The people killed amnesty (Comprehensive Invasion Reform and Amnesty Act of 2007 -- DEAD, FINALLY!)

Washington Times ^ | 5/30/07 | House Editorial

[JohnHuang2]

Everything worked out for the best. Our President, who's been stellar when it comes to the global campaign against Islamofascists, can turn his attention back to it, and away from this amnesty nonsense.

Democrats ended up with egg on their faces. They badly wanted to pass the Comprehensive Invasion Reform and Amnesty Act of 2007 during THIS SESSION in order to sneak amnesty through to 20 million illegal aliens during Bush's presidency in the foolish hopes they could weather the voter backlash by pointing to GOP White House support as cover. The Democrats wanted to take this issue off the table before the '08 elections. With the collapse of amnesty, racist groups like La Raza don't get what they wanted -- amnesty for 20 million invaders -- even as Democrats are shown to have been outmaneuvered.

God bless Sen. Jeff Sessions, Sen. Jon Cornyn and all the other senators who worked tirelessly to drive the final stake into this monster. And, most of all, thank the VOTERS!

[JohnHuang2]

Mega ping!

[DieHard the Hunter]

America sent the right message. Cheaters should never be given the opportunity to jump the queue just because they cheat en-masse.

[Shelayne]

Well said! Thank you!

[dk/coro]

Well stated, John. And, to all my fellow Freepers: a hearty “Well Done” !!

[Man50D]

Now is not the time to let up. We need to pressure our politicians to enforce the existing immigration laws including deporting illegal aliens, building the fence and prosecuting businesses who do business with illegal aliens. The link below is a ping list to pay attention for other questionable legislation being considered in Congress.

Keeping Track Of The Congress Critters

[Darkwolf377]

With the collapse of amnesty, racist groups like La Raza don't get what they wanted -- amnesty for 20 million invaders -- even as Democrats are shown to have been outmaneuvered.

Great point.

Democrats HAVE been outmaneuvered, and if W is smart, he will take away a very important lesson from this debacle: he can push his numbers up by returning to conservative ideas. He hasn't gone so far that rational conservatives will write him off IF he sees that the people simply are not with the Democrats. "Change" was voted in in November, but look at Congress' numbers--people don't like this particular change.

So Bush is in the perfect position to MAKE change--a change toward a conservative governing philosophy.

The Democrats have stirred up a hornet's nest but they weren't able to gain anything from that, and in fact may hurt themselves next year IF the people remember who was FOR this particular piece of legislation. Bush won't be on the ballot, but those who are on it who supported it can't just ignore the La Raza types who will be howling to be heard in November 08.

[jan in Colorado]

On the losing side were the leading Democratic presidential contenders — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama —

Let's not forget John McCain!

[sourcery]

Let's not forget John McCain!

Who's that?

[jan in Colorado]

I forgot!

[Navy Patriot]

Bush should have learned from Harriet Miers.

This was a screw up of gigantic proportions.

The only thing conservatives got out of this is that voter anger will go toward the DemoRats as well, and Fred Thompson/Duncan Hunter come out as the only viable Pubbie candidates.

Hopefully Bush will become invisible during the campaign, and Fred will pull it off.

[wardaddy]

vividly demonstrating the political gap between the president and the conservative movement.

yep

[wardaddy]

Fred better learn from this which way the wind is blowing...and hard...about amnesty.

[wk4bush2004]

Sam Brownback changed his vote........interesting......I’ll take note of that.....

[Joe Bfstplk]

Let’s not forget John McCain!
Who’s that?

It’s Juan McCain. Just a typo.

[John Leland 1789]

I’m in on this post a little late, and I’m sure this has already been said a dozen times, but this is something over which we STILL must not relax. We must continue to be vigilent and inform the American people of the sightest move to revive the amnesty ideas in any form by any degree — not only this year, but next year . . . and the next . . . and the next.

[Mark was here]

prosecuting businesses who do business with illegal aliens.

Lets start with grocery stores and gas stations that do business with them.

[CGVet58]

Frater,

if anything, Fred’s clear conservative-ness and “make-no-bones-about-it” delivery of The Message shines all the more through when standing against the backdrop of current American Politics... and especially when compared to all rivals, both within the Party and on the national stage.

[BnBlFlag]

“Let’s start with grocery stores and gas stations that do business with them (illegal aliens)”.
Hell. Half of these business owners are probably illegal themselves.

[leprechaun9]

At election time, all we seem to hear is the influence of big money and the large corporations! I recogonize that campaign money buys a lot of television time because the political campaigns know how superficial most of the voters are.

HOWEVER CORPORATIONS DON'T VOTE, only individuals do!

In this amnesty issue,the people clearly demonstrated the power of the people and the spinelessness of the Congressional leadership. Now if all those who dilligently called, wrote letters, FAXed, to pressure the Senate, would work as hard in the election, then we will start to take back our country from the pimps of the election industry!

That is, the politicians, the campaign consultants, the MSM, the former politicians and their staffs who turned into TV announcers for their party propaganda!