Archive for June 21st, 2007

Best Plan I have heard to date

Jun 21st 2007MichaelPolitics

Deport Congress, they wont do the jobs they were sent to do!

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Keep the pressure on

Jun 21st 2007MichaelPolitics

We will make these representatives stop giving our rights to illegal’s and taking them away from Americans. We will vote against everyone in representative positions that vote for this Amnesty!

Amnesty is wrong.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who has been under intense pressure from the White House and Republican leadership to support a sweeping immigration overhaul, nevertheless announced today that she will vote against reviving the legislation when it returns to the Senate floor next week.

She was joined today by the state’s other senator, Republican John Cornyn, who had been expected by the bill’s supporters to take such a stance. They had aggressively lobbied Hutchison in hopes of adding her vote to the 60 necessary to revive the stalled legislation.

“I could not support (bringing the bill to a vote) in its present position,” Hutchison, criticizing the legislation as amnesty for illegal immigrants, said today.

As No. 4 in the Senate GOP leadership, Hutchison is the highest-ranking Republican to break from her party on a domestic policy issue of signal importance to President Bush.

This is a good sign…keep the pressure on. Stop this craziness.

Good for you Rep Hutchison! good for you

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Thursday Eveing News & Links

Jun 21st 2007RavenPolitics & Raven

I’ve been doing these daily link-a-thon posts at ARS and received much positive feedback about it…so tonight I’m going to do this here at FP for a change of pace.

  • Crisis in Confidence:

    Consider the latest Gallup Poll, which finds only 14 percent of the American people have “a great deal of” confidence in Congress or “quite a lot,” compared to 19 percent a year ago. That is the lowest confidence rating Gallup has ever recorded for Congress since the survey firm began measuring public opinion on major American institutions in 1973.

    We should be concerned with this. When the people no longer trust their elected representatives, are we asking for a different form of government? Will people stand back and allow the leaders to continue not leading?

    Captain Ed opines:

    It’s a dangerous development. Congress is, after all, the people’s branch of the government. The judiciary has no accountability to the people, and the states elect the President, at least formally. Congress writes laws, determines tax policy, and in general dictates the direction of our representative government. If we cannot trust ourselves with that power, eventually the people will turn to another, less representative form of government to get the difficult issues addressed.

  • The French are afraid of Blackberries. (figures)

  • Hiring Heroes Career Fair. AWESOME.

  • Cruella won’t be able to abuse our tax dollars AKA free special class air travel accommodations if this bill gets passed.

  • “Well, the feminists are not about to admit weakness, so they have to deny femininity.”

  • ***sigh*** More racial preferences coming w/immigration reform?

  • Wild Thing points to a soldier telling the polecats to mind their own poles. Excellent!

  • In spite of what liberals want us to believe, this IS why we do FIGHT.

  • SANE vs. CAIR. That has a sinister sound to it.

  • Iwo Jima No More?

  • DON’T MESS WITH THE MARINES!

  • What are they scared of? (hint: the truth)

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    Too harsh on illegal aliens and a poor deal for U.S. workers?

    Jun 21st 2007RavenBorder Security & Politics & Raven

    It seems that everyone has issues with the immigration bill. Even the labor groups. And Hispanics.

    Labor and Hispanic groups yesterday told senators to scrap their immigration bill and go back to the drawing board, saying that the proposal now before the Senate has become too harsh on illegal aliens and a poor deal for U.S. workers.

    In separate press conferences, the Hispanic rights groups and labor leaders, including the AFL-CIO, joined a growing group of critics from both the left and the right who say current law is better than the immigration bill that President Bush and a small bipartisan group of senators are pushing.

    “This takes a problem we have and, instead of solving it, makes it worse,” said Richard L. Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO. He said the temporary-worker program that the bill sets up would hurt U.S. workers by providing a source of cheap labor that would depress Americans’ wages.

    Meanwhile from the immigrant-advocacy side, a handful of Hispanic groups yesterday said the Senate bill started off poorly, became worse after the first two weeks of amendments and is now unfixable.

    “Let’s go back to the drawing board,” said Lillian Rodriguez-Lopez, president of the Hispanic Federation.

    It says a lot when the very people who we all think stand to gain the most from all this, are against it. Perhaps they see the backlash from American workers? Or maybe they just KNOW this is immoral and unethical. Either way, the bill is under constant fire from many people and the Congress needs to hear that. I am really starting to think it’s not that complicated at all. Take the current rules and laws and JUST. ENFORCE. THEM.

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