Both RINOs and Dems wanted to ride the wave of increased support from the national Hispanic community going into the 2008 election. The American people want enforcement of current laws and a secure border and they rejected both the RINO and the Dim initiative by Harry Reid to ram this bill through the House while American citizens were supposed to be asleep waiting for the 4th of July weekend.
Watch all the heavy elitist talk NOW, about to be foisted on the public, calling for censorship of "Talk Radio" and conservative web venues such as Free Republic.
The Senators who voted "Nay" understand that their future election prospects would be dim if they voted "Yea." The message got through to them, thank G_D.
But the problem is still there. Who will act to secure the Southern border? Not the Feds. Must we rely on Minutemen to do so, and other groups who are vigilante motivated?
A border war has evolved in the Southern Tier of our states, as Illegal Alien aggression accelerates under the auspices of Mexican communist revolutionaries formerly trained in El Salvador, drug runners and arms runners. And the Border patrol can't use force?
There is a war on our Southern border and the MSM refuses to report it, just like they refuse to truly report about the war in Iraq, that they just want to make go away.
Meanwhile our Senators fiddle while Rome is burning.They need to free up our border patrol and citizen minutemen to fight that war.
Take out the TRASH!
