Well readers, Pelosi and co. are at it again.  As I said in my last post, 38 of the cosponsoring forty nine Democrats still have not signed the SAVE Act discharge petition, which would bring the SAVE Act to a vote.

            As if that wasn’t insulting enough to their constituencies, Pelosi’s cronies are devising even more ways to circumvent what should be both a compromise for them and an action mandated by the American people following the McCain-Kennedy debacle.

            On top of preventing the Act from ever coming to a vote, now Rep. Joe Barca (D – California) has proposed an amendment that would include amnesty!

            Not to worry reader, you are not the only one having flashbacks to that McCain-Kennedy debacle.  If this amendment were to be approved, we would be right back to square one – in other words, right where Democrats want us to be.  They want us to be back to square one because they know square one means no progress towards immigration reform. 

            Democrats won’t even discuss immigration reform until we conservatives concede amnesty.  That is absurd.  Amnesty has become the critical issue when it comes to immigration reform. 

After the Democrats took over both houses in 2006, didn’t they say they would put an end to partisan bickering and strive to accomplish things through bipartisanship?

            That campaign promise has turned out to be amusingly false.  Democrat Heath Shuler and Republican Brian Bilbray have come up with a bipartisan compromise on immigration.  The bill they wrote does not even deal with any of the illegal immigrants already here.  It merely strengthens border security and allots additional resources to enforce existing laws.

            To top it off, the bill was cosponsored by 157 members of the House, forty nine of which are Democrats.  That appears fairly bipartisan, right?

            But alas, thirty eight of those forty nine Democrats don’t want to vote on the bill they are endorsing.  Now Joe Barca has proposed the aforementioned amnesty amendment that would allow a 5 year temporary worker permit for illegal immigrants already here, rather than to allow our law enforcement officers to continue deporting people who break our laws. 

That buys the Democrats plenty of time to conspire on how to further circumvent immigration reform.  Five years is plenty of time to pacify the immigrants and their American cult following, and after those five years I’m sure the Democrats will have a way to keep the people who participated in the 5 year worker program here forever.

            As if that wasn’t enough, Barca’s amendment to the SAVE Act would also shield employers who have hired illegal immigrants in the past, irrespective of any statute of limitations.  That means we cannot prosecute anyone who has broken existing immigration employment laws, which is in direct contrast to what the SAVE Act sought to accomplish: enforcing existing immigration laws.

            So the Barca’s logic must be as follows:  I campaigned that we should compromise.  Ok, to do that we should at least enforce existing laws until we come up with a better solution.  But in the mean time, let’s not enforce existing laws.

            Barca’s Congressional website amusingly purports that, “The American people demanded a New Direction: to make America safer, to help restore the American dream, and to restore accountability and fiscal responsibility to the people's government.”

            That’s exactly right, Mr. Congressman.  The McCain-Kennedy backlash made it abundantly clear that Americans want to make American safer by securing our borders.  So in furtherance of Barca’s “New Direction,” I’m going to restore accountability by exposing his party’s manifest hypocrisies, particularly concerning the notion of bipartisan support when they are secretly scheming against it.

            It is also worth noting that although Barca’s website lists many of his proposals and accomplishments, the SAVE Act amendment is not among them.  I’m guessing that’s because the San Bernardino voters who put him in office would be pretty ticked off if they knew about his little amendment.  The southern California area has felt more of an impact because of illegal immigration than most other parts of the country.

            For those that don’t know much about the makeup of the California constituencies, if you go anywhere east of the beach then you’re in a conservative zone.  Barca is a Democrat that managed to get elected in hostile territory.  I’m sure his voters would not be too happy if his little Pinky-and-the-Brain plan was publicized.

            Once again Congressional Democrats are showing why they are undeserving of the political majority they have received in both Houses.  In 2006, they said the American people had spoken.  The only thing is, the American people continue to speak.  They spoke after 2006 when McCain-Kennedy was introduced, and they continue to speak today through Congressional approval polls.

            Congress had a very low approval rating prior to the 2006 Democratic takeover.  Those numbers have not moved an inch since the Democrats have controlled Congress.  Not only is the party torpedoing itself when it comes to the Executive branch, now they are self destructing in the Legislative branch as well.  I, for one, cannot wait for the pendulum to swing back in our favor come November.

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