Posted on 03/10/2010 6:52:32 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Three years after efforts by Congress to reform the immigration system went down in flames, the issue is slowly re-emerging onto the national stage as two senators from the opposite sides of the political aisle work on crafting another bill.
BY TRISH TURNER
Three years after efforts by Congress to reform the immigration system went down in flames, the issue is slowly re-emerging on the national stage, as two senators from the opposite sides of the political aisle work on crafting another bill.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. are set to appear Thursday at the White House for a meeting with President Obama in which they are expected to seek his guidance on charting a path forward.
The reform effort blew up in 2007 after more than a year of work when Republican critics branded the effort as "amnesty" and the tide of public opinion turned strongly against the bill.
Graham, in fact, was booed at a Republican gathering in his state in 2006 for his work on comprehensive reform with Ted Kennedy and John McCain. Sen. McCain is conspicuously absent from the current talks; Graham remains at the table as the lone Republican supporter.
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"Senator Graham has been very good and generous and courageous in helping us move that bill forward. ... He has always said he wants a second Republican."
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One Republican senator who is thought to be in play is the newest member of the body, moderate Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts.
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Brown told Fox News he has not yet been contacted by either Schumer or Graham, but he is willing to take a look at their bill.
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RINO stinking Juan McCain must be defeated. His stinking RINO buddies like Romney, Flake, Kyl, Thompson (sad), Huckelbie and Palin are rats too.
We know McCain’s butt is all over this.
We know McCain’s butt is all over this.
Aww c’mon out and man up Johnny. Tell us what you really think.
Linseed is holding down Ft McLame while Juan is off being a good conservative until Novenber is over.
Graham and McCain represent all that is wrong with our party.
Who can prove that Graham and Chuck the Schmuck are on opposite sides. They both look like Liberal stool samples to me.
Juan McCain is a POS. JD Hayworth needs to beat Juan McCain with the “amnesty stick” like a pinata.
And don’t forget Luger! They have joined in the war on the
American middle and working classes. They are the Enemy.
I thought he said ther was support from both sides, but Lindsey Graham isn’t a Republican!
LOL!
Governor Palin doesn’t support amnesty.
Lugar is another RINO & pro-amnesty POS. JD Hayworth needs to beat Amnesty RINO Juan McCain with the amnesty stick like a pinata.
“Sen. McCain is conspicuously absent from the current talk”
The old coot lives on CBS......too bad someone can’t ask him if he supports it...which he does, but is too cowardly to admit it during this election, so he has his boy Lindsey do his bidding.
How does anyone support either of these arrogant men?
I like Palin but she needs to stop supporting Juan McCain now. McCain and Graham-nesty are evil RINOs. People are known by the company they keep.
If a woman of virtue hangs around wh*res then people think she is a wh*re.
Don’t let her support of McCain interfere with your opposition to him. Her support of McCain is completely a non-issue. It’s a favor and she’s doing it out of respect and loyalty. Doesn’t change my opinion of her and it doesn’t make her a RINO.
And, yet the morons in SC re-elected the guy in 2008, despite a conservative primary challenge from Buddy Witherspoon.
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