Kill the Bill: Shamnesty showdown Update: Telephone system has shut down Update: Video of Kennedy’s “Gestapo” diatribe Update: Reid attacks talk radio Update: VICTORY! Roll added Update: Goat of the day–Sen. Sam Brownback Switchback Video of the switchback added
9:30pm Eastern update. The venerable economist George Borjas weighs in on his blog with a sober and sobering assessment:
The President bet all his remaining political capital on a proposal he knew would tear his party apart. And the Senate came close to enacting very bad policy. It really makes me wonder: what the heck were they thinking?
There’s something else worth pointing out. Here’s a policy shift–amnesty and guest workers–that the entire political establishment as well as much of the mainstream media and academic elite wanted badly. It is seldom the case that something that the powers-that-be want so much fails to make it through. I am pretty sure there’s a lesson in there somewhere. And the tactics used by the bill’s opponents to fight the establishment’s power and to weaken their control over key junctures in the information flow will provide lots of case studies that will be studied far into the future. No “Mission Accomplished” banners this time around.
Does this end the debate over immigration? No.
Why? Because our immigration system is truly broken.
Regardless of what happened at the Senate today, there are still 12 million illegal immigrants living in the country, and that number is increasing at the rate of about half-a-million a year. And there’s no longer any need for the Bush administration to keep playing the charade of “more enforcement” that received wide media attention in the past few months. The economic and social dislocations caused by illegal immigration are not going to disappear simply because the issue is no longer in the political headlights.
Combine this with a legal immigration system that admits about 1 million immigrants a year–most of which tend to be low-skill workers. The economic pressures that both legal and illegal immigrants put on the low-skill labor market are severe, and have been ignored for years. I suspect that the immigration “problem” would have been long resolved had the labor markets for high-skill workers–say, for example, journalists and attorneys–faced the same pressures as those faced by low-educated workers.
Now that the debate is over, perhaps we can return some sanity and honesty into the intellectual discussion of what immigration does to the United States…
4:30pm Eastern update. Check out our new Hot Air political ad: Meet Senator Switchback.
2:59pm Eastern update. Caught on tape. Allah captured Sen. Sam Switchback’s dirty deed. Gotcha:
1:46pm Eastern update. What does President Bush have to say about shamnesty going down in flames? This:
Connelly Hall, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, White House News 12:38 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: I thank the members of the Senate and members of my administration who worked so hard on the border security and immigration reform bill. I’m sorry the Senate was unable to reach agreement on the bill this morning.
Legal (sic?) immigration is one of the top concerns of the American people and Congress’s failure to act on it is a disappointment. The American people understand the status quo is unacceptable when it comes to our immigration laws. A lot of us worked hard to see if we couldn’t find a common ground — it didn’t work.
12:40pm Eastern update. Vote-switching weasel Sam Brownback should really just end his presidential campaign bid right now and stop wasting his poor staff’s time.
Reader Dave e-mails: “I think an enduring legacy of the vote will be a new nickname for the Senator from Kansas: Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Senator Sam Switch-back.”
12:34pm Eastern update. Now what? Sen. Jim DeMint has it right:
“When the U.S. Senate brought the Amnesty bill back up this week, they declared war on the American people. This act created a crisis of confidence in their government. Thankfully, the American people won today,” said Senator DeMint. “This is remarkable because it shows that Americans are engaged and they care deeply about their country. They care enough for their country to get mad and to fight for it, and that’s the most important thing of all. Americans made phone calls and sent letters, and convinced the Senate to stop this bill.”
“The Senate rejected this bill and the heavy-handed tactics used to ram it through. Americans do not want more of the same – amnesty and broken promises on the border. Americans want legislation to be written in public – not in secret – and they want Congress to engage in an open and fair debate.”
“There is a better way forward without this bill. The President has said that the border security measures can be implemented over the next 18 months, and they can be done under current law. Now the Administration needs to prove it and stop holding border security hostage for amnesty.”
“Once we have secured the border and restored trust with the American people, we can begin to take additional steps.”
Over to you, President Bush.
Polipundit adds:
In order to pass the Bush-Kennedy amnesty, el Presidente tacked on a $4.4. “emergency supplemental” funding request to the bill. The president should still ask Congress for that “emergency” money to help solve the crisis on our borders.
11:57am Eastern update. Roll added:
Allah adds:
The yes/no switchers were Bingaman, Bond, Brown, Brownback, Burr, Coleman, Collins, Domenici, Ensign, Harkin, McConnell, Murkowski, Ben Nelson, Pryor, Stevens, Voinovich(!), Warner, and Webb…I guess you can thank Sean Hannity for shaming Voinovich into flipping.
It’s worth going back and looking at the order in which they voted, to see who held back and waited to gauge how the vote was going before casting his/her ballot. I’ll bet Mitch McConnell was one of them.
11:55am Eastern update. “A stake through the heart.”
11:30am Eastern update. VICTORY. 53 No’s. Shamnesty is dead. A stake through the heart.
And yes, so was my website for about 10-20 minutes.
Thanks to the stalwart, true leaders in the Senate — especially Sens. Sessions, DeMint, Vitter, Inhofe, Cornyn, and their staffs. Thanks to the House GOP members who made their opposition known. Thanks to the Loud Folks on the right side of the dial. Thanks to the Loud Folks at The Corner, RedState, Human Events, Townhall, Kaus, N.Z. Bear, my colleagues at Hot Air, and all the enforcement-first bloggers out there who weighed in. Thanks to the analysts at the Heritage Foundation, the enforcement/assimilation proponents at The Manhattan Institute, George Borjas, Kris Kobach, Eagle Forum, 9/11 Families, FAIR and Numbers USA. Thanks to the immigration enforcement activists who’ve been at this for years and decades before this one battle began. Most importantly, thanks to all the ordinary “Loud Folks” who called, phoned, e-mailed, and blogged their opposition.
The bill is dead. The work of immigration enforcement and border security continues.
Rolling updates on Senate floor activity
11:04am Eastern update. Finally. The vote begins.
Notable votes so far:
YEA: Brownback (Update: Apparently changed his vote at the last minute.)
NAY: Bond, Domenici, Ensign, Webb
10:59am Eastern update. Sessions interrupts Reid’s drone. What about the time limit? Obama is giving Reid overtime. Now, Reid is using his “leader’s time.” Reid chastises Sessions for rudely interrupting him.
Readers: This is your Grand Bargain. I hope as many of you are watching this as possible. It’s really revolting. Reid continues to drone. I remind you again: The opponents were allocated 10 total minutes to make their case. Harry Reid has exceeded the rest of the hour they said they would take.
10:48am Eastern. Well, here we go. It’s sniveling Harry Reid: “Is immigration a problem? Of course it is. But is immigration a problem limited…to border states, big cities? No. Immigration is a problem all over America.”
Another Sherlock Holmes!
The Corner is buzzing that Reid will be able to strong-arm some of the anti-amnesty Dems.
Now, he’s mentioning a hate mail. As I’ve been noting all morning, this is the Big Theme of the shamnesty side. This is all they have. “Talk radio has had a field day. These generators of simplicity.” After playing the hate card, he disingenuously asserts that he is not suggesting that senators who oppose shamnesty are prejudiced. Reid tells his melting pot story for the 999th time. And he keeps muttering about a watch.
Now: “Mr. President, my skin is real white.” He points out that Obama is black. He points to a Hispanic. “But my skin is American skin.” This is what the precious time on the Senate floor is being used for–emotional bleating that ignores the actual bill on the table.
What an incredibly less-than-mediocre speaker Reid is. And he keeps going on. It’s way past time for the scheduled vote.
10:43am Eastern update. While Specter drones, here’s the video of Teddy Kennedy’s Gestapo diatribe.
Specter: “A vote against cloture is a vote to kill the bill.”
He’s a veritable Sherlock Holmes!
10:37am Eastern update. So we have two basic themes from the pro-amnesty and anti-amnesty sides this morning. The shamnesty senators are playing the fear/bigotry/can’t-do-nothing card. The enforcement senators are repeating the point that the American people have lost faith, confidence, and trust in the government to do its job. Arlen Specter is now trying to argue that the “silent majority” supports his side and that the noisy callers and e-mailers who oppose amnesty do not represent the vast American majority who have consistently supported immigration enforcement first.
10:32am Eastern update. Mel Martinez. Groan. He plays the “can’t do nothing” card. How many seconds before he plays the fear/bigotry card? Waiting. Oops, he ran out of time. Specter jumped in and gave him an extra three minutes because he’s an immigrant. Martinez obliges and echoes the other pro-amnesty senators who have repeated the line about “ugly” opposition.
10:30am Eastern update. Ted Kennedy is yelling at the top of his lungs again, doing his Jesse Jackson impersonation. Invokes civil rights legislation. “We were part of the march for progress. And today we are called again…who among us would retreat on any of those great traditions? Now is the time to secure our borders…Now is the time! This is the place! Are we going to vote for our hopes? Or are we going to vote for our fears?”
In case you didn’t catch this, the opponents of shamnesty are rushing through their statements because the Grand Schemers have only given them 10 minutes to speak. The shamnesty senators will get the rest of the hour to talk. “Typical,” says Session, of the way this debate has gone. And so starkly absurd. You’ve got the pro-amnesty senators on the floor now all bleating about how debate shouldn’t be ended…having just limited their opponents’ time to a measly 10 minutes.
10:24am Eastern update. Vitter spoke briefly about arrogance of the out-of-touch Senate. DeMint notes again that the phone system has crushed. Session– I wish our side had gotten more than 10 minutes. Durbin is now up attacking “dark” and “ugly” voices against amnesty.
10:20am Eastern update. Jeff Sessions gives a reality check to the shamnesty claim that illegal immigration will be reduced by referring to CBO analysis. Sessions reports that the Senate telephone system has shut down and crashed because of overwhelming public feedback.
10:16am Eastern update. Salazar’s up. This is the shamnesty talking point of the morning: People are afraid. People are filled with hate. Now, he’s invoking Cesar Chavez! He is obviously clueless about Cesar Chavez’s position on illegal immigration.
10:10am Eastern update. Mr. Melodrama, Lindsey Graham is up. “I don’t claim to be on the right or the wrong side of the American people.” No need to claim. It’s clear as day. I need a Dramamine, he’s moving around so much. I feel bad for the C-SPAN cameraman. “This is as good as it’s gonna get.” Mercifully, he has run out of time.
Meantime, a reader e-mails:
Just got off the phone with Gregg’s office. He’s still NOT committed one way or the other. All offices are open for business.
(202)224-3324
(603)622-7979
(603)577-3823
(603)225-7115
(603)431-2171
(603)752-2604
Another reader e-mails:
Dear Michelle:
I’m a member of the Republican State Committee of Maine. Susan Collins was blasted on local talk radio today by Republicans who said they will not support her re-election next year if she votes for the Immigration bill. There are rumors going around that she has doubts about the bill. If you could post her phone number, it might help swing her to our side. Thanks. Susan Collins Maine office – 207-780-3575.
10:09 Eastern update. DeMint — “This immigration bill has become a war between the American people and their government. It’s a crisis of confidence…This vote today is really not about immigration. It’s about whether we are going to listen to the American people…the allocation of time as we approach this vote is very symbolic. the supporters of this bill out of an hour’s time have allocated 10 minutes to the views of the American people.” Urges vote against cloture.
10:06am Eastern update. Corker: “I have voted three times against cloture, and will vote a fourth time against it…A lot of different things at play–compassion, cheap labor, party politics…America has lost faith in our government’s ability to do the things it says it’s gonna do…People feel they are losing their government. Not to people who speak or look differently. They are losing it to a government not doing the things it says it will do.”
10:02am Eastern update. Dole invokes Grassley’s admission that 1986 amnesty was a debacle. My strong view is that it’s not just promises, it’s proof (of border security and enforcement) that people want.” Dole notes that she has met with sheriffs to help enforce 287(g) to deputize local law enforcement to help enforce immigration law.
9:57am Eastern update. Kyl pimps shamnesty. “I hope that my colleagues will accept that doing nothing is not acceptable.” No. Passing shamnesty would be much worse.
9:49am Eastern update. Teddy Kennedy did his best Geraldo impression, likening immigration enforcement to Gestapo tactics. Video coming. Arlen Specter is lavishing praise on the maaaverick, courageous John McCain, pleading to the Senate not to kill the bill.
Dianne Feinstein: “There is no more important bill than this one.” She invokes the NYTimes line about the “threats” being made to pro-shamnesty. She parrots the line that we are stupid, that “people don’t understand this bill…they don’t understand the threat to national security.” Oh, we understand the threat this bill poses to national security just fine. She plugs the Graham amendment. “Puh-leeeease vote for cloture.”
BTW: NR reports that Ensign is a definite no and informed the the White House and McConnell last night.
***
The second cloture vote, as you know, is scheduled for 10:30am. I’ll be here doing my thang. As I reported last night, there are dire forecasts for shamnesty from every corner of the blogosphere–and MSM: Illegals bill loses support in Senate. Senate Immigration Reform Bill Takes Step Toward the Grave. New Senators Resist Overhaul of Immigration. Immigration Measure Appears Imperiled Again. Shamnesty in deep, deep doo-doo.
Ok, I made that last one up. Dire forecasts never sounded so good. But nothing is in the bag. As readers e-mailed yesterday and the WashTimes reports today, Sens. Burr and Nelson look like solid no’s. Repeat: Nothing is in the bag. Here are some quick phone numbers:
Christopher Bond (R-MO) (202) 224-5721
Sam Brownback (R-KS) (202) 224-6521
Richard Burr (R-NC) (202) 224-3154
Larry Craig (R-ID) (202) 224-2752
John Ensign (R-NV) (202) 224-6244
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (202) 224-2541
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (202) 224-6665
Of note: A source tells John Hawkins that Linsdey Graham-nesty is “running scared.” Keep running.
While we wait for the Senate to start its business, here’s a little entertainment from James Kole, who penned “The Amnesty Bill Blues” (hat tip: Freedom Folks):
More entertainment: Be sure to check out the update to the story about Tom Tancredo’s special delivery to DHS head Michael Chertoff. Priceless.
And a great one-liner from Lucianne in response to a NYTimes sob story about shamnesty senators trembling at negative mail from constituents: “How are they supposed to fight an enemy that beheads people if the mail turns them to jelly?”
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Congratulations Michelle! The new media wins!!!
Well done and thank you for Herculean effort to defeat this bill.
Michelle, I know the Brownback Switchback thing has gotten a LOT of negative attention, and rightly so, but this to me is a case of misguided GOATITUDE….
to me the Real GOAT OF THE DAY remains the GOATITUDE of President Bush and the GOP turncoats like Specter, Lott, Kyl who all ABANDONED CORE CONSERVATIVE BELIEFS to embrace the open borders, lawless, ultra left agendas of Teddy Kennedy, La Raza and Geraldo Rivera.
Brownback was a dummy today, but the GOATITUDE should go where it truly belongs; to the troika of powerful Republicans who tried like hell to sell us all down the river.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could get thousands of people to contact their Senator each and every day and ask the simplest of all questions……
“Is our border secure yet?”
Just a thought from someone with a “hound” dog mentality.
Maryland’s senators continue to embarrass me. We need Steele!!!
On June 28th, 2007 at 5:15 pm, Mr_Conservative_Cat said: (#351)
Michelle is one of the true heroes of this thing, up front and center. I don’t know of anyone, anywhere, who fought so hard, passionately and intelligently against slurrs and name-calling of the worst kind, from Jerry “every lawbreaking Hispanic is an angel at heart” Rivers to across the political spectrum. Many long years from now her Grandkids will toddle up to her and say, “Grandma, did you really help to save America” and she would be within her rights to say, “Yes”.
This is so true: and it further goes to show that what we are doing at home is every bit as important as what the troops are doing overseas in fighting terror. A lot of people on campus have taunted me as a young republican and told me that I should enlist–but this war has many fronts. The culture war as well as the global war on islamofascism. We all must do our part.
I think I REALLY like that idea!
Thank you Michelle, and thank you everybody who called, emailed, faxed and ceaselessly hounded the Senate. Yay™!
I think that could be a bit counter-productive, ddddave, but I think everyone agrees on the basic premise of taking a proactive rather than a reactive, defensive stance.
Not only is the fence & enforcement position on illegal immigration right but it’s also a winning position that’s wildly popular across the political spectrum.
This should be a major issue – if not the major issue – of the 2008 presidential and congressional elections.
Thursday greetings Mrs. Malkin and loyal community. Please add my regards to the well-deserved appreciation for your dauntless effort and signal victory in this “Battle of Cloture” in the ongoing war to secure our borders.
The first round is won, thank you Michelle Malkin.
Conservative talk radio and freedom of the waves -of speech- are under attack by the leftist communists of the democratic party.
Now, let’s get ready to defeat the communist fairness doctrine.
You may not be a talk show host Michelle, but your voice is heard. You can rally people. Start doing it for the sake of freedom.
If the Jews can build a wall that is effective in keeping out Islamic terrorists, then we too can build a wall to keep out Mexican illegals terrorizing our infrastructure, hospitals, schools, roadways, jails, courts, wages, jobs, and/or pocketbooks.
One poster on LGF advises that according to Hannity illegals plan to march and it could be violent.
My suggestion:
I was always a supporter of using deadly force against rioters who rampage, burn cars, burn buildings, loot, and inflict injury.
NOW is a good time to implement such a policy. Anyone left alive can be scraped off the pavement and deported.
“Wouldn’t it be great if we could get thousands of people to contact their Senator each and every day and ask the simplest of all questions……
“Is our border secure yet?”
My opinion is that this is a FANTASTIC idea. While I understand concerns that it could be couterproductive, those concerns operate in a world more idealistic than the one in which we actually live. Conservatives have for decades been on the losing end of the old phrase “nice guys finished last”.
The momentum is with us, we should keep it for a change.
I’m making this call and e-mailing every day those exact words: “is our border secure yet?”
I hope listeners to talk radio e-mail those hosts and call in every day, too.
We all agree that the borders need to be secure. I can think of no better way to keep the heat white hot on the senators and this issue. After what they pulled with the amnesty bill, they deserve that and much, much more.
Hats off from me to ddddave for coming up with a perfect plan/catch phrase. My spider senses are telling me that this is 100% the way to go.
This is turning out to be a good day!
Great idea AND…
Everyday we should email the President and Vice-President before going to work telling them to BUILD THE FENCE!!!
Add to that: ENFORCE THE LAW!
Yes…that does sound better.
Thank hawkeye54…
By the way…I liked you in M.A.S.H.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce(Alan Alda)
I’m having trouble connecting to the links such as Teddys rant & Switchbacks being caught on tape. In any case I want to thank you Michelle for your tireless effort. Now sit back pour your hubby a cup of whatever he likes to drink and spend some time with the kids!
After watching Dick Morris on O’Reilly I believe Morris is still obsessed with the Hillary thing. I totally disagree with him saying that killing this bill strengthens the position of the dems for 08 and the WH. A republican president pushed this as hard as he could, along with some republican senators. Democrat senators also voted against it because they knew their constituents didn’t want it.
I think these are some great ideas. I am going to email my Senators and the White House every day and ask them if the fence has been built and if the borders are secure yet. Maybe if enough of us do this, they will get the idea that it is important to the American people.
If our Senators had any real commitment to solving this issue…they would take heed of the public’s outrage, skip summer recess, and develop an enforcement-first bill.
Of course, seeking to silence those that embarrassed them today, they’ve already started to develop a plan to pass the Fairness Doctrine.
On to the next battle. WHEEeee…!
PS: Shouldn’t the color-coded terror warning be raised to BLACK as we don’t know the whereabouts of 12-20 million people?!
I miss that color chart…
A lot of people have been transformed into activists by fighting this month-long travesty. It was not a typical political disagreement, it was a fight over the definition of our nation. That’s why so many people worked so tirelessly. Before this, yes, I hoped something would be done to secure the borders — but now I am going to fight to make sure it happens. I know much more now about all the Senators, and about immigration. I’ll give money to support quality Senators from any state, and Jefferson Sessions is at the top of my list. All the citizens who worked night and day to defeat this bill are not going to forget what they have learned and simply disappear. Bush and the amnesty lobbies have done the worst thing possible for their misguided cause. They aroused the citizens.
Brownback Scrubs Website of Earlier Immigration Vote
The RNC’s fund raising appeals should be entertaining. I think we all need to review the platform before writing a check.
I, name (Jorge “Tysons Foods” Arbusto), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution of the United Statesthe Serf Master plantation owners of America and the ethnic cleansers in Mexico.A very important question that should be addressed, and certainly one that the MSM will ignore, is the nature of what I would call the “larger issue” with this latest political debacle. From the start, the entire discussion of immigration reform had a distinctly different feel to it than many other political debates. For a measure that held such distaste for an overwhelming majority of the American public to have had such a herculean effort devoted to its passage suggests that, way back in the dark corridors of the Washington power structure, there is a secretive, larger power structure at work pulling the strings of our elected officials. I have never been a conspiracy theorist as, having been a civil servant earlier in my career, I became convinced that the simple act of the government delivering the mail every day is a miracle. Having witnessed the fervor exuded by George Bush and many senior members of the Senate makes me question my conspiratorial skepticism — is it indeed possible that individuals and small groups of the ultra-rich and powerful really do control government policy? Observing the debate on this bill over the past several months leaves me with the question of “Why? From what quarter of the political spectrum does the energy for passage of this bill come?” Investigative journalists should pursue the answer to this question, for it is the elephant in the room that the MSM will not dare touch, as I suspect that they may be complicit in the Shamnesty debacle.
After the vote, I decided to email Sen. Schumer and Clinton for their worthless immigrant shilling. Don’t get me wrong, I never voted for these nimrods and I never will. Clinton isn’t even from my home state of New York (I’m an absentee voter)and Chucky Schumer only represents people like him who reside in NYC not the upstate region where I was born.
I actually sent two emails. One, detailing how their votes will come back to haunt them and there are New Yorkers like me who aren’t fooled and two, I asked about the status of the fence, and border and workplace enforcement.
Since I know these two partisan pinheads don’t care about me (I’m also a military spouse so that would definitely make their loopy, liberal heads twist and turn), I never gave them my address, phone number, or email. I don’t trust them in real life so why would I trust them with that kind of information in the virtual world?
I think that I might have to make their lives uncomfortable for a while…I think all of us need to contact those senators who’ve let us down and who don’t have America’s best interests at heart. I know that Shrillary and Slimey Chucky sure don’t.
Keep strong everybody.
“If you believe in nothing, later on you’ll believe in anything.” — John Ratzenberger
We ought to ask our Congressman to honor CNN’s request to provide their earmark requests. Most are refusing to do so. Here is an email I sent Brownback & posted in the Iowa Independent (I like hunting these people down!):
Brownback with this flip flop shows that he is not a man of character, but an opportunist. A typical politician that sticks his finger in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing when he doesn’t have his hand out for the special interests or trying to hide earmarks from public inspection.
Will he answer CNN’s request to provide his earmark requests? So far most of the House and Senate are refusing to do so.
Sadly and stupidly a staffer for a Republican Senator Crapo of Idaho (I emailed Crapo about this as well) gave the ludicrous response to CNN that to give the list of earmarks to CNN is against the law. It violates the Privacy law.
Now have you heard anything more stupid than that? Accountability is against the law. Really?
No wonder Congress has an 18 percent approval rating according to the Rasmussen poll. What a bunch of arrogant elites in Congress who think we, the People, are just stupid sheep.
I would have thought the Republicans would have learned something from the election of 2006, but apparently not.
Who am I? A life-long Conservative Republican in Florida who will not vote for Brownback after seeing his actions today at the cloture vote.
DFERN- I gotta admit you make a very interesting point. This whole fiasco sure makes it seem like there was a puppet master pulling on strings. But the grassroots activists cut those strings thanks to blogs, talk radio, and the new wave of information.
DFERN – I admit I wonder too! Why was there such a MAJOR fight to defeat this bill. I’m not a conspiracy believer, but with Bush wanting open borders, wanting a North American Union, and his dad speaking of a New World Order, I wonder. Perhaps there is an illuminati or “trilateral commission” or Council of Foreign Relations plot.
I agree about puppet masters. Kennedy for the Dems, Bush for the GOP. Hmmmm.
Ding Dong the Bill Is Dead,
The Wicked Wicked Bill Is Dead!
And we Munchkins, the voters, did it. Congratulations around!
From what I have heard, the Dems really did not want this to pass.
The mission was to divide the Republican base, and it has happened.
Secretively their plot is to eliminate the Conservative base and to rule over all of us.
I also heard, according to Dick Morris, that if Hillary is elected, within a couple of years, all illegals will be legal with no action taken through the Senate. (paraphrasing, correct me if I am wrong).
SCARY days ahead folks. This is NOT over yet.
She will just order it to be done.
Scary day’s are here….. Kennedy raisng his voice saying “this is what the Ameican people want” flat out lying, they watch the polls constantly he knew what America wanted. Voinovich on Hannity coming off as a complete Imbucile and Reids Tommy Tomale imaginary friend story. Senators holding off on their vote with Brownback flipping during the vote. This issue woke up alot of people myself included as to the ineptitude of the Senator’s currently in office.
Gayle – the issue you’re talking about that Dick Morris raised had to do with the Dream Act, sponsored by the House.
I believe he said the Hillary supports it. Info on the act can be found here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.5131:
The part he referred to is in section 4, and it states that if someone enters this country illegally prior to age 16 ( so these teenagers running across the border would be included ) – and they have been here for 5 years ( without being caught ) and they haven’t committed a crime, then the DHS can change their status from deportable to legal immigrant.
So, in essence, his comment on TV about being in the country for 5 years, if you’re not caught, you’d get amnesty, is correct. According to this portion of the Dream Act, you have to have been under 16 at the beginning of those 5 years.
This Act also allows states to give these illegals in-state tuition rates.
They just don’t get it…. If they focused all this attention on LEGAL US citizens and enforcing our sovereignty ….they may have a higher approval rating than 18%.
Thank you for that clarification…”THE DREAM ACT”. I couldn’t remember the title of this nightmare act.
I still predict an internal/external civil war….us against THEM. We collectively can DREAM of ways to avoid paying money to an unethical government.
If they can entertain the idea of “hiding from police” for five years, then we should hide from the IRS.
The Dream Act should be her campaign slogan…..then she woke up….
Thank you . I have nothing in common with Alan Alda (you wouldn’t want to see ME act), but the character “Hawkeye” Pierce and I have at least one thing in common.
If you are good in geography you might guess what that one commonality is.:)
Thank you . I have nothing in common with Alan Alda (you wouldn’t want to see ME act), but the character “Hawkeye” Pierce and I have at least one thing (other than the name) in common.
If you are good in geography you might guess what that one commonality is.:)
The job is not finished.
There’s quite a buzz about how the defeat of the Immigration Reform bill will ultimately prove to be the undoing of the Republican party. The theory being that the Republican party needs the Latino vote. And, now that the bill has been defeated, largely by Republicans, that there is no longer a snowball’s chance in hell that they are going to get that Latino vote. It is a valid warning.
The grassroot efforts to kill this bill was a beautiful thing to witness. However, the same amount of effort needs to be poured into the upcoming elections. If every American that participated in the effort to kill the bill would also take on the responsibility of not only making a committment to vote but, to also seriously urge other conservative friends to do so, we can possibly neutralize the threat posed by those who advocate open borders. We need to reward and attempt to protect those senators that put their career concerns to the side in favor of the will of their constituents.
People, target friends, family members, work associates, etc. who you know normally do not vote and pursuade them to vote this year. Malkin and other bloggers could help such an effort by posting basic information such as how to register and by keeping a list of senators who did the right thing and those who let us down.
I wanted to give Michelle my belated thanks for a job well done (has been a very busy week personally and professionally). If not for you and the rest of the Bloggers out there we would never have heard of this mess. The MSM did a great job of trying to cover for our slimy politicians. Your dedicated reporting kept all of use informed of this sneak attack on American sovereignty. I really have a reason to celebrate the “4th of July” this year.