Hot Dogies!
Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
Posted on 06/28/2007 7:53:16 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Yesterday, a GOP aide, who is one of my sources in the Senate, gave me the rundown on what's happening with the Senate immigration bill.. First of all, on Tuesday, after the first cloture vote, the bill was supposed to come out around 2:30 P.M. on Tuesday. However, it didn't actually get handed out until around 5:15 P.M. This was a problem, in and of itself, because we're talking 373 pages and the 2nd cloture vote is on Thursday. That was a lot of material for these senators to pour through in such a short time.
Then on Wednesday morning, the bill was out on the internet and bloggers started picking it apart and that morning around 10 AM, Reid pulled the bill so it could be re-drafted because he said there were mistakes in it. They spent almost the whole morning drafting it and when they re-released it, it was 400 pages long. That means that it's likely when the vote occurs tomorrow, not a single senator voting on the bill will have had an opportunity to actually read it. Reid's response to complaints about that has basically been, "Trust me." ..
My source then emphasized how ridiculous this whole process has been. You had a few senators getting together in secret to write the bill and then they tried to ram it through before anybody could read it. However, because the bill was held over the Memorial Day break, it failed cloture and died the first time. Then it was brought back this Tuesday, by using an arcane maneuver in a way that has never happened before in the history of the Senate...
Additionally, I asked my source about Lindsey Graham suddenly talking tough about not voting for the bill unless a touchback provision is added. What is his motivation for that? He told me that he thinks Lindsey Graham is just running scared at this point. He's up for re-election in 2008, his poll numbers are plunging, and talk radio and the conservative blogs are mercilessly beating him up every day. So, he's looking for some kind of fig leaf to use as protection. He added that unfortunately for Graham, the touchback provision probably wouldn't cut it. For the most part, the base isn't impressed with it, and most of the people who support that provision are already inclined to support amnesty anyway....
Graham has inexplicably cut his own throat.
When Rush tags you nationally with the nickname Grammnesty, you know you're in trouble with the right.
It was pretty clear IMO from Lindsey’s speech a few minutes ago that the arrogant jerk will vote FOR cloture. If cloture fails, he will be left hanging.
I have no doubt that someone on his staff joined Senator Kennedy in telling him that being one of the Grand Bargainers on the immigration bill was a wonderful idea, and that it would guarantee his re-election next year.
I think regardless of the outcome, he will be left hanging.
Do I sense a disturbance in the farce?
It would be more appropriate to label the process of this bill as "treasonous".
His b@lls(no matter how small) are on the block... and he knows it.
I am against this bill, but I will repeat again: The touchback provision is stupid. If you are basically going to give everybody amnesty, why bother harassing them and making them take a trip for no reason? Why set up a federal bureaucracy to monitor it?
Fail this cloture, let people examine the “new bill” over the 4th of July break, and then kill it, drive a stake through it’s heart, behead it, burn it, expose anything left to sunlight, and bury it in hallowed ground so it can never rise again.
I'm so sick of shamnesty. I think I'll just put on my grammar police hat for a minute.
Pour: 1. to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
Pore: 1. to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
The more it becomes clear to these arrogant, self rightous tards that voting for this monstrosity is political suicide the better. Vote them out anyway!
Hot Dogies!
Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
Graham has inexplicably cut his own throat.
I think it was a different part of his anatomy. They were so small that McLame had to use a microscope to do the job.
Said Lindsay Graham, “blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, please don’t kick me out of the club, blah, blah, blah, blah”.
Or call Rahm Emmanuel and encourage him to vet a moderate Dem for Lindsey's spot. I'll vote for him.
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