Immigration bill stalls ["Oh, no, it's not dead," -Sen. Lindsey Graham]

McClatchy Washington Bureau ^ | June 8, 2007 | By Dave Montgomery

[johnny7]

WASHINGTON -- President Bush suffered a devastating setback on his top domestic priority on Thursday as a broad immigration bill collapsed in the Senate amid an apparently irreconcilable partisan standoff. The 627-page bill was taken off the Senate floor at the end of a contentious day that saw the bill's sponsors desperately trying to resolve differences between Democrats and Republicans over GOP demands to offer additional amendments.

[johnny7]

Put some ice on it Lindsey...

[Brilliant]

“GOP demands to offer additional amendments...”

Once the pro-immigration side accedes to the amendments, it’s going to the floor.

[Obadiah]

Man, Lindsey Graham needs to GO! When this guy up?

[Sybeck1]

Next year. Are you listening SC?

[rbg81]

From a political standpoint, Lindsay is a dead man walking. I myself am considering moving to SC just to vote his a$$ out of office.

[bikerMD]

Hey Senator Grahamnesty! Your bill just became the Francisco Franco of legislation. (:^D)

[snowsislander]

I hope this is wishful thinking on the part of Senator Graham, who has expended a great deal of political capital with his foolish investment in this ridiculous immigration bill.

[blam]

You people in SC ought to get off your butts and do something about Lindsey Graham. Is it possible to re-call him or something...he’s gone off the deep end.

[LIConFem]

Graham should retire and open a hair salon with Edwards.

[gulfcoast6]

Graham is a joke.

[Niteranger68]

I myself am considering moving to SC just to vote his a$$ out of office.

[Niteranger68]

I myself am considering moving to SC just to vote his a$$ out of office.

Same here. Just to get the #ell out of NC, but bouncing Pansy out in the primary would be a bonus.

[blam]

"Graham is a joke."

So's Trent Lott. Let him know about it.

[kjo]

Graham must go. He’s become a MSM darling; along with McLame he’s on tv most weekends telling the rest of us how to run our lives.

I thought SC was a conservative state.

[gulfcoast6]

BOTH are very bitter man...

[VU4G10]

Graham should retire and open a hair salon with Edwards.

LOL!

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[Dumpster Baby]

Hey Senator Grahamnesty! Your bill just became the Francisco Franco of legislation. (:^D)

[SE Mom]

This isn’t over- not by a long shot:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846913/posts

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>Supporters on both sides of the aisle were insistent that the bill could be resurrected.

"Oh, no, it's not dead," said South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican member of the bipartisan coalition.<<

[Bigun]

From a political standpoint, Lindsay is a dead man walking. I myself am considering moving to SC just to vote his a$$ out of office.

Me to! But we shouldn't stop with Lindsay! We need to vote the entire "Ted Kennedy wing of the republican party" out ASAP!