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PHONE-CALL MUTINY; HOW CITIZENS FELLED THE BORDER BILL (gov't OF, BY and FOR the people prevailed)
NY POST ^ | June 30, 2007 | RICH LOWERY

Posted on 06/30/2007 5:23:48 AM PDT by Liz

BEWARE of an aroused citizenry. It's an admonition that should be ingrained in the brain of any run-of-the-mill politician, let alone someone who has ascended to the United States Senate. But from the Olympian heights of the world's greatest deliberative body, it is often forgotten. So senators got a reminder in the humiliating defeat of a "comprehensive" immigration bill that had the support of the president of the United States, a bipartisan group of senators with the blessing of the leaders of their caucuses and the support of the editorial boards of the country's most important newspapers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Arizona; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordercrossers; congress; deathofthegop; hyphenates; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; noamnestyforillegals; senateshame; shamnesty; vampirebill; voiceofthepeople; voxpopuli
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To: johnny7

Has Spector had brain surgery or is that just his hairline ?


101 posted on 06/30/2007 7:43:06 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: goldstategop
“As a result of the defeat of the amnesty bill, American politics will never be the same again.”

Look for them to go after regulating the Internet, because that is what now drives politics, NOT talk radio!

102 posted on 06/30/2007 7:44:03 AM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
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To: Travis McGee

103 posted on 06/30/2007 7:44:06 AM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Liz

“Mississippi Republican Trent Lott rued that talk radio was “running the country.” Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich went on the Sean Hannity radio show and complained that he was being “intimidated” because people were calling his office opposing the bill.”

What a couple of a$$es, they define the word, and these are “conservatives”.


104 posted on 06/30/2007 7:44:11 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
they will continue to obstruct enforcement of existing law. Sadly I must say you are correct. The country needs a pause like we had in the 1920s and 1930s, so we can absorb the illegals already in country. Even a wall will not do the job, however, because the responsible federal agencies: SSA, IRS, and INS, have been told to do as little as possible.
105 posted on 06/30/2007 7:46:09 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Beagle8U

K.I.S.S.-KEEPING IT SIMPLE SENATOR

WHERE THERE IS NO FENCE

THERE IS NO ENFORCEMENT

THERE IS NO IMMIGRATION REFORM

AND THERE IS NO RE-ELECTION


106 posted on 06/30/2007 7:47:08 AM PDT by Buzzm1
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To: Liz

I can’t wait to tell some of these senators and congressman they’re going to be replaced by illegals making three dollars a day.

It’s time to vote them OUT.


107 posted on 06/30/2007 7:48:08 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA - Hunter '08)
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To: Buzzm1

LET’S TAKE AMERICA BACK


108 posted on 06/30/2007 7:48:41 AM PDT by Buzzm1
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
lol

The calls made a difference!

109 posted on 06/30/2007 7:53:15 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: meyer

Indeed - I believe that we need to get aroused a bit more often

NO, WE NEED TO STAY AROUSED. THEY WILL TRY AGAIN. THEY ARE OWNED BY BIG BUSINESS.

WE HAVE A BUSINESS IN ARIZONA WHO ADVERTISED ON TV THAT THEY HIRE ONLY LEGAL AMERICAN RESIDENTS. THIS WILL GOR. PATRONIZE THEM.


110 posted on 06/30/2007 7:54:25 AM PDT by amihow
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To: Liz

I was ambivalent BEFORE the parades and protestors waving their MEXICAN FLAGS in our faces!!! That was the last straw!


111 posted on 06/30/2007 7:59:26 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: monkapotamus

Prescious Pic.


112 posted on 06/30/2007 8:10:55 AM PDT by So Circumstanced
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To: LadyNavyVet

Nice addition.


113 posted on 06/30/2007 8:13:22 AM PDT by Liz (It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire)
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To: Suzy Quzy
.......protestors waving their MEXICAN FLAGS in our faces..........was the last straw!

Yeah, that was a real BRIGHT idea of theirs...........

114 posted on 06/30/2007 8:25:24 AM PDT by Liz (It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire)
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To: Liz

We felled the unprecedented Amnesty Bill in such a way, that it can only be compared to how that guy speared a record 93 pound sea bass.


115 posted on 06/30/2007 8:27:42 AM PDT by So Circumstanced
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To: Liz

mark


116 posted on 06/30/2007 9:05:09 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("Polls are for strippers and liberals." Caller to Rush, 6/5/2007)
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To: Liz

I think it should be against the law for the congress critters to turn off phones or fax machines or not empty their voice mail.

WE paid for that stuff!!


117 posted on 06/30/2007 9:07:44 AM PDT by Politicalmom (Nearly 1% of illegals are in prison for felonies. Less than 1/10 of 1% of the legal population is.)
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To: airborne

I heard Toomey on the radio this week. He supported the amnesty bill.


118 posted on 06/30/2007 9:09:49 AM PDT by Politicalmom (Nearly 1% of illegals are in prison for felonies. Less than 1/10 of 1% of the legal population is.)
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To: TomGuy
They presented this bill as 'legalizing millions when it is signed'. CNN presented much more depth of coverage than FoxNews did. Foxnews was too busy running the most recent tabliodtrash.

Tells you something about Fox News, doesn't it?

There was a thread about a week ago complaining about how tabloid Fox had gotten and blaming the public because they want that garbage and watch it. IF that is the case, how does Fox explain a 22% loss of viewers since they turned into the on air "Inquirer?" Fox is rapidly becoming like SeeBS, NBC, and ABC without the leftwing propaganda. Just ignore it if it doesn't suit our agenda and to heck with our ratings.

119 posted on 06/30/2007 9:21:20 AM PDT by penowa (NO more Bushes; NO more Clintons EVER!)
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To: MNJohnnie
"The Right did not win anything. They merely stopped the other side from winning."

WRONG!!!! The Right won nothing; the Left won nothing; the Elite won nothing; the Illegals won nothing. This was a small temporary victory for the people who have caught on that both parties oppose them.

120 posted on 06/30/2007 9:28:38 AM PDT by penowa (NO more Bushes; NO more Clintons EVER!)
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