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Think there is media bias in polling?

Check out this NEW POLL from the NYTimes showing Bush with only a 29% Approval Rating (Rasmussen has Bush 9 points higher at 38)

Here’s the SAMPLE they used:

Republican Primary Voters= 282
Democratic Primary Voters= 504

I’m not making this up:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/01142008_pollgraphics.pdf

They sample almost 2:1 Democrats then say “This is what America Thinks!”

No wonder these idiots are going broke.

And that has what to do with illegal aliens and drivers licenses?

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

I’m curious to know what the other eight states are.  I’m not sure if Washington is one of them, though I have seen several driver’s licenses that say, next to the photo, “Not Valid for Identification Purposes.” The explanation we got from the DoL was something along the lines of “We can’t swear this person is who they say they are, but we’re going to go ahead and let them drive anyways.”

"No Sane man will dance.”—Cicero

And that has what to do with illegal aliens and drivers licenses?

Sure, it’s totally off topic, but at least he included a link this time! Baby steps, Whister! Baby steps!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

How about this for a plan?  If you are a government official and know of law breaking and refuse to act on it or report to the proper authorities you go to jail. 

Contrary to the ~~considered~~ opinion of Fred Thompson, former Watergate prosecutor - who calls Bill Clinton’s perjury a TRIVIAL MATTER, who considered that when the Clintons’ were caught with CHINESE FUNDS IN THEIR CAMPAIGN CHEST it was a matter of necessity for him to go scurrying for some TIT-for-TAT GOP COVERING so the Dims wouldn’t be embarrassed by the scandal - I believe your idea is EXACTLY and PRECISELY what our Founding Fathers had in mind - AT THE VERY LEAST!

I think there are even times when our Founding Fathers considered that doing otherwise was even a DEATH PENALTY OFFENSE.

As a nextdoor neighbor to the People’s Republic of Maryland, I can assure you that licenses for Illegals are among the least bizzare of the many leftist/socialist programs being mounted in that place. Lord Baltimore would puke.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

“As a conservative, I will not be overly enthusiastic about voting for John McCain on November 4 - but I will be sprinting to the polling place to do so!”
Matthew May, conservative commentator, The American Spectator

What everybody overlooks is that the majority of illegals don’t need drivers licenses because they live in the big cities(more jobs) where taxpayers have already invested obscene amounts of money on public transportation projects.  Here in san jose ca you go anywhere on a multitude of trains, buses, and shuttles. Why is public transport only good enough for taxpayers and not illegals?

Whistler,

Hmmm, geee, whatever could media liberal bias in POLLING have to do with the Illegal Immigration problem?

Duh?  Seriously, you cannot be that clueless.

The point is that the left, which controls the MSM is willing to do ANYTHING, even manipulate polling samples to support their message (including amnesty towards illegals).

Try thinking beyond the end of your nose in the future and maybe you’ll get it.

PROOF:

As always, you are a an idiot.

Bill that is why I only believe numbers if they can be verified by more than one source. N=700 and is further broken down into 200 of Right and 500 of Left is not very representative. I can’t believe these liberal rags are stupid enough to post their studies and try to push them off as being objective studies.

Check out:
Goon’s North Dakota Red Neck
Goon’s World

whatever could media liberal bias in POLLING have to do with the Illegal Immigration problem?

Bill: Nine of of ten illegal alien gardeners are in favor of Mitt Romney for President! The tenth one was trimming Mitt’s azalea bushes and could not be reached for comment.

HERE IS MY PREDICTION:
Romney will carry Iowa by at atleast 12 points and probably 15 or more.  He will carry NH by the same.

What f’ing idiot could be THAT wrong? The true idiot.

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

BTW, Bill, I hope your name calling is very satisfying to you. With the kind of track record you have here, apparently, that’s all you’ve got!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Seriously, you cannot be that clueless.

Maybe he was just following your example, Bill?
Oh, and spin as you might, you were still off topic...again! (What a dullard!)

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Well, I live in Maryland, and take it from me, this state is screwed. If anyone really wants to see what a cluster F*!# this state has become check out http://www.omalleywatch.com/ , it’s a site dedicated to our boy wonder craptastic excuse for a governor.
This slimey bastard is interested in getting drivers licenses for the illegals solely for the next elections. He, the Gov, has managed to raise our taxes to a national high and screw up just about everything else he touches. Oh, did I mention that we got pay for him to go to Ireland. Yeah, to the tune of about 14,000 for security alone.
Whatever, we’re screwed, and hopefully with this new rule we can help screw up the rest of America.

Your welcome.
~Disgruntled Marylander

Undocumented immigrants would not be able to use their license to board airplanes, enter federal buildings, or cross borders. Some Maryland residents side with the lawmaker.

Granted, O’malley is giving ILLEGAL immigrants licenses that are limited, but this is a state induced method that flags illegal immigrants in their state.  Not a gigantic bereaucracy that costs millions.

What other ways are there to uproot the illegals from their hiding places?  The movement towards identifying them, gathering them, and kicking them out are incredibly costly.  Also, what would happen to our economy when they’re all gone?  Would it be even more costly?

What other ways are there to uproot the illegals from their hiding places?

a) track down illegals that are using false or stolen social security on the job.

b) when the police come across an illegal they need to be deported (the illegal not the cop).

c) don’t give welfare to illegals.  When they show up for free emergency rooms they need to be deported. 

Actually I’d do b) first.

I suppose some bleeding hearts will object to C) but do we require emergency rooms to report other crimes such as abuse or gunshots etc.

but this is a state induced method that flags illegal immigrants in their state.

We can require them to get drivers licenses but we can’t find them to deport.  How asinine is that?

Also, what would happen to our economy when they’re all gone?  Would it be even more costly?

I believe illegals are net drain to the economy.  Besides that we should make it easier to immigrate legally which should take up the slack.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

Well, I live in Maryland, and take it from me, this state is screwed. If anyone really wants to see what a cluster F*!# this state has become check out http://www.omalleywatch.com/ , it’s a site dedicated to our boy wonder craptastic excuse for a governor.
This slimey bastard is interested in getting drivers licenses for the illegals solely for the next elections. He, the Gov, has managed to raise our taxes to a national high and screw up just about everything else he touches. Oh, did I mention that we got pay for him to go to Ireland. Yeah, to the tune of about 14,000 for security alone.
Whatever, we’re screwed, and hopefully with this new rule we can help screw up the rest of America.

Your welcome.
~Disgruntled Marylander

Sounds like a democrate run administration.

Check out:
Goon’s North Dakota Red Neck
Goon’s World

As a nextdoor neighbor to the People’s Republic of Maryland, I can assure you that licenses for Illegals are among the least bizzare of the many leftist/socialist programs being mounted in that place. Lord Baltimore would puke.

As a former surf in the People’s Republic of Maryland, I can verify your statement. I am glad I left.

Goon - You guessed it!
Nothing but Blue in this little state of mine. We had a Gov who was doing a pretty good job, considering he had no other Republicans to work with, but the voters of this state don’t listen to the message or look at the track record they just vote for who ever has that D next to their name.
The only reason we got a Republican in there for four years was because the Dem he ran against was so bad that even Dems couldn’t bring themselves to vote for her.
O’Malley - City Council Man - was going to lose his job there.
So Baltimore elected him to be the Mayor. - Crime goes through the roof. Economy falls through the floor. Schools ‘lose’ millions and the State has to bail them out.
So, Maryland elected him Governor. The day that the national survey of ‘best states for education’ comes out, this dipshit tells the voters he wants to replace the school superintendent. Also, we just had the biggest tax increase in I don’t know how long.
He managed to take a surplus and turn it into a 1.7 billion dollar deficit. Did I mention he’s only been in office for about a year.
WE ARE SCREWED HERE IN MARYLAND.

Actually this policy is a good thing. When the time comes that the pedulum swings, and it will, Maryland’s new government will have a handly list of all illegals in the state.

The can use this kind of like the “progressives” would use a gun registry.

Exactly my point John D. This is a seemingly convenient way to identify alot of illegals.  We could use this in a lot of states perhaps.

Sad to say, a list of addresses for illegals would be close to useless.  Illegals are constantly moving and even if truthful in their initial submission of an address of record (and generally they are not) any address given would be out of date by the time the ICE men come to collect them up.

Better still is to conduct audits of those businesses that trigger governmental scrutiny by generating No Match letters: letters from Social Security that the Social Security numbers sent in by the employers simply don’t match, or is often the case, are duplicative, sometimes with something like 700 workers at a meat packing plant reporting the same social security number.

Even that is no panacea, since a lot of employment of illegals is completely under the table and no taxes are paid and none of course reported to the government.  You can often find a lot of short, swarthy hispanics gathered in the parking lots of 7-11’s early in the morning, looking for stakebed trucks and drivers who mention trabajo (work)

The illegals pile in and pick tomatoes or spinach or whatever else they are doing under the table.  BTW a lot of those food-poisoning scares, such as kids school lunch strawberries, spinach and now tomatoes can be traced back to the pickers going to the bathroom in the fields and not washing their hands.

Second, section 287(g)of the Immigration and Nationality Act authorizes local enforcement of immigration laws.  We need to start implementing this, period.

A good way to start is through attrition.  Any time an illegal comes into contact with government, especially for police involvement, take them into custody, place a federal hold on them and have ICE come by and pick them up.  If they entered without papers or overstayed their visitors’ visa by 180 days, then put them on a red rocket to Mexico, landing them at the Southern tip, not just South of the Border.

There’s lots that can be done to address the problem and well short of massive KGB-style sweeps.

...for great justice