Muchas gracias, Sen. Graham-nesty Update: Keeping track of the wafflers Update: The amendment list
Over the weekend, one of Mickey Kaus’s readers proposed that shamnesty opponents use YouTube to deliver a message to open-borders senators up for re-election. Bryan and I whipped up our first one–a quick, straightforward Hot Air negative ad with Lindsey Graham’s name on it:
Muchas gracias, Señor Graham (click to play):
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Here again, via NRO, are the 12 senators who will be critical in deciding the fate of shamnesty:
The following 12 senators are leaning against the bill itself but so far are leaning toward the cloture motion — which means, in reality, that they would be helping pass the amnesty, because if the bill comes to a final vote, it will pass. These are the Senators whose decisions will likely determine whether the amnesty passes or not:
Bond (R-Mo.)
Bingaman (D-N.M.)
Burr (R-N.C.)
Boxer (D-Calif.)
Cochran (R-Miss.)
Conrad (D-N.D.)
Ensign (R-Nev.)
Levin (D-Mich.)
Gregg (R-N.H.)
Nelson (D-Neb.)
Hatch (R-Utah)
Webb (D-Va.).
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Update: The very latest on the wobblers.
Update: According to Numbers USA, this is the amendment list should cloture pass (prepare for the worst):
Democrat Amendments
Dodd-Menendez S.A. 1199: would increase the annual cap on green cards for parents and extend the parent visitor visa.
Webb S.A. 1313: Community ties for [amnesty]
Baucus-Tester S.A. 1236: would strike all reference[s] to REAL ID.
Sanders-Grassley S.A. 1332 : prohibits companies that have announced mass lay-offs from receiving any new visas, unless these companies could prove that overall employment at their companies would not be reduced by these lay-offs.
Byrd-Gregg-Cochran S.A. 1344: adds a $500 fee to obtain [amnesty] and sets aside the revenues collected in order to fund border and interior enforcement.
Menendez-Obama-Feingold S.A. 1317: increases family points in merit system
Brown S.A. 1340: requires that before employers can be approved to employ Y-1 workers, they must have listed the specific job opportunity with the state employment service agency.
McCaskill S.A. 1468: increases ban on federal contracts, grants or cooperative agreements to employers who are repeat violators of hiring immigrants who are not authorized to work
Levin-Brownback S.A.1486: gives access to Iraqis to apply for refugee status under existing U.S. law.
Leahy S.A. 1386: protect scholars who have been persecuted in their home countries on account of their beliefs, scholarship, or identity.
Schumer: provides for tamper-proof biometric social security cards
Boxer S.A. 1198: reduces Y visa cap by number of Y workers who overstay
Republican Amendments
Alexander S.A. 1161: requires DHS and the Department of State to notify a foreign embassy when one of their nationals has become a U.S. citizen
Bond S.A. 1255: prohibits green cards for [illegal aliens granted amnesty]
Coleman S.A. 1473: outlaws state and local policies that prevent public officials including police and health and safety workers (except for emergency medical assistance) from inquiring about the immigration status of those they serve if there is “probable cause” to believe the individual being questioned is undocumented.
Domenici S.A. 1335/1258: increases Federal judgeships
Ensign S.A. 1490: redetermines work history for current beneficiaries of social security depending on their citizenship status
Graham S.A. 1465: enforcement. Still being drafted.
Grassley-Baucus-Obama S.A. 1441: strikes and replaces Title III on employer enforcement
Hutchinson S.A. 1440: changes the “touchback” requirement from the time of applying for adjustment of status, as it currently stands in the Senate proposed bill, to the time of applying for the Z visa. Increases the number of individuals required to touchback
Thune S.A. 1174: prevents [illegal aliens] from [being granted amnesty] until all triggers have been met.
Chambliss S.A. 1318: Totalization agreements
Isakson S.A. 1282: Preemption/Home Depot
Graham: Criminal penalties/mandatory minimums for overstays
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Lindsey Graham (D-Baja Norte)
Being from Missouri, and knowing what I know about Bond, I think we can rely on him. He’s usually been a pretty consistent conservative.
Even non-constituents should be calling the above 12 (illegals have supposedly actually started calling, why shouldn’t we?). Here are the 3 toll-free switchboard #’s to use. Unlike the # MM has listed, these 3 allow you to reach ALL the Senators, not just yours:
800-862-5530
877-851-6437
866-220-0044
Also, most Senators have answering machines that take messages after-hours. The switchboard is obviously closed after-hours, so you’ll have to call their offices directly. You can get all Congressional office ph #’s over here:
http://numbersusa.com/congressinfo/
You can also send free faxes via your computer on NumbersUSA’s site.
And if you know anyone who’s opposed to amnesty, but isn’t the type to do any phoning or doesn’t have a computer, what about asking them if you can call or send NumbersUSA faxes using their name & contact info? I’m currently sending NumbersUSA faxes in the names of (& w/the permission of) 4 senior citizens that I know who don’t have computers.
Also, that Graham video is great!
Our once beloved Senator Graham has been bit by the amnesty bug. Consensus is,symptoms are politically fatal and causes bitees to hang out at tattoo parlors, make awkward hand gestures,pronounce tequila backwards, and mumble incoherently something that sounds like Damkinnity.
The seven Republicans who will live in infamy.
Bush, Kyl, Martinez, Graham, McCain, McConnell and Lott.
I can’t believe Mr. Bond is on that list. I’m from the Show Me state, and, like JamesLee, I thought he would not cave to the shamnesty shills. All those who still reside in the big MO should ring his phone off the hook.
WAIT! Lamar is not on this list today! Am I to understand that our Sen Alexander from TN has changed his position? Hard to say since he and/or his staff resolutely refuse to answer constituents calls, letters and emails. But…..I am heartened that perhaps my many many calls might have had a tiny bit of influenece.
Awesome! I love it! Senor Graham-nesty (D) is mucho loco, and its time he stops thumbing his nose at the citizens of the U.S. I think he has gotten to the point where he cares more about his special interest groups then the people that put him into office. Too bad for him, because he is up for re-election in less then 18 months.
Here is his contact info so that you can flood his office with complaints:
Lindsey Graham:
Washington, D.C.: 202-224-5972
Greenville, SC: 864-250-1417
Columbia, SC: 803-933-0112
Email Forum
I have called Senator Bond and voiced my opinion as a Missouri resident. Hopefully he’ll turn away from the dark side.
There is a strong inference that there are terrorists coming across the southern border. These “folks” intend harm and destruction for Americans and America. And, yet, despite your/our concerns for the safety of this country and our loved-ones, there are senators who still remain fixated on the needs and wants of the illegals and business interests. Of what kind of fabric are these people made?
I love the video! Rock on with that!
I have called, faxed, signed everything and anything I can to try to get my message across to Congress. I’ll try to contact Levin again and see if I can’t get him to use some common sense.
Thanks for all the good work you do!
I love it! Now how about St Juan and The Hero of Chappaquiddick? They gotta be next. I linked.
I am amazed and disappointed to see Senator Hatch on that list.
I suppose he is an old fashioned sort – one of the few “courtly” Senators left who see cloture as something that should be used only in the most dire of circumstances – SCOTUS nominations comes to mind. His kind see procedural gimmicks as interfering with the true business of the Senate.
I have just finished emailing the list of senators you provided in addition to calling my senators (GA)again just to reinforce the pressure to stick to their guns. After reading the terms of use I still don’t know if we can include web addresses in with our comments. I do want to point out an easy method to contact all of Congress. Since I’m unsure about posting an address I will just say google congress merge. It gives you easy means for contact.
Thank you so much for this.I have been writing letters, faxing, and making phone calls like crazy. This information helps a lot, thank you.
Yeah, well Hatch needs to get over his issues and vote NO on cloture. Webb sounds like he might be voting NO.
Burr is trying to pull the “I’m not voting for cloture but I’ll oppose the bill itself” garbage, he must think the people of NC are ignorant rubes. Don’t let him get away with that bit of dishonesty, particularly you NC people.
I have already posted my talks with Hatch’s offices and I have a gut feeling that he is going to roll this one through, otherwise why would his people have no answer on his where he stands?
All they will tell me is they will pass my concerns on the Mr. Hatch. One of his people even had the gall to tell me a cloture vote didn’t guarantee the bill would pass and I laughed. I said you know better.
If he votes for cloture he is done in my eyes, and I have supported him in Utah for a very long time. I think I may be sick soon.
When you call Lott’s office you get a recording that his voice-mailbox is full. How convenient.
Lott is a waste of time, oxygen and carbon molecules. Try and focus on the 12 wobblers.
D*mn it all! Allah is reporting that Burr is voting yes. NC people need to try and convince him he’s committing political suicide. Or start working on the others.
Testing.
Michelle, I think the infamous picture of the mexican flag flying above an upside down American flag would really help drive home the point of your ad.
I moved from Arizona and escaped McCain only to find myself in Kentucky dealing with the Louisville liberal McConnell. Maybe it has something to do with the “Mc”?
I notice Inhofe’s English-as-a-national-language amendment, which was allowed in the previous, withdrawn bill, isn’t included in this version. Maybe it was too much of a dealbreaker for the Democrats.
Places online to watch the Grand Scammers vs. the American People via CSPAN2 -
On the menus, click on CSPAN2 to watch. (Too fast for dialup users)
CSPAN2 link 1
CSPAN2 link 2
CSPAN2 link 3
Direct link to CSPAN2 video to copy and paste in your media viewer program of choice -
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Senator Sessions has just wrapped up a speech against Amnesty right now.
Nahhh, it’s just tooo racist for us loud people…
Yeah? So what does this guy care (Graham)? Say he gets voted out of office. Now he’s got offers from big law firms, a seven figure a year career in lobbying, either way his bank account gets so fat he can afford a house on one of those man-made islands in Dubai. (where there are no illegal immigrants) Maybe the Mexican gobierno will hire him as a thank you gift for legalizing all of their poor, illiterate gang members.
He and his buddies, Bush and Lott, will be sipping Kristal and laughing at all of us suckers from the decks of their yachts. This Republican party will never get another dollar or another vote from me, and I’m working to get everyone I know on the same page. I’m tired of being betrayed by the people I helped elect!
http://thecapitolist.com/
Get REAL insight to what our DC staffers think..
Folks, the whole bunch needs to be thrown out of DC,
NOW!
On June 25th, 2007 at 6:00 pm, davidleerothmann said:
Yeah? So what does this guy care (Graham)? Say he gets voted out of office. Now he’s got offers from big law firms, a seven figure a year career in lobbying, either way his bank account gets so fat he can afford a house on one of those man-made islands in Dubai. (where there are no illegal immigrants) Maybe the Mexican gobierno will hire him as a thank you gift for legalizing all of their poor, illiterate gang members.
He and his buddies, Bush and Lott, will be sipping Kristal and laughing at all of us suckers from the decks of their yachts. This Republican party will never get another dollar or another vote from me, and I’m working to get everyone I know on the same page. I’m tired of being betrayed by the people I helped elect!
Reality bites. So sad…
Maybe when we vote the RINOs out of office they can go to Mexico and run for office there. They can be as corrupt as they want while they are in office there. Mexico’s tougher immigration laws probably wouldn’t let them though. In a few years they would probably be back in the newly created North American Union government anyway.
Ain’t that the truth. I’ve given money, walked precincts, made phone calls, voted.
And this is the thanks I get.
Thanks, but no thanks.
If they vote to end debate … I see it as a sign that the government intends to increase it’s power and control over “We the people”. Perhaps it’s time for mass marches and civil disobedience.
I’ve really had enough of the United States of Elitists.
Re: the amendments
Coleman: sounds good, but if this bill is passed, between the 6-mos DHS has to set up the “permanent temporary” Z-visa app process, and the one year registration period, plus the one year extension if they don’t miraculously process 20 million + illegals in 12 months, Coleman’s amendment is moot, since illegals will be presumed to be eligible for amnesty, and all but the most obviously and publicly unqualified can’t be touched by LE from the moment the bill is passed to the end of registration (and even the 2 years allowed in the bill could be extended.) A spoonful of sugar.
Domenici S.A. 1335/1258: increases Federal judgeships. Why? To make sure more illegals can appeal deportation/denial of Z visa?
Isakson S.A. 1282: Preemption/Home Depot. Huh???
Here’s what I think will happen.
They’ll get the 60 votes to bring it back to the floor.
It’ll come back and sandbagged with admendments and pork.
It’ll then go down in flames.
Just my prediction, FWIW
I think Darwin has something here:
“If they vote to end debate … I see it as a sign that the government intends to increase it’s power and control over “We the people”. Perhaps it’s time for mass marches and civil disobedience.”
There is much to recommend this.
These posts make it clear that this issue is coming to a boiling point on the part of conservatives. Maybe, just maybe, this county’s betrayers on this issue will back down and vote no on clouture.
As for the amendments, they, collectively, seem to be big on amnesty and flea bitings on security. This is insane, really, and has got to be stopped.
Holy Cr@p Jake, that old school anti-Irish slur was awesome. It really brings home the point.
Maybe I’ll do a little video on UTube. That I could do. Anyone know what format it needs to be in and what is required to upload it?
If Bond votes for this bill, it will be the end of him in Missouri. I will NEVER vote for him again. I have called his office locally and in Washington, plus emailed him. This makes me ill.
My senator, John Warner, has this to say on his webpage:
So then why is he voting for this shamnesty bill that nobody wants except illegals? These old-fashioned Lindsay Graham-style “moderate” Republicans are so out of touch, and ALL OF THEM, including Warner, need to be voted out of office in the primaries.
Its a whole new ballgame. Used to be you could trust your rep to vote in concert w/their party/platform and constituency. Now it can only be one thing. Follow the money. The corruption is wide and deep. Now we have to watch them like a hawk and raise #%@% to get them to do the right thing for the country. I have heard the energy bill W is proposing is just a boondoggle for ADM. If 1348 can be defeated energy may be the next battle.
These Rebublican senators don’t seem to understand that they’re committing political sucide on immigration for reasons which appear to be centered around getting votes.
You can’t get elected if you can’t win the primary, and anyone who wants to unseat an incumbant republican needs only to say, “so and so voted for the immigration bill and I oppose it” and bam, a new name on the ballot boxes replaces the one from the last election cycle. And at this point, I’d practically vote for a hypothetical candidate on that statement alone.
What if we refuse to pay our taxes? They can’t jail us all. Civil disobedience is looking mighty attractive. It’s apparent they don’t pay attention to anything else. Hey, and I just love tea parties. In all my years, I never dreamed my government would betray the people this way. We must do something to get their attention. Cancer recovery prevents me from marching, but I have a scooter chair, I can ride. And, I’ve never been to DC. Perhaps it’s time for a visit.
I said the exact same thing on another blog.
Time to REBEL. NO MORE TAXES!