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In 2006 I became totally blind. I don't need to go into the details involving what led to the loss of my eyesight, but because of my experience, I am familiar with how Medicare and Medicaid work in Illinois. I also understand how the proposed health care reform bill--which cleared a major hurdle due to a procedural vote taken in the United States Senate on Monday, December 21, 2009 at roughly 1 A.M. Central time--would impact those currently receiving Medicare and Medicaid. Without going into the minutiae regarding parliamentary rules, the vote taken in the U.S. Senate early Monday morning...

Justice: A leaked memo exposes the hypocrisy of those who opposed indefinite detention of terrorists without trial at Guantanamo. For the right price, they're willing to hold detainees without trial indefinitely in America's heartland. The plan to ship as many as 100 unidentified terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a little used prison in Thomson, Ill., a sleepy town of 450 people near the Mississippi River about 150 miles west of Chicago, is well under way, according to a Justice Department memo unearthed by Andrew Breitbart and biggovernment.com. The memo allegedly from Eric Holder's Department of Justice to Defense Secretary...

War On Terror: Sen. Dick Durbin calls a plan to transfer 100 Guantanamo detainees to northwest Illinois "a dream come true." It would paint a bull's-eye on America's heartland in time for the 2012 Iowa caucuses. It seems the question of where to put the Guantanamo detainees is being settled as we speak, with liberal Democrats in the very blue state of Illinois welcoming them with open arms and outstretched hands for the federal dollars that will come with them. Federal officials last Friday inspected the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill., a town of 500 on the Iowa border,...

In a reversal of the not-in-my-backyard approach many lawmakers and communities took to the idea of housing the detainees stateside, the thirst for prison-centered employment has caused several U.S. towns to plead with federal officials to let them host dozens of detainees. It's like the Olympics host-city selection all over again. A handful of towns are locked in tight competition for the privilege of hosting international guests -- only instead of Olympians, they're jockeying to welcome Guantanamo Bay detainees to their home towns. The reason? Jobs. In a reversal of the not-in-my-backyard approach many lawmakers and communities have taken to...

Once again we see how clueless Democrats like Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Senator Dick Durbin are on matters of national security. With Barack Hussein Obama's decision to treat the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay as if they are common American criminals, as the president bestows all American rights upon them, and with his decision to spread these monsters out across the U.S.A, we see Quinn and Durbin idiotically asserting that terrorists equal "good paying jobs." These jobs might come from the sale to the federal government of the Thomson correctional facility in west central Illinois where Obama could send some...

Mr. (Forgiven Sinner) (Street) Peoria, IL Dear Mr. (Forgiven Sinner): Thank you for contacting me to share your concerns about federal funding for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). I appreciate hearing from you. I've seen the videos and I am appalled by them. I am also troubled by the discoveries of voter registration fraud, and I am glad ACORN reported the incidents to the authorities. These employees have been fired, and ACORN is being investigated by state and federal agencies for misconduct and potential misuse of government funds. Anyone who has broken the law should be...

Sen. Dick Durbin doesn't mind gigantic, 1000-page bills that would have Washington takeover health care.

Politics: In yet another vote against transparency, the Senate killed an amendment imposing legislative oversight on unconfirmed White House officials. Shouldn't we know who they are and what they're doing? Green czar Van Jones is gone, forced to leave the administration after Fox News and the conservative blogosphere revealed his past as a self-avowed communist. Jones had issues that some argue should have been discussed in confirmation hearings that never occurred before he assumed his position. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, would have liked to have learned of Jones' communist links and more before this man, who believes that white America...

Here is a YouTube video of what Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Robert Casey (D, MoveOn.org, PA) just voted to continue funding with taxpayer dollars. Here are the U.S. Senators who voted to continue to fund Barack Obama's friends in ACORN (a "nay" vote is a vote against defunding ACORN). See also this video. Note in the video that, per ACORN's employees, the fake pimp doesn't have to file W-2 reports for his (imaginary) prostitutes because they are under sixteen.U.S. Senators who voted to continue to spend taxpayer money to fund ACORNBurris (D-IL) Casey (D-PA), also accepted the endorsement of an...

Here is video of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin today on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where he said he is confident they will pass a Health Care Bill in some form. Durbin believes it is possible Republican Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins will join the Democrats and support a bill. Durbin said Obama told him a few weeks ago, during a visit to the White House, that he intends to get legislators around the table in the "Roosevelt Room." Obama said, "We are going to close the door, and we are going to get a bill." Durbin also said he does...

OP-ED by ANDY MARTIN * SENATORS DICK DURBIN AND ROLAND BURRIS VOTE TO CONTINUE FINANCIAL CRIMINAL ACTIVITY BY ACORN Barack Obama has received incalculable help from ACORN over the years. In fact Obama’s political career, from his earliest days in Chicago, was linked to ACORN. Obama “flirted” with socialists and radicals as a student at Occidental College, at Columbia University and after his arrival in Chicago. In 2008 the media pretended not to see Obama’s radical history and avoided asking probing questions about his radical associations. Sean Hannity was alone in exposing Obama. This week two Illinois U. S. Senators...

Oversight: As the Senate votes to de-fund Acorn, add pimping, tax evasion and human trafficking to voter fraud paid for with taxpayer dollars and you have an organized criminal enterprise. It's time to investigate.After Acorn workers were caught on tape in three cities allegedly abetting what they believed was a fraudulent-mortgage and sex-trafficking scheme, the Senate has voted overwhelmingly to strip the group of funding in the Transportation/Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed by an 83-to-7 margin and marked the third time this year that Republicans have tried to block...

Leadership: Scores of congressmen and women are trying to hide from their constituents this August recess as the revolt over ObamaCare continues. If you haven't seen him or her lately, you might try your refrigerator.IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For FailureIt's amazing how frightened of the community the party of the great community organizer has become now that the community has organized itself against his attempt to impose socialized medicine on the country. They cheered when he told them to get in the faces of their opponents. Now they won't show their faces, period. Senate Majority Whip Dick...

Dick Durbin, you spoilsport. The state's senior U.S. senator may (or may not) have made a wise decision to forego hosting health care town halls in his home state, but in any case he's denying us of a spectacle we deserve. After all, who isn't dying to see how a relatively close, personal friend of the president (and the No. 2 man in the Senate as Harry Reid's assistant majority leader) would handle the (planted or not) mobs that would turn out to shout him down? Some of those mobs may even be made up of liberals, now that Durbin...

CNN: The Senate’s second-ranking Democrat slammed recent town hall protests Sunday as organized disruptions of the democratic process. “We have these screaming groups on either side. That isn't helpful. Let's be honest about this. Town meetings are not bean bag, I've had hundreds of them and sometimes folks get upset. And that's part of America, part of our process,” Sen. Dick Durbin told CNN’s John King on “State of the Union.” “But this is clearly being orchestrated and these folks have instructions. They come down from a Texas lobbyist in Washington…" he said.

The attack on Warren Buffett continues. The latest to jump on the pile is Karl Denninger. He makes the charge that Buffett may have taken advantage of taxpayers, when buying his stake in Goldman Sachs: ...was he really just making a bet? The evidence says otherwise; Warren's statements both at the time and later one made clear that he had every expectation, and perhaps even inside information, that the government would not allow these firms to fail. That is, he didn't make a bet - he jumped in front of the taxpayer, a form of legal "front running", to garner...

Here is video of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin saying that Americans turning out to question and protest at Health Care forums all across the nation are attempting to "sucker punch" Senators and Congressmen to keep them from voting for Government Health Care. Durbin claims the citizens attending the events who are opposing the Democrats' Government Health Care Plan are there at the instigation of "Health Insurance Companies and people like them." This is a good sign that the Dems are really nervous about the grassroots groundswell of opposition to what they are trying to do. Now they are attacking the...

Politics: The career of Roland Burris, a political cipher from Illinois who became a U.S. senator and the lamest of ducks, is over. He can now retire into the obscurity he so richly deserves.Having obtained the seat under a cloud of typical Illinois corruption, Burris announced Friday he won't run for a full term in 2010. He was appointed by the former and recently impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich who, among his other accomplishments, tried to auction off the seat formerly held by Barack Obama. Blagojevich was forced out of office and may soon join other Illinois governors who went on...

If you knew what Sen. Durbin knew, would you do what he did? Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat and assistant majority leader, looked like such a great investor. On Sept. 19, he sold off $42,696 in mutual-fund shares, and quickly sold off another $73,000 during the rest of September. The stock market collapsed after that. Within two weeks, by Oct. 3, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen by 9 percent. A month later, by Oct. 17, it had plummeted over 22 percent. On Tuesday this week, the average is still down about 25 percent from Sept. 19. If...

This is another story involving "DICK" the other being his stock dumping problem we talk about in another post today This little Obama present to Durbin is just a tip of the pork divvied out to dems and their districts in the Porkulus spending, along with the followup "disgraceful" omnibus treasury rape and pillage that Obama has managed to pull off with the "all dem wink wink" 11th congress. Acting as if the country and "we,the people in it" can't read the news or simply don't care about this wasteful clear cut theft that's gone on since Jan 20th. As...

Ethics: Sen. Dick Durbin cashes out of the market and invests with a key Democratic contributor after a Treasury briefing warning of collapse. Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Dodd's Irish cottage appraises at triple the value he's disclosed.Those investors who rode the stock market down to the bitter end and saw their 401(k) accounts evaporate in the morning sun could have used the information Senate Majority Whip Durbin had at his fingertips on Sept. 19, 2008, when he sold $42,696 worth of mutual fund shares. By the end of September, Durbin had sold investments totaling $116,000.

The Chicago Sun Times has a story today that raises some serious questions about how Senator Dick Durbin used information he learned during the course of his Senatorial duties. As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. The Illinois senator's 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual-fund shares worth $42,696 on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders...

<p>As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.</p> <p>The Illinois senator's 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual-fund shares worth $42,696 on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders in a closed meeting to craft legislation to help financially troubled banks. The same day, he bought $43,562 worth of Berkshire Hathaway's Class B stock, the disclosure shows.</p>

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday evening, U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) issued a warning on the Senate Floor about the dangers of Democrats’ latest attempt to stifle Free Speech through their efforts to promote diversity in communication media ownership and promote Broadcast Localism.  Though the Senate last week passed legislation (S.Amdt.573) that prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from reinstituting the fairness doctrine, it also approved an amendment by Senator Dick Durbin (R-Ill.), “encouraging and promoting diversity in communication media ownership,” which is really just a new means of censorship on the airways and will give the FCC unfettered authority to...

Give Dick Durbin The Profile In Cowardice Award . . . Durbin, the second-ranking Dem in the Senate, admitted today that his party backed off its attempt to refuse to seat Roland Burris when Rep. Rush, a former Black Panther, broke out the race card. Here's Durbin, as per the Chicago Tribune: “My colleague from Illinois, Congressman Bobby Rush, made strong statements along those lines . . . They were painful and hurtful, and it became part of this calculation.”

Senator Jim DeMint’s amendment to kill the Fairness Doctrine was pretty straightforward. But an aide to DeMint said Senator Dick Durbin’s amendment requiring “diversity” in radio ownership will “impose the Fairness Doctrine through the back door by trying to break up radio ownership.” ...more

The enduring fight over the Fairness Doctrine came to the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, as senators proposed dueling amendments on the issue during a debate on legislation that would give Washington, D.C., residents voting rights.Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina proposed an amendment, the Broadcaster Freedom Act, which would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, a policy dumped in 1987 that required broadcasters to provide balanced coverage of controversial issues. Several Democratic lawmakers have said recently they’d favor bringing the Fairness Doctrine back, fueling an uproar in the conservative talk radio world. On Feb. 18,...

The Senate today moved to ban the Federal Communications Commission from reintroducing the Fairness Doctrine, stuffing the measure into legislation that would give the District of Columbia its own congressman.The Fairness Doctrine required broadcasters to offer equal time to differing viewpoints. It was abolished by the FCC in 1987 but conservative radio talk shows have regularly stirred up concern it would be revived by the FCC under a Democratic administration. Democrats haven’t made such a move and say they have no plans to do so.The amendment to block the FCC from acting was one of several amendments added to the...

Over the past few months,  we’ve seen a seemingly endless parade of bailouts from Washington — for banks, for automobiles, and just about everything else.    Today,  Congress may be voting on yet another bailout — this time for liberal media.   This afternoon, the Senate is expected to take up a proposal by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois which would clear the way for restoration of  measures designed to chill speech considered too conservative.” The Durbin measure is being offered as a substitute to a contrary measure by Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina which would bar the FCC from re-imposing...

All aboard! After a decade of quiet tinkering around the margins, the dream of making Chicago the center of a high-speed rail network finally is taking real shape, thanks to a massive infusion of cash tucked into President Barack Obama's stimulus bill. Big clout -- by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Dick Durbin, D, and other well-placed Illinoisans -- likely guarantees that the Chicago-based network soon will get as much as $2 billion for new track, rolling stock, high-tech signals, bridges and other fixes. If so, in as soon as three or four years, reliable train travel...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the second ranking Senate Democrat, said Tuesday he advised embattled Illinois Sen. Roland Burris that he should resign from the Senate in light of the continued allegations against him over his dealings with their state's former governor, Rod Blagojevich. Emerging from a meeting with Sen. Burris, Sen. Durbin said he advised Sen. Burris to resign, but that the Democrat refused, saying he would continue to fight to clear his name. Sen. Durbin said that he told Sen. Burris that under the circumstances, it was doubtful that he would be able to win a...

"Durbin may ask Bush to commute Ryan sentence" In eight words this Chicago Tribune headline (Nov. 26) summed up everything you need to know about Illinois politics. Yes, that is "Durbin" as in Dick Durbin, Illinois' senior U.S. Senator, a 25-year Democrat member of Congress, and the national co-chairman of the Obama presidential campaign. And the Ryan is none other than George Ryan, the disgraced former Republican governor sentenced to 6.5 years of breaking big rocks into little ones for operating a taxpayer-funded den of thieves as Secretary of State and then as Governor. Durbin has all but said that...

CHAD KOPPIE FOR U.S. SENATE LIFE * LIBERTY * LIVELIHOOD ABOUT CHAD KOPPIE Chad Koppie is a longtime activist in both statewide and local community politics, and is a proven vote-getter with broad name recognition and support. This is the third time Chad has had the honor of being nominated for the U.S. Senate, as he previous was on the ballot in both 1992 and 1996. Chad is well qualified for the office he is seeking and is ready to lead in the U.S. Senate and serve the needs of all Illinoisans. How Chad got where he is today...

Denver -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama acknowledged today that he has lost ground against Republican rival John McCain. But Obama plans to win through telling his story, talking about his plans for the country, and connecting with people, Obama allies said as the Democratic National Convention opens. "He loves basketball you know, and plays it," said Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, the senior Illinois senator and Senate Majority Whip. "We talked about the game today and we realized that over the last week or 10 days, John McCain has had a 12-0 run in this basketball game." McCain gained ground...

Good Morning Dad, My appointment book is filling fast as volunteer coordinator, Illinois Veterans for Dr. Steve Sauerberg, MD. Illinois veterans interested to help organize at the "grassroots level," please call me at: 708-275-0004, or josephbenning@yahoo.com for e-mail. We're building a statewide, non-partisan grassroots veterans network at the County level. Please, forward-away to your e-mail pals, especially to reach our young Illinois soldiers/sailors deployed or back from deployments. We seek veterans who made personal sacrifices for the US Constitution, which upheld blabbermouth Senator Durbin’s 1st Amendment right to make an absolute fool of his self in Washington; but didn’t appreciate...

My late father, who worked with the toughest kids in a Brooklyn high school, used to say that when a person's reaction is disproportionate to the stimulus, something else is causing it. So when Obama campaign co-chair Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) dramatically reserved the "hottest ring in hell" for those who would go after Michelle Obama, my antennae went up. Interviewing him, MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell also seemed a bit taken aback by the forcefulness of Durbin's response. O'Donnell broached the subject by quoting from Maureen Dowd's NY Times column of this morning: It’s good news for Obama that Hillary’s out of...

WHY DON'T THESE GUYS FIGHT BACK? It was nothing less than a show trial. The Senate brought the leaders of the largest oil companies to Washington DC for a little grandstanding yesterday. Right there in the middle of all of this was Illinois Senator Dick Durbin. I'm sorry, but this has to be said. Dick Durbin is either a shameless demagogue or a complete dumbass. I'm going with dumbass. This fool couldn't tell you the difference between a profit and a profit margin if his reelection depended on it. He sat up there on his fat ass and said to...

So where are we? $3.00 + gas prices here at home, higher food prices here at home, more starvation in the 3rd world. And you can Blame Barak Obama and Dick Durbin. The diminutive Illinois Senator and Sir Obama-lot have almost single-handedly screwed up international energy markets, driven up food prices and left potentially billions starving. I kid you not—Durbin has nearly achieved Pol Pot and Mao proportions….how ironic. It all began with the Dickster and Barak pushing through an energy bill that relied on Ethanol as an energy panacea.

Supporters of Senator Barack Obama have suggested Senator Hillary Clinton bow out of the presidential nominating race if she doesn’t win in two big-state primary contests on Tuesday. Influential Democrats have said they need to put together a unifying campaign for the presidential election in November. Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont hold primary contests on Tuesday, and Clinton, having lost 11 straight contests, needs to win either Texas or Ohio. Clinton, will have to dramatically exceed the results predicted by polls, which now show Texas sentiment as virtually even. Ohio voters tend to narrowly favour Clinton. In the smaller...

Steve Sauerberg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMdlGeDVGRMSTEVE'S STORY A respected family physician for over 25 years and recognized medical expert, Dr. Steve Sauerberg was born in Berwyn and raised in LaGrange where he graduated from Lyons Township High School. Steve is the son of a stay at home mother and a pharmacist who owned three local pharmacies. After High School, Steve went to MacMurrary College in Jacksonville, IL. While at MacMurray, Steve was accepted into Rush Medical College’s specialty medical program where he finished his fourth year of undergraduate course work and first year of Medical School simultaneously. While in medical school, Steve...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday endorsed business executive Dan Seals over Jay Footlik in the Democratic primary race for the 10th Congressional District. Speaking to more than 450 attendees at a 10th District Democratic convention held at the Hyatt Deerfield, Durbin backed Seals in his second attempt to unseat U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). "I think he's one of our strongest congressional candidates in the country, and he proved it last time," Durbin said. "He came very close, and I think he deserves another chance at it. I think he's battle-tested and I'm happy to support his candidacy." Seals,...

Hillary Clinton -- and the other Democrats running for president -- couldn't possibly have assumed that they would forever skate around the issue of illegal immigration. That notion came to an end in the most recent debate, when the New York senator badly slipped over a question about her state's controversial plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Did she think no one would ask? Democrats had better start dealing with this. Polls show a large majority of Americans, including Democrats, opposed to illegal immigration. They also find that most Americans favor some sort of amnesty for many illegals....

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) lashed out at Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) on the Senate floor Wednesday, a day after the GOP lawmaker had asked federal authorities to arrest some participants in a staff briefing on immigration. Tancredo, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination on a platform of a tough immigration policy, suspected that some people present at the briefing were in the country illegally. Durbin is sponsoring the DREAM Act, legislation that would allow “certain long-term undocumented immigrant children to go to college or join the military if they meet stringent requirements.” The staff meeting featured individuals who...

WASHINGTON, D.C. ) – Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today released a statement regarding an event Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) reportedly plans to hold in conjunction with discussion of the DREAM ACT – an event that will be attended by several illegal aliens. “I call on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to detain any illegal aliens at this press conference. Just because these illegal aliens are being used for political gain doesn’t mean they get immunity from the law.” “If we can’t enforce our laws inside the building where American laws are made, where can we enforce them?” Tancredo alerted...

(October 23) Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed to invoke cloture on S. 2205, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) new stand-alone DREAM Act amnesty bill. The cloture vote, for which 60 YES votes are necessary to prevent a filibuster on the measure, is set for Wednesday, October 24. Reid is attempting to bring this nightmarish amnesty bill to the floor under Senate Rule XIV without it ever having been debated in committee. Click here for more background on the DREAM Act. It is imperative that NumbersUSA members call their senators today to ask them to vote...

Months after the last immigration reform push crashed and burned, the Senate is on the verge of trying one more time. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is pushing to add his DREAM Act as an amendment to the defense authorization bill. The amendment would create a path to legalization for certain immigrants brought to the U.S. at 15 years old or younger if they go to college or join the military. Proponents say it's a narrower bill that would target the most deserving illegal immigrants. Opponents say it's just another amnesty bill that would encourage more people to sneak across the...

First introduced as a separate bill in 2001, the Dream Act has enjoyed bipartisan support and this spring was part of a comprehensive immigration-reform measure that stalled in the Senate. Military service as one of the paths to legalization was added later. Margaret Stock, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve and an associate professor at the U.S. Military Academy, said illegal-immigrant high-school students often call recruiters asking if they can enlist in the military — and are turned away. Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who is sponsoring the amendment, said attaching it to the defense bill is...

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivered the following remarks to the Center for National Policy in Washington, D.C., on Friday, September 7, 2007: “No More Blank Checks for Iraq” I want to thank CNP President Tim Roemer for that generous introduction. I also want to thank Tim, and CNP executive director Joy Drucker, for inviting me to join you today. I understand that CNP Chairman Peter Kovler is out of town.  Not only is Peter a great chairman, he is also a friend, a University of Chicago graduate, and a member, with me, of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.   The...

DU QUOIN - Dr. Steve Sauerberg knows it will take support from Southern Illinois to win an election. The Willowbrook doctor plans to challenge U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, for his seat in 2008, and he knows Southern Illinois will be an essential part of a victory. Sauerberg was making his first appearance in Southern Illinois Tuesday at the Du Quoin State Fair. The Illinois Republican Party was hosting a reception dinner at the Grandstand Club on the state fairground. He was joined by several other elected officials on both local and state levels, candidates for 2008 elections and area...

When the American people rose up in wrath a couple of months ago and stopped dead in its tracks a bipartisan effort to ram a phony immigration "reform" bill through the Senate, I warned that our triumph was inspiring but very probably short-lived. It is extremely difficult to focus the attention of the people at large on any policy, however bad, that is wanted eagerly by an influential minority. The policy in question -- namely, to legalize the status of the 10 or 15 million illegal aliens in this country, keep them working here for peanuts, put them on track...