This is the biggest issue of the day, in my mind. Not because of it’s importance, but because Congress, led by ‘Maverick’ John McCain is making it an issue. This guy who wants to be President, is pushing legislation that would grant citizenship to those who broke our immigration laws. People that entered the US illegally, would be given a fine and granted immunity from the standard punishment for their crime, deportation.

I am one of McCain’s biggest opponents in his quest to be President. I personally think he has done more to harm the Bush Presidency than any of the Liberals, Michael Moore included. Every-time the media is chomping at the bits to find a Republican to speak against the Bush administration, McCain was there. Whether the way the war was being handled or judicial appointments, McCain was always willing to buck his party and be the ‘Maverick’.

Well here we are we up to 11 million people in our country who do not belong here. They came here illegally, and are here illegally. Sure they are filling a need in some respects when it comes to taking jobs ‘no American would do’, but does that make it ok? 99.9% of them probably do want the same things the Real Americans want, life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So does that make it ok?

Most people around the world want those things. Should we just allow anyone in then?

I have a realistic vision for dealing with illegal immigration. It is tough, yet fair. Let’s reform our immigration system to increase quotas so that good hardworking people can be given the chance to come to America with the chance of an honest days pay. Our current system obviously doesn’t fit our economies’ needs nor that of the potential workers’. Let’s get the brightest minds to analyze the workforce and job needs biannually and adjust our numbers of visas for the jobs needed. We should consider making visas career based as well as ethnic.

This would allow us to increase or decrease the numbers of available workers in a given sector according to needs. If we need more harvesters, we increase Mexican visas. If we need more computer tech workers, its India. (Give me some slack on the breakdown.) You get the picture. Let our needs set the quotas. Currently they are idealistic and diplomatically controlled. We need to get them based on reality.

Alongside of the reformed immigration system, we need to secure our borders. I’d like to see us mobilize the National Guard and military to enforce our borders immediately. Then we create a division of Home Land Security with the chief role of border enforcement. We would have up to thousands of border guards who actually patrol our borders, and turn away illegals before they disappear into society. We need to stop the flow!

When the levies in New Orleans broke, we didn’t decide to let them be since the town was already flooded and the damage was done, did we? No, we knew that if we were going to save New Orleans’ existence, we’d have to stop the flow of water.

We also need to create a process in which when illegals are discovered, regardless of how long they’ve been here or what they have accumulated while here, they are deported. We would take them, do a criminal/background check, and return them home. They’d be given the paperwork to apply for a visa, with instructions to fill it out and return it to the US embassy of their homeland. This would help fast-track them so they could return, but not simply overlook their law breaking in the first place.

Just like the waters that flooded New Orleans, we need to pump out the illegals. If we left the water in the city, there could never be any rebuilding.

Of course this plan of mine is imperfect, but I came up with it over a beer at the bar.

We have got to do something to fix this problem, and what McCain has offered does nothing but legalize an illegal activity. I support punishing businesses that hire illegals knowingly, and they should also be punished somehow, not rewarded as they would be under McCain’s idea of Border security.

Congress owes it to it’s citizens to protect the rights of Americans. It is our right to have our laws enforced, not usurped. I am hopeful that McCain has finally tried to bite off more political opportunism than he could chew, and that this will be the end of him politically. He is pandering to an interest group who, legally, cannot vote not support his Presidential aspirations. He is abusing the power he was trusted with, and he must not be rewarded.

I think it is time for the Republican PArty to stand up and make McCain choose. It is either his ‘Maverick’ motives or his Elephant club membership. He’s a cancer to our Party and this country. He is sticking his finger in the wind, and playing off the polls, not right and wrong.

ARORA (Against Republicans Obstructing the Republican Agenda)  is ramping up again, and it is high time that McCain be served his walking papers.

Good Point.

See, it is now our fault! The DFL is trying to pin Johnsopn’s lies on the GOP. That didn’t take long at all. (5 Minutes ago I posted this)

Have you felt like a piece of the recent professionally manufactured Johnson story was missing? Well, this is it. The fellow clergy (the ones without the tape recorder) who Senator Johnson met with that day in January have released an open letter in the West Central Tribune

From the New London-Spicer Ministerium:

To Senator Dean Johnson: Thank you for your apology regarding statements that were made at our January meeting. It is appreciated.

To all the politicians in St. Paul: Please know that we often pray for your work at our regular ministerium meetings and in our worship services. However, please, please hear us as we ask you to move on from the legislation of human sexuality to the more pressing issues of poverty, health care, education, gambling (and our ever-increasing reliance on its profits), to name but a few. You have very important work to do. Please get on with it!

To Brent Waldemarsen of Harvest Community Church in Willmar: Given your statements to the media over the past 10 days, we would like you to know, without any confusion, how disappointed we are in your behavior, and more so, in your arrogance at “not having done anything to apologize for”. Make no mistake, you have much to apologize for, including: the deceitful pre-meditation of your actions; the secret taping of our conversations — and if it were not secret, why did you not place the recorder in plain view or inform us of what you were doing; the removal of trust from our ministerium; and ultimately your own obfuscation of the truth.It is disingenuous at best to claim that this is a moral issue and not a political issue.…

And finally, why do you limit yourself to this single issue? If morality is your bailiwick, one would expect to see similar passion around the more pressing issues of poverty, affordable health care, the effects of gambling, and racism — subtle and not so subtle, all of which exist in Kandiyohi County.

We wait with bated breath for your apology as we attempt to rebuild trust in our community and among our colleagues….

Release the hounds. The DFL is now trying to blame us! Dang it, they will not play nice or play fair in St. Paul, no matter how much you forgive them. Go for the jugular when you get the chance.

So, now that Dean ‘Lying Sack o’ Poo’ Johnson, DFL Senate Majority leader is off the hook, more details are coming to light. On AM1500’s Ron & Mark show, they were talking about statements from Johnson’s attorney that if Johnson’s testimony before the Ethics Panel would have continued, they would have brought in witnesses to testify that the conversations Johnson originally talked about (in the taped speech) actually happened.

I rarely agree with Ron & Mark, but I am just as outraged as them that this issue is now done. So it is ok to either force Supreme Court Justices to give opinions on possible cases or it is ok to lie about it if it suits the Liberal political agenda.

I’m sorry, but all the Republicans who have demanded we move on, and forgive, are wrong. Johnson’s lie keeps getting worse and worse. He has abused the trust given to him as an elected official, possibly corrupted our judiciary, and spent the last few weeks making up lie after lie to cover his ass.

Johnson has always been a slime-ball as far as I’m concerned as he is putting the DFL agenda above that of the State of Minnesota. He is the chief obstructionist, he is the reason the State shut down last year. He is the reason there is so much ill will at the Capital. He is the biggest liar down there.

So why the hell did the Republicans back off? It wouldn’t be kicking a guy when he is down, when he’s pissing on your shoes. You fools! This guy has given you documented proof that he is a lying partisan hack, and what do you do? Forgive him. For crying out loud, this guy is about to blame the whole thing on the Republicans. Are you going to still think he should be forgiven then?

Johnson messed up big time, he finally got caught on tape lying his ass off. So why is he getting a free pass?

So I think we have pretty clear evidence of just where the entitlement mentality of the Left in America will lead us.

(Source: AP)
I have to wonder if these riots in France are not the first in a chain of them. Is Europe crumbling from with in. Weeks ago, Paris was a blaze from Muslims, now it is this degenerate class who are taking to the streets and destroying property, because they could get fired.

Well, I certainly hope anyone who skipped work to protest goes back to work to find a pink slip.

This thought process of ‘I deserve to be employed by you’ is the twisted step child of the nanny state the American Left is in love with. When they can force Government to provide at will what ever people want, it will quickly lead to the private sector. Once and for all, the Left will destroy the Capitalistic system.

The other thought that is rumbling around in my head is that these people are only rioting to riot. Obviously they don’t need to work, most of the people are well dressed, or obviously stuck in the ‘grunge’ phase that still captures the imagination of degenerate.

What good can come from destroying so much property?

This is the worst piece of legislation ever, EVER!

The Senate Judiciary Committee last night approved a plan that would put millions of illegal aliens on a path to U.S. citizenship, would let them stay here while applying and would not punish their unlawful entry as a felony, contrary to a House-passed bill.
“A path to earned citizenship is what this bill is all about,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said after joining all Democrats and three other Republicans on the panel to approve the plan, which many consider an “amnesty.”

You idiots, we have a path to citizenship. This is a joke right? We’re not really talking about forgiving people that broke laws, are we?

The plan approved by the committee — taken from a bill written by Sens. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat — would fine current illegal aliens $2,000 each. The bill also would require aliens to undergo criminal background checks and mandate that they maintain employment over the six years they wait to get in line for full citizenship, a process which takes several more years.

I guess we are. Oh, and look at the conductors behind this crappy piece of legislation, McCain, and Teddy Kennedy. I’m not so surprised that they’d be behind a bill like this’ origin, but I am saddened that other Senators would get on board the illegal immigration train.

Do we really need Congress making laws anymore, since they are now writing laws forgiving people who break laws?

In a ray of hope that the  Federal Government  doesn’t have it’s head firmly planted up it’s you know what, the FEC decided that blogs should be covered under Freedom of Speech, in regards to Political Speech.

The Federal Election Commission decided Monday that the nation’s new campaign finance law will not apply to most political activity on the Internet.

In a 6-0 vote, the commission decided to regulate only paid political ads placed on another person’s Web site.

The decision means that bloggers and online publications will not be covered by provisions of the new election law. Internet bloggers and individuals will therefore be able to use the Internet to attack or support federal candidates without running afoul of campaign spending and contribution limits.

Hallelujah! Even better-

For example, the rule says individuals can use union or corporate computers or other electronic devices for political activity, as long they do it on their own time and are not coerced to engage in such activity by the union or corporation.

Uh oh, Ed MN and AFSCME better rebuild their political wing.

Bloggers would be entitled to the same exemption from the campaign finance law that newspapers and other traditional forms of media receive.

“There will be no second class citizens among members of the media,” Toner said.

And with that last quote, bloggers will now face a 24-7 assault from the legacy media. They will not stand for such an insult as to be likened to bloggers.

The aftermath of conventions. Endless paper work and record keeping. Insanity is very near. Hopefully I’ll be back to regular posting practices soon.

My apologies.

While I’m gone though, I’d be curious if anyone would care to see me post my thoughts on the 6th CD GOP Candidates. I’ve been debating on whether or not I should post my personal reactions/thoughts/feeling on each of the 4. I’ve been going through the pros and cons of each candidate in my head, and more importantly of me posting it here, given my positions in the RPM. I’m not talking about endorsing a candidate, but rather my observations of someone close to the action. I’ve really been holding back on things, and I’d love to get them off my chest now that my BPOU convention is over.

Any suggestions? Good idea? Bad idea?

So we now have thousands of illegals protesting the idea of enforcing the law they broke to become illegal. Maybe the people in DC that have been overlooking the enforcement of the law the illegals broke will finally realize we have a problem.

Well, SD51’s Convention is over. From the reports I have heard, the interested parties are satisfied with the results, I.E. we don’t have to do it over. (I guess one BPOU Convention may have to be redone) I don’t know who won the Delegate battle in the 6th, but I’m confident in saying we did our part, and it was done fairly.

Our Delegates to the next level of Conventions are set & our local Candidates are endorsed.

I am so glad this is over. The ulcers can now heal. No more Tums for breakfast. I slept well for the first time in weeks last night.
There is so much that goes into making these Conventions happen, and I couldn’t have done it with out those who helped. Thank you.

It’s over. I’m done. Oh crap, now I have to help with the 6th CD Convention since I’m on that Executive Committee too. Doooooooohhhhhhh!!!!!