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President Bush’s Shamnesty Plan Passes First Hurdle

It’s time to rid the GOP of the “Kennedy Republicans”

Even President Bush finally slipped and admitted what this Immigration Bill really is: amnesty.

And now a Congress that has a historically-low (and falling) 14% approval rating has voted for a bill that only 22% of American voters approve of.

And now Shamnesty has prevailed, 64-35. Michelle Malkin has a roll call of the Yays and the Nays.

Thankfully my two Senators, Hutchinson and Cornyn, voted like I asked them to during repeated emails and phone calls this week.

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The President and 64 Senators, including a new faction of the GOP called the Kennedy Republicansâ„¢, have decided to completely ignore the wishes of the people and have told us all to collectively go fuck ourselves.

I think it’s time we responded in like at the polls come 2008. I plan on taking part in anyway I can in seeing that the following 23 GOP senators are serving their last terms:

Bennet (UT)
Bond (MO)
Brownback (KS)
Burr (NC)
Coleman (MN)
Collins (ME)
Craig (ID)
Domenici (NM)
Ensign (NV)
Graham (NH)
Hagel (NE)
Kyle (AZ)
Lott (MS)
Lugar (IN)
Martinez (FL)
McCain (AZ)
McConnell (KY)
*Murkowski (AK)
Snowe (ME)
Specter (PA)
*Stevens (AK)
Voinovich (OH)
Warner (VA)

* Of course Sen. Stevens and Murkowski voted for Shamnesty — being the furthest land-connected US state from Mexico, Alaska only has a 5.1% Hispanic population, with little to no chance of that increasing due to illegal immigration. Here in Texas (35.1%) and in California (35.2%), the cost of your amnesty program will be shouldered disproportionately to their burden.

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Bryan Preston asks:

What is going on behind the scenes to move so many democratically elected officials to vote against the express wishes of the voters who put them in office?

I’d like to know what incentives or promises were dangled in their greedy-little faces to make them ignore the overwhelming will of the voters.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 | Trackback |

10 Responses to “President Bush’s Shamnesty Plan Passes First Hurdle”

Thanks for taking the time to “name the names” of the people responsible for allowing this bill to rear it’s ugly head.

Would it be possible to have alternate entry points for those comming back into the US once the Z-Visa is issued in Mexico? I nominate Massachusetts. Let them take a few hurricane victims next time as well.

Considering the huge opposition to this bill, how the hell is it still around? Does this have anything to do with oil? WTF?

Left by Kemo on June 26th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

To say I am pissed is an understatement. That weasel Reid is fixing the whole process. I have never known an issue where so many people have besieged their legislators with their distaste of this amnesty bill. I’m not done yet and I hope you’re not either. Sam amnesty Brownback will continue to hear from me…

Left by Dianne on June 26th, 2007 at 6:05 pm

Kemo — welcome to the conversation, buddy. What took you so long?

Left by Robbie on June 26th, 2007 at 7:07 pm

It sounds like you suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Left by Preston on June 27th, 2007 at 8:04 am

Heard Voinovich on the radio. El Asshole Grande. He won’t commit himself, so put him in the pro - amnesty column.

Left by kma on June 27th, 2007 at 4:13 pm

What is going on behind the scenes to move so many democratically elected officials to vote against the express wishes of the voters who put them in office?

This is exactly wrong. The vast majority of Americans want to give a path to citizenship to undocumented immigrants.

Left by Preston on June 28th, 2007 at 6:45 am

Preston: You are exactly wrong. Refute this.

Left by Dianne on June 28th, 2007 at 7:17 am

Dianne- There is no refuting that no one likes this bill. That’s the fate of a compromise.

But the fact remains that Americans- by a two to one ratio- believe that illegal immigrants should have a path to citizenship.

Left by Preston on June 29th, 2007 at 6:58 am

First Preston, consider the source of the poll (the open-borders cheering writers and editors of the NY Times).

The question I assume you are alluding to is this one:

What should happen to illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. for at least two years?

A) Should be deported
B) Should be allowed to apply for legal status

The problem is that there already is a path to legal status. It’s called going back to your home country, and applying to come here legally in accord with our country’s current immigration policy.

Further, one of the amendments (from my honorable Senator Hutchinson) would have required those wishing for “legal status” to return home and apply from their country of origin — which is in accordance with our laws.

But that amendment was voted down.

Americans do not support amnesty. We do not support illegal immigration. We do however, support legal immigration. And I think that is what people in that poll were voting for.

Left by Robbie on June 29th, 2007 at 7:45 am

The problem is that there already is a path to legal status. It’s called going back to your home country, and applying to come here legally in accord with our country’s current immigration policy.

And that option was rejected by two to one by the American people.

Your interpretation of the poll as refering to legal immigration is pretty desperate given the wording of the question:
What should happen to illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. for at least two years?

Left by Preston on June 30th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

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