Oops: Pelosi Has A Family Problem

It would be interesting to watch House Speaker Pelosi try and explain this inconsistency. She wants to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraception for American citizens as a matter of sound economics. But she was opposed to an earlier comprehensive immigration bill because it didn't do enough for family reunification by moving illegal family members of citizens to the front of the immigration line. Why grow the size of immigrant families while limiting the size of American families, and both at taxpayer expense? Not enough workers in that vineyard she owns? Or maybe it's easier to make sense out of her positions if someone happens to not speak English?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is "not pleased" with the immigration bill now before the Senate and suggested Saturday that it needs major changes before she can support it.

... The long-awaited immigration measure, supported by President Bush and leading senators from both parties, eliminates the decades-old rule that sent the siblings and adult children of U.S. citizens and legal residents to the front of the immigration line.

Family reunification will be a prime principle in any immigration bill that comes out of the House, Pelosi promised.

"A point system for unification undermines our family values that we espouse in our country," the San Francisco congresswoman said. "I don't know why we have to compromise on reunification of families, I really don't.''

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

Can you say ditz? Is she smart enough to make the connection Dan makes? Here's hoping someone in the Washington media will ask her about the cross purposes Dan notes. Nothing says "family values" like a dozen lubricated Trojans.

[Ali]

Family reunification with brothers and sisters? Please! How many of us are really so close to our siblings that we need to live on the same continent with them? Given today's communication and transportation, it's easy to stay in touch. Likewise with parents and adult kids. All "family reunification" does is perpetuate the hold particular families have over others in our immigration policy. Have you heard all the laments about employers not being able to find the workers they need while illegal aliens complain about how hard it is to get a visa here? Yet, we import 1 million LEGAL immigrants a year, most through family reunification. If this policy is so bad at meeting the needs of the labor markets, perhaps we should drop it.

[SpaceCat]

Leave it you wingnuts to jump to a substantive issue in these troubling times. You have once again proven yourselves to be very serious people.

[Fred Beloit]

SpacePussy, you are keeping bad company. Why?

[templar knight]

"...to jump to a substantive issue in these troubling times."

Yeah, because making millions of illegal immigrants and their families citizens doesn't even need to be discussed, as the hundreds of billions of dollars this will cost our country is just peanuts compared to the trillion dollar deficits we are now voting on. You people need to quit trying to save the taxpayer money. Don't you know we can print all the money we need? Now shut up. We won!

[Lala]

obama talks, stock-market drops

[Karen]

This woman is dangerous and delusional.

[ET]

This is all about obama's aunt, who is living here illegally and facing deportation.

[Totally Heterosexual Conservative]

Run with this "issue," wingnuts. Run! Run! Run!

[Lala]

Here's a good idea, not only will they have to prove they are related but we can then track them as to whether or not they are criminals.

Illegal immigrants to be DNA tested under new crackdown in France

By Peter Allen
Last updated at 6:17 PM on 26th January 2009

Eric Besson

Immigration minister Eric Besson said the DNA tests would establish which foreigners were claiming visas by making up fictious family ties

France's hard-line new immigration minister is set to implement legislation that would allow DNA testing of new arrivals.

Eric Besson, who was appointed this month, has said the tests would establish which foreigners were claiming visas by making up fictious family ties with those already settled in the country.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1127823/Illegal-immigrants-DNA-tested-new-crackdown-France.html

[Lala]

We have money for foreign aid?

"Did you know that your current socialist president is now pushing for 0.7% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP - $14 Trillion) to be paid out in foreign aid, because that is what the United Nations says is the fair amount for America? Did you know that 0.7% of GDP is just shy of $100,000,000,000 (billion) dollars of our tax money going offshore, and for what? This is nothing more than government forcing you to be charitable to the entire world, at the point of a gun. (Don’t think so? Try not paying your taxes.)"

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7901

[WBestPresidentEver]

Nancy Pelosia is th emost ignorant women I have ever seen.
She has showed over and over again how really stupid she is.
She is useless. A disgrace to government.
I will celebrate the day she is gone. Sooner rather than later.

[Mr DeBakey]

"Is she smart enough to make the connection Dan makes?"

I'm suspecting very few are "smart" enough.

"I will celebrate the day she is gone"

Libs too, They all hate her. She always rolls over for the Rethuglicans.

[mary]

Isn't she a mother of five and a grandmother? And a Catholic? Aren't her views always in conflict with her Catholic faith? Then, when they finally have had enough and they either ban her from receiving the sacraments or excommunicate her altogether, she will back track and spin.

[Lala]

More jobs lost because this admin doesn't have a clue

"Unfortunately, the Obama Administration and Congress . . . seem to want to make it more difficult to invest abroad, and Congress refuses to pass free trade," he said. "It's not only the downturn, but a president and a Congress that threaten to raise investment costs and not lower trade barriers."

"Griswold and other free-trade advocates concede that Caterpillar and others like it would feel the downturn no matter what. But the impact on all firms is made much worse by the new anti-free-trade sentiment taking root in Washington. "What made the recession of 1929 into a Depression was when the U.S. embraced protectionism," said Bill Lane, director of government affairs at Caterpillar.

At a time when every job counts, it's getting pretty outrageous that Congress refuses to take every step possible to conserve American jobs. Some 56,000 jobs were lost on Monday alone. Free trade is one of the few things Congress can do to stanch this bleeding."

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=317865766737955

[Nate255]

It might have worked, but, it is a little too late. If only Pelosi's parents had used birth control it would have helped the economy. She can use herself as an example.

[Nate255]

It might have worked, but, it is a little too late. If only Pelosi's parents had used birth control it would have helped the economy. She can use herself as an example.

[Jeebus]

Dood has been in office a week...get a f*cking grip.

[Fred Beloit]

How much moratorium time are you trying for, Jeeb? May I add that I hope you don't begin our negotiations with diktats the way Obama told Arab television you shouldn't.