[grey_whiskers]

This is barbed satire, folks. Kind of like Swift's A Modest Proposal...

No cheers, unfortunately.

[goldstategop]

Its all true, unfortunately. The GOP bungled an opportunity to put the Democrats on the defensive on the issue of securing our borders and stopping the giveaways to illegals. Instead, it was an unseemly and mad auction to see who could bid away our great country to those who owe no loyalty to it the most. It was sickening.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Ronin]

Plenty of cheers for me and I hope you send it to him. Hell, send it to Ann Coulter and Michelle Maklin.

We really need to hold their feet to the fire on this.

This is one of the few times in my entire life when I felt confident that the rank and file Republicans and Democrats were on the same page -- albeit for different reasons.

Amnesty for aliens? Not only NO -- HELL NO!!!

[Don Joe]

This whole nightmare, going back to the beginning, when they began allowing the tens of millions of invaders to come in and STAY in, is nothing less than a classical Hegelian maneuver.

First, create the "problem"

Then, when "the masses" are sufficiently softened-up BY "the problem", roll in with "the solution".

Thus, you get your agenda, and accomplish something you would never have been able to accomplish had you simply stated your intentions from the outset.

There would have been fighting in the streets, if, prior to the beginning of the invasion, Our Glorious Leaders had piped up with something like, "Say, here's a thought! Let's bring in 20 to 100 million Mexicans -- the 'bottom of the rung', so to speak, of Mexican society -- poor, uneducated, unskilled, with many criminals among them, as well as many 'social problems' that accompany a 'bottom of the ladder' lifestyle. Then, let's make them CITIZENS! We think this is a great idea... just fantastic! Let's get started now!"

So, they went about things the same way other "leaders" have gotten their way when things did not favor their agenda (ever hear of "The Reichstag Fire", or "The Enabling Law"? What do you do if you want "the masses" to allow you to assume absolute power? Well, read your history books. No plot spoilers from me! :)

[Travis McGee]

I hope that the RINOs of the "Stupid Party" get a clue, before they're wiped out in November, and we lose both houses.

[onyx]

Dear Senator Sell Out Frist;

Follow Senator Sessions. Period.

[TigersEye]

Good post. Right on the money! But please don't use the word 'amnesty.' The PC term is SELL OUT.

[kingu]

You put forth a pretty simple message - I've got one too...

Anyone who dreams of becoming president who serves in the Senate had best demonstrate the leadership required for such an office by leading the Senate into putting forth the bill that the American people want - the borders sealed, the illegals sent home, and those who are waiting in long lines because of the illegals here given the proper chance to come here and become Americans.

Somehow, I doubt this leadership will appear. I'd rather stay home than vote for someone from this body.

[Shuttle Shucker]

The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists' abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees. Here's an interesting new thread on new legal progress that finally emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts

We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the neighborly thing to do?