Shamnesty on the Senate floor, afternoon edition…Reid invokes 9/11 (gag me)…Where do we go from here?…NRSC feels the heat Latest: Senate in recess. The backroom deal-making resumes!
4:37pm Eastern. Here’s what I’m hearing from several Hill sources…
The so-called “Clay Pigeon” amendment, 300-plus pages, is still being drafted. Reviewing it will be impossible. No one has read it through. Thank your Senate GOP leadership for that. The amendment buyoffs are frantically underway. Rumors that the amendment is being re-drafted to include a deal cut with one senator who threw the pro-amnesty forces a cloture vote.
Also hearing: “The move to put the Senate in recess was preemptive on Reid’s part. Putting the Senate in recess ensures that bill opponents cannot seek recognition on the Senate floor and thereby offer amendments or opposes the bill in any way. In sum, it is just one more tool Reid is using to silence dissent. So there you have it. The Senate is closed on a Tuesday afternoon on a day when we are dealing with the massive-in-scope immigration ‘reform’ bill.”
This stinks. Make sure the White House, RNC, and NRSC know it.
3:43pm Eastern update. Thought you’d be interested in this e-mail from Heidi H.:
Hi Michelle,
I just got off the phone with NRSC, where it took ~10 minutes for someone to answer my call.
I told the woman who answered that she should add 4 former donors to her list in OK and CO among my family members, and alert Ensign that his cloture vote today (as NRSC chairman) sealed the deal.
She sounded exhausted, and told me that their director is compiling a spreadsheet of all callers by state and the number of donors they’ve lost today.
Sounds like it’s a large number, and if there are any current NRSC donors out there who can’t stomach it after today, I’m sure the NRSC workers would like to hear from them.
It appears that the NRSC rank and file are against Shamnesty, too–be nice, because they hate this as much as we do!
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Ronald Reagan Republican Center
425 2nd Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
Telephone: (202) 675-6000
Following up on this morning’s post, I’ve started a new thread for the second round of Senate floor debate on shamnesty. It’s 2:31pm Eastern and the Senate is waiting for a member to come to the floor to speak. Rich Miniter has a memo outlining the clay pigeon strategy. Like I said, we’ll see if it flies today. Meantime, where do we go from here? Bryan Preston says fight. Ok, then. Are you in the mood to make calls and hold ship-jumping, pro-amnesty Senators to account? Good. Here’s a list of targets that’s circulating on the Hill:
Brownback (split with Roberts)
Bond (Split with McCaskill)
Burr (split with Dole)
Coleman
Ensign
Gregg (split with Sununu)
McConnell (split with Bunning)
Webb
Glenn Reynolds sums up the choices bluntly: “Exit, voice, and loyalty. That is, quit, bitch like hell, or hold your nose and vote.”
Mickey Kaus on Kabuki kabuki. Yup.
Flashback from my post on May 21, pre-Kaus and pre-Steyn: “This is so Beltway kabuki theater.”
Bunraku may be more accurate, actually.
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Readers have asked again for cero dineros to send to the RNC. Here ya go:
Chris Kelly has another recommendation:
What we need now is a series of Macaca moments, but about immigration policy.
What I urge everyone to do is to go to campaign appearances and ask tough questions about immigration that are designed to reveal flaws in the candidates’ arguments. Not rants, and not questions that will generate a predictable response. They need to be specific questions that are designed to prevent the candidates from being evasive. And, they don’t have to be about the Senate bill specifically, just about amnesty in general.
Then, the videos of those responses can be put on Youtube and promoted in other ways.
If this is done enough times, it will have an impact on candidates’ political careers, and that will send a loud message to those in the Senate and the House. Plus, it will have the side effect of showing just how corrupt the MSM is.
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3:19pm Eastern. Quorum call. Looks like there will be break in the proceedings until 3:50pm.
2:56pm Eastern. Now, Reid is calling for appointing conferees for a lobbying bill. Dingy Harry is inveighing about corporate jets and special interests and ethics. I don’t think I can keep my lunch down. Mute button. Mute button.
2:49pm Eastern. Shamnesty switcher Jon Kyl comes to the floor to object to some collective bargaining provision in a 9/11 bill that Reid has brought to the table. Another quorum call.
2:36pm Eastern. Here we go. It’s Harry Reid invoking 9/11 and the War on Terror. “When Democrats took control of congress this year, we said we would finally implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission…we passed bills.” Blah x 3. We worked tirelessly to resolve differences in bills. Reid gives shamnesty superpowers: It will prevent nuclear attacks, improve TSA morale, make America more secure!
Reid wants to name conferees. He reports that the minority will object going to conference. Whines about obstructionism.
Really.
Moves to go to conference. Inhofe (I think), objects. Reid says he will come back and try again, but not before once again invoking 9/11. Quorum call.
Someone should really sit down and advise the Dems that open-borders zealots have no business invoking 9/11 as a reason to pass a massive amnesty. Do your homework.
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I have to keep up with things here because I have the sound off. I simply cant stomach listening to Reid right after lunch. Thanks MM for doing the “dirty work”.
Now we really have to work in order to stop this travesty.
Can you send me the flip side of the cero dineros with the backside of that jackhole’s head so I can print them out as our new legal tender. I want to send a stack of these to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in compensation for all this buffoon’s help. How much does a sphincter necktie cost and do you know his size?
I’m just speechless! Is no one in DC listening? This is simply incredible! Did someone die and make Harry Reid God?
This is NOT the America I used to know. I want it back.
Dingy Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi should be deported back to their respective planets of origin.
As we tarry here, my mind browsing over this gang called the Senate, I pause for a moment at Saint/Senator Liberman.
I have exhausted myself with rage at the RINO traitors and now spare a minute for a “principled” enemy of the people.
I have admired old Joe for being a gentleman, a thorough conservative in his style and demeanor. But listening to his fervent support for shamnesty, I wondered: Exactly what conservative causes has this man embraced that causes us to be so sentimental about him. What causes that are not closely related to the security of Israel?
I am in a nasty mood today. Something about seeing my country sold out from under me.
They’re trying to wear us down with all the drama…….or they are having trouble in the back room.
“Lieberman”…pardon
I truly hope that the constituents of those RINO pro-shamnesty politicians will hold true to the calls of replacement when the time comes.
Every one of them needs to be booted out of office. Every one of them needs to have a conservative challenger to their position - giving voters a chance to elect someone who cares about the will of the American People.
For myself - I will do everything I can to remove Feingold & Kohl from Wisconsin’s representation, as well as anyone in the house from our State.
The amazing thing is they hear the resounding disapproval of the majority of Americans - yet continue to move forward regardless.
Shameful - Completely and utterly shameful.
I used to argue when my best friend said Bush would go down as the worst President in history. I emailed him today and confessed I was wrong - dang it.
Moving to Haiti to avoid learning spanish.
GOD, help us all.
I think they are trying to wear us down, Captivated_dem. I think after todays nonsense they figure we’re a beaten crowd and won’t burn up the phone lines anymore calling them. How in the hell do they expect us to believe anything they say or do? They can’t even get my 3 & 4 year old’s passport (it’s been 16 weeks) done. What makes me think they’ll do anything right. Just saw an ad for Rosetta Stone on how to learn a language quick. Let’s give some to those who wave their Mexican flag in our faces so they can learn English. I’ll be damned if I will ever learn Spanish.
Ignorant Mensan
“Did someone die and make Harry Reid God?”
No, though try telling that to Crooked Jon Kyl and his do-anything-for-biz-$$$$$ ilk.
Non of the pro-amnesty crowd, GOP or Dem, should ever be returned to DC. This slam against Americans must be kept on the front burner as the major campaign issue in upcoming primaries and elections.
Surprised it’s not up here yet - 64 votes for cloture - It’s Shamtastic!
Lieberman is not and never was a conservative. He’s a socially liberal, labor union Democrat with years of Senate votes illustrating that. He just happens not to buy the leftist idiocy that took over his party as regards the War on Terror. For that, I respect him. But don’t fool yourself. He thinks that he’s upholding the Democrat tradition of FDR, JFK and Scoop Jackson being strong on defense and anti-communist. He’s never going to be a true conservative. He should be thought of by conservatives as a reliable ally on GWOT policy fights. And we need all we can get.
OK, it was - in a previous post ..
On June 26th, 2007 at 6:13 am, Snooper said: “Time to march on DC and let them know that we are exercising our Constitutional right to change the government around. This current group of charlatans are not constitutionally representing We The People.”
Can I get a second on this?
Not to be negative but looking forward, I haven’t heard anything about the bills chances in the House? What’s the score on that possibility?
The Republicans will not get ONE RED CENT from me in the future. I will do my best to see that my Republican senator, Mel Martinez, is not re-elected. I will not vote for ANYONE who is supporting Amnesty at any time in the future. NONE of them. And if my choice is between two of them as the major party candidates, then I’ll vote for a third party candidate or just not vote for the office.
If that means the Donks take total control of the government, good. Let them really screw things up for a couple of years and bring on a new Revolution.
cero dineros will only be tossed into the trash! Send the SOBs a check for $00.01 which they will have to process and write, CLOSE THE DAMN BORDER NOW!!!! on the note line!
While you are on the phone, and in the mood, don’t forget to call your congressional reps and demand they kick this bill to the curb…unless you are ok with the U.S. becoming a de-facto socialist country.
terrig - Frustration is a natural consequence of cognitive dissonance. Don’t give in to it.
I, using my cat like eyesight, saw this on a special MySpace web site. Only cats can see it there. At the risk of getting into trouble I thought that I would share.
Hi there fellow bloggers. My name is United States Senator Edward Moore Kennedy from the Great State of Massachusetts. You can call me Ted if you want. I was born on February 22, 1932, although people tell me that I look at least 20 years younger.
I graduated from Harvard in June 1956 in the top 10% of my class. I also passed my law bar on my very first try.
I am one of the most senior members of that grand and much loved and respected institution known as the U.S. Senate. All my colleagues respect me and very often come to me for my wise council and advise. I must admit though that when John and Lindsey ask me to turn around and pull my pants down so that they can kiss my xxx it does get a little much, but it is soooooo gratifying anyway!
In fact I am so powerful now that I am, in many ways the defacto President of the United States. How’s that for a boy who had to work his way through college?
I am handsome and tall with a muscular build. The ladies just can’t get enough of me. Sometimes I think it is almost a curse.
I sometimes like to chill out after a long day of serving the American people by having a double martini. Contrary to what some of my very few enemies say I never have more than one drink at a time. Well sometimes one for each hand, but that’s it, never two glasses in each hand, except on special occasions like the arrival of 7PM.
I am a lot of fun after work. I am an excellent driver and sometimes I like to go on long drives and see how many bridges I can cross without getting wet. It’s a lot of fun! All the women tell me that I am just too much!
I would like to think that I am open minded, honest, polite, and trustworthy. And I appreciate the same qualities in others.
Who I’d like to meet:
…other progressive bloggers. People who like to rock out. Cool people who live close to Washington D.C. so that we can get together, take all our clothes off, paint 666 on ourselves, and run around stark naked and have a whole lot of fun.
My 77 year old mother just sent me this youtube video called “Press one for English” it is to the point maybe our elected officials should watch it.
I choose to fight! Even if it is against my own representatives. Just sent the following to Mr. Sununu
“Hello Mr. Sununu,
I have been writing and calling Senator Greggs office of late to voice my opposition to the cloture vote on the amnesty bill. I was told he hadn’t made a statement about his position, which led me to believe he would vote FOR clotue, which he has done.
Senator Gregg has failed me, my family, LEGAL immigrants (including my wife), my friends, my community and my country.
Senator Gregg has lost my vote and my donations. He has also earned my ire as I will work through my community and spheres of influence to make him a former senator.
Being an independent conservative who has voted for Senator Gregg and yourself numerous times, I am at a loss to explain how angry I am about the latest crookery in Washington.
I am hoping you will do everything in your power to reverse or stop the course that this travesty of an amnesty bill is on at the moment.
My vote, my money and my influence are on the line. Do the right thing.
Enforcement of laws and backlog clearing, and border security first. A bigger gate for LEGAL immigrants second. Amnesty never.
Do the right thing. I’d hate to have to campaign against you as well in your next election cycle.”
Sorry here is the link my mom sent me “Press One for English”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0
On the BRIBO-Meter this stinks. May I suggest looking at the pork/legislative directives/bribes that suddenly appear for the states of these 16 traitors. 10 million here, 20 million there for a bridge or statue or a sidewalk! What a bunch of ****** crooks!
A cero dinero note with a jackass graphic for those of us Conservatives who are currently impaled with Liberal Senators would be cool.
No sense in their not getting in on the fun.
They don’t have to know the difference at this point.
After all George Bush is just the better libpub that won the primary over McCainiac, then Goreicicle and dingle Kerry.
Purge the bastards
I wish there was something us Texans could do to help out, but after darn near threatening to hang our senators if they voted for this ridiculous bill they came around and are staunch anti-amnesty and I can’t threaten to pull funds from a party I don’t belong to (Libertarian here). So, any way we can join in the fray to get this bill killed once and for all?
I made my self believe that the Republican party was more principled than its counterpart. I gave President Bush the benefit of the doubt whenever he seemed to be contravening conservative principles.
But at some time one has to admit that one is wrong. President Bush is not a true leader - he is just a politican wanting to leave a legacy at our expense. The Republican Senatorial leadership has also lost its bearings if it had any to start with.
Enough is enough.
I just called the Senate Republican Committee - actually did manage to get through - and asked them to take me of their mailing list since I would never ever contribute to them again. The lady was polite, noted my name and city down but never even asked “why?”
They know.
Heidi’s email above urging contact with the NRSC includes the caution, “be nice, because they hate this as much as we do!”
I don’t know about the NRSC, but in contacting senate offices I have adopted the strategy of being formally polite but clearly angry.
I do not put it directly onto the intern, often apologizing to them and saying that I know that they are not to blame.
But I want my voice to shake a bit and convey the alarming possibility that I am just about to lose it, which I am.
I don’t thing they care about our talking points, but I think the emotion has an impact. I want my intern to jump up in tears after talking with me and cry, “I can’t take this any more!”
Sorry to victimize the intern in this way, but I think it useful and it is the territory that they signed up for. I want to stress them and, like ant bait, I want them to spread that stress through the office and to the critter himself.
Here’s what we need to do. Officially change voter registration from Republican to Independent. Mail copy to the RNC AND to as many Republicans as possible, especially your own Senators. On the copy you send to the Senators/RNC, write SHAMNESTY or something to that effect.
NOPE, I’m not wasting a check for these bums. If they are too stupid or stubborn to get the message of El Presidente Jorge Arbusto’s Cero Peso, so be it. Besides, they still have to pay the postage and if the Republican Party manages to survive this it will have to get used to accepting REAL pesos:). Adios Republican Party!
NOPE, I’m not wasting a check for these bums. If they are too stupid or stubborn to get the message of El Presidente Jorge Arbusto’s Cero Peso, so be it. Besides, they still have to pay the postage and if the Republican Party manages to survive this it will have to get used to accepting REAL pesos:). Adios Republican Party!
“Press one for english” is a great video. I am an emigrant here and I speak english and I must add that nobody can work in my country of origin without speaking the national language. I think is about respect and those who choose not to speak english coose not to respect USA.
Michelle,
Now that these senators will be out of work for the job Americans won’t do. We can hire some illegal day laborers to do the job. Can’t be any worse than these idiots.
Listening to Senator Kit Bond on Hannity.
He says he will vote to kill the bill on Thursday after his amendment fails.
Say what?
He could have killed it today.
Are these guys for real?
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Ronald Reagan Republican Center
425 2nd Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
Telephone: (202) 675-6000
I just got off the phone with them:
Took about 5 minutes for them to answer
Asked me what state and told me I had 5 seconds to talk
Told them we are gone from the Republican party and they will never see a cent from us.
She stated my message was crysatl clear.
It’s time for some planned demonstrations at the local offices of some of our elected officials.
Anybody hear that clown Kit Bond explaining his YEA on cloture vote today on Sean Hannity a few minutes ago?
What an idiot. He claimed he did not vote to kill it today because he wants to shine some light on it so that it can be killed on Thursday. Is he for real?
They are feeling the heat already? They should be, they crossed the line and they know their time in now limited to the next election. Too bad the voting public has such a poor memory.
“Anybody hear that clown Kit Bond explaining his YEA on cloture vote today on Sean Hannity a few minutes ago?
What an idiot. He claimed he did not vote to kill it today because he wants to shine some light on it so that it can be killed on Thursday. Is he for real?”
“I voted against it after I voted for it”
That line sounds stupid when a democrat says it and sounds even stupider when a “Republican” says it.
On-my-soap-box said, “Too bad the voting public has such a short memory.”
I think we are in uncharted waters here. I have never seen political anger like this, and I am no spring chicken. I do not believe the voters will forget.
@#39
Kit Bond = confused Maroon……
Ignatius Reilly
I might agree with you here but I heard a stat that almost a third of the public think that our government had something to do with 9-11.
These turncoats will go kiss some babies (or maybe even Paris Hilton) and all will be forgiven.
My GOD, Kennedy is still in office!
P.S. I will never forget. I voted for you Mel Martinez. My mistake and I will not make it again!!!
I for one will keep calling and faxing but I think, as far as the senate is concerned, it’s a done DEAL. With this level of outrage it is mind boggling to imagine these ellitist SOB’s are not listening. The payoffs must be staggering. That, combined with their royal, above the common folk mindset, equals tyranny.
PS - I live in the Phoenix area, and if anyone thinks these people are assimilating, they are crazy. They take great pride and humor in telling you to learn their language, and that they are here to stay…
@46 - The payoffs must be staggering.
I think we can be sure they are not acting out of principle.
Here’s a thought on border enforcement. Can we get something going (like petitions or constituent email) to pressure the border state governors to order their respective guard units to enforce the border. Posse Comitatus does not apply when ordered by a states governor and they would not be acting against citizens anyway. They could even have the guard unit’s construction battalions build the wall. I think the governors would be more vulnerable and easier to pressure to act than waiting for the federal government to do anything about it. The senators and congressmen want more voters and want amnesty. If enough people in these border states threaten their governors I think they can get something done. Let’s get the states to exercise their rights and screw waiting on the federal government. It is the states duty to act when the federal government will not.
It makes me proud to be living in WY. Both of our Senators - even the new kid on the block, Dr. Barrasso voted Nay.
@46
JWS, you are right. The Senate is a done deal.
Time to shift to the House and apply pressure or vote them out next year.
Line up the House Primary elections.
If I knew of any job opportunities in New Zealand………
The cowards in the senate are going to “debate” this trash and vote it on. Does it then go to the house to be approved/disapproved. Is there a chance we can kill this crap in the house. I live in Florida. Who do I call, where do I go th REMOVE myself from the republican rolls and register as an INDEPENDENT? This will kill America…DEAD!
Dear Mr. President,
As the last Republican president elected in the United States of America, when you vacate the White House please turn off the lights and leave a message for the new tenants…..”I seriously screwed up.”
P.S. I’m sure you will be happier spending your retirement in Mexico. Democrats have never liked you, and now the Republicans have lost all faith in you and the party. What a legacy.
@46 & 49 Senate fight is over
Maybe, but what the hell…we might as well keep the heat on thru Thursday. We have Bond saying he will flip our way. There is still a little play. Who can know?
Let’s stay on the senate for two more days. We don’t want the House to get the feeling that we back off as soon as they cross us.
To each and every Senator who voted for Cloture today,
I do hereby promise to tirelessly and passionately campaign against all of you when your re-election comes due, regardless of what state you are from or I may be living in.
LETS THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!!!!
ARE YOU LISTENING YET?
P.S. I guess that officially makes me a political activist.
dddave…
I agree with you on showing them the anger now!
I seriously considered leaving the explicit message for Senator Burr, “G@ddamn you, senator,” and I may yet.
There are many of us and confrontation has a different dynamic than 1 on 1. Burr would see me as a lost cause as an individual, but the extent of my anger might convince him that he doesn’t want to push other people until they also snap.
Absolutely Ignatius Reilly, no quitting. I just don’t see these (must be careful and not get banned by Michelle…) traitors changing…
They’re reading the “clay pigeon” on the Senate floor now - the entire text.
Oh sure it can be killed on Thursday, but it most likely squeeks by. It only needs what, 51 votes for approval? Cloture required SIXTY (60) votes.
Okay Kit Bonehead, tell me where would it have been easier to deep six this abomination of a bill?
CLUELESS REPUBLITWIT!
Why, then, will the entire bill not be read, on motion by our team? Team No-Amnesty came to work, right?
Does anyone have some guidelines on how I appeal this to SCOTUS if it passes?
I’m not so much (well I am but I don’t think I have standing) wanting to appeal the legislation so much as the process that Harry and friends have gone through to push this on the American people in spite of our objections. Actually if there is an angle to have the entire bill thrown out as unconstitutional, even better.
I would think that with the backroom shenanigans in writing it up, and the way they tried to whisk it through, there must be some recourse/redress for “We the People”.
Any good constitutional attorneys out there willing to advise?
I have a question for every citizen of the USA. When in all of recorded history has an elected legislature ever voted to legitimize the illegal invasion of the country they were elected to protect?
I’m not smart enough to know the legal definition of TREASON. But I am smart enough to know that it should include this:
Senate vote
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00228#state
First of all - thank you, Michelle.
I have called my Senator (at the DC office) and asked for my campaign contribution back. It sent them into a tizzy. I have also called the RNC and asked for a refund. Please Please encourage others to do so. Thank you. I have never posted anything - anywhere before.
I beleive there is to be another cloture vote on the debate for the admendments. That still takes 60 to pass before the vote on the underlying bill can be taken.
@62 - I have called my Senator (at the DC office) and asked for my campaign contribution back.
Good job, carole!
My new plan- I speak Spanish. I’m going to start communicating with Nat Repubs en espanol. If they solicit me for money over the phone, I’m going to respond en espanol diciendo !NO! If they send me a request for fund in the mail with a return envelope, I’m going escribir CLOSE THE BORDERS FIRST en ingles y escribe un otro mensaje critico en espanol. If they don’t know Spanish yet, they’d better learn if they have any hope of obtaining donations en el futuro.
Reid’s DC voicemail was full but his fax machine stilled worked. Bury this feckless weasel with protest.
Still contacting Senator Burr-ito to encourage him to get his stuff together and vote against cloture on this monstrosity when it comes up again. What is he thinking?
Somehow, I think we have failed to squeeze Hillary and Obama on this thing like we should.
It is radio-active for them. They have no right to act like backbenchers. They should somehow be forced not simply to cast their votes but to take a strong stand.
I can’t think it would take much for them to find some inadequcies in the bill that would cause them to oppose it in the end. I think they are badly hurting their WH hopes by voting for this thing. And if they could be peeled off, I would think that would be a killing blow to the bill.
Unfortunately, Barry and Hillary get a free pass on everything…
When they re-convene tomorrow, I hope they get all the free Tacos from their new found constituents .
Maybe they’ll choke.
I can’t help but celebrate the blogosphere! Bills like this have been rammed down our throats for years, where we only find out about it after the votes. Now, thanks to great blogs like this, we know what is going on every minute of every day. Big, big kudos to you, Michelle!!!