Posted on 06/07/2007 4:37:07 PM PDT by gas0linealley
In what may have been one of the US Senate's greatest speeches, Senator Byron Dorgan just trashed the Immigration Bill and poked fun at its framers.
Senator Dorgan said about the bill: "It's about profits for big economic interests". He hammered repeatedly at the fact that there had been no consideraion given to American workers in the crafting of the legislation.
The Senator commented about recent news stories that illustrated how employers are keeping relentless downward pressure on worker's wages and using cheap legal and illegal labor to do it, while management is getting huge salaries and retirement packages.
Senator Dorgan said that he has been in the Senate long enough to have seen various pieces of legislation proposed which have been assembled by "gangs of twelve" etc. and all of them claimed to be grand compromises but were without exception terrible bills. He mentioned how their proponents, "puffed up with helium or hydrogen", come to the podium to tout their worthless proposals.
The Senator from North Dakota believes that we already have the laws on the books to take care of the immigration problem, they just lack enforcement. He says that the first order of business is border security.
If you missed Senator Dorgan's remarks, you owe it to yourself to find them and listen or read.
They all want to reduce us to serfdom. The Democrats want us to be serfs of the state. The globalist Republicans want us to be serfs of the multinational corporations.
Wow, I am now wishing I didn’t hit mute and Close Captioning one minute in.
A Democrat who’s at least consistent on being pro-worker, even if he’s misguided most of the time (not this time, of course) on how to do it.
Will GW and Lindsey Graham call Dorgan a “bigot”? Oh, I forgot. That’s only reserved for the conservative base.
He’s got an article at National Review.
Probably could never get published at the likes of “The Nation,”
Did you hear Ted Kennedy’s speech, shortly before Dorgan’s?
It was fear tactics and melodrama about the downtrodden “undocumenteds”.
I’m still feeling ill for finding myself agreeing with some of what Bernie Sanders was saying earlier. It’s not his fault he was right, that honor goes to the demopublicans.
It is amazing how little thought was given to the impact that this bill would have on American workers. While I’m sure most of us rarely agree w/Dorgan, thank God for him in this case.
Old “Helmet Head?”
Don’t you think they are saying these things simply to pander.. do you honestly believe the dems believe this? This was, after all, a mostly democrat bill.
Don’t think for a second they wouldn’t try to get this bill passed if they didn’t see a chance to try to split our side even more than they have already.
I watched that. He was outstanding.
I’d trade three RINOS for a guy like that.
He called it exactly what it is.
The things he said about the bill had my eyes bugged out and my jaw hanging.
I saw Senator Dorgan’s remarks on this so-called bill. I want to know who is this guy??? Any North Dakota folks who can clue me in? His speech was a breath of realism after listening to Fat Ted on a drunken rampage. Ted, get the to AA and soon. It works!
I’d guess that 99/9% of the calls from his constituents wanted him to vote against the bill
It’s important to contact to the senators like Dorgan and Sessions fighting El Monstruosidad to give them encouragement, as well as the ones on the fence and the ones pushing it.
How can you say that there was little thought give to the impact this bill would have on American workers? For crying out loud illegal immigration has almost destroyed the lower and middle class laborer.
Where have you been? Do penance and inform your friends, just in case they have been in lala land with you.
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We need to look at individuals, not Dem or Repub. They aren’t walking in lockstep on this.
I doubt that Mr. Dorgan will be welcome at the Whitehouse anytime soon.
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