Seems Kay Bailey Hutchison Has Seen the Light

Well, I found this one on the Houston Chronicle webpage...originally buried on the Houston local page but strangely resurrected to the front page when people began to complain. Funny how that seems to happen only to articles supporting Conservative causes. Of course there is no Leftward bias in the Houston Chronicle...and Bill Clinton was the most moral President in US history too.

Anyway, even though they resurrected the story from the back page, the headline is confusing enough to make Conservatives cringe.

Hutchison to defy GOP on immigration bill
Hutchison to vote against reviving stalled immigration bill

June 21, 2007, 6:40PM
By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who has been under
intense pressure from the White House and Republican leadership to support a
sweeping immigration overhaul, nevertheless announced today that she will vote
against reviving the legislation when it returns to the Senate floor next
week.

She was joined today by the state's other senator, Republican John
Cornyn, who had been expected by the bill's supporters to take such a stance.
They had aggressively lobbied Hutchison in hopes of adding her vote to the 60
necessary to revive the stalled legislation.

"I could not support (bringing the bill to a vote) in its present
position," Hutchison, criticizing the legislation as amnesty for illegal
immigrants, said today.

As No. 4 in the Senate GOP leadership, Hutchison is the highest-ranking
Republican to break from her party on a domestic policy issue of signal
importance to President Bush.

"Until major changes are made that reject amnesty and a more open, fair
process emerges for debating one of the most crucial issues facing our nation, I
cannot support this immigration bill," she said.

One might be forgiven for believing that Kay Bailey was voting with the Democrats from this poor example of journalism displayed by the Chronicle. What Senator Huthchison is doing is listening to her voters and standing against the GOP leadership. She is very much doing the will of the real GOP, those of us who voted Republican to prevent this kind of insanity.

To say that Senator Hutchison is "to defy GOP on immigration bill," is absolutely disceptive and incorrect. The fact is that a majority of Republicans in Congress, in both Houses of Congress are against this Amnesty Bill. There is a very good reason for that; most Americans are against this Amnesty Bill.

Unfortunately we Conservatives are battling three groups in preventing 20 million lawbreakers from getting illegally awarded citizenship.

1. Democrats who know that this huge influx of new immigrants will flock to vote for their socialist policies as they are more accustomed to socialism than they are free enterprise.
2. Foolish Republicans like our President, John McCain, and the Liberal RINO's who are gullible enough, or are arrogant and uninformed enough (ever notice how the two seem to go hand-in-hand?) to believe that by sucking up to the illegals, they will convince them to vote Republican. And last but not least,
3. Big corporations in the Dairy Industry, Hotel and Restaurant Business, Agricultural Industry, The American Chamber of Commerce and others who see illegals as a source of cheap labor.

This is corruption of the worst order and it cuts on both sides of the aisle in Congress. It is pandering to special interests in the most blatant way.

The President is fond of saying that "these people do jobs that Americans won't do." Well, if he means at a poverty level wage with no benefits, he's right. The problem with that statement, or should I say problems, are numerous.

First it makes the assumption that illegals are only working in low-paying jobs. That is a blatant lie and to prove it all one has to do is to look at the meat packing plant where they rounded up 200 illegal aliens working at the plant. The very next day, all of those jobs left behind by those illegals were taken by American citizens.

Second, it continues the lie that Americans won't do the kind of labor that illegals perform. That is absurd. I have been alive long enough to remember when American citizens did perform all of those jobs, whether it be cleaning peoples houses, housekeeping in hotels, or digging sewers. All of those jobs have been done by American citizens and they would be again, if the businesses were forced to pay wages high enough to attract Americans to those jobs.

Now maybe a few overweight Americans might have to go out and mow their own lawns instead of paying some guy to do it, but as far as I can see, only good can come from increased exercise. Besides if you still don't want to mow the lawn, you can pay an American citizen a few bucks more to have it done for you.

Kay Bailey is standing up for what she and most of America knows to be right. It is a matter of security, it is a matter of freedom, and it is a matter of preserving our culture.

I thank God for the few great individuals we still have in Congress like Kay Bailey Hutchison, John Cornyn (both of my senators...HooYah!) and Jeff Sessions. There are others, but I cannot list them all. So I will just express my gratitude to all of those Representatives and Senators with the guts to withstand the pressure from so many quarters and to do what is right.

A nation without borders is no longer a nation. The President and his happy band of insipid mouth-breathers up there in Washington DC are out of step with Americans and out of touch with their base. They have taken up the cause of their political enemies in hopes of currying favor and they have insulted their base.

Mr. President, Karl Rove, Tony Snow, John McCain,and the rest of you betrayers of our trust and our nation, we are not "xenophobes," we are not "fear mongering" Mr. President Bush, we are not "anti-immigrants" Mr. Fred Barnes and Mr. Mort Kondracky and it is an insult for you to say so.

We are pro-America, pro-Constitution, and pro-obeying the law. If you can't understand that then you need to go. Right now, even considering the good things that President Bush has done, I am about ready to call for his impeachment for betraying the trust we citizens gave him in getting him re-elected for a second term.

Secure the borders 1st, then we'll talk; anything else, well that's a bunch of BS.

Long live this American Republic!!???

Oh yeah, and Kay, You go girl!

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