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1. #223252
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:06 pm, navywife91 said:

   Oh, please let them bring this up at the debate! I want to see them squirm.

   Way to go Michigan!

2. #223255
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm, orlandocajun said:

   Good work Michigan. First you voted for Romney…now you vote against illegal aliens. I expected that in South Carolina, but not Michigan.

   Kudos from a conservative southerner.

3. #223257
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm, John Ansell said:

   Hillary will have another stance on the issue.

4. #223268
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:13 pm, WarTip said:

   Answer from Dearborn in 5, 4, 3, 2,

   Maybe there is hope yet!

   I can dream anyhow.

5. #223270
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pm, xler8bmw said:

   “It’s a violation of federal law, say state officials.”

   What?

   Last I looked it’s a privilege to get a license and it’s mandated by the state……

6. #223272
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:

   Better late than never

   You can say that again! It’s not like it’s something every state in the US shouldn’t have declared 50 years ago.

   I wonder how the MSM will handle this, a question for which the answer usually winds up being “not at all”.

7. #223274
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

   Better late than never It’s about stinking time.

   Oh, here it comes. Do you honestly think that they will obey the laws? They are breaking them every.day.they are.here!

8. #223278
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:20 pm, jungatheart said:

   Slowly the states begin to get it. We don’t really need to build a wall at our border. If the states all say it’s a felony to hire an illegal immigrant and enforce the law, they’re not going to come here. Without a chance to make money there is no incentive to take the risk. Then all we have to watch for are terrorists trying to sneak in.

9. #223279
   On January 21st, 2008 at 4:21 pm, ajmontana said:

   Gotcha!
   there are sooooooo many other ways to see her slither and squirm but no-one is calling her out, the Dems havent even addressed issues they just say change 3 times and click their heels and avoid any thorough debate on anything. bunch of crapweasels.

10. #223280
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm, Sergeant Tim said:

    Hillary will be balling her eyes out.

11. #223283
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm, blues said:

    Shame on you Michelle,you almost tricked me into watching the Beast,when I thought it would be Chris Dud.

12. #223285
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pm, blues said:

    Problem is Dearbornistan is in Michigan.

13. #223294
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pm, Cadman said:

    We don’t really need to build a wall at our border.

    Your right, it will keep out illegal workers, but we still need some type of wall to keep out terrorists.

    We could just place web-cam operated machine guns every 100 yds.

14. #223298
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pm, Debbie Schlussel said:

    Michelle:
    Read the real story of why aliens are now no longer getting licenses in Michigan and how Terry Lynn Land helped give them licenses for so long until then.
    Actually, while Michigan’s GOP Sec. of State Terry Lynn Land may be talking tough now, for the last five years she’s been giving illegal aliens driver’s licenses and they came from all over the country to get them, despite pleas for her to stop issuing them. She was about to start her Spitzer-esque plan to issue special alien licenses, so she is worse than Hillary, who only praised it–didn’t actually issue them herself, like GOP’s Land. Also, involved in this scheme, pan-Islamist Attorney General Mike Cox who allowed this to go on for the last five years. Now, however, he’s running against Land for Governor and wanted to one up her. Neither cares about enabling aliens, as they did so for five years, despite my and others’ please that they stop. Again, read the real story of what happened in Michigan and how Terry Lynn Land helped foment it.

15. #223299
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm, Sergeant Tim said:

    Maybe I better also get Hillary one of these to make her feel better.

16. #223302
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:47 pm, DBNinKY said:

    “Just for fun, someone should ask Hillary about this at tonight’s Democrat debate.”

    And while they’re at it, I’d kinda like to have her respond to some of the points Dick Morris brought up in his FNC.com article, about the curious relationship between the Clintons, their library, and the multi-million dollar donations made to said library by the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates; and then if there’s time, as courtesy, she may wanna clue us in as to when we may expect a release of her-/their tax statements. Now that would be a Dem debate worth watching!

17. #223311
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:53 pm, Django said:

    I had to go to traffic court here in Marin County, California, twice last fall (don’t ask ).

    Nearly 50% of the cases involved unlicensed, illegal alien drivers driving without a license. And, of course, none of them speak English so the court had a translator there who was kept busy all day. Let me be clear – 98% of these folks are very, very nice, hardworking people who are just trying make a better life for their families outside of the third world joke that is Mexico.

    However, be that as it may, our government – Bush, McCain, Kennedy, etc. – has a long list of obligations that it has disgracefully failed to live up to that I won’t rehash here that have brought our society to semi-chaos.

18. #223314
    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm, DBNinKY said:

    “…our anti-fraud department will go over documents, which is something we always have done.”

    How did the ACLU miss that one? Or are they just waiting on the right plaintiff to come along?

19. #223316
    On January 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm, letget said:

    Hope all the other 49 go along with this. It would be wonderful to have TX go along with this. Our dear ‘Kay’ isn’t gonna let that happen here, much less all the ‘minorities’ we have in our states government.
    L

20. #223325
    On January 21st, 2008 at 5:15 pm, englishqueen01 said:

    Hillary will have another stance on the issue.

    Hillary will have six stances on any given issue – depending on who she’s speaking to, poll results, the day of the week, and the direction the wind is blowing.

    Good for the state of Michigan. Surely, they will be labeled bigoted racists in short order.

21. #223328
    On January 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm, J S Ragman said:

    I find Debbie Schlussel’s comments most interesting. This crackdown on the issuance of licenses is a good thing, but why did it take so long?

    Then it occurred to me. If we really are successful in keeping the illegals out, then somebody might get the bright idea to replace welfare with workfare, and force the lifetime wards of the state off their dead posteriors and back into the workforce, doing “the jobs Americans don’t want to do.” Then, they would be too busy working to vote three or four times for the Democrat candidate.

    OK, is anybody following my logic here?

22. #223334
    On January 21st, 2008 at 5:26 pm, graysonret said:

    I don’t mind if they come. I don’t mind if they stay. Just make sure they do it legally, work, and don’t bring their country with them to change ours.

23. #223340
    On January 21st, 2008 at 5:30 pm, Peejz said:

    On January 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pm, Debbie Schlussel said:

    Teri was the one that came up with the plan to end the nonsense Debbie:

    Only those who are Michigan residents and legally in the United States could get the new license under the plan.

    Somewhere along the way, you skipped the ruling by former state Attorney General Frank Kelley.

    Cox’s ruling, issued in late December, supersedes a 1995 opinion from former state Attorney General Frank Kelley. Kelley, a Democrat, had written that denying driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants may violate the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause. But Cox, a Republican, declared that “there can be no doubt that a rational basis exists for denying driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.”

24. #223349
    On January 21st, 2008 at 5:40 pm, brooklyn red said:

    ditto ragman.

25. #223357
    On January 21st, 2008 at 5:48 pm, MrScribbler said:

    Hillary has already given her answer: since “no woman is illegal” — and, apparently, she added “men” to the list after a focus group clued her in — she’ll make sure everyone can still get driver’s licenses, no matter what Michigan wants to do.

26. #223362
    On January 21st, 2008 at 5:55 pm, gandolphxx said:

    Congratulations to Michigan for finally getting it right – unfortunately the illegals will just drift down to Texas where it is easy to get a drivers license – courtesy of Govenor perry and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, and of course President Bush and his buddy Sutton.

27. #223369
    On January 21st, 2008 at 6:07 pm, Boomer said:

    It is about damn time the states started listing to their voters. Idaho needs to do more to control the invasion (far as I know they don’t have Idaho licenses), but most drive with out of state, or without licenses, and of course no insurance.

28. #223382
    On January 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm, gayle said:

    Wouldn’t they need to start taking licenses AWAY from illegals that already have one??????

    To stop now doesn’t accomplish what really needs to be done.

    ALL illegals must have their licenses taken ASAP.

29. #223384
    On January 21st, 2008 at 6:27 pm, Peejz said:

    On January 21st, 2008 at 6:24 pm, gayle said:

    You bet they should, but I bet you that legally, their hands are tied on this…

30. #223390
    On January 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pm, zorro said:

    Sorry Michelle, I could only listen to ten seconds of that video, that voice, her tone, are completely annoying. Just like listening to Jimmy Carter or Michael Moore. Yuk!

    As for Michigan, six years after Sept. 11, 2001 is a long time to wait to decide to obey the law when National security is at stake. They must sense that federal money is about to disappear.

31. #223420
    On January 21st, 2008 at 7:15 pm, countrybumpkin said:

    Here in snowbound Nebraska the Gov is catching it for proposing we treat illegals like illegals instead of honored citizens. The papers and professional whiners are up in arms.

    Shows the Gov’s on target.

32. #223422
    On January 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    What really boggles my mind is why illegals think it’s their “right” to have a driver’s license in the first place.

    What part of “you’re not a citizen” did they not get?

33. #223423
    On January 21st, 2008 at 7:18 pm, Hannibal said:

    #23 Peejz: Thank you for a timely link with more substance and less B.S. than Ms. Schlussel’s. Though, I was impressed with how Ms. Debbie worked Mike Cox’s sexual affair into a discussion about licenses for illegals. It must have been pertinent but I think I missed it. She sees this as all Cox and Land’s fault but failed to mention the policies were put in place by the longest serving political hacks in Michigan history, Sec. of State Richard Austin and Atty. Gen. Frank Kelly, both Democrats. Things in Michigan sometimes take a little longer. We are still waiting for the economic and employment boom to kick in that Democrat Gov. Jenny Granholm put in place in 2002.

34. #223442
    On January 21st, 2008 at 7:33 pm, coffee said:

    …no longer grant a driver’s license or state identification to first time applicants…

    Still having to parse pols words and actions; we still have not got their attention.

35. #223475
    On January 21st, 2008 at 8:00 pm, Alphonse said:

    It’s a safety issue. A license to a Mexican driver is a license to kill.

    When illegal aliens caught driving without a license are deported, then and only then do they drive carefully.

36. #223500
    On January 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm, right_on said:

    Ole! Viva la revolucion!!! Hopefully the worm is turning. Now, if they could just address the Jihadist movement up there….

37. #223508
    On January 21st, 2008 at 8:16 pm, xler8bmw said:

    # 32 Illegal aliens actually think under our Declaration they have “inALIENable” Rights”.

    Honest to god I heard one say this he had Alien Rights under the constitution. But considering we’re dealing with unskilled uneducated illegals he didn’t know it was under the Declaration of Independence which works in tandem w/the Constitution. Maybe had he applied to be a Legal citizen he would know that right!

38. #223686
    On January 21st, 2008 at 9:18 pm, Random-American said:

    It’s good to see that at least somebody still has some common sense.

39. #223995
    On January 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 am, Peejz said:

    On January 21st, 2008 at 7:18 pm, Hannibal said:

    No problem! Your analysis was spot on!

40. #224155
    On January 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm, jfish said:

    Yay, more signs of cracks in the thin, but oh-so-dangerous PC facade that fails to veil the facist roots of today’s left. As has been noted in these comments already, may the other 49 follow suit!

41. #238090
    On February 6th, 2008 at 11:40 pm, Dimsdale said:

    And while they’re at it, I’d kinda like to have her respond to some of the points Dick Morris brought up in his FNC.com article, about the curious relationship between the Clintons, their library, and the multi-million dollar donations made to said library by the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates;

    It’s not a library: it is a (money) laundry.

42. #452764
    On September 12th, 2008 at 10:54 am, Debbie Schlussel said:

    “Peejz” and “Hannibal”–or should I say, Mike Cox and GOP stooges?–Frank Kelly was attorney general almost a decade ago. It is Mike Cox who has been Attorney General for almost 6 of the seven years since 9/11. And for most of those, both he and Terri Lynn Land repeatedly allowed illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses, despite repeated complaints from me and many others, including the brother of a police office murdered by an illegal alien with a driver’s license. Land even proposed a Gov. Spitzer/Hillary style special license for illegal aliens, which Cox didn’t oppose. They are frauds and did nothing, until Mike Cox decided he for sure was running for governor.

    And Cox also refused to prosecute Muslim alien women who defrauded Medicaid to have their anchor babies here. He waited until they left the country, then got warrants for them. The guy is a fraud. And you are fools for falling for it.