American Interests
As negotiations continue, Republicans are demanding the following from the Democrat majority:
* Beefed-up border security. Republicans are insisting on dramatic and immediate improvements to border security, including 18,000 Border Patrol agents and 370 miles of fencing, as part of a continuous effort to protect the borders.
*Republicans insist that border security improvements must be completed before other reforms can occur. Democrats blocked any "triggers" in last year’s bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at hughhewitt.townhall.com ...
Republicans will lose their shorts next year if they do this. I can’t believe how absolutely blind they are.
And once again, the GOP bends over and grabs its collective ankles.
If they do what?
And without, it should be noted, the common courtesy of a reach-around.
If this is true, and there is alot of reason to believe it, there will be a hammer-and-sickle flying over the White House after the 2008 election. This will represent the end of any association with conservatism and American patriotism and the Republican party...which will effectively disintegrate. These freakin’ moron idiots. They just keep making major mistake after mistake all in the name of protecting their useless asses.
Hugh Hewitt is an open borders person...I read it in one of this books.
I got a chance to meet my congressman (Tim Walberg) last weekend. I asked him if he would endorse Duncan Hunter for president. He hinted at an endorsement for Tancredo but said that Hunter is strong in all the right places.
OTOH we can count on Walberg to vote against amnesty. He was endorsed by the Minuteman PAC.
By then it will be La Casa Blanco.
Incorrect, citizen...WE are the one's getting bent over! The members of Congress that have sold out their country for the almighty dollar will retire to their multi million dollar estates and gated communities, leaving the populace to deal with the flood of CRIMINALS coming here.
This a joke. I have written all of my congressmen recently on this and they have written back telling me that they are tough on immigration and are doing all possible. What a crock. I think this issue is huge and will lead to troubles we can not even imagine.
WHAT!?
This is McCain's continuing gift to the GOP, and the immigration absolutists' legacy: Lots and lots of promises and no fence worth calling a fence.
Ah, the gift (or git?) that keeps on giving!!! Wonder what he means by "absolutists" - those extremist wackos who believe laws should be enforced maybe?
So I did the following:
As a Republican precinct committeeman in southern Arizona, I emailed Senator Kyl expressing my sense of betrayal.
I called my county Republican headquarters, and after receiving the usual pablum about the Democrats being worse, I informed the party personage that my resources in time, energy and money might be put to more satisfying pursuits next year.
No bill is better than a bad bill.
Bush pushed for this via Martinez. Bush is only the second worse President, after Jimmy Carter. When the Pres signs this he too will get the badge of disgrace, a Nobel Peace Prize.
The GOP can cry and wail, come next election day. We now have a NO VOTE button. The GOP gets it.
Fundamentally, you are arguing that they are incompetent.
But is it possible that a group can be so completely incompetent over such a broad range of issues for such a long period of time? This goes way beyond the mere "monkey score" of poor results one could expect from well meaning incompetence.
It may be time to consider other possible explanations for this behavior.
Every picture of Hunter is a good one. He looks like a man, not a weasel.
And deservedly so.
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