Just in case anyone's wondering...
I hold that phone calls from concerned citizens also had something to do with it.
Has anybody heard talk about what is good for the USA?
Has any of the Sunday Talking Heads discuss these issues?
If so, then it's the best thing the Senate Dems have done in years, if not decades. Granted, for the wrong reasons, but hey, whatever!
I've heard plenty of talk about what is NOT good for the USA. Very few workable solutions though.
The Washington Post said in an editorial: “Democrats — whether their motive was partisan advantage or legitimate fear of a bad bill emerging from conference with the House — are the ones who refused, in the end, to proceed with debate on amendments, which is, after all, how legislation gets made.”Frank Sharry, the executive director of the liberal National Immigration Forum, said in a statement: “We cannot escape the conclusion that the Democratic Senate leadership was more interested in keeping the immigration issue alive in the run-up to midterms than in enacting immigration reform legislation.”
And Sen. Kennedy told The Associated Press: “Politics got ahead of policy on this.” He then refused, according to the article, to defend Reid’s performance. The story noted that, “Outside the Senate, several Democratic strategists concluded that the best politics was to allow the bill to die.”
The moral: Marches and Mexican flags don’t equal power. Labor uses millions of dollars in political contributions to take care of Democrats, and so Democrats take care of labor.
The rats better put some ice on that.
Just in case anyone's wondering...
I hold that phone calls from concerned citizens also had something to do with it.
what compromise? anything that doesn't include the House ideas, minus the felony provision, will make bad law.
what's in the senate compromise, just details about how the amnesty is granted - in stages, all at once, etc.
Too bad you can’t say the same for Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who was the villain in this drama."
The Senate's "compromise" made among themselves was, in essence, an attempted sell-out of the remainder of America. If Reid's obstruction just happened to buy the Senate some thinking timeand prevented a serious screw-up, it was a good accidental result.