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More propaganda from Face the Nation

Americans Want The Immigration Bill
Schieffer: Screaming On The Right And The Left Has Drowned Out What The Center Wants

(CBS) Weekly commentary by CBS Evening News chief Washington correspondent and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer.
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Here's the "clean little secret" about immigration: For all the noise from the right side of the Republican Party and the left side of the Democratic Party, most Americans want immigration reform, want some kind of guest worker program, and want some way for illegal immigrants to apply for legal status.

Actually, it's no secret — those were the findings of a recent CBS News/New York Times poll.

But you'd never know it. The Right and the Left turned up the volume and drowned out the center. When the Democratic leader in the Senate was unable to cut off debate and bring reform to a vote, the blame game began.

Republicans said the bill could have passed with a few more changes. Democrats said Republicans were trying to kill the legislation with amendments. All sides blamed the President's poor relations with Congress.

Excuse me, but when has the President ever had good relations with Congress?

I've never been one to question motives, but I have to wonder: Is this what both sides secretly wanted?

As important as it is, no politician gains much by supporting reform. To the contrary, support guarantees well-financed attacks from both the Right and the Left. Doing nothing left senators in the best place of all — they could all blame each other and head for the next fundraiser.

The problem is, the problem is still there. The loudest voices prevailed and Congress demonstrated yet again that it could not muster the political will to confront a major problem head-on and resolve it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/ ... 8365.shtml

Actually, it's no secret — those were the findings of a recent CBS News/New York Times poll.

This is nothing but concentrated, industrial strength bull sh*t.

This article has a comments section.

If you have a bucket handy and can stand to watch it here's a video from Face The Nation with Tony Snow(job) telling his view on immigration:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video ... d=2908498n

He talks about immigration towards the end of the video.

Originally Posted by pjr40

Actually, it's no secret — those were the findings of a recent CBS News/New York Times poll.

This is nothing but concentrated, industrial strength bull sh*t.

Just like Russia in the 1920's. Then the new Communist government told you what you believed, what you wanted and the fact that you approved of Communism. Except now CBS and all the Leftwing media are our new Masters and they know before we are asked what it is we believe.

How did we let the United States descend to such depths?

What a waste!!

With the completely liberal media and press, who still scream that the MAJORITY of the American people want immigration reform, to allow these criminals to remain here and become citizens, it is a miracle that the ordinary people of this country triumphed. It makes me proud to be an American. The big concern remains. How to get rid of these people who are pushing internationalism, which would make us pawns to the UN?
How can we make more people aware of the danger and move to join us.
I have talked to friends and relatives and only a small percentage have joined the fight. These are otherwise intelligent, caring people, and I just do not understand their lack of desire to work for and perserve our country. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know! I also wrote the Beltway Boys @ Fox News after they made a comment about how the congress had worked against the bill to defeat it. I mentioned all of the grassroots organizations such as Alipac who had worked their hearts out, calling the President and their congressmen, etc. to stop this bill. The financial impact would be so horrendous, that in itself would destroy this country. Why do these people not see or understand this? I refer to the media, press and just ordinary people.

Originally Posted by skipper0

With the completely liberal media and press, who still scream that the MAJORITY of the American people want immigration reform, to allow these criminals to remain here and become citizens, it is a miracle that the ordinary people of this country triumphed. It makes me proud to be an American. The big concern remains. How to get rid of these people who are pushing internationalism, which would make us pawns to the UN?
How can we make more people aware of the danger and move to join us.
I have talked to friends and relatives and only a small percentage have joined the fight. These are otherwise intelligent, caring people, and I just do not understand their lack of desire to work for and perserve our country. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know! I also wrote the Beltway Boys @ Fox News after they made a comment about how the congress had worked against the bill to defeat it. I mentioned all of the grassroots organizations such as Alipac who had worked their hearts out, calling the President and their congressmen, etc. to stop this bill. The financial impact would be so horrendous, that in itself would destroy this country. Why do these people not see or understand this? I refer to the media, press and just ordinary people.

My thoughts exactly.

Originally Posted by skipper0

With the completely liberal media and press, who still scream that the MAJORITY of the American people want immigration reform, to allow these criminals to remain here and become citizens, it is a miracle that the ordinary people of this country triumphed. It makes me proud to be an American. The big concern remains. How to get rid of these people who are pushing internationalism, which would make us pawns to the UN?
How can we make more people aware of the danger and move to join us.
I have talked to friends and relatives and only a small percentage have joined the fight. These are otherwise intelligent, caring people, and I just do not understand their lack of desire to work for and perserve our country. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know! I also wrote the Beltway Boys @ Fox News after they made a comment about how the congress had worked against the bill to defeat it. I mentioned all of the grassroots organizations such as Alipac who had worked their hearts out, calling the President and their congressmen, etc. to stop this bill. The financial impact would be so horrendous, that in itself would destroy this country. Why do these people not see or understand this? I refer to the media, press and just ordinary people.

It was the same thing during the Viet Nam war era. The media kept telling us everyone believed what they wanted us to believe, we believed, I believe.

Well something like that.

People went around for a while thinking they were alone.

People slowly started waking up to find we all didn't think alike like they said.

For me it started with the Beatles and I happened to be about that age when that sort of independence happens anyway, I suppose. For a moment after they came to America we had two camps. People either liked them or didn't. A trivial thing but the division was taken fairly seriously at the time. Some let their freak flag fly by growing their hair. People were expressing themselves about other things also. Some not so trivial. One was the war.

Like I said earlier many of us felt alone at the time. Not anymore! We had new allies on many topics. One that seemed pretty important was whether going to Viet Nam was really high on your list. The war never did draw enough people that really wanted to volunteer to go that I remember. Many did not feel comfortable volunteering others to go.

Any way to make a long story short we started getting together and sharing with each other how we felt on many things. The media no longer controlled our minds.

We had a whole new world full of friends and started having more fun with each other. We also grew a new respect for each other that has never died.

Arlo Guthrie and his song and movie Alice’s Restaurant brought many of us together to help us face some of the reality we had to face at the time.

Some say the happenings of the sixties were a mistake. As we look back some of it may appear wrong but it felt right at the time and life can be like that. Everything that happened may have not been important in itself but it was part of the whole. Hopefully we learn from the past but it did take all of it and everyone doing their thing to get us where we are today! Many of us still haven't lost our faith we found in each other.

People are again coming together. It's not all going to be easy.

It sure can be a beautiful thing to behold.

Is he living in reality, or does he employ illegals to do all of his dirty work?

American's do not want this bill to pass.