Outside of his home state of Wyoming, former Senator Alan
Simpson is best known as the Republican collaborator in the 1986 “Simpson
Mazzoli” amnesty bill that officially sanctioned illegal immigration and opened
the floodgates on the nation’s southern border. More recently, he signed on to
the empty symbolism of the “Simpson/Bowles Commission,” by which Barack Obama
sought to put a fig leaf of seeming concern on the nation’s burgeoning debt
while ensuring that nothing of substance was actually done to curb spending.
Within the Cowboy State, the Simpson family has long enjoyed
a status rivaling that of the Kennedys in Massachusetts, with members from
multiple generations holding high public office. And among Establishment
Republicans in Wyoming, Alan Simpson is regarded almost reverentially, though
this is far more of an indication of a general character flaw in that segment
the party than any reflection of his true bearing......To Read More.....
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