Roskam Rocks!

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• June 26, 2007 9:13 PM Kieth Maupin wrote:
  I remember hearing a comment about this and it was, "Why can't they just inforce the laws that are on the books? What is one more piece of paper going to do? Makes sense to me.
  
  Till they all come home,
  
  Keith Maupin
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• June 27, 2007 10:34 AM Lisa wrote:
  There are other reasons NOT to support this bill but for national security reasons alone, it should not be passed. It is our governments solemn duty to keep it's citizen's safe.
  I applaud Congressman Roskam for standing his ground.
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• June 27, 2007 5:15 PM Ryan Jazak wrote:
  ROSKAM ROCKS, no doubt about it. I can't wait to meet him sometime and thank him for all he does for our country and our troops. Semper Fi Peter!!!!!!
  
  
  Ryan Jazak
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• June 28, 2007 12:17 AM Ed wrote:
  66.7% disagree with your post Joe.
  
  There's very little anybody could do to wreck our country's reputation worse than George Bush already has but ethnically cleansing 12 million hispanics? That'd do it.
  
  Pete's right about one thing though. The Senate ought to hold off on immigration reform for another couple of years until we have a Democratic president and larger Dem majorities in both houses. Then we won't get a bill larded up with impractical racist nonsense.
  
  Put those immigrants on the road to citizenship. Level the playing field by making employers pay them wages and benes like US citizens and make them pay taxes like US citizens. And after 5 years on a green card make 'em citizens.
  
  Not a one will vote Republican but then that's the price you pay for backing ill considered racist nonsense.
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  1. June 28, 2007 8:22 AM Joe Cantafio wrote:
     Ed, Ed, Ed, ...
     
     I love how you use a percentage to make yourself look correct. 98.3% of people who do that are usually wrong and are making up those percent numbers! (LOL)
     
     Ethnic cleansing???? Come on brother, ... they are illegal , ... they sneak into our country and want the same freedoms all American have! Try sneaking into Mexico Ed, and see what happens to you there.
     
     Pete's right about a lot of things, ... that's why the people of Illinois' 6th district and Du Page county voted for him. If you think the Dem's will wait this out and let 12,000,000 illegal immigrant just "skate" into this country in 5-years because all elected officials will be Dem's, I think you'll be waiting for nothing.  The more the "illegals" protest, bitch and moan, the more they piss-off the American voters.
     
     Besides brother, the American people, not Dem's or Republican's or Green Party, or Independents won't stand for it. The Dem's are split too deeply on this subject the same way they were split on the "Troop Support Bill." The elected leaders must vote the way the people who elected them want them to vote or they will be out!
     
     Ed, I don't mean to be too harsh to you, I know I'm just a rock and roll singer, (what do I know,) but four of my band members are legal immigrant and I see what they must to do to keep their USA status clean and legal. If they tow the line, everyone else should, ... it's the law.
     
     You said no one will vote Republican???? Wow, ... you are really living in a fantasy world Ed. You need to get out more and really see how people feel. I have and I think you'll be quite surprised.
     
     I will say this Ed, ... because we live in America, you and I can have this discussion and nobody is going to have their heads cut off for disagreeing with each other. Different points of view and free speech is the American Way, ... Peter Roskam is the perfect US Congressman to keep that spirit alive.
     
     Thanks for writing.
     
     Joe
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  2. June 29, 2007 1:53 PM Ryan Jazak wrote:
     Polls??? Thats the problem with you freaks Ed, you base your entire way of thinking on what the polls say. First of all, those polls (which I remind you are provided by our great Liberal media), are generally taken in a Liberal atmosphere and areas where voting generally swings in there favor. C'mon Ed, you and I both know which direction our media tries to sway us. And if you base your way of thinking by relying on polls, than you have fallen prey to what they want.... To do your thinking for you.
     As far as GW ruining our reputation... I don't think the haters of America have just started hating us because of our current President. Our enemies hate freedom sir, it nullifies their ability to rule their own countries with the iron fist. Iran,Libia,Syria,Somalia,Cuba,Sudan, North Korea and pre-war Iraq and Afghanistan..... Are you seeing a common thread here? Its called Dictatorship, tyranny and oppression ruled by the iron fist. And if they hate us, so be it. I can understand why....they don't want their people to experience the gift of freedom and will to choose. We finally have a President who stood up and said "Not on my watch" and he is labeled as ruining our reputation????
     Lets take a short look at some of our past terrorists attacks...
     Fifty-two American citizens were taken hostage when militant students of radical Islam stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Shortly thereafter, U.S. President Jimmy Carter ordered a complete embargo of Iranian oil; (How did that go Jimmy?) On April 8, 1980, Carter severed diplomatic relations with Iran after negotiations for the hostages' release failed. (Proof that talking to terror, doesn't work) The hostages were finally released just hours after Ronald Reagan's presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 1981. They had spent 444 days in captivity. 444 days of your life gone, because your President doesn't have the balls to get you released. Bush would have lit up Iran like a Christmas Tree. Rebuilding your entire country isn't worth holding 52 hostages. Carters response = nothing.
     When it comes to Bill Clinton’s record on terrorism, there’s no need to invent fictional scenarios to show how ineffective he was; the truth is bad enough. Clinton had a habit of taking polls (there is that word again) to see how he should respond to terrorist attacks. WOW!!!!! He probably even asked Monica a few times while she was on her knees. A review of his years in office shows that each time the president was confronted with a major terrorist attack — the February 26, 1993, bombing of the World Trade Center, the Khobar Towers attack, the August 7, 1998, bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole — Clinton was preoccupied with his own political fortunes to an extent that precluded his giving serious and sustained attention to fighting terrorism.
     
     Just in case you are not getting it yet Ed, there is more to follow.
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  3. June 29, 2007 2:50 PM Ryan Jazak wrote:
     At the time of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Clintons was embroiled in controversies over gays in the military. (Good thing that was more important than national security.) Khobar Towers happened in the midst of the president’s re-election campaign AND when there were new and damaging developments in the Whitewater and Filegate scandals. The African embassy attacks occurred as the Monica Lewinsky affair was full blown,(pun intended). And when the USS Cole was rammed, Clinton had little time left in office and was desperately hoping to build his legacy with a breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Whenever a serious terrorist attack occurred, Clinton was always busy with something else.
     After the first WTC attack, Clinton warned Americans against "overreacting" and, in an interview on MTV, (M-frickin TV)described the bombing as the work of someone who "did something really stupid." Information came out that strongly suggested a Sudanese role in the World Trade Center bombing. There was also leads pointing to the involvement of Osama bin Laden, (that name rings a bell) who was taking refuge in Sudan. American intelligence officials believed that ringleader Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and the World Trade Center bombers had ties to Al-Qaeda. Maybe Clinton should have thought about doing something to protect our country and the people in it. But the Clinton administration stuck with its theory that the bombing was the work of a loose network of terrorists working apart from any government sponsorship.(WRONG!) One key suspect, Abdul Rahman Yasin, was released after being held by the FBI in New Jersey and fled to Baghdad, where he was living under the protection of the Iraqi government. I clearly remember President Bush saying "and those who harbour them" in one of his speeches after 9/11. Hence Iraq and Al Qaeda ties.
     After the Embassy attack in 1998, Investigators quickly discovered that bin Laden was behind the attacks. On August 20, Clinton ordered cruise-missile strikes on a bin Laden camp in Afghanistan and the al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. But the strikes were at best ineffectual. (That means it didn't work Ed) Instead of hunting this killer down, he tried using his retaliation to cover up the Lewinsky affair.
     The USS Cole bombing was quickly linked to bin Laden and his sponsors in Afghanistan’s Taliban regime. Together with the embassy bombings, the Cole blast established a CLEAR pattern of attacks on American interests carried out by bin Laden’s organization. Clinton felt that peace in the Middle East was more important than protecting our homeland. Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Al Qeada were directly linked for Clinton to see, yet he turned his cheek. He was too busy collecting money for his two(YES TWO) criminal defense funds. If our last President would have done the job right, maybe we wouldn't be where we are now. I would vote for Bush again if I could. And so would my brother currently serving in Iraq.
     
     Good Day Sir
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• June 28, 2007 10:36 AM Ed wrote:
  Those are numbers in your own poll Joe.
  
  Mexicans are lured by work for employers (my guess who mostly Republican) who exploit them and American workers who don't get hired. Know any Americans who can afford to work for $8 an hour with no benes sleeping 12 to an apartment while raising a family? No, but I bet you wish you did.
  
  And what's wrong with wanting freedom? Isn't that what Bush says we're fighting for in Iraq and Afghanistan? I guess not because in Iraq, a country with 60% unemployment the US military and our contractors don't hire Iraqis for fear of them blowing up our people on base. They con poor third worlders into thinking they're getting high paying jobs in 5 star hotels in Dubai or Kuwait City and then ship them to Iraq where they work as indentured servants on US bases or building the huge US embassy in the green zone. They're paid a pittance, much less than the $400 a month they are promised. They sleep in tents in 120 degree heat and eat scraps they scrounge or MREs. Escape is damn near impossible.
  
  And because the contractors layer on all kinds of cronies who get a piece of the pie in luring these poor kids it still costs the US taxpayer way more than it would if we had our own soldiers do the work. They used to before Rumsfeld & Cheney privatized US military support services under Halliburton. It would be even cheaper to hire Americans at union scale to do this work. Most importantly we wouldn't be making new enemies all over the world.
  
  Don't believe me? Google the Trib's "Pipeline to Peril" series, last week's Wall St. Journal article, or any of Dave Phinney's articles on it. There's one up on Iraqslogger now.
  
  A rule of thumb Joe: if you can't trust the locals to work for Halliburton cooking your meals, cleaning your toilets or laying bricks in your new embassy in the country you've just "liberated", you haven't really liberated anyone.
  
  The point is Republicans LOVE importing cheap labor they can exploit no matter how disgustingly they do it.
  
  But I digress, even you yourself make no bones that your "enemy" is Mexicans. Once again if you target undocumented Mexicans for expulsion try taking a vacation in Mexico Joe. I think you'll find a very unfriendly reception.
  
  And what moral high ground will we have when we tell the Sudanese to stop killing their own in Darfur to push them off their land? In Kosovo? How about the Chinese or the Russians when they abuse their minorities? How about Iraqi Arabs and the Kurds? Israel and the Palestinians?
  
  Finally Roskam won in part cuz he and the NRCC spent about $9 million on dishonest tv commercials saying Duckworth wanted to give away social security & welfare to the undocumented and tax everybody and their dog to do it. Then there were the robocalls, illegally geared to make people think they were from Tammy. Hang up before the end and you get called back 12 to 17 times that night. He tries that trick again he's going to jail not back to congress.
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  1. June 28, 2007 1:50 PM Joe Cantafio wrote:
     My poll?????
     
     I don't have a poll Ed ... or Mark or whatever your real name is. What in the wide-world-of-sports are you talking about? Don't assume anything with me. I have backed some very classy Democrat's over the past years and voted for a Democrat in the last election. I even back Mayor Daley and I backed his father as well. I vote for the best person for the job. President Bush was that person in 2000 and in 2004. Peter Roskam is a friend and a great American. I know his heart and mind and I back him 1000%.
     
     Mexicans are "LURED" to America???? Huh? Come on pal, ... let's be honest here, the world is "lured" to America; the greatest country on earth. After reading your second (and last) attempt at this blog, I see your head has been lured up your ass so the crap can ooze into your ears and replentish your brain once again.
     
     (Pisssssssst, by the way smart-guy, ... I know a lot of Dem's in Chicago that hire Mexican and Polish and Russian workers.)
     
     Do not come on to my blog and start your bleeding-heart, what-has-the-world-done-for-me, wacko-liberal BS. Go take that dump on Teddy or Hillary's blog or anyone who will agree with your demented, angry, PUSSY-ASS way of thinking.
     
     ED WRITES: And what's wrong with wanting freedom? Isn't that what Bush says we're fighting for in Iraq and Afghanistan? I guess not because in Iraq, a country with 60% unemployment the US military and our contractors don't hire Iraqis for fear of them blowing up our people on base. They con poor third worlders into thinking they're getting high paying jobs in 5 star hotels in Dubai or Kuwait City and then ship them to Iraq where they work as indentured servants on US bases or building the huge US embassy in the green zone.
     
     Ed, you poor misguided spazoid ... the freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq is for the Iraqi and Afghan people, ... not anyone else who sneaks into those countries. IN FACT, ... is that NOT the problem we are having in Iraq? The bad guys are sneaking into the country! (not to mention; Iraq is in a full blown, all out war, ... 60% unemployment ain't bad pal!)
     
     Ed, my cousin was killed in Iraq in 2004, ... I know a lot of military people, I have been to Iraq in 2004 entertaining the troops, ... I would NOT trust anyone until the country is more stable. I can't see how you disagree with the way the military does things in Iraq. You are one of those people who chooses to see only the 2% bad and not the 98% good our troops are doing.
     
     As for Peter Roskam, he won because he was the best man for the job. The Illinois Veterans backed him not Tammy Duckworth (who is a veteran)! Because Duckworth is living out of the 6th District, she couldn't even vote for herself (now that's what I call cheating.)  She was a brave, wounded vet who was promised the moon and suckered in by Dick Durban and she didn't know the first thing about Du Page County because SHE LIVES OUT OF DISTRICT. The men she served with overseas; the same men who made her home handicap accessible, didn't even vote for her, ... they voted and worked on Roskam's campaign.
     
     By the way Ed, ... I vacation in Mexico a lot! They love me down there, ... I go to the same area every time. I actually have picked up a guitar and jammed (American rock and roll) with a few of the Mexican bands down there. They remember me every time I go to Cancun. I like them too!
     
     You are done on this blog "Mr. Negative Whack-Job," ... if you want to talk with me, come to one of my shows and we'll talk back stage, ... man to man. Bring your best-game buddy.
     
     Let me leave you with some words to help you get along a little better in life, ... don't drink the Kool-aid, ... Elvis is dead, ... the moon is NOT made of green cheese and Oswald killed Kennedy ... by himself.
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