Cheers!
Posted on 06/02/2007 8:49:53 AM PDT by gpapa
WASHINGTON -- The Senate faces a contentious debate next week on immigration, with backers of a compromise overhaul bill hopeful it will hold up.
The landmark immigration bill, the outcome of talks between congressional leaders and the White House last month, has stirred deep passions on both sides. During a recess last week, many senators' offices were bombarded with phone calls, emails and visitors critical of the legislation, while supporters organized their own postcard drives, rallies and opinion pieces in local newspapers.
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The editorial board of WSJ has already admitted this bill will go down in flames. Why the phony, hopeful optimism?
Even if it should pass the Senate, it still has to clear the House, which ought to be a little tougher on it.
Bush is to the Republican Party,
as Jimmy Carter was to the Democrat Party.
NO AMNESTY!
The WSJ editorial board is a bunch of Poofers in love with open borders. They like preaching from their Elite podiums about Free Markets and Free People....but are too cowardly to debate a real opponent like NR....WSJ Eds are a bunch of prissy boyz who need to get a set!
Cheers!
The bill is already dead legally, it is unconstitutional because it raises income, which the Senate cannot do. The House of Representatives is the only body that can introduce revenue bills. If this does pass the Senate, there are a number of House members anxiously awaiting to kill this with a “blue Slip” procedure.
Is their admission from this clip ?
“Senate seet to slug it out over immigration.”
Another pillow fight.
Elections have consequences would a republican house pass this, good job to all that stood home and didnt vote, 12 million new Voters thank you
The morons in the Senate will gladly shed that section.
“Clearly the reception to the immigration bill is mixed,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), in an email. Her office has received tens of thousands of emails, letters and postcards on the issue. She said there are “large numbers of people who are supportive” and another group “strongly opposed.”
Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson, one of the negotiators, said about two-thirds of the people from his home state of Georgia who have contacted him are supportive or have misconceptions about the bill that can be cleared up. The rest are strongly opposed and “don’t want to talk about it,” he said.
Do you see what they are doing? Everyone knows the opposition to this bill is like 75% against or more. They are focusing on the people who support it and sayint that just a few tweaks is all that is needed to appease the 75% against.
They really are clueless.
Political positions have consequences.
Yes. Thank you for posting it!
They rare Senator admits the truth. Responses by phone and fax are 95 percent against it. (I think someone actually did admit this last week.)
If the Senate removes the revenue-producing fines, then it is truly an AMNESTY bill and there will be no denying that by the White House. The bill will never see the light of day as it currently reads.
Personally, I believe this “bill” was merely a show, produced for the benefit of all parties to make it appear as if they are really trying to do something. Once it is killed, they can all go home and say “We tried” until after the next election. After the 2008 elections, all bets are off.
Well of course they want to go back to emotion based never ending exponentially increasing mindless chain migration. The dems certainly DO NOT want intelligent higher income smart immigrants, they want socialist-indoctrinated peasants.
Mr. Cornyn, who has been critical of the bill, said immigration "overwhelmed every other issue" brought up by constituents as he toured his state during the recess. "They don't think Washington is listening to them, and they're very frustrated," he said. "If other members of the Senate are hearing what I'm hearing...I think the momentum is shifting the other way."
I suppose that is the "bill is going down in flames" part.
Personally, I thought it would have been dead and gone by now, but it isn't. What we are probably seeing is the real "big push." I would look for any dirty underhanded trick the dems and the President can come up with to ram the bill down America’s throat.
Remember, it was only about six weeks ago that we were all hearing "oh, there will be no attempts to pass immigration reform this year..."
Yea, right.
Right then our "Republican" President was lying to us and plotting in secrete with the hard core communist democrats to stab American Citizens in the back.
Cram it!
Instead of bitchin’ about how others voted or did not vote, try running candidates that are worth voting for.
And would a Republican President sign this? Thank you, Mr. Bush!
“Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson, one of the negotiators, said about two-thirds of the people from his home state of Georgia who have contacted him are supportive or have misconceptions about the bill that can be cleared up.”
Gotta love that.... two-thirds are supportive, or just dumb.
That is what they think of us.
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