This was a very great week for America and for conservative causes, issues and concerns for which this blog advocates. It was a good week for what is right, just and supportive of the Constitution and the values and principles upon which this nation was founded. Amnesty was stopped at the brink of passage in the Senate. The un-Fairness Doctrine was stripped from an appropriations bill in the House. The Supreme Court finally makes a string of sensible decisions.
SENATE AMNESTY BILL DEPORTED ON THURSDAY
Here lately I have been writing quite a bit about the recently jettisoned Amnesty bill. To my relief and to the chagrin of Senators McCain-Kyl-Kennedy-Reid-Boxer budget-busting American law breaking and values thrashing immigration bill failed yesterday to be fast tracked to passage. I even did a little political activism on behalf of killing this needless legislation. I faxed and emails my Senators and other key Senators.
OneNewsNow.com reported that S.B. 1639 was defeated by a vote of 46-53 in a procedural vote. The tally fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to invoke cloture, which would have cut off debate, leading to a final vote requiring only a simply majority. My two Senators, Brown and Voinovich, in the end did the right thing, both voted against cloture, whereas just days before they were part of the majority who voted to resurrect this once dead bill by voting for cloture at that time. Now it has died a second death, hopefully for good this time. Some reports that I saw think that this issue will not be brought up again until 2009. Let’s hope they are right.
In response to the Senate vote, which was a clear indication that many near deaf Senators finally heard the will of the people on this matter, the advocates for amnesty were vitriol. One out of touch with the American peoples mind amnesty backer actually was quoted on KNBC.com as saying, "Our elected leaders -- people who are supposed to stand up on behalf of Americans -- were bullied by a small contingent of hate-mongering anti- immigrants completely unrepresentative of the larger American public, which continues to call for just, humane and effective solutions." I guess she was talking about me and maybe 80% of the American public. This amnesty-lover needs to take a remedial basic math course or many a basic reading.
Tellingly Senator Barbara Boxer was still referring to the illegal alien invaders as “undocumented workers.” That term may be more politically correct, but it is indicative as to how out of touch she and the 45 other Senators, who voted to fast track amnesty, were with the mind and will of Americans. May the public remember all of you in the 2008 elections and put you all on the fast train to retirement . . .
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE SILENCED ON THURSDAY
While the Senators were regaining its sanity and stopping Amnesty, the U.S House of Representatives soundly killed an attempt to attach the Fairness Doctrine to an appropriations bill. The vote was a whopping 309-115. The Hill.com reported, “The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using taxpayer dollars to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters who feature conservative radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity."
Senator Diane Feinstein and other radical leftists have been craving a chance to silence AM talk radio. Actually conservative-dominated consumer-preferred talk radio is a counter balance to the liberally biased main stream media. It baffles me in one respect, why conservatives do not demand equal time on PBS, NPR, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN whenever this question comes up. I heard Senator Feinstein say that when the Fairness Doctrine was in place that the news was “being reported correctly.” What gall, if everyone does not espouse the politically correct, Democrat Party line – it is considered “incorrect reporting?”
SUPREME COURT MAKES A FEW RIGHT RULINGS MONDAY
Even normally judicial activist and often wrong-ruling United States Supreme Court got it right this week. According to a OneNewsNow.com report, “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned aside a key portion of the McCain-Feingold law on election campaign ads, upheld President Bush's faith-based initiative, and supported a school's right to impose some restrictions on student free speech.
The Court ruled in favor of a Pro-Life group who wanted to place an issue ad 30 days before the 2004 but was denied by the liberal and renegade 9th Circuit Court. Issues are not subject to the McCain-Feingold so-called Campaign Reform law.
The Supreme Court ruled that Joe-taxpayer cannot challenge a White House initiative that helps religious charities get a share of federal money. OneNewsNow.com reported that the decision blocks a lawsuit by a group of atheists and agnostics against eight Bush administration officials including the head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This case does not really substantially overturn the grossly misapplied and misinterpreted “establishment of religion clause” by the United States Supreme Court in previous cases.
The Supreme Court tightened limits on student speech, ruling against a high school student and his 14-foot-long "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner. The Court sided with the school, seeing the student, who was on a schools sponsored field trip, as advocating drug use. The Court ruled in favor of the school principal.
SENATE AMNESTY BILL DEPORTED ON THURSDAY
Here lately I have been writing quite a bit about the recently jettisoned Amnesty bill. To my relief and to the chagrin of Senators McCain-Kyl-Kennedy-Reid-Boxer budget-busting American law breaking and values thrashing immigration bill failed yesterday to be fast tracked to passage. I even did a little political activism on behalf of killing this needless legislation. I faxed and emails my Senators and other key Senators.
OneNewsNow.com reported that S.B. 1639 was defeated by a vote of 46-53 in a procedural vote. The tally fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to invoke cloture, which would have cut off debate, leading to a final vote requiring only a simply majority. My two Senators, Brown and Voinovich, in the end did the right thing, both voted against cloture, whereas just days before they were part of the majority who voted to resurrect this once dead bill by voting for cloture at that time. Now it has died a second death, hopefully for good this time. Some reports that I saw think that this issue will not be brought up again until 2009. Let’s hope they are right.
In response to the Senate vote, which was a clear indication that many near deaf Senators finally heard the will of the people on this matter, the advocates for amnesty were vitriol. One out of touch with the American peoples mind amnesty backer actually was quoted on KNBC.com as saying, "Our elected leaders -- people who are supposed to stand up on behalf of Americans -- were bullied by a small contingent of hate-mongering anti- immigrants completely unrepresentative of the larger American public, which continues to call for just, humane and effective solutions." I guess she was talking about me and maybe 80% of the American public. This amnesty-lover needs to take a remedial basic math course or many a basic reading.
Tellingly Senator Barbara Boxer was still referring to the illegal alien invaders as “undocumented workers.” That term may be more politically correct, but it is indicative as to how out of touch she and the 45 other Senators, who voted to fast track amnesty, were with the mind and will of Americans. May the public remember all of you in the 2008 elections and put you all on the fast train to retirement . . .
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE SILENCED ON THURSDAY
While the Senators were regaining its sanity and stopping Amnesty, the U.S House of Representatives soundly killed an attempt to attach the Fairness Doctrine to an appropriations bill. The vote was a whopping 309-115. The Hill.com reported, “The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using taxpayer dollars to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters who feature conservative radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity."
Senator Diane Feinstein and other radical leftists have been craving a chance to silence AM talk radio. Actually conservative-dominated consumer-preferred talk radio is a counter balance to the liberally biased main stream media. It baffles me in one respect, why conservatives do not demand equal time on PBS, NPR, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN whenever this question comes up. I heard Senator Feinstein say that when the Fairness Doctrine was in place that the news was “being reported correctly.” What gall, if everyone does not espouse the politically correct, Democrat Party line – it is considered “incorrect reporting?”
SUPREME COURT MAKES A FEW RIGHT RULINGS MONDAY
Even normally judicial activist and often wrong-ruling United States Supreme Court got it right this week. According to a OneNewsNow.com report, “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned aside a key portion of the McCain-Feingold law on election campaign ads, upheld President Bush's faith-based initiative, and supported a school's right to impose some restrictions on student free speech.
The Court ruled in favor of a Pro-Life group who wanted to place an issue ad 30 days before the 2004 but was denied by the liberal and renegade 9th Circuit Court. Issues are not subject to the McCain-Feingold so-called Campaign Reform law.
The Supreme Court ruled that Joe-taxpayer cannot challenge a White House initiative that helps religious charities get a share of federal money. OneNewsNow.com reported that the decision blocks a lawsuit by a group of atheists and agnostics against eight Bush administration officials including the head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This case does not really substantially overturn the grossly misapplied and misinterpreted “establishment of religion clause” by the United States Supreme Court in previous cases.
The Supreme Court tightened limits on student speech, ruling against a high school student and his 14-foot-long "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner. The Court sided with the school, seeing the student, who was on a schools sponsored field trip, as advocating drug use. The Court ruled in favor of the school principal.
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A GOOD WEEK
All in all it was a good week for Conservatives. A refreshing change of pace in the Pelosi-Reid period of politically correct and leftist-driven Congressional agenda. Let's have another year and a half of weeks like this!
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