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Dobbs: Democratic hacks embrace lunacy of amnesty

March 7, 2007
By Lou Dobbs
CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- This new Congress was supposed to be different. Instead, it is being led by a gaggle of partisan hacks pandering to the same special interests and corporate masters as the previous Republican-led Congress.

So-called comprehensive immigration reform legislation is about to take a privileged position on the Democratic agenda in the Senate. It will likely succeed, just as it did in that august chamber last year, when 38 Democratic senators sided with the president to pass the bill and tried to slam amnesty down the throats of the House of Representatives and their 300 million constituents.

And the now Democratic-controlled House is likely to embrace rather than combat the lunacy of amnesty.

The same characters are already shoveling the same nonsense that overwhelmed reason in the Democratic Party and the Bush administration last year. Front and center in their march to madness: The bill's sponsor, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Immigration Task Force Rep. Luis Gutierrez and House Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren.

Also meeting with Senator Kennedy this week is none other than the Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahoney. The good senator is rounding up all of the usual suspects to lead the charge in advance of his introduction of the amnesty legislation, expected within the next week or two.

Cardinal Mahoney has said point blank that his followers should disregard laws on immigration as a matter of Catholic conscience. This is the same Cardinal who fought all the way to the Supreme Court to keep secret all documents related to pedophilia among priests. But the Cardinal and other Catholic leaders are quick to embrace the laws of bankruptcy protection in order to not compensate victims of sexual abuse by members of the clergy and keep them out of the U.S. judicial system. So far, five such dioceses have done just that.

The same corporate lobbyists and dominant special interests that drove last year's legislation are even more energetic this year, and they're enthusiastically helping Senator Kennedy write the new legislation. The biggest business lobby in the country, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and its associated organization, the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, are actually writing parts of the bill, presumably so that none of our other senators would be unfairly burdened by actually doing their own work. Or perhaps in Senator Kennedy's estimation, they simply don't have the intellectual wherewithal to tackle the required mental heavy-lifting.

Senator Kennedy and his staff claim they're not being secretive about the details of the so-called comprehensive immigration reform, but they're just not willing to tell the public or other senators how the bill is being constructed. Notable Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated by their exclusion from the process, taking some umbrage at the immigrant advocacy groups replacing them in that process.

The Chamber of Commerce itself is feverish with expectation, confident their reform bill will certainly keep wages depressed. The Chamber claims there's a labor shortage in many of these industries: construction, housing services, leisure and hospitality. And that's where the cleverly named Essential Worker Immigration Coalition comes in. Founded, staffed and supported by the Chamber itself, the coalition is made up of the same industries claiming they desperately need more workers.

But there is a non-trivial disconnect here: In each of those industries, a labor shortage leads to higher wages. Unfortunately for the EWIC and the Chamber, and really for American workers, real wages in those industries have been declining, suggesting a very real surplus, not a deficit, of unskilled labor. Yet this President and this Congress continues to push the adoption of a guest-worker program. It's no wonder they have matching approval ratings in the low 30s.

Real wages in the overall construction sector have fallen nearly 2 percent since the start of the decade and nearly 4 percent since the recent wage peak in 2003. Construction workers in 2006 were making the same per-hour salary as they did in 1965 (measured in 1982 dollars). Landscaping workers have also seen real wages fall by nearly 4 percent since 2001. For the leisure and hospitality sector, workers are making the same per-hour salary as they did in 1972.

I've said for years that we cannot reform immigration if we cannot control it, and we cannot control it unless we secure our borders and ports. Once again it is clear that corporate America, special interests and the out-of-touch elites of the Senate have little regard for truth, working Americans, the common good and the national interest.

The Democratic Party is now putting working Americans and their families in the exact same position as the Republicans: last.

This Democratic-led Congress and this Republican President seem intent on pushing middle-class Americans, and truth, into the shadows. We asked for bipartisanship. But I don't think we can stand any more of it.


Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.... They just keep spitting in our faces. And it looks like the American people are just going to take it!

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Sounds like Lou Dobbs- right on the money

Send the pro-amnesty politicans into retirement. they are not protecting america they are only selling america out.

Lou seems surprized that the Democrats are supporting amnesty; I don't know why he would be. Why would he think they would be any better or different on this issue than the Republicans were when it was mainly due to the Republicans in the House that amnesty isn't already a reality??

Beckyal said:
Send the pro-amnesty politicans into retirement. they are not protecting america they are only selling america out.
Yes,that sounds so good. Lou was so fed up with the Dems you could hear it in his voice when Nancy P. wanted her airforce jet. Their greed is so out of control and until lobbying is done away with nothing will change.

I feel sick, I dont know what more we can do....

The goverenment is going to do what it wants to do, NO MATTER WHAT WE SAY.

Originally Posted by Ronster

I feel sick, I dont know what more we can do....

The goverenment is going to do what it wants to do, NO MATTER WHAT WE SAY.

RON
that's not true. Please let me explain.

By our waking up so many wonderful Americans and focusing on political activism, they're running around like a pac of rats now.

We KNOW that we're making an impact by their actions! When they scurry and begin to throw legislation at us like so much confetti, we know they're worried.

They're attempting to ignore, insult and intimidate us BUT------it's not working Ron!!!

They NEVER expected Americans to READ. Read every word of legislation/amendments and then TELL THEM EXACTLY WHERE THE BEARS DO DOO DOO IN THE WOODS.

We've got them running and now is NOT the time to go weak in the knees.

THIS IS GETTING TO BE SO MUCH FUN NOW
don't ya just love seeing them go spastic, nervous & jerky? I sure do

Originally Posted by noyoucannot

Lou seems surprized that the Democrats are supporting amnesty; I don't know why he would be. Why would he think they would be any better or different on this issue than the Republicans were when it was mainly due to the Republicans in the House that amnesty isn't already a reality??

Thank God for the republicans in the house. Why would anyone be surprised that the Democractic party supports amensty

Originally Posted by 2ndamendsis

Originally Posted by Ronster

I feel sick, I dont know what more we can do....

The goverenment is going to do what it wants to do, NO MATTER WHAT WE SAY.

RON
that's not true. Please let me explain.

By our waking up so many wonderful Americans and focusing on political activism, they're running around like a pac of rats now.

We KNOW that we're making an impact by their actions! When they scurry and begin to throw legislation at us like so much confetti, we know they're worried.

They're attempting to ignore, insult and intimidate us BUT------it's not working Ron!!!

They NEVER expected Americans to READ. Read every word of legislation/amendments and then TELL THEM EXACTLY WHERE THE BEARS DO DOO DOO IN THE WOODS.

We've got them running and now is NOT the time to go weak in the knees.

THIS IS GETTING TO BE SO MUCH FUN NOW
don't ya just love seeing them go spastic, nervous & jerky? I sure do

I hope so, I wont quit. Its just so damn frustrating watching them try to kill the middle class, it pisses me off to no end to see what these creatures (politcians) are doing to this country.

Also meeting with Senator Kennedy this week is none other than the Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahoney. The good senator is rounding up all of the usual suspects to lead the charge in advance of his introduction of the amnesty legislation, expected within the next week or two.

Idiot Mahoney. Doesn't he realize the damage he is causing our country? Or is he more concerned about filling the basket? If I knew where to send an email, I would send him a few articles on the crimes illegal aliens have committed and will commit if amnesty ever passes.