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Why is everyone making a big deal out of Hillary’s support for driver’s licenses for illegals when she has voted to:

1. Grant US citizenship to 12-20 million illegal aliens

2. Give felons and gang members US citizenship

3. Oppose making English the national language of the United States

These are juicy, low-hanging fruit - just waiting to be picked by any well-funded 527 organization during the closing months of the 2008 general election campaign.

— PoliPundit

In case there were any remaining doubts on Mike Huckabee’s position on the DREAM Act, he came out very strongly in favor of it in a CNN interview (watch the video here.) He went further than the DREAM Act, endorsing in-state tuition for illegal aliens, even though such tuition would not be available to American students from other states.

Interview transcript:

WOLF BLITZER: “Did you support special tuition breaks to children of illegal immigrants?”

GOV. HUCKABEE: “No, it was not special tuition breaks. What I supported was that people who had been in our schools, who had met all of the academic requirements for a very specific scholarship would be able to get the same scholarship as anybody else because they had been in our schools and part of it they had to apply for citizenship. Now, what’s better? Having a person remain a minimum wage worker and be on the subsidy? Or, is it better that they become a citizen, they get a college education, they become a significant taxpayer, they have shown their academic credentials? And you know what Wolf? You don’t punish the child for the crime of the parents.”

BLITZER: “Are these children that were born in the United States? If they were they are U.S citizens, and they should get all the benefits as every citizen or were they children who came here with their illegal immigrant parents and as a result just went through the system?”

GOV. HUCKABEE: “Some would have been both. But some of them would have had to have been in our school system through their entire school career in order to qualify for the scholarships. It wasn’t that if they got them someone else didn’t, because it was available to anybody. Bottom line is that this country doesn’t have a history of punishing the child for the sin of the parent. Now, if that causes somebody to want to vote for somebody else for President there are plenty of other people saying let’s punish children. I’m sorry. But I think that you punish the crime doer. If the parent committed the crime and came here illegally, I don’t have any problem with punishing them.”

BLITZER: “So can I just put a finishing touch? Amnesty for the children of illegal immigrants would be OK?”

GOV. HUCKABEE: “It is not amnesty.”

BLITZER: “But you said they could apply for citizenship?”

GOV. HUCKABEE: “Well, here’s the thing. It is not an amnesty because the child didn’t commit a crime, the child didn’t – when he is 5 years old and comes here in the back of his parents’ vehicle, did he commit the crime? That would be the point to be made.”

This continues a long tradition of Huckabee’s support for illegal aliens.

– PoliPundit

Political courage!

Mrs. Clinton’s statement affirming her support of Mr. Spitzer in his officecame less than a day after she offered a muddled and hesitant position on the bill, prompting a round of denunciations by her opponents. It signaled the extent to which her advisers viewed that moment as the biggest misstep she made in the debate, and one with long-term potential to undermine her candidacy.

“Senator Clinton supports governors like Governor Spitzer who believe they need such a measure to deal with the crisis caused by this administration’s failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform,’” her campaign said.

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said that she had not studied either plan, and was not specifically endorsing either of them.

Still, the release of the statement suggested her advisers believed it was politically wiser to embrace a position that could clearly hurt her in a general election rather than risk providing more fuel to what has emerged as a damaging line of criticism: That she, taking advantage of her dominant position in some polls, is not being candid about her views and about would she would do as president.

“She is a habitual evader,” said Mr. Obama’s senior strategist, David Axelrod.

So Clintonesque, consult the advisors and look at the political fallout, not the issue itself. Coward.

— The Ace

Interesting column today,

Capitalism in its many variants has been shown, he notes, to be a prodigious generator of wealth. But it will not spring forth magically froma few big industrial projects or cookie-cutter policies imposed by outside experts. It’s culture that nourishes productive policies and behavior.

By and large, nations have either lifted themselves or have stayed down. Societies dominated by tribal, religious, ideological or political values that disparage the qualities needed for broad-based growth will not get growth. Economic success requires a tolerance for change and inequality, some minimum level of trust – an essential for much commerce – and risk-taking.

All of those descriptors are of course an anathema to modern “progressives.”

— The Ace

More bad news for John Edwards,

Economic growth in the U.S. unexpectedly accelerated in the third quarter as increasesin exports, consumer spending and business investment made up for another plunge in home construction.

Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.9 percent, the most in more than a year, the Commerce Department said today in Washington.

Anyone remember how many consecutive quarters of growth this is, 22? It’s been so many I’ve lost count.

I wonder how many American leftists think we’re in a recession?

— The Ace

How long before this happens in this Country? When will this PC and love of “diversity” stop.

Can you imagine the outcry if Muslims were “forced” to do something to recognize a Christian Holiday, or heaven forbid, a Jewish Holiday ?

Oh wait, we already bend over backwards to neglect our own heritage as to not “offend” others. My bad.

A school was accused of making teachers dress up as Muslims for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival.

Kids at the 257-pupil primary have also been told to don ethnic garb even though most are Christians. The morning assembly will be open to all parents – but dads are BARRED from a women-only party in the afternoon because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.

Just two members of staff – a part-time teacher and a teaching assistant – are Muslim. Yesterday a relative of one of the 39 others said: “Staff have got to go along with it – or let’s face it, they would be branded racist.” The day aims to belatedly mark Eid, the end of Ramadan.

“Who would put their job on the line? They have been told they have to embrace the day to show their diversity. But they are not all happy.”

Sally Bloomer, head of Rufford primary school in Lye, West Midlands, insisted: “I have not heard of any complaints.” “It’s all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism.”

Source: The Sun

— ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx

Apparently the wicked witch of New York had a hard time with this last night:

John Edwards had a little fight in him. He did score best on the driver’s license point, saying she had two positions in two minutes. I’d decree him Hillary’s True Rival tonight, for whatever that’s worth. Narrow the stage to two; everybody else is taking up space.

Chris Dodd seemed like the last sane man on an insane stage when he suggested that giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants might not be a good idea. It reveals the radicalism not just of Hillary, but of the Democrats as a whole, that only one man among eight candidates felt taking that stand was worth any political heat from the amnesty crowd.

Happy Halloween Democrats, you’re leading presidential candiate is wrong on the second most important issue in next year’s election!

— The Ace

The treaty is currently in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is expected to be voted on and out of Committee to the Senate for a vote. Under Democrat control, having it get out of Committee is not a big surprise, the issue is how many NAY votes it receives.

Key people in the Committee to watch according to Rob Bluey are:
John Sununu (N.H.), George Voinovich (Ohio), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Johnny Isakson (Ga.)

Some presidential candidates have come out against L.O.S.T.:
Rudy Giuliani has called the treaty “fundamentally flawed” and joins Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee in opposition to the treaty.

— ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx

Another day in the Senate, and another disastrous bill being debated and voted in. I can’t remember in recent memory a Senate that has introduced so many destructive and destabilizing bills for America as this current Senate in session.

Just over the last 3 months or so, we have had the Senate Amnesty bill, S-CHIP and now L.O.S.T.; the Law of the Sea Treaty. All these bills hide their true intentions behind pretty names like Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Children’s Health Insurance, and now a Sea Treaty, sounds so cut and dry, doesn’t it?

Well, just like the Comprehensive Immigration Reform which would have granted amnesty to ILLEGAL immigrants, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program which would have extended coverage to families who don’t need, illegal immigrants who don’t deserve it and adults who shouldn’t be in it, Law of the Sea Treaty comes with a whole host of skeletons in it’s closet.

First things first, my rule of thumb, my litmus test is that if Democrats are for it, especially liberals, it can’t be good for America. Red flag number one. second, Clinton was for it as President, Ronald Reagan was against it. Hmmm, Red flag number two.

Then you have to apply logic, if it looks like a liberal, feels like a liberal, it must smell like a liberal too, and this treaty stinks!

Once again, what’s best for America is coming in second to what is best for the World Community at-large, at least that’s the way the United Nations and Democrats are looking at it.

Thankfully, this treaty needs 67 votes in the Senate to be ratified, so there is a chance that Republicans alone can kill this treaty. Conservatives must unite one more time and join together in working to defeat L.O.S.T.

To sum up the problems with this treaty, it gives the United Nations control of activities on, over and beneath the ocean’s surface. America, which maintains the largest and most powerful Navy in the World would need permission from a United Nations International Tribunal to do pretty much anything that we do now.

Another words, a Country who doesn’t even maintain a Navy would have an equal vote with the United States in all matters pertaining to the ocean. It would put other Country’s dictator’s in a position to thwart the United States in any kind of military operation and we already know how friendly the United Nations is to the U.S.

From an economic standpoint, the treaty literally gives the United Nations a blank check, a blank check signed by the United States with no control on how the money is spent. Even eminent domain comes into play with this, the treaty grants the United Nations the power to seize technology and share with possible enemies of the United States. Sound good so far?

Please contact your Senators and urge them to vote no on the Law of the Sea Treaty and let’s make L.O.S.T. stay that way!

— ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx

John Hawkins does a great job of ranking the 2008 GOP presidential field on immigration issues. This is an absolute must-read if you’re deciding which candidate to support.

— PoliPundit