Posted on 06/11/2007 4:21:34 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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 Sunday, calling on Republicans to resolve their internal divisions and produce an agreement on how to move the legislation forward.
With Bush administration officials and Republican authors of the overhaul saying they had not given up on the bill, the spokesman for Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, said Mr. Reid would be willing to try again if Republicans agreed to a defined number of amendments and a time limit on debate.
“If and when Republicans can agree on a limited number of amendments and agree on the need to get this bill passed, Senator Reid is committed to finding room on the Senate schedule as soon as possible,” said Jim Manley, the spokesman, who said President Bush needed to play a role as well. “The hope is that he can apply enough pressure to provide the votes we need to get the bill out of the Senate.”
Mr. Bush is scheduled to visit the Capitol on Tuesday for a lunch with Senate Republicans. That meeting will come just days after the immigration proposal, one of his chief domestic priorities, was derailed when an effort to bring a two-week debate to a close came up far short of the votes needed.
On Sunday, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said the administration was “more determined than ever” to push the measure, which has drawn strong opposition from conservatives.
The "Grand Bargainers" will be toiling behind closed doors again. As I've warned many times, if they can't get what they want in one "comprehenshive" package, they will do what they've done for years under the radar--break off their favorite enforcement-undermining provisions and pass amnesty piecemeal.
Don't forget the amnesty hotline number--1-800-417-7666--if you'd like to get through to your senators and help drive a stake through this monstrously bad bill once and for all.
Just say NO to Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep
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George Bush is indeed creating his very own historic "legacy".
The Senate PIMPS have already taken money by contractors
etc. to ram this bill through. They must perform
for their johns.
Having already SOLD America (illegal, but ignored),
the Senate PIMPS MUST continue, or the contractors
will either want their money back, or will get
even other ways.
Hope so. It would be interesting to see who the puppet masters really are.
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Thanks for the numbers...
You’re welcome. Please ask everyone you know to call until this thing is well and truly dead!!
The Legacy of the Hidden Agenda.
The Legacy of Reversal of "from consent of the governed."
The Legacy of Eradication of "By the People."
Go ahead rinos and fense sitters make our day!
I fear for any polition voting for this thing and keeping their job as a repubublican!
$hit in the game. Someone has him by the short ones and he has to deliver "or else."
Bump.
But they are very much allied with other K Street "advocates" and unions (aka, even more lobbyists) who need new members and victims .... errrr ... "clients" (e.g., American Immigration Lawyers Assoc.).
These leeches all expect Congress to deliver what they demand in exchange for election votes and PAC money and God knows what else.
As reported last week:
Interest groups pushing for the bill said Democrats were supposed to deliver 35 votes and Republicans were supposed to deliver 25. "From our point of view we did our job, and from our point of view the Republicans didn't," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, which wants a bill that offers a path to citizenship to illegal aliens.
Bush seeks immigration action
The Washington Times
June 9, 2007
Stephen Dinan
Will the WaPo have another phoney article about how support for a resurrected shamesty bill is rising again?
“Someone has him by the short ones and he has to deliver “or else.”
And if we are going to be effective in DEFEATING him, Americans need to know who that someone IS and their agenda.
WHO? The bipartisan, globalist OPEN BORDERS LOBBY.
WHY? The creation of a NORTH AMERICAN UNION.
BUILDING A NORTH AMERICAN COMMUNITY
http://canada.usembassy.gov/content/can_usa/northamericancommunity_TF_final.pdf
I'm curious, how did his staffers respond to your Monday morning greeting?
I like your injunction to keep Hagel out of your county on pain of humiliation. Very inventive.
Does Lindsey Graham wear kneepads? Does Hillary have cellulite?
Is someone going to run in the primary against Lindsey Graham next year? That needs to happen.
“I can’t help but wonder if he’s competing with Jimmy Carter to earn the honor of being the worst president in, at least, our lifetimes.”
That’s going to be his legacy. Just as bad as Jimma Carter. How stupid can you get?
It goes without saying. I have one list of the lobbyists (aka "trade associations") supporting Amnesty, and no doubt they are applying pressure to everyone. But Bush (as demonstrated by his past obesiance to Vincente Fox) may be looking at something beyond the normal arm-twisting.
Regardless, my original question stands: has any other President in history *ever* pressed a bill four separate times, even though his own party despises and rejects it?
It might have happened, but I really doubt it.
That’s right; and unfortunately they are killing America and it’s people in the process. I can’t tell you how much these people disgust me. It may be cheap labor for them for a while; but not for the taxpayer. I can hardly keep up with bills myself; much less pay for ingrates.
When GW leaves office, I hope I never see his face or hear about him again.
The published numbers may now have inbound traffic restrictions, the telco system will be programed to only accept a predetermined number of inbound calls to the Senate which equates to the faucet being turned down to a drip. You will get a busy signal, but not because the dam burst, but because a percentage of incoming calls is only allowed through the pipe
No doubt, this bill is a DOG.
It would be nice if Bush would join forces with the American people and not people like the dirty Clintons.
How much do you want to bet that he'll be involved with Mexican oil drilling?
Will Rush be back on the air today? He needs to talk about this.
I think so. All the others (except Oreilly and he doesn’t count anyway) will be, I’m sure.
Laura Ingraham has been blazing hot over this!
This list is representative, and by no means all-inclusive of the hundreds of groups supporting immigration Amnesty.:
"Though no one wants to reward illegal behavior, we must find a way for these workers to come forward, make good on the past and participate in a program that leads to permanent residency and eventual citizenship."
http://www.meatami.com/1CQImmigrationAd030206.pdf
The Rogues Gallery Of Co-Signatories To The Above Statement:
He's working for inclusion in the Mexican history books...or the future country 'North & South America' history books. He's looking to be their founding father!
See above, #29.
Good job on Hagel-mon...I have been peppering our crappy DC Dope Senator Graham with daily calls. Every 4th or so call is a down loaded rant about how I will work day and night to be sure he is never elected in this state again.
That was a pathetic joke, wasn't it?
It only motivated me to call EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of my state's House Of Representatives delegation once again, as well as both Senators, the RNC, the state GOP, and the White House. Each of the above also got a followup email.
That was the second time in two weeks, inspired entirely by the ComPost article.
By the way, no one I spoke with agreed with the Post's reporting, and everyone was aware of that article.
Wouldn't it be Soros ... or multi someones.
One talking head pundit joked that he was trying to drive his pathetic approval rating from the 30's all the way down to zero.
I can’t help but wonder if he’s competing with Jimmy Carter to earn the honor of being the worst president in, at least, our lifetimes.Jimmy was much more consistently evil and stupid.
But what W is trying to do here might actually have a longer-lasting anti-American effect.
Just curious, what leads you to say that? Are you in the telco biz (sincere question)?
Last week the RNC took the easy way out: they ran the comments line straight to an answering machine. The first time I called they said they were getting 3,000 (three thousancd) calls an hour.
I tried the toll free number it routed me to Bob Corker’s Memphis, TN office..I had called Lamar Alexander...Not Corker’s.
You really know how to win people over to your side, huh?
BUMP!
Legalizing the 600,000 illegal felons and the ones who have been ordered by courts to be deported, the Senate will be preserving the distribution network for the drug cartels!!!
bump
“Senate Democrats opened the door to reviving the stalled immigration measure on Sunday, calling on Republicans to resolve their internal divisions and produce an agreement on how to move the legislation forward.”
Issue resolved. Build a wall, enforce existing laws and once twelve million illegals have been identified, bring a new immigration bill back to us and we’ll consider it.
“I can’t help but wonder if he’s competing with Jimmy Carter to earn the honor of being the worst president in, at least, our lifetimes”.
I believe Bush has already achieved this position.
I voted for him Twice.
It should be called the "Freddy Krueger Bill". It won't die and it will kill American as we know it.
Leni
“I can’t help but wonder if he’s competing with Jimmy Carter to earn the honor of being the worst president in, at least, our lifetimes.”
If Bush did everything we wanted, but let’s say he was for embryonic stem cells, we would call him the worst President of our time.
It is irrelevant. Bush = Hitler, which means he is a baaaaad man. At least that’s what I read every day in the MSM.
Leni
Well it might kill Americans too...
What’s the EARLIEST they could re-introduce this bill? I’m thinking that if it can be delayed past the summer recess, that might finally be enough to kill it for good since that would bring it too close to next year’s elections.
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