Senators Agree to Revive Immigration Bill

AP / Yahoo ^ | 5/11/06 | SUZANNE GAMBOA

[Imgr8t]

Time to vote Minuteman party!

[snowsislander]

Senate leaders reached a deal Thursday on reviving a broad immigration bill that could provide millions of illegal immigrants a chance to become American citizens and said they'll try to pass it before Memorial Day.

Senate leaders are playing with fire if they grant a massive amnesty, and it is especially unwise for them to be pushing an amnesty so hard in an election year.

Why the rush? If the leaders truly want to fight for such a divisive issue, at least wait until after election season.

If they would like an issue to fight over, I think fighting the envirowhackos on our energy development would be far better strategy. The energy issue would largely unite the base; amnesty just divides the base at a critical time.

[Retired Chemist]

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[demkicker]

Well at least the nation want be held hostage by the black vote any longer.

You got that right. I heard today that 50% of all children in the United States NOW are Mexican.

[demkicker]

I get so angry about this because Bush is pissing away the efforts of millions of conservatives over many years, including Jim Robinson right here, to convince Americans that conservatism is the best philosophy of government, if he lets this happen. We can't let him do it--it will take another Harriet Miers times 10.

*BINGO* You nailed it. I guess Bush has impeachment on his wish list.

[mulligan]

This is nothing more than window dressing. They (the politicians) do not even know what is the problem, so there is no way they can fix it. So, anything they do will just make a bad situation even worse. A pathetic and sad era in our history. And with the current group in office we all know it is going to really bad.

[TigersEye]

Enforce the laws we have.

[sheana]

You can't convince me that the Senate hasn't heard us. I called Bill Frist's office today and it was obvious that the person who answered was weary and had heard the same thing over and over.
These senators don't care what we think, for that they should pay the obvious price.

[dc-zoo]

Now? Don't you have to wait for an election and when they're up for re-election?

[LibLieSlayer]

Bill Frist was on O'Reilly last night, and stated he "Gets It"!

He said they understood the base was unhappy, and that Border Security has to be passed... and Amnesty was out of the question.

He also said that the Guest Worker program would have to come after real Border Security is passed.

He said that the Senate has promised action since 1986, and have never followed through. He stated that it would not be easy, but the Republicans would get it accomplished... and they would start within two weeks.

Then I read this crap!? Me thinks the Media lies again.

LLS

[kenavi]

Senate passes amnesty bill, letting illegals cut in line for citizenship ahead of people who patiently applied legally from outside.

Well expressed, worth repeating.

[Radix]

"These senators don't care what we think, for that they should pay the obvious price."

D'accord!

I wish that I had as much clout in my own state as most FReepers have in their's.

[sheana]

clout? haha I live in California, DiFi and Babs Boxer. Come on!
But I have a Republican in the house who if he does not vote correctly on this will NOT get my vote. My State reps will pay also, I am sick of this crap.

[SusaninOhio]

I'm beginning to think think that every Republican congressperson has some kind of a career death wish.

Or they all really, really want to go home to their home states. And they will get that chance, if they pass something as terrible as this bill sounds.

I am feeling sicker and sicker.

[sheana]

Oh yeah and I forgot I will hold all the local people responsible too. There are many things they can do on the local level that they haven't.

[zip]

ping

[GarySpFc]

I think of the thousans of hours we worked crawling across broken glass to get to this point, and now everything is being thrown away.

[flashbunny]

There is almost all bad in the senate bill. It is sheer idiocy on their part. Compromise would get us in a worse position than we are now.

[Defiant]

I'm with you--I'm just tired. I would happily support Bush even though he is not conservative, so long as the long-term prospects of conservatism improve. Two steps forward and one back, in the same fashion that liberalism took an old-fashioned American nation in 1932 and gradually feminized and socialized it, we can gradually restore individualism, respect for religion, common sense foreign policy based on national interest, constitutional government and all the things that got thrown out by the liberals. But if the thing we disagree about threatens the slim conservative majority forever, then we have to fight as hard as we can to prevent it from occurring. Electing Hillary isn't the answer. Voting for Democrats in '06 is not the answer. Right now, I don't know what is. A constitutional convention? Risky. A third party? Can you say President Clinton?

Kick out the RINOs in primaries where you can this spring, that's what I know we need to do now. We need to make sure the House stays strong to tell the Senate to go to hell. Maybe we can figure out something that gets these people to respond in the next few months. Lack of donations will certainly get their attention.

[spectre]

"I'm beginning to think think that every Republican congressperson has some kind of a career death wish."

That, or they are overly confident that we will vote them back in out of fear the Democrats will gain control.

After they give the Illegals everything on their wish list, the Republicans are screwed any way you look at it.

sw