CLEAR Act of 2011 - Guest Post

This today from Roland Tomassi.

As I read through the summary of HR.100 CLEAR Act of 2011, my mind kept telling me that this has to be a group of Democrats, who are out of touch with their base. The summary ( located Here ) starts off by saying that states that do not comply with the new law will lose funding (thus, taking away states rights, and making a stronger federal government), will provide “ federal reimbursement for related state and local costs.”, and will also make grants to government agencies for special equipment and facilities, (so yes, more federal spending).
How can this be anything other than CLEAR demonstration of Democrats making a power grab for the federal government to hold more power, and to spend more of our hard earned tax dollars. But then I get really confused, because later in the summary, it describes how personnel who are involved in the carrying out of their duties under this new law would be immune from personal liability and monetary liability for civil rights violations, unless those violations violated criminal law. So the civil rights granted under the Constitution are not enforceable against these personnel, unless they violate criminal law.
Since I’m so used to hearing from my Republican friends that it’s the democrats who hate the Constitution, I am sure this is a Democrat bill now. I mean, who else would think that making a larger federal government, spending more federal money, and disregarding the Constitution would be a good idea. Oh, well it would be the following sponsor and co sponsors of the bill.

Sponsored by
• Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN Republican)
Co-Sponsored by
• Rep. Spencer Bachus (AL Republican)
• Rep. Ken Calvert (CA Republican)
• Rep. John Carter (TX Republican)
• Rep. David Dreier (CA Republican)
• Rep. Trent Franks (AZ Republican)
• Rep. Robert Goodlatte (VA Republican)
• Rep. Samuel Johnson (TX Republican)
• Rep. Walter Jones (NC Republican)
• Rep. John Kline (MN Republican)
• Rep. Thaddeus Mccotter (MI Republican)
• Rep. Gary Miller (CA Republican)
• Rep. Sue Myrick (NC Republican)
• Rep. Michael Rogers (MI Republican)
• Rep. Edward Royce (CA Republican)
• Rep. Peter Sessions (TX Republican)
• Rep. Michael Turner (OH Republican)
• Rep. Brian Bilbray (CA Republican)
• Rep. Tom Price (GA Republican)
• Rep. Geoff Davis (KY Republican)
• Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (PA Republican)
• Rep. Kenny Marchant (TX Republican)
• Senator Dean Heller (NV Republican)
• Rep. Jason Chaffetz (UT Republican)
• Rep. Mike Coffman (CO Republican)
• Rep. Duncan Hunter (CA Republican)
• Rep. Lynn Jenkins (KS Republican)
• Rep. Bill Posey (FL Republican)
• Rep. Mo Brooks (AL Republican)
• Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ Republican)
• Rep. Dennis Ross (FL Republican)
• Rep. Andy Harris (MD Republican)
• Rep. Dan Benishek (MI Republican)
• Rep. Lou Barletta (PA Republican)
• Rep. Diane Black (TN Republican)
• Rep. Bill Flores (TX Republican)
• Rep. David Mckinley (WV Republican)


Now hold on… there is not a Democrat on that list. I’m so confused, when did Republicans want to do all those things. Oh yeah, when ever it’s about Illegal Immigrants. My bad.