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Monday, October 29, 2007
John McCaslin :: Townhall.com Columnist
Conquering America
by John McCaslin
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The Mexican government apparently has no problem with its citizens penetrating the U.S. border by the millions. In fact, it's been written that increasing the number of Mexicans working illegally in America is among Mexico's highest foreign-policy objectives.

Yet now comes congressional testimony from Jess T. Ford, the Government Accountability Office's director of international affairs and trade, that "Mexican sensitivity about its national sovereignty" has made it difficult for the two countries to coordinate counternarcotics activities.

Mexican sensitivity? About its national sovereignty? What about ours?

Buck Owens, et al.

Disgruntled and disenchanted. That's the mood of the American people when it comes to assessing this 110th Congress.

Given the captain is responsible for his — or her, in this case — ship, Republicans are putting the blame on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and her Democratic lieutenants for the "few meaningful accomplishments" of this Congress.

How few?

Naming post offices and courthouses, it turns out, account for nearly half of the 106 bills signed into law this year. As House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio describes matters, it's "no accident" that Congress has an embarrassingly low "11 percent approval rating," according to the latest Reuters/Zogby survey.

Mr. Boehner's office has broken down the year's 106 signed bills, and, amazingly, 46 of them deal solely with the naming of post offices, courthouses and roads. (Baltimore Orioles baseball great Cal Ripken, for example, got a stretch of interstate highway named in his honor.) Another 44 were "noncontroversial" measures, while 14 simply extended existing public laws.

So at least give this Congress credit for the Gerald R. Ford Jr. Post Office Building, the Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. United States Courthouse, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building, the Buck Owens Post Office Building and the Eleanor McGovern Post Office Building. Continued...
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John McCaslin is a contributing columnist on Townhall.com and author of Inside The Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops, and Shenanigans from around the Nation's Capital .

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Reply # 1
Date: Oct 30, 2007 - 5:33 PM EST
how to reverse the ILLEGAL invasion
We COULD make ILLEGALS leave via attrition PROVIDED THAT our pols are made to realize that 72% of Americans STRONGLY want ILLEGALS to leave and get in line to apply properly to visit to work:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/imm igration_bill_failure
_proves_rasmussen_s_first_law_of_politics

The key to this is CLEARLY demonstrating to ILLEGALS that we intend to enforce EXISTING laws --> no licenses, no jobs, no welfare, no social services, no college tuition UNLESS you can prove that you have a LEGAL right to be visiting. We also need to crack down on expired visas.

Then ILLEGALS would return at THEIR expense-- the same way they got here. BUT the pols must first be made to reverse the message they are sending. The power and $ are indubitably on the other side with the cheap labor lobby and limited interest groups, but Middle America has won the recnt battles in Congress. Presidente Jorge Bush, Sanctuary City Rudy, and other RINOS wink at them after they pretend to favor enforcement. If we let the left and RINOS make voters of the 20 million uneducated, culturally disparate ILLEGALS, it is OVER for America-- we will inexorably rapidly and permanently morph into a third world entitlement state. see how you can join the fight to preserve YOUR great country just below.
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Reply # 2
Date: Oct 30, 2007 - 5:25 PM EST
rattle those cages in Washington!
Folks, do NOT underestimate how influential your calls and e-mails to Congress can be. While it is true that the monied lobbyists and inside the beltway power brokers wield the most influence, even the pro-ILLEGAL forces admit that it was
(righteously indignant) Middle America pounding out those calls and e-mails which has derailed Scamnesty thus far despite the immense special interest $ trying to cram it thru. We just stopped the surreptitious attempt at scamnesty dubbed "the Dream Act," even though Dingy Harry Reid and Turbin Durbin thought that would be the easiest to sneak thru after evading the normal procedural rules.

Great American Sen. Sessions and others have noted that the Senators had never seen anything like the wrath this Scamnesty stuff caused in Middle America. Here is how you can contact YOUR Senators and Reps at their official contact sites-- it is easy! Heck, contact all of the Senators-- I do! Bookmark it and call/e-mail them often:

http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm

Or you can send the great topic-specific e-mails as prepared by the top anti-ILLEGAL group and stay informed right here:

http://www.numbersusa.com/index
http://www.numbersusa.com/actionbuffet
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