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Heritage Foundation: Reid Demands Vote on Immigration Amendments without Divulging Actual Text
"The Corner" Blog, Nat. Rev. Online ^ | 6/27/07 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on 06/27/2007 9:59:38 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot

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21 posted on 06/27/2007 10:14:23 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: NormsRevenge
Unfortunately, the only remedy against an insane Senate is political, not legal. I can't imagine the Supreme Court telling the Senate how to follow its own rules. On the other hand, the Court will tell a House of Congress how to follow rules laid down in the Constitution, as witness Powell v. McCormack, regarding the expulsion of Cong. Adam Clayton Powell.

Congressman Billybob

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22 posted on 06/27/2007 10:15:17 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Please promote Dr. Sowell's words, at Duke.)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Not much to do but express shock and outrage. If Republicans vote on amendments they haven’t seen they are insane. Remember the history when Senators attacked each other with cains? Time for someone to punch Harry Reid.


23 posted on 06/27/2007 10:16:11 AM PDT by Greg F (<><)
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To: muawiyah
Reid is an embarrassment.

What an understatement.

24 posted on 06/27/2007 10:16:19 AM PDT by Gabz (My karma ran over your dogma)
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To: ClancyJ

Just as bad is that when the bills are voted on, many voting on them haven’t bothered to read them to see what they are actually voting on.


25 posted on 06/27/2007 10:16:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

The Democratic party has been completely taken over by socialists.

We are in the middle of an attempted socialist coup.

Bush is going along because it helps his immigration and North American Union plans.


26 posted on 06/27/2007 10:16:33 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Greg F

Canes that is . . .


27 posted on 06/27/2007 10:16:36 AM PDT by Greg F (<><)
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To: BigFinn

They may be acting so outrageously that they will lose additional votes tomorrow on cloture — I hope.


28 posted on 06/27/2007 10:17:24 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

STOP AMNESTY NOW!! WE CAN DO IT!!

29 posted on 06/27/2007 10:17:32 AM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Call it what it is, openly hostile acts of overt treason.

There is no reason to try to coax along fencesitters here, tell them the truth, and tell them it is the higfest level of treason ever committed by the elected officials of a democratic republic, in the history of mankind.

The current Senate will go down in history as more despised than the Vichy regime. Even after the Vichy fell they had better support than the current US Senate. The destruction wrought on our economy will put the Spanish civil war to shame, some day soon Reid’s foreign economic lobbies will be exposed, and the Democrat and Republican party will be rightly called what they are, a fascist enclave protected by the Potomkin.


30 posted on 06/27/2007 10:18:04 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: ClancyJ
Lawmakers are not allowed to read the law they are making?

Only the ones with "R" after their names. There are Dems who have seen the sausage-in-progress.

31 posted on 06/27/2007 10:18:25 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Did Dennis Kucinich always look like that or did he have to submit to a series of shots? [firehat])
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

I have to believe that the House will look at the amendments, and that there will be lots of heat to vote this thing down - they are ALL up for reelection next year.

It is amazing - in the most disgusting sense of that word - that ANY Republican would vote for an amendment proposed by a Dem without reading it. For that matter ANY person who votes for ANY thing that they haven’t read is highly derelict in their duties. THAT ALONE qualifies them for being promoted to the private sector.


33 posted on 06/27/2007 10:22:12 AM PDT by Ancesthntr
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To: Joann37
I couldn’t believe how DiFi objected several times to letting the actual amendment being read! She was overtly showing that her side did NOT want the contents revealed!

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The problem being that the jorge in the WH is on Difi's side, not ours.

34 posted on 06/27/2007 10:24:55 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: KingSnorky

The unstated agenda is which party gets the hispanic vote for the next half century. Unfortunately the president rewards the guilty and punishes the innocent (me) in the process.


35 posted on 06/27/2007 10:25:50 AM PDT by vamoose
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
I hope the Dems are at least nice enough to send flowers to the Republicans after this. I suggest red roses to say "Thanks for letting us $&#* you and expecting to be able to $&#* you again" and white lilies to say "Sorry about you dying".

Any Republican who votes for cloture or for this bill should be considered as an "enemy, domestic".

36 posted on 06/27/2007 10:27:48 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (A base looking for a party.)
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To: vamoose

How do you say Kafka in Spanish?


37 posted on 06/27/2007 10:28:05 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
SOP for the Dems. Back when Clinton won the White House, and his first two years the Dems controlled both houses of congress, they concocted the anuual budget bill, but behind closed doors and demanded that the Republicans vote for (or against) it sight unseen.

The Republicans held out, demanding to see it before they voted on it. According to the house rules, the Dems didnt have to show a copy of the bill untill the day before the vote. Which is what the Dems did, adding insult to injury, they waited untill the last minute before giving the Republicans a copy. They waited untill MIDNIGHT before distributing the copies. Some Reps didnt get their copy untill after midnight, in clear violation of the house rules, but naturally, the Dems got away with that too. Many Reps had to stay up the entire night TRYING to read the entire bill before the vote. None succeeded, far as I can recall.

38 posted on 06/27/2007 10:28:27 AM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Thanks! I reckoned as much.

Nature (and the electorate) will takes it course, in due time.

The odd piece is how many dems get "it" and are siding with the pubs trying to defeat this pig.. meanwhile aRlen is calling it "trench warfare" over here in an ap piece.

39 posted on 06/27/2007 10:28:42 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
There are Dems who have seen the sausage-in-progress.

This is not the real sausage. This is just appetizers. The real sausage will come out of the conference committee, unless the house GOP puts an end to this nonsense.

40 posted on 06/27/2007 10:29:18 AM PDT by vamoose
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