Democrat Whining In Immmigration Reform’s Aftermath
Democrats took varying approaches in the aftermath of last night’s final defeat to the immigration bill. (I refuse to call it reform.) According to this NY Times article, Harry Reid whined while Ted Kennedy blustered about the status quo not being acceptable:
“The vote was obviously a big disappointment, but it makes no sense to fold our tent, and I certainly don’t intend to,” said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, (D-MA), and a chief author of the bill. “Doing nothing is totally unacceptable.”
Fight on all you want, Sen. Kennedy. Expend all the energy that you can muster. Last night verified what we learned last year: that comprehensive immigration reform is a nonstarter until we see the Bush administration and the Senate get serious about stopping the flow of illegal immigrants by building the fence.
It’s time that the Senate listened to the people for a change instead of listening to Ted’s bluster. It’s time that they realized that the American people insist on being heard. This bill was essentially a collection of poison pills, none of which did a thing to improve border enforcement. It was a ‘Washington knows best’ bill.
While Teddy blustered about continuing the fight, Harry Reid opted for full spin mode:
Mr. Reid said the critics were simply stalling and would never be satisfied. Noting the Senate had considered more than 40 amendments and held 28 roll call votes, he attributed the failure of the bill to Republican recalcitrance.
It’s time that Reid realized that the bill was a collection of fatal flaws. This bill was doomed because it didn’t do anything to enforce the borders. That’s why a number of Republican amendments were offered. Reid, Kennedy, McCain and Specter took a ‘Washington knows best’ perspective to this. They refused to give a fair hearing to legitimate amendments that would’ve made the bill acceptable. When they refused to take serious amendments seriously, the American people started burning up the phone lines to Washington.
As I’ve said before, this bill collapsed because there wasn’t a single good reason for it to pass. Good riddance.
Technorati Tags: Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Arlen Specter, John McCain, Illegal Immigration, John Cornyn, Poison Pill, Border Enforcement, Law Enforcement, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 8th, 2007 at 7:03 am
If Mr. Kennedy could get his pickled brain to function long enough to read the immigration laws already on the books, he (and all the other donkeys/jackasses/libs/moonbats) could probably find a way to use Mr. B’s failure to uphold the laws and in fact discard them in favor of supplying slave labor for major agribusinesses, national contractors and sweat shops. You know, something about “high crimes and misdemeanors” or somesuch.
Unfortunately, his actions are not treason because his actions are not to overthrow the government but to redefine it through illegal toadying to criminal aliens. At the very least that is aiding and abetting.
Same for all the senatorial supporters.
I wonder if any of them have a clue how angry the majority of their constituents have become, and how much more lying they’ll have to do to be re-elected?
Vipers.
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