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I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul for your valour, vision, constancy and grit, in this grueling, grueling battle for the soul of the country.
And I know my sentiment is shared by millions out there.
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Where might one go to see how their senators voted? |
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What a wonderful wonderful result!!! |
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Thanks Hugh
Listen to you show on the way home from work in Dallas. Wrote my senator. Your spirit on this issue motivated me to do so.
Thanks for that. |
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Hugh,
Thanks for being there!!! |
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Great News! Now how do we get Jorge and Chertoff to actually do their jobs of enforcing the border? I know little chance...so let's get a GOP candidate elected who will take his oath of office seriously and faithfully execute his duties with the mostly good laws already on the books to protect our borders and at least start to winnow down the 20 million or so invaders that we have allowed in our country. It's now time to fight the de facto amnesty! |
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Dean, you too, deserve our deepest thanks for standing firm against this nightmare.
Both of you have earned the thanks of an entire nation.
Whether they know it or not.
How fitting that this victory, the greatest legislative victory in our lifetimes, was earned during the anniversary of Operation Overlord.
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zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZIIIING!!!!!!!!
It's called "puttin' the boot in the groin." |
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Thank God this over... for little while.
This issue really ticked me off. I am very angry with "W" and this chicken droppings plan. I am amazed that the Republicans would
Co-present a bill that Teddy Kennedy authored. They must think that We the People wouldn't notice. The Senator's witn an "R" after their names are such dupes. It's a Trojan Horse.
I contacted my Senators- Joe Biden and Tom (the invisible man) Carper when this crappola was first exposed. Needless to say, they did not respond to my concerns,. GOD BLESS AMERICA. |
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NumbersUSA says over one million people called, emailed Congress and the White House. They thanked Talk Radio, bloggers and likely voters! I know many who called and wrote. I wrote 15 Senators and one actually answered as did Rasmussen himself about his polls on illegal immigration. The citizens spoke and Reid, Kennedy, Graham, Lott, McCain and the Prez were all Mitchslapped. To not only save our national security, I just emailed McCon and the Prez to do one bill on enforcement; please do the same. Remember, they will try to bring this up again in one form or another. Keep up the pressure on this issue. |
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As our host eluded to, they will take this back to their secret chamber and try some different lipstick on this pig. It will be back, they just want to let people go back to sleep. Or get on board enough of those only concerned with the jihadis and are not at all concerned about the cheap labor express. If they can satisfy Hugh's jihadi concerns, he will be for amnesty and guestworkers. Those who do not want amnesty and want the border secured and the law enforced will have to elect a President who will do so. The current one has made it clear he will not. The money people in the GOP are all open borders cheap labor importers. The front runners are all beholden to them. Vote accordingly. |
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Good intentions, bad law, very poor behavior and bad legislative procedure on the part of most of its proponents. For all the complaining that will now ensue this deserved to get defeated, and at last conservatives and the GOP can move on to other business. |
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We won, but with this Presidency, who likes to return to his failures, we'll have to keep an eye on him.
For we dare not trust him, ever again.
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I feel for you. I used to live in Delaware. In Virginia we used to be a solidly red state, but with so many transplants from the northeast, we've become a purple state. George Allen shot himself in the foot and John Warner has gone soft in the head. We're not in much better shape here. Of course, Webb is no Biden. |
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So what Laws do I as an American get to break?
Not pay my taxes?
Drive after two sips of Niquil with out a DWI?
Not get a ticket for no seat belt or helmet?
The very same Folks who tell us we do not have enough water, Fuel, Electric, or land to Build our homes on, tell us we are a land of plenty to absorb 12 to 20 million Illegal Aliens?
A law should be written that is smaller then a T.V. Guide and NOT the size of a Bible that will make the Illegal Aliens leave on their own.
We could really same some time and use the Immigration Laws from Mexico. Those guys know how to keep people out of a Country. |
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Remember when the results of the Iraq Study Group came out, and all the Conservatives ripped it, and President Bush went out there and rejected the very notion of sitting down with the Iranians.
And what did he do?
He let the issue slip under the radar screen for a while, then he maneuvered the Iraqi government into sitting down and talking with the Iranians, while we were simply at the table.
And then, just a couple months after that, WE ARE IN DIRECT TALKS wiht the Iranians, EXACTLY as the Iraq Study Group recommended.
SEE, with this guy, he gives a little feint, gives a little ground, then maneuvers back to his bipartisaness.
Trust him not at all, not as far as you can throw him.
And recall too how he campaigned in 2000 and 2004, when he said that he wanted men like Scalia and Thomas. But then he broached the issue of appointing Gonzales, {and we all know about how lame he is right now} and then he stealthily, ever so stealthy tried to slip Harriet Meirs under our Conservative radar.
SO DON'T TRUST THIS GUY.
NEVER, never again.
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...so when has there been a more useless Congress? In both the Senate and the House, the most you can say for it is that it excels at merely threatening catastrophe. |
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These are the so-called R law-breakers who voted with the Teddy wing tonight: Graham, Hagel, Lugar, Martinez, McCain, Specter, Voinovich.
Never forget these Dirty 7...they must pay!
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You won, Hugh. But you lost me! I thought you were a moderate conservative who tirelessly worked hard to build our majority ... but you got carried away! I am an immigrant who came here legally in 1983. I paid thousands and thousands of dollars to get my green card (in 1993 - after 10 long years) and then became a citizen in 1999. I had no problem with this bill. Instead of concentrating on the defects in the bill and fixing it, you campaigned against the senators who supported the bill, so that you could kill it. You can "hughslap" all you want but my feeling is: you solidified your base with a lot of Buchanites but lost a lot of Bush conservatives! |
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...conservative, Mythili. |
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...that Senators McCain and Kennedy, who tried so hard to jam this travesty down the throats of the American people, have wound up having the bill jammed UP another of their orifices. |
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Mythili,
Thank you for coming to our Country the right way and obeying our Laws.
Thank you for not crashing our boarders and being respectfull.
Welcome to America! |
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To Mythili
My American brother. I am so impressed with your conviction to become an American Citizen. But, my friend their is no such thing as a moderate conservative. This bill stinks. Allowing felons the same rights as American citizens is not... American. If we need to have a new Immigration Bill to supplant the 1986 one(which is not being enforced), our Senators need to come up with something better than this mess |
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Thanks Hugh!
Wow, we have a completely disfunctional political class, we need term limits, vote the bums out, no amnesty for RHINOS! |
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I agree that the bill needs reworking, but something needs to happen to speed the process along. Too much time is going into this, and i believe this bill needs to go through NOW! |
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A news reporter on a local radio station here tonight said,
"You know how everyone is saying we can't deport 12 to 20 million people? Apparently Mexico has done it..."
I cheered. |
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Congratulations, Hugh,
A great day for the rule of law and for we Americans who work hard, play by the rules, and, the President's opinion to the contrary, want what's best for America.
The leading Republican candidates really will now be the party's leadership until the 2008 election. President Bush has abdicated. He should have run for the senate if he cared so much about legislation and so little about faithfully executing the laws already executed. Shame. |
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After looking at the roll call of votes from the cloture vote on this amnesty bill, can it now be said that the two biggest King's of Pork; Robert Byrd and Ted Stevens, are more fiscally conservative than Mr. Anti Pork crusader John McCain? John McCain felt perfectly fine saddling American taxpayers with a $2.6 trillion bar tab for womb to tomb care of the mostly indigent and uneducated illegals currently deployed within our borders. In seemingly endless careers in the Senate I would have to imagine that all of the pork from these two relics of Byrd and Stevens combined still adds up to be far short of the inconceivable sum of $2.6 trillion. |
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We must make certain the next President will secure the border and enforce the laws. The levers of power in the GOP are all in the hands of the cheap labor importers. Mel Martinez was chosen as Chairman to make sure the nominee will not stop the cheap labor express. All the money players want the same thing. The primary voters must choose carefully and not be hoodwinked into nominating someone who promises no amnesty (like GWB, he's still saying it), but has no intention of enforcing the laws. |
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There has been a great deal I have found amusing about the immigration debate. Has anyone looked at how long some of these people have been in Congress sucking off the American people. When was the last time Teddy actually had a real job? What about Robert Byrd. They say the illegals are here doing jobs Americans won't. How many perfectly health American males are getting some kind of government entitlement that could be doing this kind of work.
A big problem is a lot of you have lazy kids. You buy them too much useless crap and now they won't work because they feel they are above any type of manual labor. I have a neighbor with 2 teenage boys that pays for a lawn service because he does not have the time to cut the yard and his boys won't. A 6 year old does not need a gameboy of their own or a TV in their room. My kids get made because before I will give them money for something I ask them what they did to earn it, they get mad and walk away. So, make your kids get off their rear and do the jobs none of us will supposedly do. If they learn about hard labor when they are young, maybe they will study harder so they will not have to do it when they are older. This is what motivated me to become a physician. |
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there's been so much talk about the immigration bill and how nothing was done. finally something can be done and have everyone shut up about it... well, until congress bunks it up again. |
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Please remember that next November
Barbara Boxer voted against it - she is already afraid of losing to Arnold
Jim Webb voted against it - smart move |
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So the bill is dead. It is my feeling that now nothing will happen. For some years. Not that I was for the bill but this result seems to ensure that nothing happens on this issue at all. No matter who gets elected Pres. next because we will probably have nearly 60 Democratic Senators and an even larger Dem majority in the House. I know this is not a reason to support a faulty bill, but it seems to be a big problem to finding any solution at all. |
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