Greetings,
I am hosting several events at the State Capitol and I need your help. I need you to attend as many of these events as you can and if possible, volunteer. Here is the schedule of events:
July 30th Friday evening I will be holding a memorial service for all those have been killed by an illegal alien and maimed. The service will be officiated by Rev. Wayne Perryman and Maricopa County Sherriff Chaplin Jim Remington. This will start at 7 PM on the Senate Lawn. This is NOT a rally so please leave your signs and flags at home. We will have seating for 500 people so please come early to get a parking space and a good seat.
“Why do they hate us?”
It’s a burning question on the minds of border-dwelling taxpayers, small business owners, farmers, and Rocky Mountain oil and gas industry workers suffering under punitive Democrat policies. Eighteen months into the Obama administration, the war on the American West is in full swing.
The first battlefront: Immigration. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats rejected a GOP amendment banning the use of federal funds to participate in any litigation against the new Arizona immigration enforcement law. “Our federal government should be doing its job to secure our borders rather than trying to bully and intimidate the people of Arizona,” argued Republican amendment sponsor Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. “We should not be suing and really hassling the people of Arizona for doing what we should be doing here and that’s protecting the citizenry.”
All but five Senate Democrats (Indiana’s Evan Bayh took a pass and didn’t vote) sided with the anti-Arizona Obama administration – and against not only a majority of Arizonans, but a majority of Americans who support the state’s effort to restore order on the chaotic southern border and protect American workers facing double-digit unemployment. Several House Democrats have actively lobbied to boycott Arizona and crush its economy – most notably, southern Arizona’s own Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva, who urged civic, religious, and political groups to take their convention dollars elsewhere. “Do not do business with this state,” Grijalva told open-borders zealots bent on punishing law-abiding citizens to “send a message.”
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Drug cartels key to stopping illegal immigration
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Lawmaker Who Wrote Arizona Immigration Law Intervenes in Obama Administration Lawsuit (CNSNews.com) – The author of the Arizona immigration law filed a court motion to stop the federal government’s effort to prevent the law from going into effect on July 29…
State Senator Russell Pearce, sponsor of SB 1070 (Wikipedia)
That’s not the case, said Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, author of the law and chairman of the appropriations committee.
“As I’ve said all along, SB 1070 makes no new immigration law, it simply enforces the laws already on the books,” Pearce said in a statement Wednesday. “Barack Obama has put politics before the safety of citizens of Arizona who are under the gun from the illegal alien crisis in our state. I refuse to apologize for standing up for America and the rule of law. I hope the Court does not allow the Obama administration to run roughshod over the rule of law.”
The Arizona law states that violating federal immigration law is also a state crime. The law seeks to avoid racial profiling by only allowing police to ask about immigration status and legal identification if they come into “lawful contact” with someone, such as a traffic stop or after the commission of a crime.
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Democrats should pledge now to refrain from approving controversial legislation during the lame-duck session.
Barack Obama’s considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare, financial reform, and a near trillion-dollar stimulus that will significantly transform the country. But spent nonetheless. There’s nothing left with which to complete his social-democratic ambitions. This would have to await the renewed mandate that would come with a second inaugural.
That’s why, as I suggested last week, nothing of major legislative consequence is likely to occur for the next two-and-a-half years. Except, as columnist Irwin Stelzer points out, for one constitutional loophole: a lame-duck Congress called back into session between the elections this November and the swearing-in of the 112th Congress next January.
Leading Democrats are already considering this as a way to achieve even more liberal measures that many of their members dare not even talk about, let alone enact, on the eve of an election in which they face widespread backlash to the already enacted elements of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda.
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In this photo, George Steinbrenner's coffin is driven by hearse during funeral services Saturday, July 17, 2010, in Trinity, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Unless Congress acts to extend its repeal, the death tax is scheduled to return in 2011– a tax that liberals and conservatives alike seem to agree is designed only to attack the “pockets” of the wealthy.
A moratorium on the tax expires after Dec. 31, 2010, and the tax will return in 2011 taxing inheritances at a rate of 55 percent with only a $1 million exemption unless Congress changes the tax law.
On a 39-59 vote, the Senate on Wednesday rejected a measure sponsored by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) that would have permanently repealed the tax.
DeMint’s measure, which came in the form of an amendment to a small business bill, would have made permanent the repeal of the federal estate tax, which is set to expire on Dec. 31.
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