Posted on 12/18/2013 10:33:25 AM PST by montag813
See post 11, thank you.
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Rush Limbaugh said a while ago, and correctly, that, if illegal aliens were Republicans, there would be hourly flights full of deportees heading to Mexico.
Senate Democrats AND TWELVE REPUBLICANS !!!
Say it loud and say it often.
Be interesting to hear the dem’s like Harry Reid tell vets how illegal immigration,will help their pensions.Team Obama continues to roll out V.I.P. illegal alien red carpet.. How stupid can the dem’s be by giving away free money fraudulently obtained viva tax fruad to illegal aliens and tell us all about America’s values and why we should welcome illegals and how wonderful illegal immigration is, how we all will see our wages increase, lives improved..Sounds like something a cult would say !! Follow us right off the cliff..
I think Kay Hagan may have voted with the Republicans.
No. The defeat of this amendment came on a party-line vote, except for Kay Hagan, a last-minute switch, who was permitted to vote no.
This is a different country today. One that [apparently] not enough people care about.
That, in itself, essentially encapsulates why 12 Republican senators joined all 55 Democrats to help move forward a bill that does almost nothing that Democrats or Republicans want – no tax reform, no entitlement reform, no extended unemployment benefits.
Republicans joining Democrats to invoke cloture include Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Susan Collins (Maine), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), John Hoeven (N.D.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), John McCain (Ariz.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and Rob Portman (Ohio).
The original bill was of course co-authored by Paul Ryan and contained the cut in funding. This bill was then allowed cloture in the Senate and would not have received cloture, and a final vote, without the crossover votes of twelve Republicans.
The GOP-E is as complicit in this travesty as the Democrats. It takes two to tango — or in this case, one Uniparty.
The conservative wing of the party has maintained its intellectual consistency and honesty and is therefore entitled to complain. No one else in the Republican Party is.
Is this supposed to surprise anyone?
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