Posted on 05/24/2013 5:22:25 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Friday that the Gang of Eight immigration bill doesnt have enough votes to pass the Senate.
The bill won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 13-5 vote, but Menendez said it lacks the 60 votes necessary to clear the Senate despite the bill's four Republican co-sponsors.
We dont currently have 60 votes identified in the Senate, Menendez said in an interview with Univision. We need to add more votes on the floor. That means that the community in your state, in every state, should be contacting your states two U.S. Senators saying that they want comprehensive immigration reform, that they are going to judge their political future based on this vote.
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What about a WASP’s nest there Mr./Ms. freedumb2003???
>>What about a WASPs nest there Mr./Ms. freedumb2003???<<
I haven’t seen such a suggestion since college... ;)
The tragic part is they seem to be yoked to the idea that if "we ere just 49% pro-amnesty we will get the Latino vote!"
Nonsense! Reagan and Bush made it clear that illegals threaten the legal immigrants and steal from the physically and MAKE legal Latinos scapegoats.
As always, failure to stand on principles loses elections.
The GOP and the RNC are dumber than dirt.
Thursday, April 4, 2013, 2:17 PM EDT
A new poll from Rasmussen finds that likely voters overwhelmingly favor border security before legalization for 11 million illegal aliens, and 53% of respondents don't think it's likely that the federal government will actually secure the border to prevent future illegal immigration.
The poll was conducted in late-March just before Gang of Eight member, Sen. Chuck Schumer, told NBC News “first, people will be legalized Then, we will make sure the border is secure...I think most of the American people agree with that.” Rasmussen's poll, however, found that the American people don't agree with Sen. Schumer’s statement.
Rasmussen first asked likely voters if they support a comprehensive immigration reform plan that would grant illegal aliens an amnesty if the “border would really secured to prevent future illegal immigration.” Fifty-nine percent of the respondents said they would favor such a plan.
Of those that said they would support the plan, however, they were then asked, “should those who are now in this country illegally be granted legal status right away or should that come only after the border is secured?” Sixty-four percent of those that supported the plan said the border should be secured before legal status is granted. Only 26% agreed with Sen. Schumer that illegal aliens should first be legalized and then the border secured. . .
This bill is starting to lose a little gas....not much, but some cracks are starting to show. This bill in its current form is DOA in the house. The house committee it has to pass through has some real conservatives on it. This same bill died in 2007 with a republican president & house.
So....not all is lost, quite yet.
The bill that passed the Committee is not the bill that Rubio and Ryan are championing in the radio ads. One wonders, then, why they are still lending their good names to what amounts to a Democrat scam...???
I can’t figure out Ryan, but I suspect Rubio is something of a dunce....a useful idiot & is in over his head.
Rubio was BSing on Hannity tonight saying the bill must be fixed so he is implying that he doesn’t support it now, yet.
So its probably true for now. More gamesmanship to come.
Yes Rubio was BSing up a storm,
If 55 Dems vote for it, Obama is impeached in 2015. The rats would lose the senate and republicans would keep the house.
This is a throwaway, designed to put the Republicans in a bad position for 2014. Bill is going nowhere.
Schumer took him to school, that's for sure.
Let's see if he learns anything from the experience -- as in "Democrats are not your friend".
Couple of points...
Not every committee yes vote is a guaranteed yes on the floor. Excuses are often made for “voting it out of committee” such as, we’ll be able to offer amendments on the floor that might pass there which we couldn’t pass in committee, or, this deserves to be taken up on the floor at the very least, whether we vote for it on final passage or not, etc etc.
I’m not defending that approach, but lots of times a senator will vote something out of committee and ultimately vote no. A couple examples: Olympia Snowe voted obamacare out of committee. On final passage she voted against it. Kelly Ayotte voted gun control out of committee but no on final passage.
Second point, political analysts seem to think that not every senate Democrat is predisposed to vote for the bill. If that’s true, they would likely be red state moderate Dems or at least pretending to be moderate.
Summing up, adding together RINO committee votes plus all 55 senate Dems will get 60, but politics doesn’t necessarily add up that way.
Boehner has already said the bill, as is, will not pass the House.
The House has its own gang working on a bill so that’s not automatically good news, however...
Lets just say for arguments sake that Boehner didn’t say that or didn’t mean that when he said it...
Boehner way back when vowed that the House would never consider a Senate bill, no matter what it was, if Reid goes nuclear in a rule change to fundamentally alter the Senate’s deliberate process.
IOW, if Senate Republicans are steamrollered by Reid, Boehner will treat any such bill as poisoned and it’s DOA.
I know Boehner is hated and I know what his deficiencies are. However, there’s no doubt whatsoever that he means that. Reid would leave him no choice but to stick up for the Senate GOP.
Same goes for rank-and-file GOP in the House. They would not stand for Reid doing this nor would they stand for Boehner cowtowing to Reid.
Both current NJ Senators would vote for the bill. If your scenario happened and Cristie appointed new Dems to replace the current ones, that wouldn’t change any votes.
I think Rubio has ruined his standing with the conservative base. I don’t see him coming back from that.
I agree. The bill is dead if Reid changes the senate rules. The house will not even look at the bill.
BS. Rubio has always been an amnesty supporter. The idea that he is a fool or naive is ridiculous. He has political ambitions and believes that being an amnesty supporter in FL will advance his political career.
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