Posted on 03/19/2010 7:14:09 PM PDT by Steelfish
GOP Senator: Healthcare Bill May Cost Immigration Overhaul Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has indicated that he'd lend key support to an immigration effort, but he's angry about Democrats' tactics in advancing a healthcare bill.
Peter Nicholas March 20, 2010
The lone Republican senator inclined to support the Obama administration's bid to pass a major immigration overhaul said Friday that if a healthcare bill passes this weekend, the immigration effort is dead for the year.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is considered a crucial player in the immigration debate -- a Republican prepared to cross party lines and vote for a bill that would provide a path to legal status for the 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally.
Graham has spent months working with Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to draft an immigration bill. The two met privately with President Obama last week, delivering a three-page blueprint.
On Thursday, the Washington Post's website published an op-ed article coauthored by Graham and Schumer laying out a proposal seen as the basis for a politically viable bill.
But Graham's support has never been a sure thing. In recent days, he had made it clear that he was unhappy about the procedures Democrats are using to push the healthcare bill to a vote.
"If the healthcare bill goes through this weekend, that will, in my view, pretty much kill any chance of immigration reform passing the Senate this year," Graham said Friday, two days before thousands are expected to march in Washington in support of an immigration overhaul
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Translation: Lindsay is now afraid of being lynched ;-)
Sure pansy boy. A little “alone time” with bambi will bring you back around.
Horsecrap. Immig “reform” will be inflicted upon a furious American people worn down from the healthcare fight. The destruction of the American Republic will be attempted and then rammed through by any means available.
Gee, what if we get “health care” and we don’t have 15 million new citizens to bestow it upon? Won’t that be a tragedy?
He must of read his poll numbers.
Ah yes,Lindsey and Chuck.Living proof that life is not fair.Every day people slip and fall in the shower,have massive heart attacks,step off the curb and get hit by a bus-and every day it’s not them.
What about cap-and-trade, Gramnisty???
If Obamacare dies, then so does amnesty. Killing Obamacare would be a huge blow to the Dems & administration.
Graham thinks of himself as some kind of media star when he is nothing but an unprincipled gadfly. There have been many great sons of the South; some great and principled thinkers. He isn’t one of them.
He’s a “please put me on television” kind of guy. Atticus Finch? Not so much. Just a guy looking for attention.
Correct! If they pass Deathcare, they and their lapdog medjia will not say a word about it again, and will move immediately to Immigration.
Obasturd will need new voters in 2012.
Right away from Obama Scare Care to illegal alien amnesty with Gramnesty.
Not a single bill should be allowed out of the senate until after the blood bath in Nov and the seating of the new Republican senate in the spring.
Graham for it, Graham against it, why would the democrats care. It is already deemed passed, along with everything else the ONE doth want. Constitution schmonstitution.
No worries. They’ll just get Juan McCain or Olympia Snowe to stand in for Grahamnesty. Or they can just “deem” that immigration bills passed.
I mean, once laws no longer matter, why stop now?
Lead by The Reform Immigration FOR America campaign, the march has the potential to rival any of the major city marches held in 2006 across the country."
Let's see if this Sunday, when Congress is voting on the Health Care Reform Bill, Lindsey (light in his loafers) Graham will undoubtly want to address and support his "amigos".
Go for it, Lindsey!
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