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Your Papers, please! - Alarming Votes by Georgia US House of Representatives delegation

Well the National ID has passed and was gleefully signed by President Bush. Your local driver license office has now been declared the front line on the battle against illegal immigration. Only in whatever secret wheeling and dealing is done in Washington, could anyone believe that your local driver license office is an effective place to stop illegal immigration. If this is the best Washington can do to stop illegal immigration then you had better start learning several foreign languages.

It is absolutely amazing that giving Homeland Security control of your driver's license is being presented as a way to restrict immigration. By the time an illegal immigrant is denied a driver's license he has already crossed the border.

Illegal immigration control has to be implemented at the borders NOT at your local driver's license station.

Just wait until some government employee buried in the endless cubicles of the growing federal bureaucracy makes a "typing error," is "mad" at you or you turn up on some "special list." Presto, you will not be able to drive, fly, vote, and who knows what else they will now place under the control of the driver license gurus at Homeland Security. If that happens to you or some member of your family - you will have a much better understanding of what Our Founding Fathers meant by "limited government."

Have you wondered how our Georgia delegation voted on the National ID? It may be a surprise to you and is listed in the table below:

Georgia Delegation Vote for National ID (Roll Call Vote 031)

Surprise! Georgia's delegation voted 11 - 2 in favor of implementing a National ID! More surprising every Republican in our Congressional delegation voted FOR a National ID. Our so-called proponents of "limited government" just voted in unison for another facet of Big Brother.

Only two members of Georgia's Congressional delegation voted against the National ID. Representatives Lewis and McKinney. It is certainly a New Day in Georgia when Representatives Lewis and McKinney are the most conservative Georgia members of Congress on any vote. Good grief - they are so far in left field all they can catch are foul balls, where does that place the rest of our delegation?

But hang on to your seats. It gets worse.

Aside from the ridiculous idea that you can stop illegal immigration at your local Driver License office, the National ID brings more federal mandates. In fact the department of Homeland Security has a virtual blank check to implement whatever requirements it wants to place on these National IDs. If Georgia does not implement each and every one of these federal mandates created by un-elected federal bureaucrats then you can not fly, drive, cash checks, vote, etc.

This will of course require large expenditures by the State of Georgia. Such items are called "unfunded mandates." Now some of you may remember the "Contract with America." The pledge made by Republicans when they took control of the House of Representatives. This was their sacred pledge of what they would do if the People put them in charge.

The Contract of America pledged that Republicans would work diligently to end unfunded mandates!

The Homeland Security Appropriations Act had a vote on just such an amendment. This amendment would provide federal funding for the federal mandates on the States to implement National IDs. A look at the Georgia delegation will tell you just how much this sacred pledge means to our current crop of Republican US Representatives.

Georgia Delegation Vote on Appropriations Bill Amendment to provide funding for State requirements (Roll Call Vote 179)

That is right, every single Republican member of the Georgia delegation voted against federal funding. Every one of them! Of course the real problem is the passage of a National ID. But for a party pledged to end "unfunded federal mandates" the votes on National ID are a complete repudiation of their sacred pledge, both in principle and in practice. Shame!

If you are astonished, we have listed the links to the actual Roll Call votes. The table below is just facts, nothing more than officially record votes!

There is a serious problem here. Democrats have not become conservative and have not suddenly started following the Constitution. The serious problem is that the Republicans have become better Democrats than the Democrats. It is now the Republicans who are leading the way in abandoning our Founding Principles.

If it was just this one vote, there would be room for debate. But it is not just this one vote, or this one issue. Specifically there have been several this year alone:

CAFTA passed House by two votes ...  

More on Congressional Pork Bill, ... er we mean Transportation Bill ...

Georgia Congressional Delegation continues liberal voting trend

We believe that it is safe to say that many Georgians are not getting what they thought they voted for.

We doubt that a majority of Georgians by a 11 - 2 margin were in favor of a National ID, or the large margins of support given to CAFTA, Patriot Act II and especially the world's largest "pork bill" in the history of mankind. Looking at these bills as a group the Georgia Congressional delegation has supported them by a margin of 38 - 14. Almost 3 - 1.

The shocking votes on this group of issues for the entire Georgia delegation is:

If you are concerned about this trend, consider using the How To Stay Informed link. The choices in next years election may not be very promising. Perhaps we need more competition. Also if you are concerned about this trend, consider passing this information on to others.

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