Morning Must Reads: Riddled

It’s an interesting contrast between Greene’s policy answers (from MS’s post yesterday) and Angle’s.
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Yet one is portayed as a laughing stock and one is a serious candidate.

Which term was that? Given the reporter’s surname is Baca, I’m guessing it was an Hispanic slur.
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She then gave an “interview” with “Hedgecock.”
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Bachmann, you’re not the only nutcase.

One of the puzzles about the unemployment problem is that many of the jobs that were lost during the downturn probably shouldn’t come back. Home construction, in particular is a sector that was being artificially propped up by what we now know was artificial demand. Unfortunately, because we’ve been so sanguine about exporting manufacturing jobs and extolling the virtues of the ‘service economy’ there’s now a shortage of value adding activities available.
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Our problem is deeper and more structural than a mere ‘economic downturn’

One of the two candidates mentioned by Paul graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in political science, the other is advocating “2nd amendment remedies” to America’s political problems.
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But, as Paul said, one’s serious, one’s a laughing stock…

From Gallup: http://www.gallup.com/poll/140786/Americans-Back-Stimulus-Spending-Create-Jobs.aspx
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60% favor “additional government spending to create jobs and stimulate the economy”.

Hot off the Politico blog:
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38697.html
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Issa has told Republican leadership that if he becomes chairman, he wants to roughly double his staff from 40 to between 70 and 80. And he is not subtle about what that means for President Barack Obama.

At a recent speech to Pennsylvania Republicans here, he boasted about what would happen if the GOP wins 39 seats, and he gets the power to subpoena.

“That will make all the difference in the world,” he told 400 applauding party members during a dinner at the chocolate-themed Hershey Lodge. “I won’t use it to have corporate America live in fear that we’re going to subpoena everything. I will use it to get the very information that today the White House is either shredding or not producing.”

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Thank God almighty the Chicago thugs in the White House will soon loose their powerful ability to ruin this great nation.
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Run little liberals!! Run. You are soon to see your last days and will be relegated back into the holes you crawled out of to infest our country.

Immigration-less. Hillary Clinton threatens lawsuits against AZ immigration law.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100618/ap_on_re_us/us_immigration_law_clinton
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So when did Hillary get appointed the “Immigration Czar”?

She didn’t. She’s merely sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America and the AZ law is in clear violation of it.

Oh please enlighten us all as to how “the AZ law is in clear violation”? Are you confused as usual, and really mean the AZ law is in violation of the Mexican Constitution?

Actually, that subpeona power is precisely what’s going to prevent the Republicans from taking the House. Most Americans don’t share Rusty’s animosity toward their fellow countrymen. They’re more patriotic than that.

“Overall, please tell me whether you approve, disapprove, or neither approve nor disapprove of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling their jobs.”
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6/9-14, 2010
Approve 32%
Disapprove 65%
Neither 2%
Unsure 1%

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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The law specifically denies Hispanic citizens the equal protection of the law by placing additional burden’s on them that do not apply to other ethnic groups.
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It’s precisely the sort of injustice the fourteenth amendment was put in place to prevent.

There’s also the issue of whether a state can usurp federal authority in the case of immigration enforcement, but as we discovered with habeus corpus, the right-wing only believes in the rule of law when they’re not wetting their beds over the latest strawman inhabiting their current paranoia du jour.

“For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency…where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person…”
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This clause contained in the law specifically addresses your concern in the 14th Amendment. It does not separate anyone out based on their ethnic origin, or based on the color of their skin. Simply stated for the simpletons on the left, the law merely enforces the existing Federal Law. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Strawmen indeed!!
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You clearly have no clue as to what is and is not a violation of the 14th Amendment.

So what characteristics do you suppose would create a reasonable suspicion that one is an illegal alien? And which of those characteristics are not shared by Hispanic citizens?
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No amount of handwaving will negate the fact that the law creates a class of citizens denied equal protection under the law.

Yes, but those who worked in home construction can be utilized in renovating existing structures for energy efficiency. (My boyfriend had to make that switch and so far it’s working well for him.) There’s always another job that can use the existing skills of a worker.

Rusty, 40% of the illegal immigrants in this country came over the border legally and overstayed their work or student visas. Are you in favor of using the USVISIT data to track these illegals down and deport them?
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Are you also in favor of heavy fines for business or individuals who exploit illegal laborers?
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Because if you’re not, but you are a supporter of the AZ law, then you’re real beef isn’t illegal immigrants, its illegal Mexican immigrants, and speaks more to your dislike of a certain segment of the population and less about your desire to truly end illegal immigration.

Rusty
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Absolutely
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Condones
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Insensitive
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Slurs
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Tenaciously

Hey Rus – what’s “reasonable” to you is profiling to me.

Wait, is Obama a Chicago thug or is he a gay Elmer Fudd?
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Make up you mind!
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Is he tough and scary or is he weak?
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You wingnuts have to get your insults right unless you are trying to depict a gay Elmer Fudd with a Thompson gun taking out rivals while unable to catch a rabbit.

rusty,
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Unlawful search and seizure is in the constitution is while forbidding poor people from going to the doctor with government assistance is not in the constitution.
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You just like the way the word “constitution” looks so pretty on the screen and just keep on typing it as if it in random places.
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I bet when the ice cream store down the street stops serving your favorite flavor you shout out that they are violating your constitutional rights.

RE pic: “I was for the pink tie before I was against it.”

There are other federal agencies that are still in trouble. Another consequence of the starve the beast mentality.

Almost five years after Hurricane Katrina, the federal government remains woefully unprepared to rescue at-risk groups of people in the path of a catastrophe, a congressional panel charged Tuesday.

A House Homeland Security subcommittee challenged the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Office of Disability Integration and Coordination to explain how its budget of $150,000 and its staff of four people could possibly execute an effective rescue plan for the aged, disabled, and institutionalized.
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“My church spends more than $150,000, and we don’t have 300 million citizens, which is what the nation has,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D., Mo.).

Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/96450689.html#ixzz0rEIJT8ZD

John Kerry channels Abe Vigoda.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/06/palins-next-prop-ctd.html
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Sarah Palin has to be the most disengenuous, disgusting politician in this era. Her decision to meet with Margaret Thatcher, who has dementia, for a photo op is malignant. She has used her children, including her down syndrome baby, as props. Now she has to sink to another low.

The far left loons (like you) despise dear Sarah. That’s what we love about her. Nothing like your hate to assure us that she’s doing her job.