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Redstate: Tactic by Cornyn, DeMint, Dole, Enzi Procedurally Doomed Immigration Bill
redstate.com ^ | 6/8/07 | "Bluey"

Posted on 06/08/2007 8:10:21 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot

Four Senators Who Deserve Our Thanks Cornyn, DeMint, Dole and Enzi By Bluey

Last night's defeat of the immigration bill came after three weeks of intense grassroots activism against the legislation. But this bill may not have gone up in flames had it not been for the craftiness of four Republican senators who voted with Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan to sunset the temporary-worker program after five years.

The "poison pill" amendment was considered a deal-breaker by supporters of the bill. Having failed by just one vote on May 24, it came up again Wednesday; only this time, four Republicans who had previously opposed it voted the opposite way. As the Washington Post notes this morning, they realized that siding with Democrats was the only way to kill the legislation.

So who are these Republicans? Senators Jim Bunning (Ky.), John Cornyn (Tex.), Jim DeMint (S.C.), Elizabeth Dole (N.C.) and Mike Enzi (Wyo.) took a stand against the immigration bill and faced tremendous pressure for doing so. They held firm, however, and deserve credit for using a crafty strategy to sink the legislation.


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To: Jacksonville Patriot

I think Senator Sessions R-Al should be on that list!!!


21 posted on 06/08/2007 8:38:38 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Badeye

Makes me wonder what would have happened if Libby Dole had won the GOP nomination in 2000 instead of Bush.


22 posted on 06/08/2007 8:41:48 AM PDT by dirtboy (A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
Senators Cornyn, DeMint, Dole, Enzi, and Dorgan, thank you all. It's good to know that there are still some patriots left in our Senate!

But I agree with those who caution that Bush will probably try one more time before his Presidency is over. We must continue to be vigilant and not succumb to complacency.

23 posted on 06/08/2007 8:42:15 AM PDT by jpl ("Player haters, elevators, you cross me, you die." - Wise Lebron)
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To: dirtboy

She would have lost to Gore.


24 posted on 06/08/2007 8:42:26 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: dirtboy

Well, I wouldn’t go that far....we’d have ended up with President Gore...and given everything thats taken place, and his public nervous breakdown....(shudder)


25 posted on 06/08/2007 8:43:05 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Cedric
She would have lost to Gore.

Really.

26 posted on 06/08/2007 8:43:06 AM PDT by dirtboy (A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
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To: jpl
Let him try. He took on lots of water over this ass whoopin’!
27 posted on 06/08/2007 8:43:49 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: Jacksonville Patriot
Four more faces for Mt. Rushmore?

;o)
28 posted on 06/08/2007 8:44:07 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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To: Illuminatas
Im proud to say that Sen. Enzi is from my state. Wyoming - Powder River! Let’r Buck!

Woohoo! I'm emailing Senator Enzi to congratulate and thank him for this.

Bravo!

29 posted on 06/08/2007 8:47:13 AM PDT by TChris (The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
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To: lonestar

I’m proud for you..Wish we had him in GA.


30 posted on 06/08/2007 8:47:43 AM PDT by bestrongbpositive
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

The headline says four Senators and names them, but later the story names five, including Jim Bunning who was left out of the headline.

Senator Dole is LIDDY Dole, not LIBBY Dole. In fact, it’s said by those close to her that she hates to be called LIBBY. I don’t blame her. With the last name Dole, especially, that whole name would be nothing but a joke.

This has been corrected on this forum hundreds of times, but to no avail.

Also, I’ve told others dozens of times that she’s not a liberal. I never claimed she was EXTREMELY conservative on every issue, but I’ve been repeatedly proven right that a LIB she ain’t.

Now, ya gotta know that she’s representing the interests of her NC consituents, as well. That state has taken a gigantic hit what with cheap imports and cheap labor. She must’ve figured this bill would not only not fix the cheap labor problem but would worsen it, no matter what the bill proponents hoped it would do.

Shows she’s of a practical turn of mind, as well. The bill isn’t workable. It’s dreaming to assume the gov. could deliver even a fraction of what this bill promises. President Bush and others on his side continue to trust way too much in the federal government “big solution” compromise. Not Liddy.

At the same time, she’s a lady, NOT a neanderthal engaging in horribly crude and demeaning attacks on the President and others as so many have (not in the Senate, but among the base). In fact, hats off to Sessions, Cornyn, et al, for their guts AND their civilized conduct in this fight.


31 posted on 06/08/2007 8:49:08 AM PDT by txrangerette (Congressman Duncan Hunter for POTUS...check him out!!)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

Good for them. My senators, Martinez and Nelson, are worthless.


32 posted on 06/08/2007 8:49:37 AM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: Cedric

“The way I construe this, Dorgan may have cynically {at the behestof Kennedy/Reid} to curry favor in his home state, but being assured {by K & R} it would fail. They were all snookered by the alert, tactically superior Republicans.”

When folks ask your religion, do you answer “Republican”?

You should.


33 posted on 06/08/2007 8:52:39 AM PDT by gas0linealley (.)
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To: All

Let’s remember, Mitch McConnell is the one who orchestrated this.


34 posted on 06/08/2007 8:52:48 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: K-oneTexas

I don’t foresee this Congress, under Reid and Pelosi, taking on some of the major issues of the day ... Tax Reform, Immigration Reform, Social Security Reform, Medicare Reform, a viable Energy Policy just to name a few.

%%%%%

They can’t take on major issues because they never want to own up to accountability. They have a reflex reaction of blaming others for any failure .


35 posted on 06/08/2007 8:56:00 AM PDT by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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To: gas0linealley
Born Again Christian.

But, in this case the Republicans really out foxed the Dems. And, assuming you’re not blind with rage toward Pubbies, you should rejoice at this fact!

36 posted on 06/08/2007 8:57:11 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: txrangerette

Thank you! I was about to start hollerin’ about the Libby thing.


37 posted on 06/08/2007 9:00:21 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: Jacksonville Patriot

THANK YOU SENATORS!!


38 posted on 06/08/2007 9:01:01 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her Phoniness is Genuine!!!)
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To: Illuminatas
How could this little amendment doom the bill?

Doesn’t make sense. Some of the Senators were looking for a way out.

39 posted on 06/08/2007 9:02:24 AM PDT by common denominator
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To: K-oneTexas

George Soros was funding a lot of these left wing groups and yet we had so-called Republican Senators siding with that EVIL, VILE man......Spector, Graham, McCain...et al....you are in big trouble at home. Siding and co-signing with Kennedy, another EVIL, VILE man has stained you forever.


40 posted on 06/08/2007 9:03:42 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her Phoniness is Genuine!!!)
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