Posted on 06/13/2007 9:43:46 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Senate conservatives have been warned by Republican leaders that they must either accept a series of largely symbolic floor votes on a handful of amendments to the immigration reform legislation or see themselves shut out of the process altogether when the chamber resumes work on the bill later this year, GOP lawmakers and aides said Tuesday...
As somebody else said a few days ago, it’s not time to leave the Party but it is time to throw the pirates overboard!
Are you sure about that?
I can't figure out how to get this bit of info on my clipboard so I'll just type the information......
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"Perhaps, the most important tie connecting our countries is not commerce but people. Every year, our two borders experience 500 million border crossings and the largest source of immigration to the United States in the past three decades has been Mexico-by far.
Nearly thirty percent of all legal immigrants to the United States have come from just one country-Mexico- and nearly 60 percent of all undocumented workers. Canadians move to the United States for both pleasure and work than to any other country. Americans travel more to Mexico and Canada than to any other countries. In brief, our people are connecting the countries routinely and more than ever before. And yet, despite growing interaction, or perhaps because of it, there have been increasing frictions and disappointments among our countries in the past few years."
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Now, you said we can keep tabs on those 500 million a year, how's that possible if 60% are undocumented?
We don't know who the hell's in this country.
As good a number count as any. lol
10-4 Senor! :-)
(bad Joke I know)
Money's money.
In the pdf I was reading it mentions that OUR population is aging and needs to be replaced with younger workers. I guess we know who the younger workers are huh.
Well, I don't see it that way -- Liberal elites and old time Southerners often share different versions of "plantation mentality". Both groups support creating second class citizens - cheap and submissive employees. It must make them feel big or something. Think "slavery lite" - it's creepy...
“Reid stated a few hours ago on the radio he’s not allowing anymore amendments and to take the bill as is. He wants 25 from the GOP to sign off on it or he’s not bringing it back.”
Right decision, wrong reason... Still, I’ll say a little prayer that Harry sticks to his guns. Anything that keeps this bill from seeing the light of day is fine by me. I do hope Republicans won’t fall into Harry’s trap - he wants the blame for this to fall squarely on Bush and the GOP. Sadly, they’ll deserve it if it happens :/
“Good. What is he saying about Bush, Lott, McCain and Kyl?
I remember a few years ago when Bush was pushing all of these socialist programs and Rush was running cover for him by saying “It’s brilliant strategery - he is taking an issue away from the democrats - Bush is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers”. I hope those days of being a whitehouse apologist have ended.”
This is the reason I no longer listen to Rush. It seemed to me, and perhaps I was wrong, that his politics shifted 180 degrees when the White House went from Dem to Rep... He started making incredible excuses for behavior he had condemned just a few years earlier. I’m glad that after the last election he said he’d stop carrying water, but my feeling is he never should have started in the first place. He let the RINOs turn him into a PR machine, instead of a voice for reason. I’d like to hope he can come back from that, but I’m not sure.
Again, just my opinion. I haven’t listened in quite a while so my thoughts may no longer be accurate.
In some ways, does it matter who’s kids they are, if they are not YOUR kids?
If the immigrants love America, and forsake their country, and learn english and teach their children to love America and adopt it as their home country, they aren’t any different than your neighbor’s kids, or Pelosi’s kids.
The fight is not against immigrataion, it’s against the type of people we are letting into the country, people who want to take OVER our country and turn it BACK into their country, rather than people who want to be part of our country.
Now my repressed doubts are coming back. The time I first thought "utopian" when Bush explained his great vision for Iraq. My thought was..."There are precious few cultures that can handle freedom, and Islam is definitely not one of the few." Then Bush scolded people who thought that Muslims might not "deserve" democracy...hinted that they might be bigots or uncharitable...should have listened to my inner cynic. Now he's pulled that card out again.
I met more than one older American who went anti-Bush after the prescription drug policy...they all had good insurance which was ruined by the legislation.
And the conservative teachers I know who deal with "No Child Left Behind"--
Any respect or trust I had left vanished on Election Morning when Richie Cunningham Snow was gloating and chirping about how glad he was that we could sign America over to Mexico--thanks to the defeats of the GOP.
Now my repressed doubts are coming back. The time I first thought "utopian" when Bush explained his great vision for Iraq. My thought was..."There are precious few cultures that can handle freedom, and Islam is definitely not one of the few." Then Bush scolded people who thought that Muslims might not "deserve" democracy...hinted that they might be bigots or uncharitable...should have listened to my inner cynic. Now he's pulled that card out again.
I met more than one older American who went anti-Bush after the prescription drug policy...they all had good insurance which was ruined by the legislation.
And the conservative teachers I know who deal with "No Child Left Behind"--
Any respect or trust I had left vanished on Election Morning when Richie Cunningham Snow was gloating and chirping about how glad he was that we could sign America over to Mexico--thanks to the defeats of the GOP.
I'm in the same boat as you. I will be the second member after you.
Soy (estoy ??) una senorita (or words to that effect).
(bad Joke I know)
As is my Spanish! LOL.
Bullseye. This is the price of the presidency for 44.
As I've said before, I have two (one living) gc who's ancestors came from mexico-legally.
Down with the duopoly of a two party system!!!
Have you seen this from Roll Call? WTH.
I think we conservatives have to follow the Reagan example: change the party from within--but do not abandon her. Reagan was out in the cold for decades as a true conservative, while the Rockefeller/Nixon/Ford wing of the Republican party ran things. But Reagan eventually prevailed, and America prospered beyond anyone's expectations.
If we conservatives bolt the Republican party because of the current lack of conservatism in party leadership, we give the nation over to Democrat Liberals and Rockefeller Republicans. That would be awful.
I hope conservatives will stick it out and do the slow, long, hard work of reforming an electable party.
Well the last I heard Reid was meeting in the White House with Bush. You know nothing good will come of that. It’s a win/win for democrats either way but Bush doesn’t care, he just wants an amnesty and isn’t interested in the political, social, or economic ramifications of it.
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