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Senators Coburn, Brownback, DeMint, Burr, Murkowski, Inhofe, and Vitter sent the following letter to DHS Secretary Napolitano yesterday concerning the DHS conservative hit job:
April 16, 2009
The Honorable Janet Napolitano
Secretary
The Department of Homeland Security
310 7th street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20528-0150
VIA FASCMILLE
Dear Secretary Napolitano,
We write today concerning the release of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report titled [...]

Barriers to entry.

Yes, they must.

Comprehensive.

Bok-bok.

Lovebirds
Scroll down for updates…Hillary plays identity card (We’re a woman and a black candidate!) against GOP (They’re white men): “Just by looking at us, you can tell, we will not be more of the same”…Obama plays the McCain card against conservatives…immigration Hispandermania…Hillary vows to clean the mess in the White House. Seriously…Obama plays the McCain [...]

Argh.

And look who has front-row media seats.

“As it’s currently written, the omnibus language guts the Secure Fence Act almost entirely.”

Call now. Call tomorrow. Keep calling.

“Jim is leading an effort to try to change the culture of the Senate, and I think he’s succeeding.”

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 [...]

Fight, fight, fight! The battle continues. There’s heated debate right now on the Senate floor over the throat-ramming process embraced by Reid/Bush/GOP Grand Schemers. Noon update: vote underway on Hutchison “touchback” amendment. Update: Hutchison amendment killed. Plus: Video added of DeMint trying to keep the debate open.

10:43pm Eastern. Here’s an easy-to-use, interactive video phone guide to the shamnesty senators who voted YEA on cloture today.
10:15pm Eastern update. A reader wants to know whether the Georgia Republican Senators’ amendments are in the clay pigeon package. Yes, they are there. But remember to take all this amendment talk with a grain of salt. [...]

Today, five GOP senators appealed to Harry Reid not to use a cherry-picking amendment trick and cut off debate on the Bush-Kennedy shamnesty bill. Here’s their letter:

Wanna know what Reid’s response was? Stay tuned. This entire process has stunk to high heaven from the get-go. No matter what happens on the Senate floor tomorrow on [...]

Time to Move On, Trent.

Photoshop: David Lunde
Military-smearing Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell released this statement about the shamnesty last night:
Thursday, June 14, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement today:
“We met this evening with several of the Senators involved in the immigration bill negotiations. Based on that discussion, [...]

Yes, we still have a voice in Washington. Sen. Jim DeMint’s statement on the $4.4 billion Grand Ruse:
“I appreciate the effort to fund border security, but there’s simply no reason why we should be forced to tie amnesty to it. If the administration was serious about fulfilling the border security promises, then this funding [...]

Just received from a Hill source:

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Out-of-touch-with-reality quote of the morning:
“I think one of the things that we have to do is answer the skeptics, answer the doubters,” White House press secretary Tony Snow said Tuesday.
“We not only have a good sound bill, but it’s also one that a lot of conservatives, when they get a [...]

Photoshop: David Lunde
President Bush heads to Capitol Hill today to try to revive S.1348, the shamnesty bill. He’s getting cocky:
President Bush, wading deeper into an issue that bitterly divides his party, hopes a personal appeal can help persuade skeptical Republicans to resurrect and pass his immigration bill.
Over lunch Tuesday in the Capitol, Bush planned an [...]

Photoshop: David Lunde
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Wire stories coming in: AP calls the cloture vote failure a “stunning setback.” Reuters: “A major legislative setback.” Bloomberg: “A big disappointment.”
A few of my quick post-debate thoughts:
As annoying as Reid’s refrain was, he is right: This was the president’s bill. This was the monstrous sham that President Bush tried to ram through [...]

6:13pm Eastern update: Scroll for latest liveblogging on Senate floor action (and inaction):
I liveblogged the vote on the Coburn amendment earlier this morning. The roll call deserves its own separate post. I’ve underlined the Republicans who voted against the Coburn amendment to fully enforce existing immigration laws. Everything you need to know about your US [...]

Just to make clear, because it was a bit confusing, the two cloture votes that went down were these:
Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Kennedy Amdt. No. 1150, As Amended )
Vote Number: 203
Vote Date: June 7, 2007, 11:41 AM
Required For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Cloture Motion Rejected
Amendment Number:
S.Amdt. 1150 to to [...]

Update: 12:40am Senate adjourned until 10am…Reid has called for a vote later today on a motion to limit debate to 30 additional hours…It’s the “moment of truth” now…Sen. Jeff Sessions, who has been an eloquent and stalwart amnesty opponent, says tonight: “I think enthusiasm is waning for the legislation…”
Chicago Tribune says Dorgan amendment “may have [...]

Scroll for updates, liveblogging…
Debate on S. 1348, the shamnesty bill, has resumed on the Senate floor. Numbers USA sums up the upcoming action:
Members will consider an amendment sponsored by Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) that would ensure that green card applicants who entered the country illegally are not given preference under a merit-based processing system over [...]

Chock full of enforcement tricks and illegal alien treats
John Boehner called the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill a “piece of s**t” last night. Yeah, after sifting through it the past couple of days, I need a shower.
Debate resumed in the Senate this morning. Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) that would have deleted [...]

Selling out
The amnesty sellout arrives. Background at this post.
Lie of the day from Arlen “Illegal Alien Gold Card” Specter: “This will restore the rule of law.”

Will you support a GOP presidential candidate who supports the Bush/Kennedy amnesty?

Yes

No

Hell No!

Second biggest lie of the day:
Bush called it “a much-needed solution to the problem of [...]

An extraordinary exchange just took place on the Senate floor over the last 40 minutes. It’s the most important debate of the year, in my opinion.
The questions are these: Who do we let into this country and how many?
On one side of the debate: Democrat Sen. Jeff Bingaman of N.M. and Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions [...]