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VOTING RECORDs
on
IMMIGRATION |
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The
following politicians
voted
YEA
to let Measure
S.2205 (Dream Act)
come to the floor for consideration. S.2205
is a BILL to authorized the cancellation of removal and
adjustment of status of certain alien
students who are long-term U.S. residents
and who entered the U.S. as children,
and other purposes
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Hawaii:
Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Indiana:
Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Utah:
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Delaware:
Joe Biden (D-DE)
New Mexico:
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Ohio:
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Kansas:
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Washington:
Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Maryland:
Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Delaware:
Tom Carper (D-DE)
Pennsylvania:
Bob
Casey (D-PA)
New York:
Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Minnesota:
Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Maine:
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Idaho:
Larry Craig (R-ID)
Illinois:
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Wisconsin:
Russell Feingold (D-WI)
California:
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Nebraska:
Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Iowa:
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Utah:
Orin Hatch (R-UT)
Texas:
Kay Bailey
Hutchison (R-TX)
Hawaii:
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
South Dakota:
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Massachusetts:
John Kerry (D-MA)
Minnesota:
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Wisconsin:
Herbert Kohl (D-WI)
New Jersey:
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Vermont:
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Michigan:
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Connecticut:
Joe Lieberman (D-CT)
Arkansas:
Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR)
Mississippi:
Trent
Lott (R-MS)
Indiana:
Richard Lugar (R-IN)
Arizona:
John McCain (R-AZ)
did not vote
Florida:
Mel Martinez (R-FL)
New Jersey:
Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Maryland:
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Washington:
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Florida:
Bill
Nelson (D-FL)
Nebraska:
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Illinois:
Barack Obama (D-IL)
Rhode Island:
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Nevada:
Harry Reid (D-NV)
West Virginia:
John Rockefeller (D-WV) no-vote
Colorado:
Ken Salazar (D-CO)
Vermont:
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
New York:
Charles Schumer (D-NY)
Maine:
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Michigan:
Debbie Stabenow
(D-MI)
Virginia:
James
Webb (D-VA)
Rhode Island:
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Oregon:
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
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The
following politicians
voted
YEA
(BILL S.2611
Amendment #3985) to table (kill)
the amendment that would prohibit
illegal
aliens to receive Social Security Benefits (May 2006): |
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Alaska:
Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Arizona:
John McCain (R-AZ)
Arkansas:
Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR)
Arkansas:
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
California:
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
California:
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Colorado:
Ken Salazar (D-CO)
Connecticut:
Chris Dodd (D-CT)
Connecticut:
Joe Lieberman (D-CT)
Delaware:
Joe Biden (D-DE)
Delaware:
Tom Carper (D-DE)
Florida:
Mel Martinez (R-FL)
Hawaii:
Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Hawaii:
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Illinois:
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Illinois:
Barack Obama (D-IL)
Indiana:
Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Indiana:
Richard Lugar (R-IN)
Iowa:
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Kansas:
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Louisiana:
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Maryland:
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Maryland:
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)
Massachusetts:
Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
Massachusetts:
John Kerry (D-MA)
Michigan:
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Michigan:
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Montana:
Max Baucus (D-MT)
Nebraska:
Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Nevada:
Harry Reid (D-NV)
New Jersey:
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
New Jersey:
Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
New Mexico:
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
New York:
Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
New York:
Charles Schumer (D-NY)
North Dakota:
Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
Ohio:
Mike DeWine (R-OH)
Ohio:
George Voinovich (R-OH)
Oregon:
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Pennsylvania:
Arlen Specter (R-PA)
Rhode Island:
Stephen Chafee (R-RI)
Rhode Island:
Jack Reed (D-RI)
South Carolina:
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
South Dakota:
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Vermont:
Jim Jeffords (I-VT)
Vermont:
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Washington:
Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Washington:
Patty Murray (D-WA)
West Virginia:
John Rockefeller (D-WV) no-vote
Wisconsin:
Russell Feingold (D-WI)
Wisconsin:
Herbert Kohl (D-WI)
Reference: Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act;
BILL S. 2611;
Amendment #3985:
- Roll Call # 130
— 5/18/06
Motion to kill Ensign Amendment (S.Amdt.
3985) to the Comprehensive Immigration Act of 2006 (S. 2611)
which would prevent illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security
benefits from illegally working in the United States.
Roll Call # 130: 50-YEA (11-Republican,
39-Democrat),
49-NAY (44-Republican, 5-Democrat) , 1-NO VOTE
Result: Motion passed (i.e. killed Amendment # 3985 to
prevent illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security benefits from
while illegally working within the United States).
- Voting YEA tabled (KILLed) the
proposed amendment to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving
Social Security benefits; voting YES supported immigrants
to participate in Social Security.
- Voting NAY was to support the
prohibition of illegal aliens to receive Social Security benefits.
Text of amendment for BILL S.
2611, Amendment S.AMDT.3985 is as follows:
To reduce document fraud, prevent
identity theft, and preserve the integrity of the Social Security
system, by ensuring that persons who receive an adjustment of status
under this bill are not able to receive Social Security benefits as a
result of unlawful activity.
- Proponents of the amendment say to vote NAY because:
The Immigration Reform bill would allow people to qualify for social
security based on work they did while they were illegally present in the
US and illegally working in the US. People who broke the law to come
here and broke the law to work here can benefit from their conduct to
collect social security.
In some cases, illegal immigrants may have stolen an American citizen's
identity. They may have stolen an American's social security number to
fraudulently work. This amendment corrects this problem.
- Opponents of the amendment say to vote YEA because:
Americans understand that for years there are undocumented workers who
have tried to follow our laws and be good neighbors and good citizens,
and have paid into the Social Security Trust Fund. Once that person
regularizes his or her status, and as they proceed down the path to
earned citizenship, they should have the benefit after having followed
the law and made those contributions. That is fairness. We should not
steal their funds or empty their Social Security accounts. That is not
fair. It does not reward their hard work or their financial
contributions. The amendment proposes to change existing law to prohibit
an individual from gaining the benefit of any contributions made while
the individual was in an undocumented status. I oppose this amendment
and believe it is wrong.
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The following politicians
voted
NAY
(BILL
S.1348) to
the Vitter Amendment (S.AMT.1150)
that would have stripped out all
provisions to reward illegal aliens with
permanent legal status
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These Senators are now on record as favoring [sc]amnesty and rewards for
12-to-20 million
illegal
aliens. These Senators voted NO on the Vitter Amendment to BILL
S.1348
which would have stripped out all provisions
to reward nearly all the 12-20 million illegal aliens with permanent
legal status. It lost 29-66. Why do these politicians choose to
(despicably) pit American citizens and illegal aliens against each other?
Where is their
compassion for their fellow Americans?
Alaska:
Frank
Murkowski (R-AK)
Alaska:
Ted Stevens
(R-AK)
Arizona:
Jon Kyl
(R-AZ)
Arizona:
John McCain
(R-AZ)
Arkansas:
Blanche Lambert Lincoln
(D-AR)
California:
Barbara Boxer
(D-CA)
California:
Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA)
Colorado:
Ken Salaza
(D-CO)
Connecticut:
Chris Dodd
(D-CT)
Connecticut:
Joe Lieberman
(ID-CT)
Delaware:
Joe Biden
(D-DE)
Delaware:
Tom Carper
(D-DE)
Florida:
Mel Martinez
(R-FL)
Florida:
Bill
Nelson (D-FL)
Georgia:
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Georgia:
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Hawaii:
Daniel Akaka
(D-HI)
Hawaii:
Daniel Inouye
(D-HI)
Idaho:
Larry Craig (R-ID)
Illinois:
Richard Durbin
(D-IL)
Illinois:
Barack Obama
(D-IL)
Indiana:
Evan Bayh
(D-IN)
Indiana:
Richard Lugar
(R-IN)
Iowa:
Tom Harkin
(D-IA)
Maine:
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Maine:
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Maryland:
Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Maryland:
Barbara Mikulski
(D-MD)
Massachusetts:
Ted Kennedy
(D-MA)
Massachusetts:
John Kerry
(D-MA)
Michigan:
Carl Levin
(D-MI)
Michigan:
Debbie Stabenow
(D-MI)
Minnesota:
Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Minnesota:
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Mississippi:
Trent
Lott (R-MS)
Nebraska:
Chuck Hagel
(R-NE)
Nevada:
John
Ensign (R-NV)
Nevada:
Harry Reid
(D-NV)
New Hampshire:
Judd
Gregg (R-NH)
New Jersey:
Frank Lautenberg
(D-NJ)
New Jersey:
Frank Lautenberg
(D-NJ)
New Mexico:
Jeff Bingaman
(D-NM)
New Mexico:
Pete Domenici (R-NM)
New York:
Hillary Clinton
(D-NY)
North Carolina:
Richard
Burr (R-NC)
North Dakota:
Kent
Conrad (D-ND)
Ohio:
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Ohio:
George Voinovich
(R-OH)
Oregon:
Gordon Harold Smith (R-OR)
Oregon:
Ron Wyden
(D-OR)
Pennsylvania:
Bob
Casey (D-PA)
Pennsylvania:
Arlen Specter
(R-PA)
Rhode Island:
Jack Reed
(D-RI)
Rhode Island:
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
South Carolina:
Lindsey Graham
(R-SC)
Texas:
John
Cornyn (R-TX)
Texas:
Kay Bailey
Hutchison (R-TX)
Utah:
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Vermont:
Patrick Leahy
(D-VT)
Vermont:
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Virginia:
John
Warner (R-VA)
Virginia:
James
Webb (D-VA)
Washington:
Maria Cantwell
(D-WA)
Washington:
Patty Murray
(D-WA)
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Hillary Clinton's voting record: |
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Hillary
Clinton:
- 2006 PorkBusters Hall of Shame:
Hillary Clinton (D-NY) made the list among 3 other Congress persons.
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January 2006 Porker of the Month: Senator Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
- February 2005 Porker of the Month: New York
Senator Hillary Clinton (D)
and Charles Schumer (D) {bringin' home the pork, bringin' home the pork, we're all...}
- Provided by tax-payers: Hillary Clinton's $514,148 per year lease (2001) with the most expensive hometown office of any U.S. senator.
- Voted NO on $40B in reduced federal overall spending. (Dec 2005)
- Voted NO on require photo ID (not just signature) for voter registration. (Feb 2002)
- Voted YES on building a fence along the Mexican border. (Sep 2006) {This isn't the norm for a Democrat politician; could it be Hillary was following the poll numbers?}
- Opposes illegal immigration, but doesn't vote to follow up. (Jan 2007) {see previous; seems so}
- Hillary's voting record grade on illegal immigration:
"D-"
(22%) {pathetic}
- Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006) {just as soon as we get another amnesty passed like the one in 1986 that quadrupled the problem}
- Voted YES on comprehensive immigration reform. (Jun 2007) {The SHAMNESTY BILL which was defeated.}
- In January 1996, a long sought-after copy of billing records from the Rose Law Firm were identified and turned over to prosecutors by Carolyn Huber, a White House assistant to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ms. Huber, herself a former Rose Law Firm employee, recognized the records and realized that they had been among papers that she had removed six months earlier from the First Lady's book room on the third floor of the White House. The mysterious appearance of the billing records, which had been the specific subject of various investigative subpoenas for two years, sparked intense interest about how they surfaced and where they had been. Shortly after the discovery of the records, Hillary Clinton made history -- she became the only First Lady ever called to testify before a Grand Jury inquiry.
- Voted YES on authorizing use of military force
against Iraq. (Oct 2002) {Hmmm . . . I see a "If I knew now what I was supposed to know then" moment coming on}
- Voted NO on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004) {OK, pro-choice doesn't mean pro-abortion, but what's up with this?}
- Critic of Iraq war, but did not recant 2002 vote in its favor. (Nov 2006)
- Regrets George Bush (43)'s handling of war, but not her own vote to allow it. (Oct 2006) {there's nothing hypocritical about that, eh?}
- Voted YES on $86 billion for military operations in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Oct 2003)
- states: NY share of federal taxes is too high. (Feb 2000) {What does she want? A lower tax percentage for New York residents? Could this be pandering for votes?}
- Voted YES on extending the tax cuts on capital gains and dividends. (Nov 2005) {this is partly why our tax system is now REGRESSIVE}
- Voted YES on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends. (Feb 2006) {yet, she did it again! this is partly why Warren Buffet (2nd wealthiest person in the U.S.) can pay a smaller
percentage of federal taxes than his secretary making only $60K per year; our current tax system is REGRESSIVE among other 10+ abuses in the U.S. which did not all come about by mere coincidence}
- Voted NO on paying down federal debt by rating programs' effectiveness. (Mar 2007) {Heck no, we can't have any of that. That might make it harder to vote on pork-barrel, corporate welfare, graft, etc.}
- Rated 21% by NTU, indicating a "Big Spender" on tax votes. (Dec 2003)
- states: Enough with corporate welfare; enough with golden parachutes. (Jun 2007) {Really? With a Pork-Barrel (www.cagw.org/site/VoteCenter?congress=109&repId=455&session_num=0&page=legScore) report Card Grade of 14%, and two porker of the month awards?}
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The Clinton 2000-to-2007 tax returns show that
$10,256,741 was donated to their own Clinton Family Foundation
charity. How generous! And a great tax deduction too!
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Hillary Clinton said
(at George Washington University, March 17, 2008): "I remember landing [in
Bosnia] under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting
ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into
the vehicles to get to our base.” {False.
That did not happen.}
- And lastly, this is kinda funny. From the smile on Hillary's face, she does too!
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John McCain's voting record: |
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John McCain:
- John McCain's career immigration grade:
"D", recent grade:
"D" (27%)
{pathetic}
- John McCain voted for
the amnesty (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986) {Which more than quadrupled the problem.
John McCain, after starting his bid for office of President in 2008,
flip-flopped, and now says he "now gets it" and says he will secure the borders. That's
not enough. How about enforcing existing laws to prosecute illegal employers?
After all, more Americans were
killed by
illegal aliens in 3 years, than all U.S. troops killed in Iraq between Mar-2003
and Mar-2008.}
- Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker
program. (May 2006) (a.k.a. amnesty; more pitting American citizens and
illegal aliens against each other for cheap labor.)
- Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to
participate in Social Security. (May 2006) {Wonderful. Especially
with the 77 million baby boomer bubble approaching and $12.8 Trillion borrowed
and spent from the Social Security system. But, it buys votes, and the voters
will reward us for all of it anyway with
85% to 90% re-election rates.}
- Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers
into the U.S. for farm work. (Jul 1998)
(more pitting American
citizens and illegal aliens against each other for cheap labor.)
- Voted YES on visas for skilled workers.
(May 1998)
(not just jobs he claims Americans won't do;
more cheap skilled labor too)
- Make possible for immigrants to do a job
Americans won't do. (Oct 2004) (nothing like pitting American citizens and
illegal aliens against each other for profits from cheap labor and votes)
- Voted YES on comprehensive immigration reform. (Jun 2007) {The SHAMNESTY BILL which was defeated.}
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Recommended we send in a heavy wave of troops to
Iraq to establish order. (Nov 2006) {and stay there 100 years?, if
necessary?}
- John McCain said we may be in Iraq for 100
years (Feb 2008)
- John McCain said the Iraqi war was necessary
after years of failed diplomacy. (Aug 2004)
- John McCain said the Iraqi war was necessary,
achievable and noble. (Aug 2004)
- John McCain said the cause of the Iraqi war
was just. (Apr 2004) {never mind one little detail . . . Uhhmmm, like
no WMD
?}
- CIA assessments on Iraqi WMDs were all wrong.
(Mar 2005) {OOPppppss!}
- John McCain said it is important to win (in
Iraq), important for U.S. to be superpower. {win what? redemption,
or peace? }
- Voted NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq by
July 2007. (Jun 2006)
- Voted NO on investigating contract awards in
Iraq & Afghanistan. (Nov 2005)
- Voted YES on authorizing use of military force
against Iraq. (Oct 2002)
- John McCain said we don't have as much to fear
as we had in the past. (Apr 2004)
- Voted YES on recommending Constitutional ban
on flag desecration. (Jun 2006)
- Supports Amendment against flag-burning. (Apr
1999)
- Voted YES on Amendment to prohibit flag
burning. (Dec 1995)
- Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar
2001) {He's really serious about this flag burning nonsense isn't he?
Too bad he isn't as serious about desecration of the Constitution, and chose to
ignore Article V. }
- Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for
companies which move US jobs offshore. (Mar 2005) {Of course not!}
- Admitted about instances where he looked the
other way too (on NPR in 2005)
- Violence in media caused Littleton shootings.
(Apr 1999)
- Supports overthrowing "rogue" governments to
keep Americans safe. (Feb 2000) {Iran perhaps?}
- Voted NO on banning more types of
Congressional gifts. (Jul 1995) {Of course. Cha-Ching! Hurray for
McCain-Feingold campaign finance!}
- Supports term limits on Congress. (Jul 1998),
but two years later . . .
- No term limits; they throw away the
good with the bad. (Jan 2000) {is that a flip flop? Throws away the good
with the bad? With so much bad, that may be a good idea?}
- Higher taxes on cigarettes. (Jan 2000)
{but not McDonald's Big Mac's ?}
- Matching funds for seniors citizens'
prescription drugs. (Dec 1999) {nothing like pandering for votes}
- Voted NO on restricting business with entities
linked to terrorism. (Jul 2005) {this is hard to understand?}
- Voted NO on raising the minimum wage to $7.25
rather than $6.25.
(Mar 2005)
(well, it doesn't really matter when cheap labor
is flooding across the borders by the millions, does it?)
- Trust Fund is a ticking time bomb, set to go
off in 2014.
(Jan 2000)
(Yet, Congress continues to spend the Social Security surpluses?
Yet . . .)
- John McCain voted YES on using the Social
Security Surplus to fund tax reductions
(Jul 1999)
{yet . . .}
- previously wanted to disallow using Trust Fund
for "emergency" spending.
(Jun 1999) , {and . . .}
- Voted YES on Social Security Lockbox &
limiting national debt.
(Apr 1999)
- Voted NO on across-the-board spending cuts.
(Oct 1999)
- Voted YES on
FISA BILL S.2248 to give immunity to telecommunications corporations and
to make permanent the government's ability to spy on any and all communications
in secret of any communications which are relayed across US soil or territory.
- John McCain voted against Martin Luther King
holiday, but now said during the 2008 presidential campaign year (on the last
MLK holiday) that he was wrong.
- John McCain said General Petraus could drive
about Iraq in unarmed HUMVEEs. {False.
Whose he trying to fool? }
- John McCain said 3 times that Iran is
assisting Al-Qaeda. {False.
Why does he keep doing that?}
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Barack Obama's voting record: |
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Barack Obama:
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Barack Obama said:
- (06-APR-2008): "But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded
that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily
lives. You go into some of these small towns
in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and
nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration,
and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said
that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And
it's not surprising then they get bitter,
they cling
to
guns, or religion,
or
antipathy to people who aren't like them,
or anti-immigrant
sentiment, or
anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain
their frustrations".
- (12-APR-2008): "I said something that
everybody knows is true."
- (12-APR-2008): "Obviously, if
I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret
that."
- (23-NOV-2004): Barack Obama and
Charlie Rose both
spoke
of the danger of "sounding condescending", yet it still happened on
06-APR-2008.
- Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006) {A minor?}
- Supports affirmative action in colleges and government. (Jul 1998) {Doesn't this discriminate based on race?}
- Tax incentives for corporate responsibility. (Jun 2004) {Tax, tax, tax. How about not taxing corporations at all, since they are merely passed on as hidden, regressive sales taxes to consumers, and doesn't help competitiveness domestically and internationally?}
- Close tax loopholes for US companies relocating abroad. (Jun 2004) {Tax loop-holes? How about not giving them subsidies and rewarding them for doing it? How about an end to importing cheap labor? }
- Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment. (Oct 2006); But, Battles legislatively against the death penalty. (Jul 2004) {So, which is it?}
- Do not lower drinking age from 21 to 18. (Sep 2007) {You are old enough to be drafted, vote, and die, but not drink?}
- Smokes cigarettes now; smoked some pot in high school. (Feb 2007); Admitted marijuana use in high school & college. (Jan 2007) {Both bad habits.}
- Pay "master teachers" extra, but with buy-in from teachers. (Aug 2007) {Funny! While the Master Cheaters (Congress) give themselves a raise almost every year (9 times between
1997 and 2007) }
- Sends kids to private school; but wants good schools for all. (Jul 2007) {Really? By undermining public school with private schools?}
- Nuclear power ok if we safeguard against waste & terrorism. (Sep 2007) {Make a mental note: Mistakes happen (e.g. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, etc.)}
- Barack stated that he is willing to meet with Fidel Castro, Kim Jung Il & Hugo Chavez. (Nov 2007)
- Invest in our relationship with Mexico. (Sep 2007) {Translation: please send us more cheap labor, so that we can continue to despicably pit American citizens and illegal aliens against each other for votes and profits.}
- Focus on corruption to improve African development. (Oct 2006) {How about focusing on corruption in our own FOR-SALE, do-nothing, irresponsible government?}
- Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless. (Nov 2007) {No
kidding , and we are supposed to be impressed with that honesty?}
- Ok to take $5 donations from drug company employees. (Sep 2007) {Cha Ching!}
- Create "Google for Government" to track government spending. (Aug 2007) {CAGW.ORG does that too, and Barack Obama scored a very low
30% on the Pork-Barrel Score Card; however, it is better than Hillary's dismal
14%; but both are pathetic.}
- Campaigns last too long & cost too much. (Aug 2007) {Funny! And the 2008 campaign started over a year in advance.}
- Say he doesn't take PAC money or federal lobbyists' money. (Jul 2007) {FactCheck: no lobbyist money, but does take money from bundlers who lobby. Clever, eh? (Jul 2007)}
- Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money. (Oct 2006) {Really? And who if forcing them to accept the money?}
- Tackle insurance companies on reimbursement system. (Oct 2007) {Hmmmm . . . the problem is too many middlemen (i.e. insurance companies); if government is going to provide healthcare, they had better eliminate one of the unnecessary middlemen: insurance companies.}
- Government healthcare like members of Congress have. (Sep 2007) {Whooooohoooo! That would be wonderful. And how about a cu$hy retirement system too? And a raise every year? And some other cu$hy perk$ like Do-Nothing Congress has?}
- Increase competition in the insurance and drug markets. (Aug 2007) {Good luck.}
- Give people the choice to buy affordable health care. (Jun 2007) {A choice? What choice? Government meddling, greedy insurance companies (unnecessary middlemen), and obscene gouging by greedy hospitals, free medical coverage, and welfare for 32% of illegal aliens is part of what is driving up costs. Not to mention that 27% of all incarcerated in Federal prisons are illegal aliens (source: Page 2 GAO-05-337R)}
- Take on insurance companies; drive down health care costs. (Jun 2007) {Well, which is it? Obama is all over the place.}
- Address minority health needs by more coverage & targeting. (Mar 2007) {Based on race?}
- Health care tied to balancing costs and taxes nation wide. (Jun 2006) {Never mind that Congress gives itself a
raises 9 of the last 10 years for the fine job they are doing, have excellent healthcare, and cu$
hy pension systems. Hypocrites.}
Believes health care is a right, not a privilege for the few. (Sep 2004) {That's debatable, since someone has to pay for it. Who? With a $9.4 Trillion National Debt? With $12.8 Trillion borrowed and spent from Social Security with a 77 million baby boomer bubble approaching? With a $450 Billion debt in the PBGC pension system? With hundreds of billions in unfunded liabiliites for Medicare? For a war in Afghanistan? And an unnecessary war based on
false statements and exaggerations in Iraq? With a REGRESSIVE tax system? etc., etc., etc.?}
No need to mandate coverage; just let people afford it. (Jul 2007) {Sure. It's magic! Don't pay any attention to the massive debt and greedy insurance companies behind the corporate-welfare and pandering curtain.}
America cannot sanction torture; no loopholes or exceptions. (Sep 2007) {So, why is torture tolerated? Hasn't a law been broken? Then why isn't someone held accountable? Where are the impeachment proceedings? Not to mention Article V is being violated too.}
Support veterans via the Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act. (Aug 2007) {Interesting. Never mind Congress giving itself 9 raises in 10 years, cu$hy perk$ and benefits while our troops go without armor, adequate medical care, and promised benefits.}
Register women for draft, but not for combat. (Jul 2007) {Really? The draft? To go fight more unnecessary wars? Draft for what? Iraq? }
Address the deficiencies in the VA system. (Jun 2007) {Absolutely! Right after Congress gives itself another raise, and some more cu$hy perks, and unfair incumbent advantages. }
We are currently inspecting 3% of all incoming cargo. (Oct 2004) {UUhhmmmm . . . what about the borders? But then, Barack wants to give drivers' licenses to illegal aliens?}
Voted YES on requiring CIA reports on detainees & interrogation methods. (Sep 2006) {Yet, they have destroyed tapes? Yet, no one is accountable.}
Voted YES on reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act. (Mar 2006) {Interesting. }
Barack says comprehensive immigration solution includes employers & borders. (Nov 2007) {Really? The borders are near wide-open. Yet Obama is concerned that only 3% of cargo coming into our ports is not inspected?}Barack said
in a debate with Hillary Clinton that we need to tone down the rhetoric on illegal immigration, because some illegal aliens are being persecuted. {That's not good and most people don't want
to persecute illegal aliens merely looking for work, but where is the compassion for thousands of Americans being
murdered and harmed by illegal aliens every year?}- Where is Barack Obama's compassion for U.S. citizens that go without healthcare and access to ERs because ERs and hospitals are over-flowing with illegal aliens (of which many don't pay)? Is this fair to U.S. tax payers?
Parkland Memorial hospital in Dallas, TX reported that 70% of the
women giving birth in the first 3 months of year of 2006 were illegal
aliens; hundreds of hospitals have closed (60
to 84
hospitals in California alone).
- Where is the compassion for the truly needy U.S. citizens that can not get help because of limited resources,
and because 32% of illegal aliens receive welfare ?
- Where is the compassion for 2.3+ million displaced American workers and the outrage at the greedy employers of illegal aliens ?
- Where is the compassion for the U.S. victims and survivors of crimes perpetrated by illegal aliens and tax payers the pay the high costs of incarceration, deportation, law enforcement, and trials (29% of all incarcerated in federal prisons are illegal aliens), and the crime rates are rising? Are all illegal immigrants sexual predators or murderers? No, of course not. Most just see better opportunities offered by America. But, per capita, illegal
aliens commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes, and anonymity is part
of the reason, when illegal aliens are repeatedly arrested, repeatedly released,
and repeatedly deported. We also shouldn't fail to mention their contribution to illegal drug and gun trafficking, adding to America's crime problem.
- Where is the compassion for U.S. Americans who's lives have been changed forever by illegal aliens that spread disease ? One illegal alien in Santa Barbara, California infected 56 other people with tuberculosis as reported on April 24, 2004, by the Santa Barbara Press-News, "Anatomy of an Outbreak". Because illegal alien migration into the USA continues unabated for the past 20 years, we now have 16,000 new cases of incurable
MDR tuberculosis in the past five years. We suffer 7,000 new cases of leprosy. We tolerate 100,000 new cases of hepatitis "A" in our society.
Chagas Disease, which affects 14 million South Americans and kills 50,000 annually, streams across our borders as unchecked thousands of them enter our society. If your child goes to public school, they could be exposed, as thousands already have been?
- Where is the compassion for the people murdered every day by an illegal alien (Source:
GAO-05-646R based on study group of 55,322 illegal aliens over a 57 year period)?
- Where is the compassion for all of the people that do not want to see a repeat of 11-Sep-2001, which was perpetrated by several illegal aliens; 18 of the 19 terrorist hijackers on 11-SEP-2001 possessed
13 drivers' licenses and 21 ID cards, and ALL
19 had obtained Social Security numbers (some real, some fake). Those terrorists very simply tapped into an enormous market for fraudulent documents that exists because 12+ million people have successfully breached our borders and now reside here illegally. Their presence has spawned widespread document and
identity fraud that threatens our ability to distinguish illegal aliens from U.S. citizens and legal foreign residents. Yet, Barack Obama wants to give drivers' licenses to illegal aliens? And Hillary isn't sure?
- Where is the compassion or all the victims in
South Carolina which had the highest rate of violent crime (excluding D.C.) of any state in the U.S. and it is partly due to crime by illegal aliens. In fact, South Carolina is submitting a Constitutional amendment with regard to illegal immigration (which denies citizenship to offspring of an illegal alien).
- Where is the compassion for the U.S. tax payers'
net losses of
an estimated $70 billion to $338 Billion per year due to all the numerous problems stemming from illegal aliens?
- Where is the compassion for the 2.3 million displaced American workers?
- Where is the compassion for all of the U.S. policemen murdered by illegal aliens? On 13-Nov-2005, Brian Jackson, a Dallas policeman was shot and killed by an illegal alien, Juan Lizcano. Lizcano had become drunk and went to the home of his ex-girlfriend to threaten her. As the police pursued Lizcano after he fled the woman's home, he shot Officer Jackson, who died later in the hospital. Officer Jackson was remembered by his fellow police as someone who loved his job and always went the extra mile. In Denver, Colorado, an illegal deliberately ran over a Denver policeman in a school cross walk "breaking his legs along with severe internal injuries. This is not anecdotal. This tragedy has occurred over and over in many cities across the U.S. These are crimes that should have never happened.
- Where is the compassion for all of the thousands of homicide victims ? (estimated
3.6 to 12 or more homicides per day (the number keeps rising)!). Even if the lowest estimate (3.6) is used, the rate is twice the norm. If it is 12 homicides per day, that is 6.7 times
the norm.
- Where is the compassion for all of victims of crime by illegal aliens?
Barack Obama says undocumented workers come here to work, not to drive. (Nov 2007) {Really? Then why are they
driving? Has Obama looked at the statistics of illegal aliens arrested for drunk driving and homicide via drunk driving? Visit
VictimsOfIllegalAliens.com to see a small sample of the thousands of Americans killed annually by drunk driving illegal aliens.}
Yet, Barack Obama supports granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. (Nov 2007) {Nothing like pitting American citizens and illegal aliens against each other for
votes and profits, eh? Besides, most Americans will reward Congress with
85% to 90% re-election rates anyway.}
Barack Obama says we should give immigrants who are here a rigorous path to citizenship. (Jun 2007) {Rigorous?
How will those requirements be enforced, when existing laws are being enforce.
Ohhh, right. Tens of millions of new Democrat
voters,
eh? Duh! Nothing like pitting Americans and illegal aliens against
each other for votes and profits?}
Extend welfare and Medicaid to immigrants. (Jul 1998) {32% of illegal aliens
ALREADY receive welfare.}
Voted YES on comprehensive immigration reform. (Jun 2007) {The SHAMNESTY BILL which was defeated.}
Voted NO on declaring English as the official language of the US government. (Jun 2007) {Interesting. So, we must print everything in 50 different languages?}
Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (May 2006) {You bet! Need to keep the inflow of cheap labor to keep wages depressed. Besides, those immigrants will become good little Democrat voters.}
Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006) {Wonderful. Especially with the 77 million baby boomer bubble approaching and $12.8 Trillion borrowed and spent from the Social Security system. But, it buys votes, and the voters will reward us for all of it anyway with 95% to 99% re-election rates.}
Voted YES on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship. (May 2006) {Yep! Nothing like pitting American citizens and illegal aliens against each other. }
Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics. (Oct 2006) {Cha Ching! So how have the unions been helped lately? By selling out American workers almost daily?}
The wealthy should pay a bit more on the payroll tax. (Oct 2007) {A bit more?
Warren Buffet's
federal taxes on $46 Million was 17.7% in year 2006, but his secretary paid 30%
in federal taxes on $60,000 in 2006. The tax curve is regressive due to a myriad of tax loop-holes for the wealthy. Just ask Warren Buffet, the 2nd wealthiest person in the U.S.}
No privatization; but consider earning cap over $97,500. (Jul 2007) {Duh! And how about getting rid of the
REGRESSIVE tax loop holes ?}
Voted NO on establishing reserve funds & pre-funding for Social Security. (Mar 2007) {Figures. Keep plundering the surpluses.}
Hopes to remove all troops from Iraq by 2013, but no pledge. (Sep 2007)
Voted YES on free trade agreement with Oman (BILL S. 3569 ; vote number
2006-190 on Jun 29, 2006), even though Oman has bad labor laws, and the
trade-deal contained some investment provisions even more damaging to the
ability of government to act in the public interest than
NAFTA or
CAFTA.
Obama said invade Pakistan to get Al Qaeda. (Aug 2007)
Voted to fund war until 2006; now wants no blank check. (Nov 2007)
Barack Obama's career immigration grade: "D-",
recent grade: ("D-"
20%) {pathetic}
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