Breaking: Senate overwhelmingly approves House Border Wall (per KFI radio)

KFI radio broadcast ^ | 9/29/06 | self

[Hugin]

Now we can use the predator drones to spot those hoards of Mexicans hauling extension ladders across the desert. ;~)

[Dante3]

Kennedy is not voting - that's a surprise. Lieberman is a disappointment again. Both senators from NJ and from Hawaii oppose it.

[jveritas]

No problem, it happens to all of us from time to time.

[Rembrandt]

How did we "take" Texas from Mexico? Did we just go in and occupy it? Did we invade and drive the Mexicans out?

[Dante3]

Salazar sounds like he is an agent for a foreign government.

[Soul Seeker]

Well, let's see.

Conservatives wanted Bush's bill on military tribunals passed rather then McCain's "get a terrorist out of Jail Free Card" bill passed.

We got Bush's bill.

Conservatives wanted a fence to enforce our soveriegnty as a nation AND try to decrease the avenues for terrorists to sneak through.

We might have just gotten our fence WITH funding to follow shortly.

Bad week for conservatives? O-Kay. I'll take more bad weeks then.

It beats all the damn "great" weeks we had when McCain got his Al Quida Bill of Rights passed and the kennedy/McCain bill sailed through.

Certainly this isn't the end of this. I want to make sure that fence is built, and we need to start enforcing our laws WITHIN the borders as well. But it's a start. And if it is as it appears to be at this moment based on the 19 against and the "concerns" of the mexican government? The GOP just secured my help the next month in retaining and maybe increasing the majority. I'll restrain the cynisism long enough to help build them good momentum in the final stretch.

[KoRn]

" Despite the naysayers and teeth-gnashers on this thread (Not you KoRn) this is a SOLID victory for border security advocates."

That's great to hear. I'm not familiar with the terrain down there. Out of such a long border, 700 miles didn't seem like enough, but I didn't take into account terrain and other factors.

[Paleo Conservative]

ARealMothersSonForever: You should have watched the History Channel tonight about the Mexican-American war and how the results of the war were very good to the US because the US acquire all the lands from Mexico as shown in the map posted by Paleo Conservative. The Mexican-American war was a very important event in American history and event that make the US much more powerful country.

I did see the last 3/4'ths of it. Fortunately the History Channel usually repeats its programming, so I'll set up the cable box to record the next airing of it at 11:00 pm CDT which is about 21 minutes from now.

[Jeff Head]

We won it on the field of combat. The Mexican government at the time was saber rattling and committing incursions into US territory after Texas became a state...land which they had lost and wanted to take back ultimately.

We responded militarily and a war was fought over it, with the result being the Mexicans lost. We occupied their capitol and they ultimately signed a treaty agreeing to the US border being estanlished where it is, and the US government compensated them (as you point out) for some lands lost as a result.

They have no claim to any of that land now, it has been purchased in blood and treasure...and will ultiamtely have to be held using the same currency.

[Just mythoughts]

Kennedy has nothing to loose, Lieberman is who he is no matter what he pretends. NJ probably heavily Union influenced and Hawaii probably could care less.

[bybybill]

You mean Mexico isn`t going to build a fence on their land to keep Americans out? Wow, thats real news.

[Shuttle Shucker]

Fair enough: MEXICO'S IMMIGRATION LAWS ARE SO RACIST AGAINST US GRINGOS, AFTER ALL: HTTP://www.directory.com.mx/immigration Meanwhile, the wall-funding news is also covered here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4225690.html 700 miles: not a bad precedent for eventually working on making the other 2/3's of our shared border far less porous as well. Hopefully Bush won't veto it due to the lack of his pet amnesty program... Now Mexico had better address its problems because it can no longer dump them into our laps as easily...

[Jeff Head]

See my post 149.

[kabar]

But you can't deny the GOP has really taken it on the chin this week... so I ask, WHY NOW? Why not 5 years ago when a fence would have been a 95% approval issue after 9/11?

The WH was pushing for a comprehensive immigration bill including a guest worker program. The Senate [the Reps voted against it 32-23] passed the WH/Dem bill [Martinez/Hagel] and was against an enforcement first bill similar to the one passed in the House. It was the Senate Dems and RINOs who blinked. The Conservatives in the House and Senate won. Such a fence bill would not have been introduced immediately after 9/11.

[jveritas]

I think he is totally demoralized with the Republican gay congressman who resigned today because of his scandal with the 16 year old male.

[snowsislander]

Good, it's a reasonable start.

[Lurker]

700 miles didn't seem like enough,

700 miles down, roughly 1,300 miles to go.

All in all not a bad start.

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[ShowMeMom]

Wanna bet who's going to do most of the work building the wall?

Now, that's funny!!!

[Toddsterpatriot]

Excellent news.

[jveritas]

Excellent post.