Just Saying

"The American people need to see us protect our borders and enforce our laws. And then, they'll be willing to talk about a guest-worker program."

- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay

Amen! As I've said many times, I have no problem with legal immigrants. I'm all in favor of a guest-worker program when the guest-worker is here legally and the legality is not by act of Congress. I just can't gleefully welcome with open arms anyone who is in this country breaking our laws the very first minute they step onto American soil.

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"If you're wondering why there's so little grass-roots support to date for the president's (Social Security reform) plan, it's because the focus has been on green-eyeshade issues such as solvency, transition costs, unfunded liabilities and rates of return. Actuaries to the barricades! Seriously, this should be an emotional issue about liberty and opportunity, not solvency dates."

- Ed Crane, President of the Cato Institute

I don't know that there is little grass-roots support for the Social Security plan. Patrick Ruffini writes about a FoxNews poll that shows that 60% of the American public supports PRA's. Dems and MSM don't like the idea of taxpayers having any control over their own retirement future so they deliberately frame the question so that the poll skews against reform. It's all in how you ask the question and get the result you want.

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Here’s an article by Ben Stein in American Spectator about why we should support Tom DeLay. He’s done nothing wrong, nothing illegal or immoral. He’s done nothing that a dozen or more other members of Congress haven’t done.

And for the record, it’s not all right to do something just because “everyone else is doing it.” If everyone else is doing it, then everyone is wrong. Don’t you remember hearing your parents saying that? Or saying it to your own kids? My point being, you can’t selectively punish one person when everyone is doing it. And sorry, “making an example” of one person doesn’t cut it either unless everyone stops. Everyone needs to stop doing whatever “it” is and either all are punished or none are.

I don’t care if he’s Republican or Democrat, if it’s wrong, it’s wrong. If the Democrats don’t want to stop the very practice that they are accusing DeLay of, then they need to sit down and shut up about what DeLay is doing.