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The “Maveric” McCain lost his cool before the press conference to unveil his immigration plan:

Senator McCain responded: “F*** you! I know what is going on here. I know more about immigration than anybody in this room!”

Who says politics is boring? Want the full scoop? Check the link…

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House Democrats are already voting to ignore ethics violations by Rep. Murtha (Democrat).  Good job guys.  Way to stick to your guns and follow the “people’s mandate.”
So here the American people are with a choice between a party that will obviously say and/or do anything to get elected, and a party that has abandoned its ideas and ideals to get elected (very similar to the former, but I’d still argue different).

And the sad thing is, most voters will forget it all by the time 11/2008 rolls around, and the politicians start clamoring to be the ones to offer the most taxpayer money..

Mark Steyn of the Chicago Sun Times has an excellent piece on the Z-visas headed our way unless congress stops the mad train its on. It’s a longer article but the humor and sarcasim make it an enjoyable read. The first four paragraphs are below, check the link for the full scoop.

Are you a fine upstanding member of the Undocumented-American community? That’s to say, are you (if you’ll forgive the expression) an illegal immigrant?

Great news! Being illegal is now perfectly legal! Just for being one of the circa 12 million people who shouldn’t be here, you can now be here indefinitely! If you were living and working in America illegally before Jan. 1, 2007, you’re now entitled to one of the new Z-1 “probationary” visas. And your parents and spouses are entitled to one of the new Z-2 visas, and your children to the new Z-3 visas.

Don’t worry: It’s not an “amnesty.” Every politician in America is opposed to amnesty — if not the concept, then at least the word. That’s why the visa starts with the letter that’s furthest away from the one “amnesty” begins with. “Z” stands for zellout . . . no, hang on, zurrender or Zapatista, or some other word way up the other end of the alphabet from “amnesty.” But the point is, at a stroke there will be no more illegal immigrants. Because being illegal means you’re now legal.

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Yesterday, the Senate voted for cloture on a motion to bring S. 1348 to the floor for debate without going through a committee process. Approving the motion by a 69-23 margin. The Senate will debate an Amend the bill this week and next. There will then be another cloture vote to end debate and vote on the bill. If 10 “Yea” votes are changed by the next cloture vote this bill will effectively be dead for this session of congress. If not prepare to welcome 20 million new illegals -er- legals to the country.

Here are the Senators that stood with the vast majority of the American people on the cloture vote:

Nay Votes

Allard (R-CO)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bunning (R-KY)
Byrd (D-WV)
Coburn (R-OK)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Enzi (R-WY)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sununu (R-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)

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Monday the 21st could be a historic day in America. It could be the day that the most sweeping immigration bill ever passes. Leading the way for 12-20 MILLION illegals to start the road to becoming US citizens while INCREASING the number of immigrants in this country by as much as 50 million over the next 5 years.

“Comprehensive” immigration reform indeed!

What makes today a day to watch is weither Republicans allow this bill to get through the Sentor’s procedural vote process. This is the area where the Republicans still have great deal of control. As many American’s probably remember from Supreme Court nominations, 60 Senators are required pass procedural hurdles. With Democrats in control of 51 seats (including the two indies that caucus with them), that means 9 Republicans have to agree to bring the bill to the floor for discussion (cloture vote). Since McCain’s name is on the bill we’re really only talking about 8 out 48 Republicans caving.

The sad part is that the underlying motivation seems to be adding the illegals to the voting public along party lines. And both parties seem convinced the citizens will vote with their party. The tragedy is that polls have over 80% of the American people AGAINST this bill. Senators that publicly supported this bill have been “Booed” South Carolina and Georgia this weekend. But apparently a crack at 12 million+ new voters is more important than angering the current voters.

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Check out this video from a recent Fair Tax rally. Thousands of people gathering in South Carolina for a tax reform bill.  The momentum and desire is there.  Why won’t politicians listen?  Well, the answer is easy: they would lose their biggest source of power…

Also, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee addressed the rally, and is apparently a supporter of the Fair Tax.  After his performance at the debate, he may be able to gain some traction as a candidate.  Unless Thompson or Gingrich step in.  Or maybe even not until they decide to not run.  In or out: decide gentlemen.  Either run, or let some one else fill the conservative void.  Their indecision is starting to hurt their chances, I do believe.

Dick Morris (former political consultant to the Clintons) sums up Hillary’s position(s) on Iraq:

* She voted in the Senate for H.J. Res. 114, the “Authorization of the Use of Military Force Against Iraq,” in October 2002. But now she wants to repeal it. Why? Because, according to Hillary, President Bush misinterpreted the “Authorization of the Use of Military Force Against Iraq” resolution to mean that the use of military force against Iraq had been authorized by Congress.

* At the time of her vote, she stated that her vote for the troop authorization bill was made “with conviction . . . as being in the best interests of the country.”

* But once the war became unpopular, Hillary claimed that she hadn’t really voted to send troops to Iraq when she voted for the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq.

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Filmmaker Michael Moore is making a new documentary about the sad state of America’s health care, called Sicko.  He even took some people affected by 9/11 to Cuba to contrast.  Well, he got into some trouble, and is being investigated by the Treasury Department.

Possible presidential candidate Fred Thompson responded with a piece for National Review criticizing Moore:

While this p.r. stunt has obviously been successful — here I am talking about it — Moore’s a piker compared to Fidel Castro and his regime. Moore just parrots the story they created — one of the most successful public-relations coups in history. This is the story of free, high quality Cuban health care.

The truth is that Cuban medical care has never recovered from Castro’s takeover — when the country’s health care ranked among the world’s best… 

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I came across this info again today so I thought I’d post it out there again. People need to realize what the “tax cuts for the rich” that are about to expire under the Democratic congress entail:

• Reducing the lowest tax bracket from 15% to 10%
• Eliminated the tax penalty for married people filing jointly
• $400 child tax credit
• Reduced capital gains rates (55% of Americans own some stock)

Married? Kids? Have a 401k? Actually pay taxes? Congrats, welcome to the ranks of the rich. Your taxes need to go up to help support all those people that don’t pay taxes.

BUT WAIT! If its a money issue, what about the all time record for taxs collected in April? Some may wonder, how can you collect more taxes after reducing the tax rates? Its simple economics that can be simplified into a parallel involving burgers. If you started a restaurant that sold $100 burgers - well you’d probably have a lot of free tables. Meanwhile, McDonalds has proven you can sell a crap load of burgers for a buck. The point is that just like with selling something: raising the price/rate doesn’t always generate more total profit. Sure that one $100 burger has a great profit margin but selling 2 verses 2 billion changes which business model wins. (Now to be fair you could sell even more burgers for a penny, but your margins at that point would be negative. So the same arguement can be made that you a certain minimum tax rate to generate significant revenues — which is true. The point here however is that raising the rate does not always raise the revenues.)

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