Here's the Cloture Vote on Senate Immigration

Library of Congress ^ | 06/26/2007 | Senate

[Sender]

They all want to get this over with by Friday, so they can jet off to their summer vacations and hide from the media.

[Dr. Free Market]

I congratulate the Leftists (i.e. Democrats), legacy Media, and “moderates”. In 2003, the Democrat Party was within one house election cycle of extermination as a viable electoral entity, and in less than 4 years, they not only pulled a Lazarus, but convinced the Republican Party to commit suicide.

[doodad]

We know, but if this had failed now, the bill would have died until after the 2008 elections. That is what was being reported as late as this morning.

[Loud Mime]

Good post; I’ll double check it.

Do you get the feeling that the Government will pass this legislation no matter what?

[mort56]

32 Traitors in the Republican party!

There is a Republican Party? Who knew?

[mware]

thanks for an accurate list. Lots of misinformation out there right now.

[anymouse]

In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history's most famous last stands. A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I of Persia (Xerxes the Great) could pass. After three days of battle, a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the army, King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespian volunteers. The Persians succeeded in taking the pass but sustained heavy losses, extremely disproportionate to those of the Greeks. The fierce resistance of the Spartan-led army offered Athens the invaluable time to prepare for a decisive naval battle that would come to determine the outcome of the war. The subsequent Greek victory at the Battle of Salamis left much of the Persian Empire's navy destroyed and Xerxes was forced to retreat back to Asia, leaving his army in Greece under Mardonius, who was to meet the Greeks in battle one last time. The Spartans assembled at full strength and led a pan-Greek army that defeated the Persians decisively at the Battle of Plataea, ending the Greco-Persian War and with it the expansion of the Persian Empire into Europe

The performance of the defenders at the battle of Thermopylae is often used as an example of the advantages of training, equipment, and good use of terrain to maximize an army's potential,[5] and has become a symbol of courage against overwhelming odds. Even more, both ancient and modern writers used the Battle of Thermopylae as an example of the superior power of a well trained army defending native soil.

There is also a large political significance of the Battle of Thermopylae, in that it was the first defining moment in which the disunified Greek city states first came together to form a significant alliance. It also possibly signified the beginning of the end for the Persian empire - drawing strength from the Battle, the Greeks began forming assaults against the Persian Empire, as a national body rather than small city states.

Dilios: He did not wish tribute, nor song, or monuments or poems of war and valor. His wish was simple. "Remember us" he said to me. That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. "May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie." And so my king died, and my brothers died; barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory, but time has proven him wise, for from free Greek to free Greek, the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives... not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds. Now here on this ragged patch of earth called Plateaea, let his hordes face obliteration! Just there, the barbarians gather, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300. Yet they stare now across the plain at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! Ho! The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one! Good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we could imagine. Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300! To victory!

Battle of Salamis

The next morning (possibly September 28, but the exact date is unknown; the Hellenic Navy celebrates September 12 as Battle of Salamis Day), the Persians were exhausted from searching for the Greeks all night, but they sailed in to the straits anyway to attack the Greek fleet. When it became obvious to the Greeks that the battle was inevitable morale rose, the fleet enthusiastically took to sea and started singing the "paean"

Forward, sons of the Greeks,
Your children, your women, the altars of the gods of your fathers
And the graves of your forebears:
Now is the fight for everything.

[WashingtonSource]

Newsflash: this was cloture for amendments, not cloture on the final bill. The final bill as amended will face a cloture motion vote later this week.

THANK YOU. I THOUGHT SO. Isn't this why Senator (sic) Son's-Penis-in-Daddy's Mouth Webb from Virginia said he is voting no on the second cloture vote.

[dennisw]

Alaska has few illegal aliens or Hispanic pressure groups. Why did the two Alaska Republican Senators vote for cloture? Where they promised Federal money for wacko projects???

Or is there big corporate hiring of illegal aliens in Alaska?

[VaBthang4]

"I posted the cloture vote on this legislation. Where did I say it was the final vote?"

Oh get out.

[Just another Joe]

I just dropped Bond an email and told him to start packing his boxes and that he should be tarred, feathered, and run out of the state on a rail.

He will never receive another dime, or vote, from me.

[crz]

Constitution party here I come!

[TBP]

So many Republicans voting for this piece of...legislation. They all need to go down.

but then, being Republicans, they hve a virtually infinite capacity for learning the wrong lesson.

Remember, campaign contributions spend just as well in any state.

[org.whodat]

So, did the republicans divvy out the anti-amnesty (no) votes to ensure passage . . . but to protect the reelection of the senators in danger from an pro-amnesty (yes) vote?

Yes, and they can all go to hell in a hand basket before I would ever support any of them.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark—thanks for posting

[TBP]

Brownback you POS! As a Kansan, I hope he can’t even get elected local dogcatcher the next time he runs.

What about dog?

[org.whodat]

Warner (R-VA) Webb (D-VA)

Their Senate lines are tied up. You can e-mail from their sites

Problem with those two low life's is that I never voted for them the last time. One can only hope that warner retires are some demorat cleans his clock this next time.

[Myrddin]

No suprise there. Idaho was a split vote, Craig switched from last week. Craig up for re-election in ‘08 but some insiders have said he might not be running.

I'm wondering how much "mordida" Senor Craig took for the yes vote. He better never run for anything again in Idaho.

[TBP]

Constitution party here I come!

I'm sure you'll be very welcome.

[donna]

Or in the case of here in GA so the heat would be off? My guess is they will now say the added amendments make it all good and can vote for it with a clear conscience.

Yes, the same old slight of hand.