The Discerning Texan
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Dems Steamroll Republican Amendments to Amnesty Bill, may move soon to squelch debate
In other words, the Democrats (and a few imbecilic Republicans) voted to keep the felons here.
Michelle Malkin has a pretty telling comment by Senator Teddy "Sea Hunt" Kennedy (D-Wind Power), whose "alternative" Amendment passed instead:
The Cornyn amendment would make vast numbers of these families ineligible. It would keep them in the shadows. It hurts the immigrants and Americans. Cornyn's amendment classifies "garden variety" violations as crimes.In other words (with Kennedy's Amendment) "vast numbers" of FELONS would be allowed to stay should the bill become law. Chuck Schumer supported the Kennedy Amendment, as did Arlen Specter (R in name only) and John McCain. Many Republicans opposed it, but not enough: The Kennedy Amendment passed, the Cornyn Amendment failed.
After the vote, Senator Cornyn said that those who voted against the proposal:
... failed to take an opportunity to help restore public confidence that we're actually serious about passing an immigration law that could actually work.It is not merely appropriate to kill this bill at the cloture vote--it is essential that we kill this bill. Call your Senators NOW to express your disgust for what they are attempting to do in your name. And call other States' Senators too. If they tell you that a Senator is not interested in your opinion because you don't live in his state, you can reply along these lines: "that's funny, the Senator is obviously interested what millions of people from Mexico think, but he isn't interested in what a taxpaying American citizen has to say?" And if you give money to campaigns, my advice is to tell anyone you talk to that their boss nor the RNC (or DNC) won't see a red cent of your money if they support this bill.
Don't hesitate. Call them and kill it before this abomination gets to Bush's desk. You are our only chance here--let's win this thing. Email and phone links here.
Labels: Betrayal, Border Protection, Democrat Sabotage, Illegal Immigration, US Senate
Monday, April 30, 2007
Steyn on Congressional Betrayal
Everything's difficult, isn't it? In the Democratic presidential candidates' debate, Sen. Barack Obama was asked what he personally was doing to save the environment, and replied that his family was "working on" changing their light bulbs.Is this the new version of the old joke? How many senators does it take to "work on" changing a light bulb? One to propose a bipartisan commission. One to threaten to de-fund the light bulbs. One to demand the impeachment of Bush and Cheney for keeping us all in the dark. One to vote to pull out the first of the light bulbs by fall of this year with a view to getting them all pulled out by the end of 2008.
In 1914, on the eve of the Great War, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey observed, "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." Whether he was proposing a solution to global warming is unclear. But he would be impressed to hear that nine decades later the lights are going out all over Washington.
This week, both the House and the Senate voted for defeat in Iraq. That's to say, Congress got tired of waiting for deadbeat insurgents to get their act together and inflict devastating military humiliation on U.S. forces. So America's legislators have voted to mandate the certainty of defeat. They want the withdrawal of American forces to begin this October, which is a faintly surreal concept: Watching CNN International around the world, many viewers unversed in America's constitutional arrangements will have been puzzled by the spectacle of a nation giving six months' notice of surrender. But the cannier types in the presidential palaces will have drawn their own conclusions.
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Labels: Betrayal, Democrat Sabotage, Mark Steyn, Surrender Caucus, The Long War
