I just watched this video via The Political Pit Bull, for the 4th time, and still can’t figure out what Ted Kennedy was saying! I am guessing that he doesn’t want an actual wall because we saw people stopped at the border by the wall? And they died? So go with the virtual fence? See what you come up with!
Not to be outdone by Teddy, John McCain suggested to Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, that he call the immigration bill a banana, but don’t call it amnesty! Gee, all Vitter wanted was to follow the current laws before granting citizenship!
The Senate labored to complete work by next week on immigration legislation that generally follows an outline Bush set out in a nationally televised speech this week.
The measure includes provisions to strengthen border security, create a new guest worker program and crack down on the hiring of illegal immigrants.Most controversially, it offers an eventual chance at citizenship for many of the estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country. Senate Republicans staged an impromptu, occasionally emotional debate over whether that amounted to amnesty.
Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said it did. “Surely this is a pardon from what present law says must happen,” he said of provisions in the bill that require immigrants to undergo background checks, pay back taxes and take other steps before they can become citizens.
Sens. John McCain and Chuck Hagel replied heatedly it was not amnesty.
“Let’s stop the nonsense,” said Hagel, addressing fellow Republicans. “You all know it’s not amnesty.” Said McCain, addressing Vitter, “Call it a banana if you want to … to call the process that we require under this legislation amnesty frankly distorts the debate and it’s an unfair interpretation of it.”
Vitter sought the last word. “Methinks thou dost protest too much.”
Me too Senator!
So we will get a 370 mile fence along the southern border.
The Senate voted to build 370 miles of triple-layered fencing along the Mexican border Wednesday and clashed over citizenship for millions of men and women who live in the United States illegally.
Amid increasingly emotional debate over election-year immigration legislation, senators voted 83-16 to add fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. It marked the first significant victory in two days for conservatives seeking to place their stamp on the contentious measure.The prospects were less favorable for their attempt to strip out portions of the legislation that could allow citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants and create new guest worker programs.
Let’s Take a look at what Congress was up to on this subject:
Across the Capitol in the House, the story was different. Republicans pushed through a border security bill last year, and several members of the rank-and-file have criticized Bush for his proposals. To calm their concerns, the White House dispatched Karl Rove to their weekly closed-door meeting.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, an outspoken opponent of the Senate bill, derided the effort. “I didn’t see it was a persuasive event. If it was about Karl Rove seeking to convince members of Congress after debate that he’s right and we’re wrong it would have been better not to have the meeting,” he said.King said Rove told lawmakers Bush is sincere about enforcement. But, he added, “The president doesn’t want to enforce immigration law because he’s afraid he’ll inconvenience someone who wants to come into the country for a better life.”
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., agreed that Rove did not seem to have been persuasive. “It’s not the kind of issue you can compromise on; either you’re giving amnesty to people who are here illegally or you aren’t.”
I must say that I loved pretend news headline by one of Michelle’s readers!
Illegal Immigrants Hired to Build Fence To Keep Illegal Immigrants Out
“They’ll work for cheap and get the job done right,” Pres. Bush said.
I hate to say this, but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if that turned out to be true!
Here are the 16 senators who voted against it:
Akaka, HI; Bingaman, NM; Cantwell, WA; Dodd, CT; Durbin, IL; Feingold, WI; Inouye, HI; Jeffords, VT; Kennedy, MA; Lautenberg, NJ; Lieberman, CT; Menendez, DJ; Murray, WA; Obama, IL; Reed, RI; and Sarbanes, MD
inside the former USA I would like to say that this evil Red known by the name McCain is doinf a great job killing the people here for his Red friends. people who didn’t see what the two are have what will happen coming, if for will not fight for your rights you have only one thing coming death by your own third world government.:mad: what low life pigs inside the brown house. and ask what the fence will mean to you when you are inside the big camp once known as the USA, The drug dealers of mexico must be having fun in mexico city.
Maybe McCain should be returned to the hanoi hilton for a years stay and maybe Kennedy should be sent to that place called CHAPAQUEDIC and make him stand on the bridge:lol:
I would like to say more, but I feel this way!:evil::twisted::evil::twisted::evil::mad: to the two evil reds! i will say no moew, don’t want to be beaten to death inside the former USA. ONE WORLD, THIRD WORLD IDEALS:mad:
I think they should build a fence around Chapatraitor Kennedy. They do have such things, actually, called prisons. That’s where he belongs imo.
McCain? The NVA must have done something to his brain. He acts like a Manchurian candidate at times.
President Bush was down on the border with Janet N today. I was not pleased with what he had to say. it seemsa that they still haven’t figured out that soldiers on the border aren’t soldiers unless they have guns, and are nothing but school crossing guards if they can’t take illegal border crossers into custody. Yes, I can see how having the National Guard build roads, fences, and perform surveillance duties will certainly help the border patrol, but if they aren’t actually going to be used to guard the nation, why are they called National Guard?
Of course, Mexico is threatening lawsuits if the guardsmen actually detain any illegal entering the US. Time for the Dept of State to tell Vicente that he may have won the election in Mexico, but not the one in the US. The Mexican government is also hosting a convention on a response by central American countries on a response to the US government building a wall to secure our borders. I think the correct response is to follow the Jean Kirkpatrick model. When the 3rd world toadies lined up to sign off on one of Cuba’s infinite number of Anti US proclamations in the UN, she got pissed. She had her assistant get a list of the countries signing off on it and how much aid they received. A few phone calls later and every cosponsor withdrew their support and wouldn’t even vote for ANYTHING that condemned the US. Too bad we don’t have enough Senators with balls that big. Kyl has them. If they Congress really wanted to impact the illegal alien issue, they’d also pass legislation preventing any foreign nation from filing suit in US courts over actions taken by the US to secure its borders. That’s one of those funny little parts of the Constitution that is used so rarely, The Congress has the ability to dictate what the federal courts have jurisdiction over.No jurisdiction, no lawsuit.