Live Thread: Senate Amnesty Debate (CRITICAL 2ND CLOTURE VOTE TODAY!) Woo hoo!! It's DEAD!!

From Malkin's website:

12:40pm Eastern update. Vote-switching weasel Sam Brownback should really just end his presidential campaign bid right now and stop wasting his poor staff’s time.

Reader Dave e-mails: “I think an enduring legacy of the vote will be a new nickname for the Senator from Kansas: Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Senator Sam Switch-back.”

I really like that: Switch-back. Has a nice ring to it. I also like "Brownback McWeasel", but that's not nearly as creative and can be interchangeable with just about any name.

I think you meant 2036 for the other guy...but I agree! :-)

reply 1951 has his home office at least.

Dear Senators,

Since S.1639 has been defeated, will the fence, vehicle barriers, and camera towers, previously approved, continue to be built??

As I understand it, only 2 miles, out of the 370 miles of fence previously appproved, have been built so far. If my memory is correct, 200 miles of vehicle barriers, and 70 camera towers, have also been previously approved.

Perhaps the administration, and the Senate, should heed the desires of the American people, and put these things on the front burner, and make sure they get funded, and built.

Could you please inform the American public as to the status of the above, and what the construction schedule might be. As you can probably tell by our response to the Immigration Bill, we really are concerned, and we do want to know.

Thank You.

Sincerely,

Has anyone heard any more about the House Immigration Bill?

It sounded like one I would support - Border Security and Enforcement...

What’s the matter there Weller? Did you get your little feeling hurt because your bill didn’t get pushed through.

God Bless you Sen Sessions and Mrs Sessions...

Amen to that!

Republicans voting for cloture: Bennett, Craig, Graham, Gregg, Hagel, Kyl, Lott, Lugar, Martinez, McCain, Snowe & Specter; of those Senators Sens. Hagel, who may retire, and Sen. Graham are up for re-election in 2008.

2.5 Republican incumbent races (Of these all except Graham voted no on cloture)
2.5.1 Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
2.5.2 Saxby Chambliss of Georgia
2.5.3 Norm Coleman of Minnesota
2.5.4 Susan Collins of Maine
2.5.5 John Cornyn of Texas
2.5.6 Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina
2.5.7 Pete Domenici of New Mexico
2.5.8 Michael Enzi of Wyoming
2.5.9 Lindsey Graham of South Carolina ***
2.5.10 Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma
2.5.11 Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
2.5.12 Pat Roberts of Kansas
2.5.13 Jeff Sessions of Alabama
2.5.14 Gordon Smith of Oregon
2.5.15 Ted Stevens of Alaska
2.5.16 John Sununu of New Hampshire

In addition to Hagel these Senators may retire at the end of their current term in 2008. Of these Sens. Craig and Hagel voted aye on cloture; Sens. Cochran and Warner voted nay.
2.3.1 Joe Biden (D) of Delaware
2.3.2 Thad Cochran (R) of Mississippi
2.3.3 Larry Craig (R) of Idaho
2.3.4 Chuck Hagel (R) of Nebraska
2.3.5 Tim Johnson (D) of South Dakota
2.3.6 John Warner (R) of Virginia

"...american businesses would have continued to have an endless supply of illegal labor."

And will continue to now for the foreseeable future.

You hafta be a bigot, too, if you want full membership in the club.

Dang! Well, I'm working on it.

I give you Senator Sam Switch-back.”

Absolutely perfect.

That’s because we’re so used to seeing Republicans be duped by Democrat tactics. In this case, however, the GOP outsmarted the Dems.

I have to wonder how old you are as you are writing some very bizarre statements in this thread.

Do you not realize that this was a bill that was championed by the Republicans? If there is any doubt about this at all, you need to look and see who worked so hard to revive it. The answer isn't democrats but George Bush, Trent Lott, John McCain and Kyl. Those guys are all republicans.

This was a win-win situation for the democrats.

I guess I’d worry that security screening measures that exist around senators would significantly hinder or prevent my appreciation gift getting through in good measure.

I’ll be just sending letters myself, but for those who want to do more, perhaps a donation to a worthwhile cause, or gift to a hospital etc. would go further....then let your senator know how you made the gift or donation to honor their wise decision.

Just one thought....

You have to stop sounding like a dimwit troll.

Reid is the MAJORITY LEADER. He would’ve gotten “credit” had this monstrosity passed, ergo....

You better check again regarding how many defections old Harry had.

..the marches where staged by the Dems.

And the president encouraged them.

It’s hard to tell who’s the bigger loser, realtive to this vote, Bush or Reid.

They appear to be in a race to see who can get 0% approval ratings first.

Now that’s a victory celebration!

Graham is toast and I suspect he knows it full well. He has kissed enough DC behind (I'll leave it at that) to prepare to leave office with some good prospects of being a media talking head, you know, the Republican expert who always seems to take the leftist side, a la Gergen.

Lindsgay Grahamnesty got to Washington and decided he liked it a lot more than "hayseed" SC. Fool.

It's an excellent suggestion.

Over on LGF, there's a cloture thread going. A poster in San Francisco says it looks like a protest is starting, but it's unclear yet whether it's the janitor's union or amnesty protesters . This could be an interesting next few days at the very least.

What..my bill? Bawahaha! I think you should get all the credit for it pal. Sovereignty and the rule of law just has too big a price tag these days it seems. Someone will pay in the end though.