Posted on 06/22/2007 11:44:20 AM PDT by CT
Thank goodness!
Awesome! We are getting word one by one that those Senators we were told would waffle are firming up behind the NO on Cloture and NO on the Immigration bill.
The pressure on the Senate is working. Going to call his office and thank him for his decision.
All of us have to remember the Senators who are standing tall come election time. We cannot forget them!
It’s not the Catholic Church. It’s the liberal American clergy portion of the Church.
It’s not the Catholic Church. It’s the liberal American clergy portion of the Church.
An apt description as the libs are trying to shove the amnesty bill up our collective back door.
“McCain’s positions on most everything else are designed to curry favor with polls and bipartisan “conventional wisdom.”
It appears to me that most of his issues since the 2000 race are designed to be a poke in the eye of conservatives.
The backing of this bill by union leaders demonstrates that they are not looking out for their members (Just like Congress isn’t looking out for workers and taxpayers). Low-skill immigrants depress the wages of union members but the union leaders would rather have a union of 1 million members each making $10/hour than 500,000 members each making $15/hour.
Similar hypocrisy is apparent in the backing of the NAACP and Congressional Black Caucus...as a group, African Americans will lose the most from wage competition (and identity politics competition, etc.) by illegal immigrants. But the African American leadership has sold out the African American populace (Again).
You forgot the other Arizona traitor!
It was my impression that the unions were generally against it, but nothing they do surprises me anymore.
If unions and Democrats were so opposed to this Amnesty like the liberal media says then why did they vote 86% of them to pass the bill then?
I would guess that their moonbat base is not nearly as fired up as we conservatives are. You go over to DU, and you see that they really don't want this bill, but the fringe of the party doesn't have a lot of influence with your average everyday Rat voter.
My bet: they've been hearing about it from the liberals, but not nearly as forcefully as we've made our points about it. Besides, whose head is generally thicker, a Republican's (who has not lost touch with reality, ala Graham) or a Democrat's? I've been appealing to my liberal Senators about this from the left, I know damn good and well that Hillary and Chuckie will not even hear about something that uses the word 'amnesty' in it.
I say we demand an "immigration" bill in the form of enforcing the border!
LMAO!
True, but I have yet to meet a priest who wasn’t a softy on the illegal immigrant issue. I rememeber well living at an Opus Dei house in Chicago, where all of the Priests did nothing but rave about the Mexican illegals.
“Kyl of Bile”
One of few votes Smith has made with which I agree. He’s a poster boy for RINOs.
Saxby and Johnny yesterday and Hutchinson-keep the pressure on.
Every single guy who works for my hubby (union guys) have sent emails and called opposing this bill-some are Repubs and some are Dems. Kind of bipartisan-wouldn’t you say?
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I know. Smith reminds me of 'Otter' from Animal House. You know, the guy that became a gynocologist.
When a bill like this has something for everyone to hate so vehemently, fools say, "Well, then it must be fair!"
The reason why we’re blaming the GOP for this is simple:
It takes 60 votes to get anything through the US Senate. If the GOP didn’t suffer from a fatal attack of stupidity, all they’d have to do is whip their caucus into line, refuse to vote for cloture, and that would be the end of that. Period, game over, thanks for playing.
The GOP is to blame for this. We have Bush, Lott, Graham, et al, participating in this mess, aiding and abetting the Democrats as they try to sell out the US.
I expect the Democrats to sell out the US. They’ve been doing that since the late 60’s. Blaming the Democrats for this is like blaming a scorpion for stinging you: a pretty stupid exercise, because stinging folks is what a scorpion does. The Democrats are the anti-American party. I’d expect them to do nothing less that try to sell America down the river. Further, they make no pretenses as to being a pro-American party.
The GOP, on the other hand, likes to claim the opposite ground during elections. Yet here, we see them:
a) selling out America, locked arm-in-arm with the DNC, and
b) calling any of us who dare to question them about this racists and “nativists.”
So yes, I blame the GOP. The DNC is just doing what they always do.
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