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Senate kills John Thune’s border-fence amendment — with help from Rubio and McCain
Hot Air ^ | June 18, 2013 | Allahpundit

Posted on 06/19/2013 4:34:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

You know the deal. Every amendment that adds significant border security to the Gang of Eight bill threatens to scare Democratic votes away, and Rubio, McCain, Graham, and Flake have decided that they’d rather have the bad bill they wrote pass than no bill at all. Four votes against the fence, just as Conn Carroll predicted this morning:

Senators on Tuesday rejected building the 700 miles of double-tier border fencing Congress authorized just seven years ago, with a majority of the Senate saying they didn’t want to delay granting illegal immigrants legal status while the fence was being built.

The 54-39 vote to reject the fence shows the core of the immigration deal is holding. The vote broke mostly along party lines, though five Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio and the rest of the bill’s authors, voted against the fence, and two Democrats voted for it.

Republicans had offered the fence as a way to build the confidence of voters skeptical that the government will enforce its laws, but opponents said building more fencing is costly, would take too long, and shouldn’t be dictated by Washington.

“I think we should leave that to the best judgment of the Border Patrol,” said Sen. John McCain, one of the eight senators who wrote the immigration bill.

That’s the same John McCain who grumbled in early 2007 about having to “build the goddamned fence,” then quickly metamorphosed into a kinda sorta border hawk in time for the 2008 campaign, then hung onto his phony border-security cred to get elected to another Senate term in 2010, and who now has safely reverted to the amnesty shill he always was at heart. That’s one of the glories of the current reform process — how open and honest everyone involved is.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: South Dakota; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2006; 2016election; amnesty; election2016; florida; immigration; johnthune; marcorubio; mccain; randsconcerntrolls; rubio; securefenceact; southdakota
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1 posted on 06/19/2013 4:34:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course...Mc STAIN!


2 posted on 06/19/2013 4:35:23 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

I guess Mccain is grooming Rubio to take his traitor place once God sends him to Hades


3 posted on 06/19/2013 4:37:45 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

KILL this BILL!


4 posted on 06/19/2013 4:37:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubio has pulled the trigger on his own gun as far as I am concerned


5 posted on 06/19/2013 4:38:20 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: RummyChick

Looks that way.


6 posted on 06/19/2013 4:38:52 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Have the Illegals build the fence, for NO PAY, as a Condition towards Amnesty.

Oh....we can't do that; Union Labor has to be used.....

And...the money people who need the labor that open borders provides, AND, the Votes that these Illegals can give to the Dem's makes Amnesty URGENT for the 2014 Elections, as a guarantee of Majority in both Houses of Congress, and the Presidency again in 2016 for the Dem's.

7 posted on 06/19/2013 4:41:31 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first posts for the border fence should be made from recycled gallows timbers.


8 posted on 06/19/2013 4:41:44 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubio has been sniffing McCain’s vapors. Given who McCain is, and who Rubio has apparently decided to be, it would be silly to think Republicans would ask Democrats to compromise on something.


9 posted on 06/19/2013 4:43:19 PM PDT by pallis
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To: RummyChick

...Flake send him back to the pig farm.... the Snowflake Pig Farm, of course....


10 posted on 06/19/2013 4:54:46 PM PDT by ptsal (E)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All this back and forth on border security is a ruse anyway. Its to provide cover to the Republicans so they can pass an immigration bill in the House. Any border security that is added to the final bill, after a tooth-n-nail, titanic battle of kabuki theatre, will be ignored just like all our current immigration laws are interned. ANY comprehensive immigration bill is Amnesty and Amnesty is what the Republicrat/Dumbocan Globalists want.


11 posted on 06/19/2013 5:11:45 PM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some of them have been here 20 years, why can’t they wait another year?


12 posted on 06/19/2013 5:21:31 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Nifster
Rubio has pulled the trigger on his own gun as far as I am concerned

He couldn't care less.

The lesson of the last 2 election cycles is if you want the Republican Presidential nomination you have to get the blessing of the GOPe/RINO establishment. It matters not one iota what the base thinks of you.

13 posted on 06/19/2013 5:24:10 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're shouting "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
YET another instance of the BRAINY BEAUTIFUL ANN COULTER shining the light of truth on the IMMIGRATION debate and exposing fantasists espousing their disastrous amnesty plans. ....Go here listen to this outstanding PATRIOT....explain all facets of this mess....truly A NATIONAL CRAZINESS that threatens to take us all right down the rabbit hole into CALIFORNIA-HOOD you'll be GLAD YOU DID........THANKS ANN!

http://www.kvi.com/home/featured/Ann-Coulter-talks-immigration-reform-on-KVI-212013551.html


14 posted on 06/19/2013 5:28:16 PM PDT by jimsin
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The fence has been designed, budgeted for and vendors already selected. That was done 7 years ago.

You know this is crap because no one is asking them why it will take so long.

Kill the farm subsidy and the fence is paid for in full.


15 posted on 06/19/2013 5:33:51 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: Nifster

they are all dead’to me save Cruz.


16 posted on 06/19/2013 5:37:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

if they secure the border they can’t have a working north american union. this is why bush did nothing, why obama does nmothing, why these assclowns do nothing.


17 posted on 06/19/2013 5:39:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Rubio and McCain”\

They must have gotten a promise of future prominence in the New World Order. :)

18 posted on 06/19/2013 6:47:13 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ((Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Help with a knife in their hand.


19 posted on 06/19/2013 6:50:04 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It didn’t take long for Rubio to flame out.


20 posted on 06/19/2013 7:04:16 PM PDT by Octar
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