Posted on 05/28/2007 5:25:38 PM PDT by Baladas
WASHINGTON, May 25 Angry calls poured into Senator Jon Kyls office this week by the thousands, expressing outrage beyond anything he said he had witnessed in his 20-year political career. The callers were inflamed by Mr. Kyls role in shaping the bipartisan immigration compromise announced May 17, which lawmakers continue to debate.
Yes, I have learned some new words from some of my constituents, Mr. Kyl, an Arizona Republican, said at a news conference on Thursday, drawing titters from those in the room.
Mr. Kyl, 65, who garners top ratings from conservative groups every year, is the unlikely lynchpin to the fragile alliance of Democrats and Republicans trying to push the sprawling immigration bill through the Senate.
An ardent foe of the immigration bill that passed the Senate last year but was later stymied by House Republicans, Mr. Kyl is seen as essential to attracting conservative Republicans to the new proposal. As his partys conference chairman, Mr. Kyl is the third-ranking Republican in the Senate and a fervent spokesman for conservative principles.
Although the bills backers have praised Mr. Kyl for his political courage, his about-face was not ushered in by either a high-minded refusal to demagogue on the issue or a conscious summoning of historic compromises from the Senates past.
A technocrat who has labored in Arizona in the shadow of his much more visible colleague, Senator John McCain, Mr. Kyl has traditionally shunned the spotlight and worked behind the scenes immersed in the details of legislation. It was that affinity for working in the trenches on policy, and pragmatism about the art of legislating, that led him to become a legislative partner of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who has been a major voice for immigration overhaul.
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And yet, the stupid POS wants to give them amnesty? Yeah, that's the ticket! Amnesty will cure that problem over night. < / sarcasm >
You good folks in AZ need to start a recall petition!
Lol, I'm sure you're right. You should see how the elites sit behind what looks like bullet proof glass in a hoity area of town. We were dressed up and polite, yet no one wanted to come out and talk to the unwashed public. (Finally, someone came out.)
Have you tried the secret, pro-amnesty hotline number? (Michelle Malkin wrote an article about it and there are threads on it here.) I was able to FINALLY reach someone at McCommie's office that way.
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