Caution: Lindsay Grahamnesty at work; Update: Obama says wait until next year
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The open-borders zombie from hell is back:
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is working behind the scenes to help Democrats craft a new version of former President Bush’s immigration reform bill. Graham also supported the Bush/Kennedy/McCain bill back in 2007. As The Wall Street Journal reports:
Wes Hickman, a spokesman for Mr. Graham, said in a statement that “Senator Graham is ready and willing to play a key role in immigration reform. He intends to work with many of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle.”
The new bill will most likely be introduced in September by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Graham has been working with his colleague in search of other Republican votes.
Source: Politics Daily
Shamnesty never dies.
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Obama, meeting with leaders in Mexico, says that a shamnesty bill will have to wait until next year.
But shamnesty lives on at DHS:
It was bad enough that federal immigration officials blamed an Arizona sheriff for releasing illegal immigrants when the feds themselves actually had ordered the release. What’s worse is that releasing illegals is becoming official policy and the feds have issued a gag order to try to stop the sheriff from telling the public about it.
The spat between controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surfaced on July 23 and 24 when the sheriff’s deputies were ordered by ICE officials to release illegal immigrants who had been caught in a broader criminal sweep. Sheriff Arpaio complained to the media; a federal spokesman claimed the release was the sheriff’s fault; and the sheriff then released audiotapes proving that ICE officials, not he, had ordered the release.
Caught looking foolish, ICE officials threatened to withdraw the sheriff’s authority to enforce any immigration laws because the sheriff had violated a ban on contacting the media without first obtaining approval from the Department of Homeland Security, which is ICE’s parent agency.
Yes, you read that correctly: The sheriff was ordered to shut up. To make it clearer, ICE’s principal legal adviser, Peter S. Vincent, wrote to Arpaio attorney Robert Driscoll on July 31 that the sheriff’s department, under the terms of its agreement with ICE, must “coordinate with ICE regarding information to be released to the media regarding actions taken under this memorandum of agreement.”
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Time for googer Grahamnesty to go.
whoops goober, not googer.
Bring it on a$$hat!
Here we go again. Let’s get ready to crash that switchboard.
See, they just don’t listen or care what we want or think. How many times must we express our outrage over “immigration reform”?
Just enforce the laws we have and we wouldn’t be in this mess.
SC, please put this guy out to pasture.
Is this man up for re-election in 2010? If so, PLEASE all in SC vote this rino out.
L
Here’s the number:
Washington Office
290 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Main: (202) 224-5972
as is chuckie schumer….
SC voters please throw him under the bus!!!
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/august-7-2009/schumer-points-fall-amnesty-proposal.html
After the Soto vote, the timing is not going to be good for Graham.
This ineffectual little girly-man is a disgrace to the party. Why the hell doesn’t he just pull a Specter and shove off. What the hell is wrong with the voters of his state that they re-elect this bum? What the hell is wrong with the NRSC that they fund him!
My brother, very liberal, calls them what they are: illegal aliens. He wants it stopped. He told me of a news anchor in AZ that got his wrist slapped when he said “illegal alien” on air. He was told to use “undocumented worker.” The reporter got angry and showed his boss his own resident alient card! (He’s from Cananda). With the term ALIEN on it! The boss said nevertheless, he couldn’t say “illegal alien.”
Over 65% of the citizens of this country want the illegal aliens to GO HOME. Why is that so hard to understand?
They couldn’t sell it when the economy was good, let them try it when it is bad.
With 9.
54 unemployment and no end in sight, its a dumb move.The truth of the matter is, the good economy would have been better without an illegal economy competing with it.
The bad economy will be worse with it, too.
Once again, I call on conservative Republican congressmen and senators to depose their leaders. There will be no relief in the 2010 for either party where those vulnerable do not confront the leaders. The Blue Dogs have shown some spine but where are the Republicans?
GOP=RIP
Does everyone remember that photo that came out the last time they put together an amnesty bill? Graham, Teddy Kennedy and a few others were in a room, cutting up…..patting each other on the back.
Note to the idiots in the GOP: Since 70% of Hispanics voted for Obama over open borders McCain….why do you want to add to the number of Dem voters? Because I can guarantee if they get amnesty….the illegals will be told over and over, that the Dems are responsible for their amnesty.
Like Arlen Spector, Lindsey Graham is starting to play both sides of the fence figuring if it looks like he’s going to get dumped by the Republicans in his state, he’ll switch over to being a Democrat. He figures why not placate both sides for political survival.
They just continue to not get it. They have turned every NO into try again later when the public is distracted.
Because of the recession, I have seen a huge reduction in the number of illegals. I can go into a store which used to be heavily patronized by spanish speakers and hear no spanish and see no hispanics. I see only 1/10 the number of landscape trucks around and about. Illegals can’t make money in my area and have disappeared. This congress passes amnesty at its own peril.
I think that sez it all.
Plenty of good swamp and alligators down there in the low country. They would never find enough of Graham to i.d.
I dunno…even gators got taste buds
It’s been said before: We need to win every battle – they only need to win once. Keep the faith, keep up the intensity, beat them back again.
Proof we’re living in Bizarro World:
Sheriff Arpaio is the one called controversial in the sentence discussing law enforcement.
Why do we need immigration reform…????
Why don’t we simply enforce the rules/regulations we already have in place…?????
Yeah, but I heard clowns taste funny…
I’m all in favor of reform. We should go ahead and adopt the same immigration laws that Mexico has.
Helping Democrats? Why?
“I’d do the same for you, “Sandy!”, Sgt. Elias, from the movie, The Flight of the Intruder , who has suffered critical wounds, begging an A-1 Skyraider pilot to put him out of his misery.
Since the movie shows liberal distain for JAG, is anti-military, anti-justice, and anti-American, I thought Mr. Graham would appreciate the payback.
Who, who will remove this stone from my shoe?
I saw an OA official on TV yesterday, complaining that “the American people pay so-o-o-o much attention to what’s going on in Iraq, but they ignore all the violence that is going on along our southern border!” Ignore? Ignore?
Uh huh….who is blocking the construction efforts for the border fence? Who is sending National Guard troops to the border unarmed? Who wants to prevent American citizens from exercising their Second Amendment Rights? Who is blocking enforcement of Illegal Immigration laws? Who wants to send more money to Mexico to pay off their corrupt officials? Who?
If you feel helpless, and do nothing…you get the blame. If you stand up and do something…you are labelled “zenophobic,” “criminal,” and “un-American.” If you take action to protect yourself and your property, you get arrested, prosecuted, demonized, and sued by Mexican nationals. You ask for, and get no help from those elected to represent you…but they will more than help themselves.
Once again, it’s those Obama Administration, and liberal fingers pointing out their hypocracy.
No he was just re-elected in 2008.
The Democrat solution: Take away your shoes. You are not responsible enough to tend to your own needs! A commandeered vehicle will take you to a government-run sandal factory where you will be issued a $500 pair of sandals. Your confiscated shoes will be cut up and discarded. If anyone tries to save said shoes, well, they better watch out! We have laws, you know?
The Conservative solution: Lean on me, friend, take off your shoe, and shake out that stone. I’ll be here to help you when you need it, but don’t expect me to carry you.
The “provide for a common defense” clause has failed – Mexico has an invasion force of 10% of its population living illegally in the USA.
If DC can’t even handle the preamble to the Constitution, how can we trust them to protect any other part of it, much less handle all of the other crappy laws Congress has come up with over the years?
Healthcare? Yeah, right.
Whom do we sue?
sheriff joe is controversial, BECAUSE he enforces the laws regarding illegal immigration. our immigration control department ICE doesn’t. then they prevaricate and when caught, threaten the whistleblower with treason and other high crimes. i thought we had laws against illegals in this country, against punishing whisleblowers, and against lying to the american people?
throw in a chicken or two to mask the taste…it’ll go down ok….
*Gators also have gaydar, so they would steer clear of Grahamnesty.
*Amnesty in any form or fashion is the beginning of the end for the USA; Why doesn’t Grahamnesty just come out and say that he wishes “Death to America” as does most in the Democratic party?
*We will take our country back, and if we must go through the likes of Grahamnesty and the other rat bastard RINO’s, than so be it.
And one of the major consequences of illegal aliens – skewing our House of Representatives:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574332950796281832.html
3:29 pm, fred5676
They have already PAID ACORN (up to $8.5 Billion) to count the 2010 census now, Dems will grab thousands if not MILLIONS of ‘numbers’ to gain seats.
They’ve already been doing it but this will grow exponentially liberal and illegal.
DON’T YOU DARE, Grahamnesty!!!
You think we’re mad now????
Try to add amnesty to your already seditious actions.
Phil – if you could point out a few “conservative republicans” I would go along with you. Unfortunately I can’t think of many. 3 or 4 maybe, but not enough to carry the day. We need NEW blood in the ranks – not professional piliticians moving around.
As for Sheriff Arpaio … I’d love to see a cite for the law that gives the imperial federal government the authority to tell the good sheriff anything. His oath is to the state of AZ and the people who elected him to enforce the laws of that state. He does not need federal approval to enforce any statute.
He’s got 5.5 more years. Ya’ll should have sent his challenger (whose name escapes me now) money.
He was actually on the Democratic ticket because no “real” Democrats were interested in running against him, but leaned a lot farther right than Graham does. As a result, he got zero support from the DNC.
We should all work on ousting Chris Dodd this year. If we have to take it back one seat at a time, then we will.
It won’t happen next year either. next year is an election year and a lot of those blue dogs, yellow dogs, (and RINO’s) are going to have to defend such a vote to their constituents, they are already looking down the barrel of a gun (figuratively speaking of course) on the health scare abomination and the crap and tax and the porkulus, and the takeover of private businesses, the list is long and getting longer. They really DON’T have the political capitol to pull that off too. Obama has not figured out that he has overreached yet. So he continues to reach even more. It won’t be long before he is face down in the mud. The congresscriters up for reelection have no interest in being down in the mud with him.
What do we do about Graham? Here’s my humble suggestion. For lack of a better term, let’s call it the Chris Simcox “drinking game”.
If you don’t remember the name, Chris Simcox is McCain’s primary opponent for 2010. So, if you want to get back at McCain’s lapdog Graham, who I’m not convinced is doing any of this on his own initiative:
Above all, remember to remind the RINO twits that being a maverick is all fun and games until someone loses their cushy, undeserved legislative job over it.
My apologies to our hostess if I’m not supposed to put up links to the Simcox site.
Obama says “Wait until next year.” ????
That’s great for our side. Didn’t they learn anything from the 2007, 2008 efforts? Once again, Congress is what matters most, not the president or the Senate. In Congress, it is hard enough to get re-elected without throwing yourself on the party sword every year.
This is where Sarah Palin could be the decisive factor. Conservative congressmen need an alternative to traitorous party leadership. Sarah provides that. We outnumber the traitors by plenty. Therein lies our power.
Go Sarah!!!
Who the h-e-double-toothpicks cares what Lindsay Graham thinks about anything. He and his “colleagues on both sides of the aisle” can kiss my derrier. All he cares about is getting re-elected. And might I say that, by this move, he’s shown himself too stupid to deserve another term in office.
He’s an OOT (out-of-touch) politician who snivels around behind McCain like Waylon Smithers behind Montgomery Burns.
In conclusion, lest there be any question about where I stand:
I can’t stand that man.
We need to find a final solution for the Graham problem.
I find it hard to believe S.C couldn’t find one conservative person to run against this traitorous POS Gramnasty in the primaries last year.
We had a full fledged RINO Senator here Orygun, he was removed last year by a full fledged libturd, theirs no doubt where he votes, no surprises. As I said he doesn’t try and say he’s Republican when he isn’t, oh wait, Republican may just mean dem lite now, sorry I forgot.
I keep suggesting the solution. Get the rank and file Republicans in Congress to rebel against their party leaders and OUST THEM from the leadership ranks! Michael Steele? GONE! Mitch McConnell? GONE! John Boehner? GONE!
That is why Sarah Palin is so important. She gives conservatives, regardless of party affiliation, a popular leader and proven fund raiser. She so changes the game for one-party system that the MSM will have to report on her message, especially if the people who are showing up to the townhalls and Tea Parties rally behind her. WE are the biggest political party if we think so. Let’s think so!
Where the United Establishment Party refuses to help them raise money, Sarah CAN because her very appearance for any candidate is an event in itself.
Where the GOP has become the party that stands for nothing, Sarah is going to be propounding on specific conservative issues that are already very popular with Americans.
We absolutely must abandon partisan affiliations IMMEDIATELY. Think, speak and act like conservatives only. Everyone else is at war with us.
No noseholders in 2010!
Go Sarah!!!
Express your outrage to your congressional representatives at NumbersUSA. Here
Do what I do when the Republican Party sends me mail wanting a contribution. Use a black magic marker and write all over it “NO MAS ILLEGALS” and mail it back to them on their postage……eventually they’ll get the hint!!!!!!
I hate grahamnesty!!! I can’t beleive SC re-elected this moron. Especially after all the “bigot” etc remarks he made during the prior 2 amnesty pushes. Mark my words, amnesty will be the death knell for this country. We will slowly decay into 3rd world status as 30+M illegals are made citizens followed by another 100+M as they bring their reletvies here. Most are very poor and want he gov’t to provide more welfare and handouts. Then of course expect a flood of new illegals whent he gov’t fails to halt more illegal immigraiton. Rinse and repeat.
This smacks of propoganda. How can a federal agency be allowed to cover up it’s intentions. Goebbels’ information ministry comes to mind. If we had MSM with any integrity, they would launch an all out attack on this information sensoring and report on the actions of this rogue agency. I am tired of all the secret behing closed door games of the federal agencies. Hey napolitano, how about just do your freaking job and deport these criminal invaders!!! Scum, every last one of them.