Posted on 06/28/2007 10:06:48 AM PDT by joanie-f
A cloture vote on the mis-named Bill to Provide for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (a long but must read for every modern American patriot) went down to resounding defeat on the senate floor this morning. God bless those Americans who believe that representative government still takes precedence over bread and circuses (Paris Hilton is unveiling a new clothing line, dontcha know?). Those modern American patriots who expended the time and effort to let their views be known have succeeded in derailing a bill that would have eventually spelled the death of our beloved republic, and dealt a major blow to the foundations upon which western civilization rests.
Make no mistake about it. One of the countless reasons that this bill was being pushed so feverishly (and sometimes unconstitutionally) through legislative channels is that our fearless leaders (our own president among them) believed that the American citizens attention span is short and that, a year and a half from now, when the teeth of this bill had begun to suck the life blood out of our republic, and a third of the senate is up for re-election, the voters would have by then forgotten who supported this travesty.
We cannot forget. Treason is a high crime. And betrayal leaves a deep, permanent, psychologically disfiguring scar.
The U.S. senatorial oath reads:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
Below is a listing of those forty-six American senators who voted for cloture in order to shut off debate on a bill that placed the amassing of political power and the interests of business above the U.S. Constitution, and the safety and sovereignty of the United States. Those names written in bold type represent senators who will be running for re-election in 2008.
Make no mistake. Some version of this bill will be re-introduced if not during this congressional session, then during the next. Every American voter needs to make it his priority to see to it that those senators written in bold below are no longer occupying seats in the senate when that happens.
Bennett (R-UT)
Craig (R-ID)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Akaka (D-HI)
Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Recent polls revealed that as many as eighty percent of the American electorate disapproved of S.1639. November 2008 will tell us how many of those eighty percent were weak in their disapproval or have attention spans calibrated in nano-seconds. But, for the time being, today should be a day of celebration. Although the scoundrels will not rest until our republic is unraveled, they have been at least temporarily corralled.
Between now and November 2008, it has become even more imperative for every informed American to educate those in our families, neighborhoods, and workplaces who are still not aware of what this bill entailed, and its abominable far-reaching anti-liberty, anti-American, anti-representative-government ramifications for us all.
~ joanie
Correct. Someone else already set me straight.
Indeed.
But, it is critical that our people view this victory as a beginning, not as an end unto itself. It was one tiny battle in a much larger war. And, as always, we must remember that the true threat to our republic is internal, not external.
"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." - Abraham Lincoln (January 27, 1838)
I will bet money on her war room getting this bill up for a vote as a means to an end. Dirty harry is a useful idiot as well as grahamnesty, et al.
That shut off any debate of this bill?
BTW..it's a good idea to keep calling the senators who voted against cloture to thank them..
The reason the number of illegals have so dramatically increased is because of the encouragement they were receiving from all levels of government, beginning with the president's first SOU address. Today' news is the FIRST bad news the illegals have received since 2001. Maybe a good number of them will now think twice before coming (or staying).
One can hope.
Richard Lugar, what has happened to you over these years?
An excellent point -- except for the fact that, when our brand of representative government was established, it was assumed that those 'representatives' for whom we were voting would spell out, frankly and without equivocation, exactly what they would be 'representing'.
Nowadays, as opposed to two centuries ago, integrity is fast becoming an endangered character trait, and we voters are becoming increasingly familiar with the say-one-thing-during-the-campaign-and-then-do-something-entirely-different-once-in-office phenomenon -- which completely skews the true nature of representative government.
Our elected representatives are elected because they claim to represent our views, but, more often than not, they no longer do. They parrot our views, and then vote based on promises of power or the realization of their own (often hidden) political agenda.
That isn't to say that representative government should revert to democracy (democracies don't work). I'm simply saying that the 'conflict' (between popular opinion and the votes of our representatives) to which you refer has been exacerbated (to the detriment of true 'representation') by their disingenuousness when running for office.
~ joanie
The Republic lives to fight another day !!!
Agreed, sadly.
Now is the time to jot down the vote list from Tuesday.
They are the traitors, the ones who brought it back to the floor for debate. They are the Quislings I think should be hung out to dry when their re-election comes around.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
Rino YEAs
Bennett (R-UT)
Craig (R-ID)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
The above deserve to be voted out of office.
Blue Dog Dems NO
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Harkin (D-IA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Webb (D-VA)
The above voted their conscience not their party line.
So true. And not the kind of thing most of us tend to do. We're quick to complain (yours truly included), and slow to show gratitude for doing the right thing. I intend to do just that today. Thanks for the reminder.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
1. Enforce our immigration laws and secure the border
2. Begin finding and deporting illegal aliens already here
3. Fire the RINOs that pushed the amnesty travesty
Now lets get to work, Freepers...
Needs constant drumbeat repetition.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
BTTT
It was either this or impeaching bush. He may have avoided impeachment.
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