The Fix is In: Reid, McConnell to Resurrect Amnesty Bill

RedState.com ^ | June 14, 2007 | Bluey

[de meanr]

You can't say I didn't warn you. The immigration bill is coming back, probably as early as next week. That's what Senators Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) agreed to today, leaving conservatives on Capitol Hill disappointed and alarmed.

A conservative Senate GOP aide told me McConnell caved under pressure from the White House and Democrats. "They are going to roll over conservatives. They scheduled debate time and a vote for next week knowing full well that Jeff Sessions would be out of town."

Sessions, a vocal opponent, will be in Alabama for a fundraiser with President Bush next Thursday. Sessions teamed with Senators Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.) and David Vitter (R.-La.) last week to take a principled stand against the bill despite tremendous pressure from its supporters. Sessions' absence would put conservatives at a significant disadvantage.

[de meanr]

They've rigged it so Jeff Sessions will be out of town during the debate and vote.

[Suzy Quzy]

CALL MCCONNELL AND KYL AND LOTT!!!!!!

[new yorker 77]

1-202-224-3121

[Snoopers-868th]

Maybe me need to call Sessions and beg him to cancel that appointment. The country is far more important.

[Uncle Miltie]

They’re going to roll over 80% of the American Citizens who don’t want this bill.

Anti-democratic elitist sh*ts.

[JoanneSD]

sessions should be ashamed to be seen with jorge...

[Kakaze]

Sessions does not HAVE to be out of town its a fund raiser he has a choice........I expect he will make the right one .

[Army Air Corps]

Crap. I hope that when I am a geezer I do not have to hear this statement: “Grampa, tell us what it was like when people had free speech in America.”

[Man50D]

Ping!

[kcat]

Wouldn’t that be something if he did not show up in Mobile with the Pres.

[Dr. Frank fan]

One question. If Sessions is so important, and also principled, can he not alter his plans to go to fricking Alabama for a fricking fund-raiser, given that an important vote (he is a legislator, right? that is his job, correct?) has been scheduled for that same time? On an issue he (supposedly) cares deeply about and (supposedly) is extremely principled about?

Just asking.

Sorry, but "I, a Congressman, can't possibly participate in this important debate and vote because I'm GOING TO ALABAMA FOR A FUNDRAISER and that is an inalterable fact that can't possibly be changed" really just doesn't cut it for me. Or it does, but then I have to wonder about the whole "principled" thing.

[Man50D]

Crap. I hope that when I am a geezer I do not have to hear this statement: “Grampa, tell us what it was like when people had free speech in America.”

Don't be surprised if they ask you in Spanish.

[isthisnickcool]

A fundraiser for Bush can't be worth much money nowadays. Unless they are having it with La Raza or LULAC....

[Dante3]

BUMP

[Ingtar]

Sessions should stand up Bush to be there.

[no dems]

CALL MCCONNELL AND KYL AND LOTT!!!!!!
And Lindsey Graham. When are these four up for reelection? Anyone of them on the ballot in '08?

[de meanr]

I think Reid - McConnell purposely scheduled it to make it difficult for Sessions. Don’t know if he’ll stiff the President or not.

[Snoopers-868th]

I wonder when this was planned. Next question, was this part of the fix? It does seem strange or convenient that Bush and Sessions will be together. I do expect Sessions to address this “inconvenient truth.”

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Yes. Would love to be a fly on the wall if Sessions told no one and just showed up.

[de meanr]

” A fundraiser for Bush can’t be worth much money nowadays. “

I don’t know who the fundraiser is for, but you’re right, Bush being there probebly won’t help unless it’s with businesses that use illegal labor.