Posted on 06/13/2013 2:12:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Thursday during debate on the Senate floor about an amendment offered by Republican Senator John Thune requiring 350 miles of double-layer fencing along the southern border, Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu called the fence "dumb" and claimed South Dakota is a border state. Thune's amendment backs up the 2006 Secure Fence Act (which Landrieu voted for) requiring 700 miles of double layer fence along the southwest border with Mexico, of which only 36 miles have been completed.
Im going to speak about this amendment for just a minute, but Ild like to respond to Senator Thune, and I wish that we could get a vote on his amendment as well as this one because I would like to strongly vote and strongly express objection to this amendment. And Id like to comments for a minute. I chair the Homeland Security Appropriations Committee that is actually building the fence. The money to build it comes though my Committee, so Ive actually gone down to look at the fence that were trying to build. It was shocking to me and would be shocking to everyone in America if they would see it. That no matter if you build a single fence or a double fence with space in between, how easy it is for people to be very ingenious about getting over it or under it. So I would be voting against Senator Thunes amendment because Im, not going to waste taxpayer money on a dumb fence and that s what his amendment would be. We need to build a smart fence. And a fence is not just a physical structure which could be built out of a variety of different materials with or without barbed wire on the top. A smart fence which is what Senator McCain and I want to build since hes from Arizona, I think he knows more about this than the Senator from South Dakota, who only has a border with Canada that is quite different.
Yesterday, Sens. Dean Heller and Harry Reid pushed an amendment classifying Nevada as a border state.
I agree with Mary Landrieu to this extent: There should not be a fence on the border! There should be a wall akin to the Great Wall in China on the borders.....which includes Canada, too!
I want a moat filled with sharks with frickin’ lasers on the top of their heads.
Sen. Mary Landrieu's son arrested on DWI, hit-and-run charges
The fence is smarter than Sen. Landrieu.
Please go easy on our senior senator from Louisiana. Her 21-year old son was arrested in the French Quarter last evening for DWI and hit-and-run. She has more serious matters to deal with at the moment and can’t think straight. She is also a Catholic in good standing yet she votes for abortion at every opportunity.
She and Pelosi remind me of a person that is against alcohol but goes to the AA meetings and offers to buy all present a round of drinks at the local bar.
South Dakota is a border state?
The Senator who said that is a perfect example of the danger of speaking while blond.
As a friend’s grand daughter said: “It’s because of people like her that I have to listen to blond jokes.”
Yeah, but she can spell potato correctly.
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