Posted on 06/28/2007 9:56:34 AM PDT by freespirited
Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement after the Senate immigration bill was defeated on a cloture vote of 46-53. This motion to end debate required 60 votes for adoption.
When the U.S. Senate brought the Amnesty bill back up this week, they declared war on the American people. This act created a crisis of confidence in their government. Thankfully, the American people won today, said Senator DeMint. This is remarkable because it shows that Americans are engaged and they care deeply about their country. They care enough for their country to get mad and to fight for it, and thats the most important thing of all. Americans made phone calls and sent letters, and convinced the Senate to stop this bill.
The Senate rejected this bill and the heavy-handed tactics used to ram it through. Americans do not want more of the same amnesty and broken promises on the border. Americans want legislation to be written in public not in secret and they want Congress to engage in an open and fair debate.
There is a better way forward without this bill. The President has said that the border security measures can be implemented over the next 18 months, and they can be done under current law. Now the Administration needs to prove it and stop holding border security hostage for amnesty.
Once we have secured the border and restored trust with the American people, we can begin to take additional steps.
God bless DeMint and Sessions! They listened to us! We won’t forget the Senatesitters who didn’t at their peril!
Why stop there? Why not Fred Thompson’s VP candidate?
Correction. Mitt Romney’s VP! ;-)
"RELEASE THE FUNDS"
The honorable Sen DeMint HAS endorsed Romney, you know.
bump!
It ain’t rocket science, Senators.
Forget `new & improved’ and enforce the law:
USC Title 8
PART IV—INSPECTION, APPREHENSION, EXAMINATION, EXCLUSION, AND REMOVAL
Sec. 1221. Lists of alien and citizen passengers arriving and departing.
Sec. 1222. Detention of aliens for physical and mental examination.
Sec. 1223. Entry through or from foreign territory and adjacent islands.
Sec. 1224. Designation of ports of entry for aliens arriving by aircraft.
Sec. 1225. Inspection by immigration officers; expedited removal of inadmissible arriving aliens; referral for hearing.
Sec. 1225a. Preinspection at foreign airports.
Sec. 1226. Apprehension and detention of aliens.
Sec. 1227. Deportable aliens.
Sec. 1228. Expedited removal of aliens convicted of committing aggravated felonies.
Sec. 1229. Initiation of removal proceedings.
Sec. 1229a. Removal proceedings.
Sec. 1229b. Cancellation of removal; adjustment of status.
Sec. 1229c. Voluntary departure.
Sec. 1230. Records of admission.
Sec. 1231. Detention and removal of aliens ordered removed.
Like Laura Ingraham said today:
Perfect summary: The American People Won Today. This does not happen too often. We should enjoy the moment and be thankful to our Creator that America still has a chance to salvage its future.
January 2009, I hope.
It's refreshing to see somebody giving credit to God. Now, if we could only unite against abortion the way we have united against 'shamnesty', God's blessings would be poured upon our nation in such a way that we'd think we're in Heaven.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Why not a “Writ of Mandate” or something like that. I don’t know the correct term but itforces the President to cary out the laws of the land.
Boxer, Fineswine, the Clintoons, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry and other left wing fascists in Congress will now try to silence Rush, Hannity, Anne and Free Republic in the dark corridors of the capitol.
They need to remember what happened to the Italian Fascists, who gained power before WWII at their end of WWII.
L
Dilios: He did not wish tribute, nor song, or monuments or poems of war and valor. His wish was simple. "Remember us" he said to me. That was his hope, should any free soul come across that place, in all the countless centuries yet to be. "May all our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones, "Go tell the Spartans, passerby, that here by Spartan law, we lie." And so my king died, and my brothers died; barely a year ago. Long I pondered my king's cryptic talk of victory, but time has proven him wise, for from free Greek to free Greek, the word was spread that bold Leonidas and his 300, so far from home, laid down their lives... not just for Sparta, but for all Greece and the promise this country holds. Now here on this ragged patch of earth called Plateaea, let his hordes face obliteration! Just there, the barbarians gather, sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers, knowing full well what merciless horrors they suffered at the swords and spears of 300. Yet they stare now across the plain at 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 free Greeks! Ho! The enemy outnumber us a paltry three to one! Good odds for any Greek. This day we rescue a world from mysticism and tyranny, and usher in a future brighter than anything we could imagine. Give thanks, men, to Leonidas and the brave 300! To victory!
The next morning (possibly September 28, but the exact date is unknown; the Hellenic Navy celebrates September 12 as Battle of Salamis Day), the Persians were exhausted from searching for the Greeks all night, but they sailed in to the straits anyway to attack the Greek fleet. When it became obvious to the Greeks that the battle was inevitable morale rose, the fleet enthusiastically took to sea and started singing the "paean"
Forward, sons of the Greeks,
Your children, your women, the altars of the gods of your fathers
And the graves of your forebears:
Now is the fight for everything.
Conservatives, we did it. We held OUR Congress accountable, against seemingly a unsurmountable invasion backed by those who attempt to control with wealth and greed. Let them know forever more, this is OUR country, OUR government. The only power they have is what we lend them. And today we showed that WE are THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, where freedom exists because we are willing to fight for it.
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