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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 [...]

What a freaking mess:
Michael Kamburowski, an Australian immigrant who served as the California Republican Party’s chief operating officer, abruptly resigned Sunday — less than 24 hours after The Chronicle reported he had been ordered deported in 2001, jailed in connection with the order, and now has a $5 million wrongful arrest lawsuit pending against U.S. [...]

Sen. Open Borders serenades illegal alien activists. Cover your ears!

Claire on cloture: “I’ll vote against it.”

S. 1639, the Bush-Kennedy shamnesty bill, will hit the Senate floor soon. US News reports there will be slight delay until the beginning of next week because of energy bill infighting. But make no mistake: Shamnesty’s coming. And it’s time to hit the phones. According to Numbers USA, the following members are the crucial [...]

Name-calling Michael Chertoff decries name-calling by exclamation point-wielding bloggers.

Another illegal alien drunk driver takes the lives Americans didn’t take.

9/11 families protest the Bush-Kennedy bill. Plus: The Heritage Foundation exposes the secrets of the new proposal and spotlights its security-sabotaging implications.

***Update 9:25pm Eastern:*** The Grand Schemers have settled on amendments to the shamnesty bill in a bid to win over the wafflers:
Sixteen of the two dozen amendments the Senate will consider attaching to a revived immigration bill come from senators who helped derail the legislation earlier this month. A list of the proposed changes obtained [...]

Deadly consequences of open borders, part 998,999.

Actions have consequences. Plus: Lindsey Grah-amnesty’s latest hissy fit.

Pile-on.

There was a glimmer of hope on the shamnesty landscape today in the House. Stalwart immigration enforcement proponent Tom Tancredo won approval–by a significant margin–of his amendment banning DHS funds for renegade sanctuary cities. From Rep. Tancredo’s website:
U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo’s (R-CO) amendment to cut funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Bill (H.R. [...]

Time to Move On, Trent.

Teddy’s new best friends.

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, [...]

Are you paying attention? (Hat tip: Allah)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will approve a new deal on immigration on Thursday and move to bring the once-dead legislation back to the Senate floor next week, Democratic sources told FOX News.
Details of the immigration compromise remain to be finalized, but top Democratic sources say Reid has closely [...]

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 [...]

WashTimes reports that President Bush will offer his amnesty “confidence-builder” in a speech this morning:
President Bush will state in a speech this morning that he supports an amendment to the immigration reform bill that would immediately spend $4.4 billion on border security, in the White House’s latest effort to resurrect the bill that failed last [...]

It’s what’s for breakfast this morning in Washington:

On Tuesday, I mentioned the list of 15 GOP senators that the Shamnesty Grand Schemers want to flip to their side (asterisked senators are up for re-election in 2008):
* Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)
* Cochran (R-MS)
* Coleman (R-MN)
* Collins (R-ME)
* Cornyn (R-TX)
* Craig (R-ID)
* Domenici (R-NM)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott [...]

Eduardo “Piolin” Sotelo, a leader who organized the massive illegal alien marches in Los Angeles last year, is headed back to Washington to push for shamnesty. He’s due to arrive tomorrow with his open-borders caravan:
A popular Spanish-language disc jockey began a cross-country trip Sunday to encourage Congress to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, planning to [...]

Reader T.K. e-mails:
Several months ago, when rumblings of a possible amnesty for illegal immigrants supported by President Bush and the GOP started to hit the blogosphere, I held back from sending in a check to renew my 2007 RNC membership, instead sending in a note that I would not financially support the party if it [...]

You can say that again:
“We . . . have lost credibility in Washington on the issue, and I think before the American people will really ever get behind an immigration policy, they’re going to have to feel that Washington is truly going to follow through on what it says,” said Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.).
Meanwhile, the [...]

So, Bush had his meeting with Senate Republicans. He says “the status quo is unacceptable.” Yeah, tell me about it.
So, now what? The backdoor wrangling continues. Congress Daily reports:
…Senate Republican negotiators were close to agreeing on the number of amendments they want to bring up and could present that list to Reid as early [...]

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 [...]

The corpse of S. 1348 is twitching. Remember: I pronounced it “down but not quite dead” after the cloture vote last Thursday. Now, Bush-Reid-Kennedy will be working overtime the next few days to prop it back up on the Senate floor, reports the NYTimes:
Senate Democrats opened the door to reviving the stalled immigration measure on [...]

Kathryn Lopez diagnoses the disease.

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 [...]