Posted on 06/18/2013 7:56:01 PM PDT by paltz
The Senate voted down an amendment to the upper chamber's immigration bill proposed by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) that would require a full biometric visa tracking system placed at every land, sea, and air port of entry in the United States before legalized immigrants could receive green cards.
The measure, which was also called for by the 9/11 Commission in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, would establish a biometric exit-entry system.
Gang of Eight member Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News last week that the tracking system was the "lynchpin to the whole bill." In May, he told various outlets he favored such a tracking system. On Tuesday, however, Rubio voted against the Visa tracking amendment.
Members of the "Gang of Eight" promised border security before legalization in the process of bringing their immigration bill to the Senate. However, an amendment proposed by Senator John Thune (R-SD) that would finally construct the 700 mile double-layer border fence as mandated by the 2006 Secure Fence Act was voted down as well with the help of the Republican members of the Gang of Eight.
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Rubio is finished with conservatives. He either lied or was just too young and weak to stand up to anyone.
.......what get’s me is how often do these guys think they can go to the “their fools” well..................McCain in particular............
It’s amazing to myself how myself’s view of McCain has deteriorated down to a minus # in recent years. McCain is all about the self aggrandizement o McCain and not much else.
You can never have enough of many things, but faith is still the most important prep of all.
can rubio be recalled?
FWIW, I would much rather have Zuckerface be the face of this bill than Marco Rubio, even though I never believed he was as popular as his acolytes seem to think he is.
Read the Huffington Post piece I linked to in my previous post.
It seems that I'm beginning to distrust even the "good guys" who were helping to elect "true conservatives"
I can almost guarantee that the ignorant chattering class has no clue that Zuckerberg is behind the ads.
Same with Al Cardenas and the laughably named American Conservative Union.
Show me someone from Washington D.C. purporting to be a "conservative," and I'll show you a Grade A liar.
AFP is not a bad organization-Koch Bros. affiliation notwithstanding.
Steve Lonegan, a former chapter leader-who's pretty good on immigration issues-is running for the Lousenberg's seat this year.
Unfortunately, I don't think the used sanitary napkins who serve in the Senate listen to them.
FYI, there's a fantastic piece in Pando Daily, written from the perspective of an open borders liberal, exploring how Zuckface & Co. have alienated the tech community with this imbecilic advertising campaign.
Worth reading, IMO.
You struck a chord.
Lots of things pissed me off about the Bushes. Starting with Daddy Bush who was head spook in the Ford-Rockefeller Administration.
Reagan gave Daddy Bush a chance to see the conservative light, but Daddy Bush was a Rockefeller Pubbie to his most rotten core as was Dick Cheney who was the Warren Commissioner's Chief of Staff.
But this is what pissed me off the most.
When Junior got himself nominated, Daddy Bush most likely suggested having his old buddy Dick Cheney find him a running mate.
The guy Cheney found had five draft deferments, two DUIs, a checkered academic record, a heart condition, was constitutionally ineligible to run with Junior, and no experience of running for office outside of running campaigns in the least populated state in the union with a total of three electoral votes.
Of course when you send a power junkie like Cheney to find a candidate who if elected will sit one heartbeat or one hunting trip away from the most powerful office in the world, the power junkie cannot help himself. He will suggest himself even if he can only bring three electoral votes to the campaign which were already in the red column.
Tricky Dick sold the goods and Junior fell for the sales job.
It was just one of many nails in the coffin of Conservatives and the Republican Party.
Cheney rebranded Consevatives into Neo-cons who are no more than the sales force for the military industrial complex and the surveillance state.
Most importantly he deprived the Republican Party of the most important asset of any incumbent party to the executive branch may have which is using the vice presidency to develop the most viable candidate to succeed the incumbent in office.
They want this for all of us too. I am glad it failed.
They keep importing terrorists so that regular people will want this kind of surveillance state.
I disagree. Rubio knows he is going to lose the "base" vote of the Republican party in the near term but he also knows he is going to make inroads into the pro-illegal demographics in the long run. When he runs for President,he has to win the primary and he knows that will be challenging but he also knows that if he does get the nod, the base will have no option but to vote for him and he will have this pro-illegal faction vote for him also.
He’s a PHONEY Republican!!!
Uuummm - rubio belongs right there w obama - not a dimes worth of difference
If you haven't listened to Levin that last week or 2 he is on fire and is not afraid to say "That's right I said it". He has basically called McCain Unstable if my memory is correct, and eviserated Boehner.
I wish we had another 1/2 a dozen Mega Talk Show host to call these dolts out and tell it like it is.
Sometimes you do have to get down and dirty and insult them, plain and simple. I know people say don't burn bridges, bla, bla, but sometimes enough is enough...
Thank G-d he is speaking out, and BTW, he did and interview with Paul Ryan and he grilled him...
What will they say today? I suspect this bill will be killed in the House.
Much as I despise Pelosi, I have respect for her tenacity. She never.. ever.. quits the fight. And following each victory is the push for the next one. She has more stones than all "leading" Republicans combined. I only wish they had a fraction of her willingness to do battle.
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