Posted on 06/22/2007 7:54:27 AM PDT by tennmountainman
Anticipating a cloture vote on the immigration bill on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) today said he will be in opposition.
He said, “I plan to vote against cloture on the immigration bill, as I have already done twice during this debate. I believe a better approach would be a more modest bill that focuses on border security, employer identification, and putting systems in place that will put us in a position to actually enforce a new immigration policy.
Sen. Lamar Alexander said he will also vote against cloture.
(Excerpt) Read more at chattanoogan.com ...
It's about time Mr. Alexander got the message.
I was giving up hope on Lamar and Corker...this is excellent news.
I’ll make a THANK YOU call to their offices..
I suppose Lamar! took a break from trying to figure out a way to ram an internet tax through and from proposing legislation banning windmills to look at the immigration problem. All he really needed to do is look out the window. Can't swing a dead cat here in SE Tennessee without hitting an illegal.....then again, if you aren't careful one might just hit you.
The light finally dawns on the man from plaid.
I guess “modest” is the appropriate word given that the Amnestyville Horror amounts to naked aggression against the American people.
Its all nice and fine when legislators actually listen to their constituents, but the fact is, they never should have supported this monstrosity to begin with....we shouldn’t have had to yell at them to get them to do the right thing.....that is what is really frustrating about all this..
Truly excellent!
Looks like Kay’s ‘no’ announcement yesterday was all the prodding the other ‘fence-sitting’ senators needed. I would suspect also that a 14% congressional approval in the latest Gallup poll could help them make up their minds too!
Good for Lamar! Alexander. I hope he’s learned how much this means to the people he’ll have to rely on for reelection, but I think Lamar! still needs careful scrutiny and plenty of letters.
Two down, and by my count, about 13 more to go to stop cloture. There will be two big votes: the cloture vote, in which 60 votes are needed to invoke cloture and bring the bill to the floor, and the final vote approving the bill, which only requires a simple majority of 50 votes for it to pass. These people need to be leaned on to vote against cloture, first and foremost, because their “no” vote will count for less when only a majority is needed to pass the bill. I believe the Dems have the votes to pass the bill on the final vote. DEMAND THAT THEY VOTE AGAINST CLOTURE.
Here’s Bill OReilly’s ‘simple plan’
1) secure the southern border with 700, not 300 miles of barrier, double the border patrol and back them up with 10,000 National Guards people. That would effectively shut down human and drug smuggling from Mexico.
2) require all illegal aliens in the country right now to register at the post office with Homeland Security. After registering, they would be given a tamper proof ID card, designating their status and their right to work temporarily in the USA. If the illegal aliens do not register, it’s a criminal felony. Right now sneaking across the border is a civil action. Remember that. Subjecting the person to immediate deportation or jail time. The criminal penalty goes way up.
3) Any business that hires an illegal worker who doesn’t have a tamper proof ID card faces draconian fines and possible prison time for the executives.
4) Each illegal alien would have his case reviewed by federal authorities. And they would decide who would receive a Z-visa to stay and who would not. That takes the blanket amnesty, something many American hate, off the table. It also allows the feds to make rational decisions about who’s helping America and who isn’t.
Under that banner, no illegal alien who commits a crime while here would be allowed to stay. Also under that program, no welfare of any kind would be paid to folks here illegally. They’d have to work for their living.
Now that is a fair immigration plan that I believe would be acceptable to most Americans. It would also allow the feds to quickly build a database, so Homeland Security would know the extent of the alien intrusion, which we don’t know now.
Again, any illegal alien who didn’t cooperate with the new law would immediately become an outlaw. And immediate action could be taken against that non-citizen who doesn’t comply. That would end the sanctuary city madness and give the federal government more tools to regain control over this out of control situation.
So there you have it — a fair plan to give good people a chance to stay here and earn cit
ping a ling!
To try to garner votes against the will and wishes of his own party’s majority is a rather strong piece of hallucination.
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His fanatic pursuit of this atrocity against the American people is profoundly shocking. I truly question his suitability to be President for this, and other reasons. A President must work hard FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, and not the people of another country at major cost and impact to his own country. I seriously doubt all of his staff is in agreement with an outright afront to the American people, and especially those that installed him in the Oval Office for two terms....
UPDATE:
The Senate is done now til Tuesday- no cloture vote til next week. http://corner.nationalreview.com/
I sent her a “thank you” note for that too.
I agree. These senators who went public with their NO vote on clouture could have remained silent and simply voted NO.
By going public with their intention to vote NO, they have started a snowball effect, of which I’m sure Trent Lott and Lindsey Graham are none to happy with.
After all these GOP pro-amnesty bunch will be left holding the stinking bag. Voters in these respective states will remember them come elections.
Their neighbors to the south, Cochran won’t say, and Lott is for it. What’s happened to Mississippi?
Anyway Cochran is running next year, so if he votes yes, look for a retirement or a hard primary.
Vacant Lott is there until 2012. All please TELL your senators you have no faith in the party leadership and you want Lott out the Whip spot or no money!
Thank you’s go a long way too. Even if you’re the only one to do so (which I doubt) it will mean a lot to her. Regards, kate
Lott has so incensed Mississippi citizens, that I would not be suprised if a “Recall Petition” was started by some brave group in MS.
What happened to Mississippi is that their state, ravaged by Katrina, is being rebuilt by the cheap labor of illegals. Lott said so himself. So, that’s what happened to Mississippi...
This is terrific news, as he is such a poltroon, you know that the safe course must be to vote No. His fellow Senatorial poltroons will go with him.
“The Senate is done now til Tuesday- no cloture vote til next week. “
But I thought they were going to vote yesterday and today.
Me thinks Lott, Graham, Kennedy, Reid and McConnell do not have the votes for clouture.
Thats why it’s been postponed.
I guess Corker would like to try and serve more than one term.
Hey Corker - that would be "enforce the current laws" you moron!
Stupid politicians - always wanting to pass new legislation while ignoring the thousands already passed.
Or, maybe the Republicans will all simply vote against cloture as a party and avoid the firestorm from the base. Excepting of course Mel Martinez who apparently represents a constituency other that citizens of the United States.
This morning Corker’s person mentioned this with much gusto
Must be a real stinkeroooooo
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Me thinks Lott, Graham, Kennedy, Reid and McConnell do not have the votes for clouture.
You left out the chairman of the Republican party, first term Senator Mel Martinez . . .
(explain to me again why a 1st term Senator is heading up the RNC?)
If his time as Mayor of 'Noogaville is any indication, we need to keep a keen eye on Corker.....
(explain to me again why a 1st term Senator is heading up the RNC?)
Probably the same reason a successful Latino is U.S. Sec. of Commerce (hello business). Both Martinez and Guitierrez have been pushing this bill shamelessly hard.
The sad truth is it takes several years to immigrate legally into this country.
Bashing any immigration does not help our position.
We should all be for legal immigration. After all, all our ancestors came from some other continent.
He has served one day of this current term..
He hasnt servedc the people of TN...
He sets the dogs onto anyone who disagrees with his pro-illegal alien stance...
“Or, maybe the Republicans will all simply vote against cloture as a party and avoid the firestorm from the base. Excepting of course Mel Martinez who apparently represents a constituency other that citizens of the United States.”
You are propably right. These pro-manesty GOP senators will blame Reid for some procedural mis conduct and en masse vote against clouture.
That still won’t get Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham off the hook with their respective voters. Especially Graham, who is up for re-election in 08.
Grin- yep- I’d say that’s an accurate assessment!
HOWEVER- senators have been known to change their minds before- we musn’t make any assumptions til this damn bill is dead, Dead, DEAD.
As my Mexican mother says “Mel is Bush Brown.”
Ive only told them both for weeks to publicly announce that they intend to vote No to the AMNESTY Bill
This wasnt mentioned when I called both offices this morning
Richard Burr (N.C.)
Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Kit Bond (Mo.)
Pat Roberts (Kan.)
Gordon Smith (Ore.)
Thad Cochran (Miss.)
Mike Crapo (Ind.)
Norm Coleman (Min.)
Kay Bailey Hutchison (Tex.)
Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Bob Bennett (Utah)
John Sununu (N.H.)
Good news!
We don't need 12 - 30 million more democrats voting in future elections.
(explain to me again why a 1st term Senator is heading up the RNC?)
Because he’s pro-amnesty.
For the same reason Bush ran off the recent law-abiding AG, John Ashcroft ansd replaced him with a buffoon Alberto Gonzales.
Sen. Corker has some common sense!!
I agree...Sen KB Hutchinson from Texas as 4th ranking member was a sign to all the fence sitters that it is ok to do the right thing and kill this pig. With Tenn’s and Georgia’s Senators in the fold, along with Hutchinson, it looks like a great Friday for us Freepers!
Ted "the Hero of Chappaquiddick" Kennedy has always tried to snooker republicans and pass laws that undermine the fabric of our society. By your standards, we should not criticize the Swimmer, but rather, we should admire him for "sticking to his guns".
I'm actually more upset with the 'Pubbies for allowing themselves to be snookered by the likes of 'ole Fat Teddy. It's not like we don't have 40+ years of immigration proposals by 'ole Fat Teddy that have turned into big 'ole fat failures in every respect. Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it.
Who is the bigger fool, the fool or the fool that follows the fool?
Wait till July 1st when the law in GA goes into effect...
If you think its bad here now...the rest will come pouring into TN, AL and hopefully an overabundance into SC..
As in “Bush is the First Brown President”
Just like Klinton was the First Black President”
Wow!
Somebody from Tennessee gets it.
They're not all deaf dumb and blind?
You left off
Chambliss
Ickenson
Sessions
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