06.28.07
Amnesty dies again
The Senate couldn’t revive the Kennedy / McCain / W exercise in crass-manipulation-of-feelings-over-principle-and-security.
I started to feel pretty good about it yesterday as various Senators frantically tried to concoct amendments and get backing for them. So much stuff got tacked onto the basic amnesty, pulling it every which way, that the basic patty-cake-with-lawbreakers at the core of the thing could no longer stand the strain and wound up in tatters.
Okay, now all you members of that august chamber: debate the truly important stuff, like the height of the fence and the gauge of the wire on top of it.
Of course, the MSM is playing up the defeat-for-Bush angle. Appropos of my post below, “The Mind of W,” it’s a strange new world when my reaction to such headlines is “And a damn good thing, too!”
NQS said,
June 28, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Yeah!! A glimmer of hope.
Mr. Dings said,
June 28, 2007 at 7:50 pm
This is what we do in a democracy. The answers will come. Probably another camel–the horse designed by committee. Build your fence and what will you get, people getting around it. Stop paying them and they will have to leave. There are not that many feelings folk here over principle and security. That was about as bipartisan bill as there can be, though, so its onto another tack, We still can’t get Iraq resolved in Congress either, yet more and more throw in the towel each day. Damn them if you will but it all will come out in the wash, perhaps not bleach white. Babble on, Babel.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
June 28, 2007 at 8:00 pm
“Bipartisan” is one of those words taht makes me smell trouble. It’s usually code for “the Reasonable Gentlemen are getting their nads handed to them by the Freedom Haters.”
Mr. Dings said,
June 29, 2007 at 1:43 am
Immigration reform, they say now, will have to wait until the next administration. So let’s all stop crying about it and start enforcing the law we already have. That means busting the people hiring them. And sending all the illegals back home, doesn’t it? Not sure about the fence. Is that fence supposed to run east to west on both borders?
Mr. Dings said,
June 29, 2007 at 12:33 pm
The bill was bipartisan, but the Hoosier vote was Bayhpolarized.
Senator Richard Lugar, a Republican, voted with most Democrats in an unsuccesful effort to move the bill toward final passage. Sen. Evan Bayh, a Democrat, voted with most Republicans to stop it. Bayh said he didn’t think the bill would ensure illegal immigration was controlled before setting up a guest worker program and path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already here. “my major concern is that the security provisions be implemented first,” he said. Lugar’s spokesman said Lugar generally has supported the provisions in the bill in the hopes of achieving “some sort of meaningful reform. He arees withthe president that the status quo is not acceptable, and we must find a realistic solution to the illegal immigrants living in this country.”
The legislation would have ensured a steady streamof authorized workers in industries as august as hi tech, which are globally disadvantaged because they cannot draw from a pool of workers more qualified than those educated within our shores. Lets take care of us. Ah, but you might say you can’t throw money at problems? We sure throw enough of it for guns and enforcement of our wartime activities against other perceived enemies, within and without.
So, onto enforcement of laws already in effect for over two decades. Perhaps they can spare some choppers that are at this moment flying over domestic cornfields, in their perennial efforts at enforcement of drug laws implemented in that War against Our Own People begun 3 decades ago. We now have crack cocaine, meth, and a host of new and improved pharmaceuticals, addicting the brilliant and the base. Let freedom chop, chop, chop, chop….
Mr. Dings said,
July 9, 2007 at 3:01 am
The Catholic take:
http://www.archindy.org/criterion/national/06-29-immigration.html
Catholic reaction to the failed attempt to pass the immigration bill has been largely negative.
Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of San Bernardino, Calif., issued a statement June 29 as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, saying the bishops were troubled by the failure to reform the immigration system. He called the current state of the system “morally unacceptable.”
“The U.S. bishops shall continue to point out the moral deficiencies in the immigration system and work toward justice until it is achieved,” he said.
Father Larry Snyder, the president of Catholic Charities U.S.A., called the Senate’s inability to agree on comprehensive immigration reform a “monumental failure for our country.” He lamented the unchanged fate of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants who live in fear of deportation.
“Today’s action to give up on the bill leaves in place the status quo — a deeply flawed, untenable and much-criticized immigration system that is (in) desperate need of reform,” Father Snyder said in a statement.