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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (320390)4/15/2006 3:03:07 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
Emerging RNC bamboozle...

The RNC is running Spanish-language ads against Harry
Reid arguing that Democrats were behind the bill the
House passed to treat illegal aliens as felons.

That of course is the GOP-backed bill Republicans are
now running away from in droves.

Figure the ad will get taken off the air? Will the
cable nets feature the bamboozlement?

The argument is really pretty egregious even by GOP
standards. House Republicans put up a bill to make
being an illegal alien a felony. An amendment was
proposed that would have made it a misdemeanor. As the
AP reports, "Democrats, including members of the
Hispanic Congressional Caucus, voted against the
amendment, arguing they did not support criminal
penalties. Nevada Republicans Jon Porter and Jim
Gibbons also voted against the amendment, which
failed. The felony provision remained in the bill,
H.R. 4437, and it passed the House on a largely party
line vote."

So Democrats wouldn't vote for criminalizing at all.
Ergo, they're for making it a felony.

This sort of bald-faced lying really should be called
out.

Late Update: Apparently the DC GOP is really in full
bamboozle mode here. And the word has gone out to
blame Democrats for the felony provision the GOP
passed through the House like a week ago. I wonder if
someone will ask Ken Mehlman about the ad he's
running.
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