Apparently, since last night, Senators Richard Burr, Jim Webb, Kit Bond, Ben Nelson, and John Ensign have all either made passing and/or official statements that they will vote no to the final cloture vote on this immigration bill. Add in the switch by Pete Domenici, and this already puts cloture down to 58 votes, 2 below the 60 necessary to continue with the bill. With a few others that are looking to drop support, this thing may finally die.
In other Immigration Bill news...
- It also appears that the "clay pigeon" amendment is full of pork-barrel spending, which is being used to buy votes for cloture.
- House GOP passes an anti-Amnesty resolution, 114-23. Even if it passes the Senate, it will probably die in the House.
- Colorado Representative, and presidential hopeful, Tom Tancredo sends Michael "Idiot" Chertoff a head of lettuce and a small fruit basket in response to Chertoff's comment that "We’re living in a world in which lettuce and fruit is not being picked because we are enforcing the law." So what I gather is that Chertoff believes immigrants are good for nothing other than providing him with 1 of the 4 basic food groups. I believe immigrants can, and do, achieve more than that.
- Michelle Malkin reports that the opponents of amnesty are being forced to rush through their speeches against the bill, as they have been alloted a total of 10 minutes...those in favor of amnesty get 50 minutes. So much for Harry "Weasel" Reid allowing fair debate. Jeff Sessions states that the Senate telephone system has shut down and crashed due to "overwhelming public feedback"...aka angry American citizens.
The public is overwhelmingly this bill. What is so hard to understand about that?
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