President Bush Calls Proposed Senate Vote of "No Confidence" in Alberto Gonzales Meaningless -- And He's Right

Tote Board Column -- 6/14 -- Wishing For More Than A Wash

The Ames Iowa Straw Poll Non-Event

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• LorenzoJennifer said:

  Completely agree.  Congress can take the initiative in the steps you've noted.  To issue a vote of "no confidence" is to slap Gonzalez on the hands for acting as though Bush were still his client in Texas.  

  As your attached link references IMMIGRATION, allow me to take this opportunity to express my anger at how the immigration bill has produced Congressional and Presidential posturing and preening.  Scrutiny finds the immigration bill to be impractical and unenforceable - examples: how can 8-12 million illegal and undocumented  alients be expected to come forward, identify themselves  and state they've been here illegally the whole time; requiring illegals to pay back taxes on earned income  necessarily implies employers did wrong in their preparing and filing corporate tax returns; does anyone expect that a head of family will return to their country of origin and then pay a significant fee/fine when they, after a year's wait, apply for re-entry at the U.S. embassy; will employers electronically file SS numbers of all employees to some central reporting unit, etc.  Also, if the illegal aliens enter the workforce, they'll hopefully be paid real wages, rapidly resulting in higher consumer prices. The end-game will likely have a 350-700 mile border wall with Mexico, 8,000-18,000 new Border Security agents, high-publicity lightning scare raids such as the one in New Bedford and no meaningful reform.  As a first generation American who has friends and relatives undergoing the citizenship process, I'm personally outraged that both Bush and Congress are raising hopes and expectations that will ultimately be dashed and destroyed.

  Closing on a positive note, great to see a reference to Daniel Boorstin's "The Image."  Still treasure my copy!

  June 12, 2007 4:53 AM

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