Live Thread: Senate Amnesty Debate (CRITICAL 2ND CLOTURE VOTE TODAY!) Woo hoo!! It's DEAD!!

The U.S. Senate with Free Republic Input | June 28, 2007 | truthkeeper

[truthkeeper]

Here we are again my friends, hopefully for the last debate thread on this particular monstrous legislation. Proceedings are supposed to begin at 9:30 a.m. EST, with the cloture vote being taken at 10:30 a.m.

On a personal note, you've all been wonderful in your passion, vigilance, and commitment to the principles on which our country was founded. If I have to be in a foxhole, I want to be in it with you guys.

[xDGx]

You can generate an EMP-like effect with a non-nuclear device, basically an inductor adjacent to an explosive charge, energize the coil and set off the charge, as current cannot change instantaneously in an inductor, the net effect is a rapidly rising voltage waveform akin to the nuclear EMP.

Degradation is another matter, typically that is from neutron radiation altering the lattice structure, not overvoltage stress.

You can defend against EMP if ya know what you are doing ;)

ok back to cloture...

[nicmarlo]

Where the heck is everyone?? The vote is going on! Obama said the rules of quorum were waved.

yukking it up, of course.

[HonestConservative]

I want my Whopper in the original Gaelic.

[truthkeeper]

Gregg: AYE

[Founding Father]

so far 21 Nay votes...need 41?

No, yeas must have 60. Neas can be one with 40 not voting

[Darnright]

Whoo HOO Jim Webb!

[LonePalm]

I wonder, what did they have to offer Brownback to give up his run for the Republican nomination?

Stick a fork in him, he's done.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[montag813]

Brownback=DeadMeat

His name is BrownEye.

[Jack Black]

Can you provide a link for this claim RE: Harry Reid: “His kids can claim Israeli citizenship.”

[cryptotech]

Well at least he kept one campaign promise...

[SeaHawkFan]

30 “no’s so far. Brownback might a well shut down his campaign.

[TomGuy]

Senate phone system crashed this morning.

As sluggish as FR is, is it about to crash?

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My count so far is showing:

Y = 23
N = 21

[Agent Smith]

Gregg AYE BARF

[manonfire]

Forget about C-SPAN...This VOTE should be ALL over the NETWORKS...That’s how important it is....

[reagan_fanatic]

Brownback vote aye (for cloture and for amnesty.

I hope Brownbackstabber likes his new career as a busboy at the local Dennys. His political career is toast.

[mewzilla]

Doornail dead or Freddy Kruger dead??

[JeffAtlanta]

Webb NO!

Webb may actually be an upgrade over Allen on this. I feel that Allen would feel very beholden and loyal to the whitehouse.

[GiveEmDubya]

Johnson isn’t voting, which leaves 99 senators. 60 votes is needed for cloture, so we only need 40 of the 99.

[Political Junkie Too]

I think they only do that in the House. With 435 members, they use an electronic voting system.

-PJ

[LachlanMinnesota]

now 25 nay