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Illegal Immigration Watch: GOP Offers Senate Immigration Bill Change – Go Home First
A Mexican national peers through the US Mexico border wall 10 June 2007 in San Ysidro, California. Backers of US immigration reform vowed Sunday to hustle deeply divisive legislation through the Senate this week to document 12 million illegal aliens while beefing up border security.
GOP Backers Offer Immigration Bill Change
Provision Would Require Illegal Residents to Return Home to Gain Legal Status
With a crucial test vote scheduled for today, Republican supporters of a sweeping immigration bill threw their weight yesterday behind a significant change to the legislation that would force illegal immigrants to return to their home countries to apply for legal status.
The change could rattle the delicate bipartisan coalition that forged the Senate’s immigration overhaul, but supporters say it may be necessary to pull in enough Republican votes to secure passage by week’s end. The bill’s authors will have to muster 60 votes today to bring it back up for consideration. The legislation would then have to clear potential amendments before a showdown Thursday over whether to cut off debate and vote on final passage Friday.
This “touchback” requirement is a JOKE because the people here illegally would remain anonymous, continue to live and work here and would simply not apply for a “Z” Visa. Their children would continue to be American citizens.
Flap doubts that the GOP caucus would ignore the GOP base of voters to approve this provision so as to make the entire bill acceptable.
The American voters overwhelmingly do NOT support this bill.
The latest Rasmussen Poll is here:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 22% of American voters currently favor the legislation. That’s down a point from 23% a couple of weeks ago and down from 26% when the debate in the Senate began. Fifty percent (50%) oppose the Senate bill while 28% are not sure.
Among the public, there is a bi-partisan lack of enthusiasm for the Senate bill. It is supported by 22% of Republicans, 23% of Democrats, and 22% of those not affiliated with either major party. It is opposed by 52% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 48% of unaffiliateds.
Will this GOP “touchback” requirement be a poison pill for the Democrats? Or will they pass along the bill to the House and amend it in conference later?
The GOP base does NOT trust the Republican sponsors of this bill.
It would best to KILL this bill and focus on enforcing existing law and bolstering border security FIRST.
We will know soon whether there are sufficient GOP votes to provide cloture.
Stay tuned…….
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Michael Ramirez on Cameron Diaz and Other DumbASS Celebrities
Cameron Diaz apologizes for Maoist bag
Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for carrying a bag with a political slogan that evoked painful memories in Peru.
The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated “Shrek” films visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru’s Andes on Friday carrying an olive green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong’s most famous political slogan.
The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world capitals, but in Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead.
“I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended. The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it,” Diaz said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press.
Dumb and CLUELESS
And to think Paris Hilton will be released from jail soon…….
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John McCain Watch: McCain to Pull Out of Presidential Race – What You Smoking?
Earlier today Flap referenced a Times of London piece which quoted a number of American political consultants who stated that John McCain may drop out of the 2008 Presidential race.
The video above states the obvious:
John McCain cannot read and/or interpret the polls of American voters.
He is out of touch with reality. But, then again, on the Senate immigration bill (among many issues), Americans know this.
Oh and by the way, Senator, Flap doesn’t smoke.
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John McCain Watch: McCain to Pull Out of Presidential Race By Labor Day?
Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., answers questions at the Florida Association of Broadcasters, Wednesday, June 20, 2007, in Palm Beach, Fla.
McCain could pull out of race by autumn
Presidential hopeful drops campaign staff as Republican consultants predict he’ll be gone by September
THE former presidential front-runner, John McCain, may drop out of the 2008 race by September if his fundraising dries up and his poll ratings continue to drop, according to Republican insiders.
The speculation, vigorously denied by McCain’s camp, is sweeping Republican circles after a disastrous few weeks in which the principled Arizona senator has clashed with the party’s conservative base on immigration and also alienated independent voters by backing President George W Bush’s troop surge in Iraq.
Dan Schnur, McCain’s communications director during the 2000 presidential campaign, said it was “possible†that he could drop out: “There are all sorts of challenges McCain is facing, from fundraising to Fred Thompson and the Iraq war, but the biggest single boulder in his path is the immigration issue.â€
One veteran Republican consultant put the odds of McCain remaining in the race beyond the autumn at 3-1 against. “He’ll be gone by September,†predicted Tom Edmonds, who is not affiliated with any campaign.
The McCain campaign is already DONE. Put a Fork in McCain.
The Senator is NOT leading in ANY polls national or statewise and his fundraising is lagging.
Why bother to campaign if there is NO support?
The GOP campaign will boil down to Rudy Vs. Fred with Romney hanging on with his money raised from his Mormon constituencies.
Captain Ed says NO – But, he ignores the precipitous drop of McCain in the polls and the concomitant failure of his fundraising operation. Ed, you can’t run those campaign ads if you got no money.
Robert Bluey points to the fact that conservatives in his home state of Arizona have taken up a petition calling on him to withdraw from the presidential race.
 Michelle Malkin – Better late than never, I guess.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Is Arnold a Republican?
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, speaks as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, right, looks on at the 75th Annual Meeting of the US Conference of Mayors in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 23, 2007.
Is Schwarzenegger really a Republican? Less so than the young immigrant who rose from body builder to movie star.
Less so than the unexpected candidate who replaced Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in the 2003 recall election. Less so than the compelling orator who addressed the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Less so than he probably would be now if he had been born in Alabama instead of Austria and could run for the GOP presidential nomination next year.
While he is embraced by business interests as incomparably better than Davis or any Democrat, he is a crushing disappointment to hard-pressed Republican activists.
As titular head of the California GOP, Arnold has done little to elect GOP candidates. And his appointments to the state courts have been mixed with many GOP lawyers waiting to be appointed to the bench while their Democrat colleagues are.
Since the California Special Election of 2005 (where the Governor took a drubbing of his reform measures), Schwarzenegger has withdrawn as a Republican and embraced a populist approach that assured him re-election last year and a boost in the polls. Arnold governs as a Democrat.
The California GOP is in disarray. The party needs a “leader.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger is NOT the one.
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Giuliani Notes: California – Rudy 25% Thompson 16% McCain 14% Romney 5% in Latest Survey and Policy Research Institute Poll
The Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University PollIn the Republican primary, Giuliani leads with 25%, including 32% among conservatives who comprise about half (49%) of all California Republican voters. It is among this large bloc of GOP voters that Thompson, still officially undeclared, makes his most forceful presence, with 25% compared to just 11% for McCain.
GOP voters who are 55 and older are sharply divided: 22% for Giuliani, 20% for
Thompson and 14% for McCain. Likewise, the youngest GOP voters, aged 18-34 are divided 17% for Giuliani and McCain and 13% for Thompson.Thompson also cuts close to Giuliani among those who attend religious services once a month or more, with 20% compared to Giuliani’s 24%. McCain’s best showing is among liberal, non-white and the youngest Republican voters – a small constituency to draw from.
The GOP NUTS:
A good poll for Hizzoner – as he continues to lead throughout the California demographics.
McCain continues to fade and Thompson is now in second place. But, Thompson is not challenging Rudy and has not been campaigning in California besides a disastrously underwhelming speech before the Orange County GOP a number of weeks ago.
California and Florida are the states that Giuliani must and will win on his February 5, 2008 strategy to capture the White House.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir June 25, 2007