Thread: Lou Dobbs Tonight Thursday, March 22, 2007

Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Tonight, Senate Democrats escalate their confrontation with the
Bush White House, challenging the use of executive power.

Visit http://cnn.com/loudobbstonight to read Lou’s
latest commentary on how a pending constitutional crisis is
nothing more than a showdown of partisan buffoons.

Communist China recently announced that it will be developing
its own commercial aviation industry to serve its nearly $300
billion domestic market. But how will Boeing be affected by
China's latest strategic move? Join us tonight for a special
report on what China’s new plans will mean for American
manufacturers.

Debates on amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens living in
the United States will soon resume in the House of
Representatives. Today, Congressmen Luis Gutierrez and Jeff
Flake proposed a new bill which includes a path to citizenship
for illegal aliens by reforming the visa application process
and guest-worker program. We’ll have a full report on how the
amnesty movement is gaining momentum in Washington.

Some lawmakers want to give amnesty to as many as 20 million
illegal aliens living in the United States. One of those
lawmakers, Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez, joins Lou
tonight.

Hazleton, Pennsylvania’s landmark immigration trial against the
ACLU comes to a close today. Will the city be allowed to
enforce its laws cracking down on illegal aliens, or will the
ACLU prevail? We’ll have a full examination of the closing
arguments.

Maricopa County, Arizona, known for having “America’s Toughest
Sheriff”, is making new headlines today as America’s fastest
growing county. Just this year, Maricopa added 130,000 people
to a population of 4 million. The population boom is being
attributed to retirees, transplants seeking the relative low
cost of living, and a wave of illegal aliens. We’ll have a full
report tonight on the political impact of Maricopa County’s
population growth.

And the powerful Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Democrat Patrick Leahy, wants high-level White House officials
to testify under oath over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
The senator joins Lou tonight.

I thought Lou was a little soft on Luis Gutierrez. But you have to hand it to Lou for not loosing it when he is interviewing baloney.

Yea, all you hear them say is that our immigration system is broken.

Why, because the current immigration policy doesn't accomodate blanket amnesty? They always say 12 million, when in reality its 30 million or more.
They try to act like they want to secure the border/ stop illegal immigration.....ONLY AFTER THEY GIVE THESE ILLegal aliens amnesty.
Then I guess it wouldn't matter... there will be so many of them here it won't matter....they will have taken over the country.

I am sick of democrates trying to act like they hear the American people when it comes to the war ( just playing with us there too) and outright ignoring us when it comes to illegal immigration.
HOW DO ANY OF THESE POLITICIANS THINK THEY HAVE TO RIGHT TO GIVE OUR COUNTRY AWAY ...so that it will give them more votes. THEY ARE AS BAD AS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SELLING US OUT TO BIG BUSINESS AND SPECIAL INTERESTS....They are no better...AND I HOPE THEY GET A TASTE OF WHAT REPUBLICANS GOT IN NOVEMBER...in 2008!
I HOPE WE KEEP THROWING THEM OUT UNTIL THEY START LISTENING TO US!

Luis Gutierrez was so slimy in that interview and I agree that Lou didn't even scratch the surface with him. I was pretty disappointed.

Dobbs: 'Showdown' really a battle of partisan buffoons
By Lou Dobbs
CNN
Editor's note: Lou Dobbs' commentary appears weekly on CNN.com
Mar 22, 2007
NEW YORK (CNN) -- An incompetent attorney general, who says he wasn't fully aware that nearly 10 percent of the U.S. attorneys who work for him throughout the country were being fired and permitted the 110,000-person Justice Department that he leads to give inaccurate information at best, or simply lie about it at worst, to the Congress and the American people, has the full confidence of the president who's lost the confidence of most people.

And this is what passes for a big-time, dramatic, historic constitutional crisis in 21st century America? You've got to be kidding. This is the most partisan, politically driven administration in history, and we're all supposed to be surprised by its conduct and motivation in the firing of these U.S. attorneys? Please.

Now the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law has voted to approve subpoenas that would force chief policy adviser Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and other top presidential aides to testify publicly and under oath about their involvement in the firings.

Guess what? That little ol' subcommittee can't do much of anything to force executive branch employees to testify without the help of the very man and department at the center of this altogether silly and over-baked controversy. That's right; Attorney General Alberto Gonzales or one of his U.S. attorneys would have to enforce any subpoenas refused by any of the president's aides.

This is the same Democratic-controlled Congress that millions of voters thought would be so vastly different from the last gaggle of partisan buffoons in the Republican-led 109th Congress. With almost 30,000 young Americans killed or wounded in Iraq, with a half-trillion dollars spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this Congress can do no better than publicly fulminate in futility and bray endlessly without effect on the course and conduct of the war in Iraq. Is there no sense of proportion and higher purpose anywhere in Washington?

While this president's so-called free trade policies continue to bleed the nation and the economy of millions of jobs and add to a $5 trillion mountain of trade debt, and while our public schools continue to fail a generation of young Americans, this Congress chooses to invest its energy and time in pure partisan blather and cheap political theatrics.

Is there not one decent, honest man or woman in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, in either party's leadership, who possesses the courage and the honesty to say, "Enough. The people who elected us deserve better"? So far the answer is no. Is there really any wonder that public opinion polls demonstrate that the president and this Congress share equally low approval ratings in poll after poll?

The White House is behaving with utter contempt for Congress and Congress is acting without respect or regard for this president. Could it be that, at long last, they're both right?

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