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Martinez: Immigration bill could save GOP

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Posted by Dave D. 2007-05-22 16:55|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Suuurrrrre is could.

Save the GOP from any hope of EVER winning again.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-22 17:15|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-05-22 17:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Mexicans fear U.S. immigration plan
Many in Mexico expressed disappointment Friday with the U.S. Congress' immigration reform proposal, arguing it doesn't let enough Mexicans enter the United States legally to work, while focusing on an arduous path to residency for those who have already taken the illegal path.

Mexican news media and activists attacked what they viewed as a measure to limit the number of seasonal workers allowed into the United States even as the compromise's proponents said it would let in many more.

Jeebus.

Posted by ed 2007-05-22 17:40|| 2007-05-22 17:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Go to Drudge and read Pat Buchanan's post. Sometimes he's a couple beers short of a six-pack, but his numbers on population shift in California are enough to make your short hairs stand straight up. The Mexicans think California should still be theirs, and at the rate whites are leaving it won't be long before they're right

Posted by Weird Al 2007-05-22 17:41|| 2007-05-22 17:41|| Front Page Top

#4 In addition, I won't vote any party who sells out my country and my fellow citizens.

Posted by ed 2007-05-22 17:42|| 2007-05-22 17:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Al, when you have the Mayor of LA siding up with Illegals (along with SF and others) it can't be mucg longer.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-05-22 19:08|| 2007-05-22 19:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Check the want ads early, Mel, and avoid the rush. Pass this Kennedy/McCain Amnesty scam and you and the USA lose Big Time.
For the first time since I worked on the Goldwater campaign in '64, I have written all my elected reps...anger Mel? You got it.

Posted by Cruse de Medici4100 2007-05-22 19:47|| 2007-05-22 19:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Martinez is a giant POS. He shouldn't have this position. He was hand picked by Bush to push this through completely contrary to the wishes of conservative Republicans.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-22 19:59|| 2007-05-22 19:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Talk about completely DEAF!

Mel Martinez is an idiot.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-05-22 20:06|| 2007-05-22 20:06|| Front Page Top

#9 On CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer Sunday, Martinez said immigration "could be the saving of the Republican Party, frankly."

In order to save the Republican party, we had to destroy it. Moron!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-22 20:17|| 2007-05-22 20:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Idiocy runs the full spectrum. I even saw Jerry BROWN supporting this piece of *** bill, spouting the same bi-partisan clap trap about how the economic pressure Mexicans experience [which I don't doubt] increases immigration, and causes him to conclude (something to the effect) that in the long term the pressure can only be relieved by narrowing the wage gap.

For those who make this argument, pointing out that the wage differential is 8 or 10 to 1 (American wages vs. Mexican wages): just how much pressure do you think needs to be relieved before the flow slows and immigrants choose to stay in Mexico? Would a 4 to 1 ratio stop them? Uh, nooo-if you could quadruple your salary and have a better life, would you? Would a 3 to 1 ratio stop them? Uh, no. 2 to 1? Maybe, but only maybe.

Logically, applying this argument to any group of humans, there WOULD BE NO stoppage to the flow of workers coming here, legally or illegally, unless the economies were to attain near parity.

This blind attempt at some kind of economic pressure valve is going to explode in the American people's-and politicians'- faces. It is a MASSIVE and VERY POWERFUL wealth redistribution scheme being devised by our representatives and president, intended to ward off potential violent confrontations over the vastly disparate economies of Mexico and the US. It won't stop violence-it will just divert it.

Posted by Jules 2007-05-22 22:35|| 2007-05-22 22:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Is the GOP really this clueless? Time to have a revolution - and vote every single one of these princes (dem and repub) out of office. We need term limits - NOW!

Posted by Angaiger Tojo1904 2007-05-22 23:58|| 2007-05-22 23:58|| Front Page Top

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