STUPID,STUPID,STUPID.

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Also, even Republicans praised the job he did as AG. Its a challenge that every governor has to face- what do they do fill up the jails with illegal immigrants? This has to be solved as a nation in Washington, but noone has the guts to talk seriously about solutions any more.

You know that cities like NYC depend on immigrant labor for the restaurants and hotels. That’s why it was declared a sanctuary city.

If what he was doing broke federal laws, THIS justice dept would have been all over him.

K, Bush and his people are anti-immigration-reform (in the direction most in this country want reform to go, namely begin by enforcing existing immigration laws, control the borders, and possibly consider limits on immigration) because of ties to the business community.

I think Spitzer is just a governor trying to deal with the issue.

Based on my observations of him while I lived in New York, I believe otherwise. (His earlier efforts as attorney general were hardly “white knight” good deeds, but were exercises of raw power and even viciousness as well as news-seeking prior to his pursuit of the governorship.) I’ve already expressed my views of what he was doing as well as what he is like.

On a more neutral note, as I said earlier, I suspect the Democrats in Congress and seeking the Presidency (especially You-Know-Who) probably told him to cease, at least until after 2008, because this could only hurt other Democrats.

I would be more prone to take it seriously if

… you wanted to, but you simply choose not to, and you normally have your mind made up beforehand.

Also, maybe someone should ask the Democratic candidates at the Las Vegas debates how they reconcile their health care plans (free healthcare for all), their education plans (free college for all) with their immigration plans (American citizenship for everyone who wants it).

They can be honest as well as arrogant and retrograde, what I saw down to the county and municipal government levels when I was living in New York: “We’ll have to raise taxes, of course.”

Add to that what is inherent here among supporters of the plan as well as those that also like the vote-buying nature of it. What is inherent here is a modern liberal childish entitlement mentality and contempt for constraints. Of course they should be given driver’s licenses and anything else they need (or want). They shouldn’t have to wait, or to follow any laws or rules or procedures. Who cares about these things? So what? We should be able to do anything or get anything we want, no fault, no responsibility. The last thing we ever want to hear is the word “no.”

Now we will see slogans and politicizing of the issue

That was the nature of Spitzer’s plan and its supporters — it was an ambitious political stunt.

when the Democrats won control of Congress

I suspect Congressional Democrats as well as the Democratic Presidential candidates told Spitzer to suspend this nonsense until after the 2008 elections, because this obviously would have harmed their chances.

The constitution does not allow the states to have their own immigraiton policies.

Deliberate, intentional flouting of the laws of this nation, be it news-and-vote-buying stunts like Spitzer’s, or the instances of some muncipalities ordering non-compliance and non-cooperation with immigration or national-securitylaws, are criminal as well as vile and should result in imprisonment if not worse.

This is just another attempt to appeal to minority voters and get more votes, a “21st century Democrat”: regressive, retrograde, morally retarded.

give him some points for trying

??? !!!

What Spitzer attempted to do was absolutely, deliberately, unquestionably wrong.

He’s pandering to minorities and deliberately undermining, in the wrong direction, immigration law and policy in this country. He belongs in prison.

Even writers to the liberal and Democratic Party flagship New York Times are overwhelmingly critical of the dirtbag.

He’s a fine example of Cyanide Nation degeneracy (he already has been in Albany, the most dysfunctional state capital in the nation, where the word “dysfunctional” is routinely used throughout the state to refer to it), deliberate flouting of the laws of this nation (deserving of prison), a classic “21st century Democrat” star devoid of morality and obscessed with manipulation and absolute power.

Naturally, many of us expect him to go to Washington to join a Democratic executive branch someday, if not try to be President himself. He’d be great in a Hillary Clinton administration, for example.

Spitzer is hardly crusading.
He is trying to deal with a major problem on the roads of NY, and what he did was in reaction to the complints of other drivers.

Half of the country wants one thing, and the other half wants the opposite.
I’m sick of both halves and their whining.
They just destroy every effort to bring this under control, and then complain, complain, complain.

The whole country is having a temper tantrun, and I wish I could send to bed without supper.

The constitution does not allow the states to have their own immigraiton policies. The left has repeatedly used that to beat down initiatives in places like California that sought to deny benefits to illegal aliens. The left did not seem to care about states rights then.

Of course, now that the politician have a (D) after his name, the state’s rights issue plays.

However, since Congress really isn’t interested in oversight and is definitely not interested in any oversight of Democrats, Congress, once again, failed in the oversight of border protection and functions.

Also, maybe someone should ask the Democratic candidates at the Las Vegas debates how they reconcile their health care plans (free healthcare for all), their education plans (free college for all) with their immigration plans (American citizenship for everyone who wants it).

The trackbacks appearing within the regular comments are really distracting and take away from honest dialogue here. Yes, we know that University Update, umm, borrows 95% of your content…

If you were an illegal alien living in New York, would you trust the system enough to come on down and register for a “limited use” license? I doubt I would…

And for me, that makes this “solution” a non-starter on practical grounds. IMHO, my governor has more important business to attend to and this issue isn’t worth the trouble. Let him crusade on this when he gets his federal appointment in the next administration (although at this point his self-destruction is looking to be preventing that), but not now.