"El Presidente Fox, we took a piksure of Senor Bush in heez pajamas!!" 
Posted on 06/03/2007 4:19:42 PM PDT by mdittmar
GREENVILLE, S.C., and PHOENIX - In South Carolina last week during the congressional break, Sen. Lindsey Graham generally avoided crowds. Likewise Sen. Jon Kyl, back home in Arizona, scheduled no public appearances, instead huddling with party officials in Phoenix.
It could not have been an easy week for the two GOP senators, key brokers of the compromise immigration-reform bill that has infuriated so many of their red-state constituents. How well they and other senators in the hot seat endured the heat may become clear when the Senate resumes debate on the bill this week – and whether the amendments to come are designed mainly to alter it or, rather, to kill it.
The week at home made one thing evident: Senators who back this measure, especially Republicans, are taking a calculated risk.
To some, they are traitors and sellouts, offering "amnesty" to illegal immigrants who broke the law by crossing into the US. Angry constituents promise repercussions at the ballot box, and political analysts say those are not empty threats.
"Among a lot of Republicans, there's been intensely negative reaction directed against the Republican senators who have been involved with [the bill]," says Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta and coauthor of the book "Divided America." Though the Republican senators "are saying that they're actually responsible for most of the conservative parts of the bill, they're not seen that way by their supporters."
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They aren’t just mexicans.
The problem here in Illinois is that conservatives have NO representation. Turban Durbin and Barak Hussain Obama use letters of complaint from conservatives as toliet paper.
Mexico supposedly accounts for “only” 42% of illegal aliens..try Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, China, Philippines, Middle East, etc....
watch this video from 1997 and see how many people would like to live here:
http://www.numbersusa.com/video/
Your concern is misplaced. There are plenty of well-known Republicans in South Carolina who can keep that seat in the Republican column.
The fiddler will be paid on this one.
It’s a lot more likely that some people’s off-shore bank accounts are being fattened up.
The vast majority of illegals are from Mexico with China coming in second.
Lack of border control and the entire lack of federal response to illegal immigration is a huge issue. Using inaccurate stats does not further the cause to stop this travesty.
"El Presidente Fox, we took a piksure of Senor Bush in heez pajamas!!"
Love this!!!!!!
Good post. This country will be gone if this bill passes. We don’t have the infrastructure to absorb this many people.
After what the GOP and moderates are doing right now, they all deserve to have their asses swiftly kicked right out of office. And I mean royally.
Stop that thinking. A moderate rino is not better than a DBM/dem. That's what got us into this crap in the first place because the conservatives let too many moderates have power! Now were in danger of losing control of congress for at least another 40 years! NOW is the time to find a conservative canidate before the primary, vote for the conservative and send Lindsey packing!
The current roster or Republicans has got to be the dumbest bunch ever to hold office.
“dead women or live men.”
Sounds about right for Lindsey G..
They damn well better feel the heat, and respond accordingly. If they don’t they’ll be out of job and every shred of credibility.
Same for the RNC. Its time to clean house and ditch these back stabbing sellouts for actual conservatives. They’ll never get another dime from me or my wife until they fix this garbage. Not another dime. What they will get are repeated nastygrams and ugly phone calls.
See post 32.
Well, according to a former Daschle aide, Graham was quick to work with Daschle and the minority on a number of issues. After one such meeting, Graham emerged from Daschle's office, walked to the door, turned around, and proclaimed loudly for the Daschle's entire staff to hear: "Republican by day, Democrat by night."
WHAT!?! Perhaps Palmetto Staters can find a good conservative to take him out in the primary and we can keep the seat out of the hands of the dems and get rid of McCain’s gutless cabin-boy.
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