Posted on 06/30/2007 12:23:55 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
The justifiably furious reaction of the American public, which deluged senators with telephone calls, e-mails and faxes, forced the Senate to reverse itself yesterday and send the amnesty bill crashing to defeat — a potentially fatal blow. It was a devastating setback for the Bush administration and its Democratic Party allies, in particular Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Ted Kennedy.
In addition to being an extraordinary substantive triumph for the American people, it was a huge victory for the conservative movement. Talkers such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham and many others played an indispensable role in making available the research by the Heritage Foundation and NumbersUSA and analysis from editorial pages such as this one to tens of millions of Americans in a very short period of time. But ironically, by demonstrating in a powerful way its ability to reach and educate the public about the specific problems with the bill, talk radio has also made liberal politicians like Sen. Dianne Feinstein even more determined to revive the so-called Fairness Doctrine (the equal-time policy enforced by the Federal Communications Commission until it was eliminated in 1987 at the urging of President Reagan) in an effort to take away the one part of the mass media that conservatives dominate. On the final vote, virtually the entire conservative movement lined up against the bill. On the losing side were the leading Democratic presidential contenders — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — and the Bush administration, vividly demonstrating the political gap between the president and the conservative movement.
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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!
Mega ping!
America sent the right message. Cheaters should never be given the opportunity to jump the queue just because they cheat en-masse.
Well said! Thank you!
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.
Let's not forget John McCain!
Who's that?
I forgot!
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.
yep
Fred better learn from this which way the wind is blowing...and hard...about amnesty.
Sam Brownback changed his vote........interesting......I’ll take note of that.....
Let’s not forget John McCain!
Who’s that?
It’s Juan McCain. Just a typo.
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.
Lets start with grocery stores and gas stations that do business with them.
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.
“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.
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