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power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Monday, April 15, 2013

The Death of the American Republic - The Gang of Eight




A 1,500 Page Immigration Bill to Drop One Day Before the Only Hearing
  • Somehow I don't think the Founding Fathers had in mind secret meetings by a Political Elite to rule over us.


The super secret meetings of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" group of Senators plans to introduce its long-awaited immigration bill on Tuesday, Senate sources confirmed to ABC News.

The 1,500 page bill will be made available only hours before the only scheduled Senate hearing reports Breitbart Big Government.

Four Democrats and four Republicans, known as the 'Gang of Eight,' wrapped up months of hard-fought negotiations this week and will put forth a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship for many of the 11 million to 30 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.

If the Senators actually do wait until Tuesday to roll out their lengthy proposed overhaul of the U.S. immigration system, that will give members of the Senate Judiciary Committee less than a full day to read it before the only Senate hearing on the topic. Despite ardent pleas from Senate conservatives, including ranking Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Chuck Grassley, the committee’s chairman, Sen. Pat Leahy, has only agreed to one hearing on the legislation.


The Gang of Eight.
I don't remember anywhere in the Constitution that legislation was to
be written in secret by a self-appointed political Elite.


Leahy scheduled that single hearing for Wednesday at 2:30 PM, and the hearing’s sole scheduled witness is Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Napolitano would have less than a full day to read the bill she is scheduled to testify about.

“Gang of Eight” member Marco Rubio (R-FL) has said he supports multiple hearings and an open and transparent immigration reform process, but his actions do not necessarily back his words. He has not pushed Leahy to force multiple hearings; he appears content with the single hearing Leahy has scheduled on the issue and now appears to be backing down from his demand for multiple hearings.

In a Friday morning report, Politico’s Manu Raju notes that after Rubio was “rebuffed” in his request for multiple hearings, “the senator wants to launch his own public hearing process of sorts to allow Republican senators to question expert witnesses about the plan, a move aimed at alleviating conservative fears that the plan will be jammed through Congress with little public airing.”

Rubio is clearly worried about the perception that this bill will be rushed through, just like Obamacare was a few years ago. On Saturday morning, Rubio’s office issued a press release containing a single quote from Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace:
The one thing that’s clear is that this isn’t going to be health care reform. It’s not going to be rushed through. It’s going to go through the committee process. There’s going to be hearings. There will be lots of amendments. And I think the only way to get buy in from some of those other 92 senators is going to be regular order, that is a very gradual slow way.
Despite Wallace's claim, there is only one hearing that is scheduled to happen. At the same time, there are multiple reports that keep surfacing indicating that the Gang of Eight will band together to block amendments to their bill.


Ancient Chinese Writing.
Congress deliberately writes all legislation in some fucking insane language akin to ancient Chinese so no one on earth can understand it.  Then these bastards drop 1,500 or 3,000 page bills filled with indecipherable bullshit for a quick vote with only a few hours to try and translate the mess and no time at all for the public to understand what is happening.

George Washington Takes the Oath as President.
In the early days of the Republic the people had control either through their state legislatures or with a House of Representatives made up of small districts where any citizen could run for and win office at almost no expense. 
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But today Billionaire Cartels of unions and business, of both the Left and Right, buy their own personal Senators and Congressmen with hundreds of millions in corrupt campaign money.  The result is we now have major legislation being made behind closed doors so the people and the media cannot see what is being done to them.
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The Republic is Dead.  Long Live the Empire.

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