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2008-01-17 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2008-01-17 06:33|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 And guess who slyly slipped in the amendment to gut SFA: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas -- a state that has been ravaged and savaged by illegal immigration.

Her amendment reads:
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Nothing in this paragraph shall require the secretary of homeland security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-01-17 11:54|| 2008-01-17 11:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Our politicians are just as crooked as any in Mexico. By the end of this century you probably won't be able to tell the difference between this country and Mexico.

Lately I've begun to think that what it's really all about is class warfare. That is, the plutocracy is pushing the manufacturing and software development overseas while importing third world workers into this country to "do the work that Americans ~~aren't allowed to do anymore~~ won't do".

Maybe it's only fair because the unions made it too expensive to manufacture anything here anyway.

But what are middle and lower class American citizens supposed to do? Accept third world wages and a third world standard of living, obviously, while the beautiful people and the wealthiest of the wealthy count their profits.

Nobody notices because they're too busy watching Oprah and American Idol on TVs imported from China. They'll vote for McCain or Obama because their TVs won't tell them about anybody else. Most likely Obama will be the next president because he has the most sex appeal and that's what the TV viewers want. That's what we deserve because we are too fat and lazy to mow our own lawns or pick up our own socks.

Oh well, maybe all the young workers from Mexico will keep Social Security going for us.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-17 12:34|| 2008-01-17 12:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Let them eat cake.

We need term limits! We really really need terms limits so we can get rid of McCain and Kennedy and Byrd and all of the rest of them. They think they are princes now. We need to give them only 8 years and no pension plans and the same health care as the military gets. To do that, we need to focus on specific races and use the same tactics that they use to win those races.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2008-01-17 12:54|| 2008-01-17 12:54|| Front Page Top

#4 The Republican party apparatchiks are dismayed that party enthusiasm levels as reflected by voter turnout in the primaries and, more importantly to them, contributions are way down this year. They are unwilling to connect the dots and admit that when President Bush tried to ram the "comprehensive illegal immigration" deal through last year, the party committed seppuku. People no longer trust them to do what is right for the country. Their forlorn hope now is that when faced with the choice of a more of the same Republican or Hillary or Obama the faithful will rally to the cause. Ain't happening.

Posted by RWV 2008-01-17 14:01|| 2008-01-17 14:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I wouldn't mind seeing nearly every incumbant tossed out at this point. i've just about had it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-01-17 14:09|| 2008-01-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Amen to that RJ.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-01-17 14:21|| 2008-01-17 14:21|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't know, I think I'd rather vote for a dead chicken than Hillary...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-01-17 14:25|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-17 14:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas

What is wrong with the Pubs in Texas?

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-17 14:54|| 2008-01-17 14:54|| Front Page Top

#9 The way I read it, the Secretary isn't required to build a fence, but that doesn't mean the Secretary can't require it to be built in TX.

A null-op?

Posted by gorb 2008-01-17 15:34|| 2008-01-17 15:34|| Front Page Top

#10 What is wrong with the Pubs in Texas?

The Bitch is a RINO, always has been. Cornyn isn't much better. There is a nasty creeping liberalism in all the major population centers, and not just in Texas.

Posted by Unise Turkeyneck3835 2008-01-17 16:33|| 2008-01-17 16:33|| Front Page Top

#11 what are middle and lower class American citizens supposed to do? Accept third world wages and a third world standard of living, obviously, while the beautiful people and the wealthiest of the wealthy count their profits.

The same thing the middle and lower class Romans did - eat our bread and attend the circuses sponsored by the government and the wealthy elite.

All the while we'll be virtual slaves to a system that is increasingly abusive of our civil rights, our property and taxes, our daily lives and ability to support our families.

Finally, we'll be so dependent upon the government and the elite for our bread and our circuses that we will listen to them when they tell us they know best what's good for us. At that point we will become slaves to the government and the elite and the entity that we used to know as a republic will have become an empire in most senses of the word although an empire on its last legs (withdrawing from foreign entanglements and choosing merely to defend (barely) what it already has, downsizing the military forces (already barely capable of holding the line) below what can reasonably be considered necessary for self-defense, allowing the internal infrastructure to decline and decay, allowing more and more of the empire's productive potential to be provided for it by other power's, and devoting more and more of the citizen's taxes to providing bread and circuses for those self-same citizens who have become more and more dependent upon the government to provide for them, etc.).

In the last, there will be no middle or lower class, there will be only the serf's and slaves to the elite and the government.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-01-17 16:55|| 2008-01-17 16:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Of course there isn't going to be any fence. Not so long as drug cartels are able to slip millions into the pockets of politicians in untraceable cash. Not so long as local big shot real estate developers and builders are able to get their cheap labor and make nice fat campaign contributions.

Nothing is going to change on the border until the politicians in the border states are thrown out of office and new ones elected in their place who are somehow "immune" to graft.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-01-17 17:46|| 2008-01-17 17:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Thompson is missing the boat on this one, among many.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-01-17 17:48|| 2008-01-17 17:48|| Front Page Top

#14 At this rate, ROME, USA or USSA Empire - you know, the weak, anti-sovereign global United Socialist Repubs of America - won't do anything until HANNIBAL AND HIS CARTHAGINIAN ARMY, SPARTACUS, etc. show up at the gates and embarasses a few ROMUS Politicos by wiping out their Household-Army legions.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-17 18:01|| 2008-01-17 18:01|| Front Page Top

#15 I wonder how long until .50 cal term limits.

Posted by jds 2008-01-17 18:15|| 2008-01-17 18:15|| Front Page Top

#16 It's about time to man the barricades.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2008-01-17 19:32|| 2008-01-17 19:32|| Front Page Top

#17 jds - my thoughts exactly. A revolution is brewing and it won't be pretty. I'm not given to conspiracies or paranoia. I'd reckon maybe 40-50 yrs down the road when the avg joe has had enough the tree of liberty will be refreshed as per a great statesmen's words.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-01-17 22:56|| 2008-01-17 22:56|| Front Page Top

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