Showing posts with label Nancy Pelosi. Show all posts
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Friday, May 18, 2007

HAVE THE BILL READ BY THE SENATE CLERK


Senate Procedures and the Amnesty Bill

—Jack M.

Can the anti-Amnesty forces filibuster this abomination? Probably not. Over at the Corner, Rich Lowry says that supporters of the bill probably have 70-75 votes, which would easily invoke cloture if true.

However, there is a parliamentary maneuver that can embarrass the bill's managers: any Senator has the right to demand that the bill be read in it's entirety by the Clerk. Once this point of order is invoked, the Clerk must read the bill outloud, and, more importantly, the Senate can not (if I remember the rule correctly) take any action to prevent the Senator who made the demand from being able to sit there and hear the whole thing.

This rule is often invoked as a "quasi-filibuster". Often, a Senator will use it to demand that a bill that is, say, 1000 pages long be read, knowing that it would take hours, if not a couple of days, for this to actually be carried out. This greatly annoys Senate Leadership, as it prevents them from conducting business on the floor.

The only way I know of for the request to read the bill to be overruled is if the Senate agrees, by Unanimous Consent, to waive the reading of the bill once it's started. As long as the Senator who asked for it to be read objects to the UC request, however, the Senate floor is brought to a stop.

I have no doubt that the lawyers who work for the Senate Legislative Counsel are feverishly drafting language as we speak, and will be doing so through the weekend.

However that doesn't mean it will get done, does it? In fact, it very well might not be finished.

It really would be embarrassing if a Senator went to the floor and demanded a bill be read only to have the clerk say that "we have no bill or legislation before us to read" wouldn't it?

Similarly, it would be awfully helpful to have the Senate tied up so that the American people could make their voices heard, I think.

So when you are contacting your Senators, ask them to demand that the bill be read in its entirety.

They shouldn't have the luxury of voting for something as early as Monday that we all know neither they nor their staffs have read in full.

GOODBYE REPUBLICAN PARTY! WELCOME MEXICO NORTH!



What fuckin bullshit shit for brains do we have in Washington! This is a disgrace and President Bush YOU HAVE WENT TOO FAR! YOU ARE GUARANTEEING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WITH THIS!

AND WHEN IT GOES WRONG AND YOU FINALLY REALIZE WHAT YOU DID! THE KENNEDYS AND PELOSIS AND THE UNHINGED LEFT FRINGE WILL BLAME YOU BECAUSE YOU SIGNED IT!!!

YOU HAVE LOST MY LAST VESTIGES OF CONFIDENCE IN YOU WITH THIS ONE.

ILLEGALS DO NOT WANT TO ASSIMILATE.

LA RAZA HELPED TO DRAFT THIS - AND They already are sayin the $5K is TOO Much so, what'll they do - MAKE US PAY THAT FUCKIN THING TOO!

MULTICULTARALISM IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS NATION!

-J Steele

A Legal Immigrant Vents About the Amnesty Bill

Presenting Emperor Darth Misha I (language warning):

Thanks for the slap in the face, you nutless nincompoops. After all the hoops that yours truly jumped through gladly to become a citizen, it’s really heartwarming to see you fuckheads handing out the status for free to a bunch of law-breaking fucknozzles whose only qualification for being here is that they managed to swim across the Rio Grande.

That option, sadly, wasn’t open to us since swimming the Atlantic is a bit more than even we can handle. Not that we’d have done so anyway. It’s called “respect for the law”, and you empty, corrupt suits in DC might want to look into it one day.

And please, don’t give us any spin about “border security measures needing to be in place before amnesty” either. We heard it all before. 1986, anyone? You’re going to run from that requirement faster than Whorealdo Rivera can run to a camera. Not that it matters anyway. You’ve just handed out amnesty to 12-20 million lawbreakers, parasites that have been sucking the blood out of our system for years without paying a red dime into it.

Come on, Misha. We all know that three of the Fort Dix Six came here over the Mexican border illegally in 1984 to work. This has no implications for national security at all. And as for your long, hard struggle to become a legal US citizen?

Stop being anti-Hispanic!11!!

By Good Lt. at 08:05 AM | Comments | digg this

Another Flavor of Political Suicide?

Posted at Captain's Journal:

[W]hile the various conservative commentaries and blogs seem to get [immigration] about right, no one seems to be focusing on what the immigration phenomenon will do to the political scene in the coming decade.

If [Robert] Rector is right concerning the numbers, we will be adding tens of millions of voters to the rolls in the coming decade. These voters are by and large socialistic. The Mexican political landscape is possibly the most Marxist in the world along with a few other South American countries, and the common man in Mexico has been steeped in the politics of "oppression" for at least 70 years. Further, his religion, while ostensibly Roman Catholic, is really a form of liberation theology with the trappings of Catholicism. The typical Mexican has heard the politics of oppression not just from their politicians, but from their clergy as well. . . .

The coming years will see a cataclysmic shift in the political scene in America with the addition of millions of voters who have been trained to believe that they are “oppressed” by the bourgeois elite and who, by the gift of a vote, will then be empowered to take from the middle class the things that they see as rightfully theirs.

Why … why … why … is no one talking about this coming political earthquake?

There's a write-up on liberation theology here, if you're interested. I'm not an expert in Mexican political philosophy, but I don't find any of this hard to believe. Despite what you may have heard, Mexico is not an impoverished country because of its geography, its native species, or its name, or because it is exploited by the U.S., or because the ghost of Montezuma keeps it down, or because of its cuisine, its music or its national sport. Mexico is not an impoverished country because it lacks natural resources or hardworking people. Mexico is not kept down by the predations of the Chupacabra. Mexico is an impoverished country with a completely messed up political landscape because of its political culture--i.e., the political philosophy of its voters. These are pretty much the same types of voters you'll find in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas--with the same results.

Now, I can certainly understand why the Democrats want to give voting rights to tens of millions of brand new, poor, uneducated voters prepared to vote for the politician who'll promise the largest level of redistribution of wealth. Bringing in millions more of these voters makes perfect sense for the Democrats. But why the hell are the Republicans on board for this?

h/t : Larwyn.

By Ragnar Danneskjold, John Doe #4 at 05:44 AM | Comments | digg this

Hijacked

I've said this before, and I continue to believe it: the root of what currently ails the Republican Party is found in the White House. George W. Bush has been an almost complete disaster for the Party. This amnesty disaster is just the latest example of George W. Bush's lack of fidelity to any principles that can reasonably be called "conservative."

I say this as someone who spent my vacations campaigning for Bush in Florida both in 2000 and in 2004. I gave time and money to Bush in 2000 even though I knew he hadn't been a conservative as governor of Texas and likely wouldn't be as President. I supported Bush for one reason: because I didn't want the ACLU and People for the American Way selecting our nation's federal judges. I gave time and money to Bush again in 2004 even though he'd continued to build a lackluster track record in his four years as President. I did this for the same reason--the judges.

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By Ragnar Danneskjold, John Doe #4

Thursday, May 17, 2007

NO TO AMNESTY! THEY WILL DESTROY THIS COUNTRY! If they havent already

The press will spin this about bringing them out of the shadows and awe pity the poor immigrant.

FUCK THEM AND THIS MS OF MSM.

IT IS WRONG .


- this is not a done deal - this is the time if you have never contacted your senator or congressman - NOW IS THE TIME!!! This will kill the republican party and you gotta smell a rat when teddy the drunk is buying rounds at the watering hole for every god damn illegal in the house.... Hey - maybe he will offer to drive them all home....
-J Steele
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We need to stop this Bill to give amnesty to illegal immigrants....these are 20 million law breaking criminals. Another thing they are proposing is that after 5 years they can bring over their family. Thats another 100 million non-English speaking people and over 1/3 our current total population. This is F'd up...we need to tighten our borders.
Do if for your kids and your ancestors. All our ancestors (or parents) came to this country the legal way. They had to acclimate themselves to the "American Way" not the other way around.
I've provided a list of all the senators and congress people in the states represented by Waggers. If you need contacts for any other states go to this website: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Send emails and call. Send the following message: Forward this to everyone you know...we still have the power....Flood these guys with messages
VOTE NO TO IMMIGRATION AMNESTY....OR WE WILL VOTE YOU OUT !!
Michigan
Member Name
DC Phone
DC FAX
Email
202-224-6221
202-224-1388
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202-228-0325
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202-226-0371

Wisconsin
Member Name
DC Phone
DC FAX
Email
202-224-5653
202-224-9787
202-224-5323
202-224-2725
202-225-3031
202-225-3393
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202-225-3190
202-225-2476
202-225-2356
202-225-3365

202-225-5665
202-225-5729

Pennsylvania
Member Name
DC Phone
DC FAX
Email
202-224-5653
202-224-9787
202-224-5323
202-224-2725
202-225-3031
202-225-3393
202-225-2906
202-225-6942
202-225-5506
202-225-5739
202-225-4572
202-225-8135
202-225-5101
202-225-3190
202-225-2476
202-225-2356
202-225-3365

202-225-5665
202-225-5729

Arizona
Member Name DC Phone DC FAX Email
Senator John McCain (R- AZ) 202-224-2235 202-228-2862 http://mccain.senate.gov//contact/index.cfm?ID=64
Senator Jon Kyl (R- AZ) 202-224-4521 202-224-2207 http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Representative Rick Renzi (R - 01) 202-225-2315 202-226-9739 http://www.house.gov/renzi/email.shtml
Representative Trent Franks (R - 02) 202-225-4576 202-225-6328 http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative John B. Shadegg (R - 03) 202-225-3361 202-225-3462 http://www.house.gov/formshadegg/emailtemplate.htm
Representative Ed Pastor (D - 04) 202-225-4065 202-225-1655 http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative Harry Mitchell (D - 05) 202-225-2190 202-225-3263 http://mitchell.house.gov/
Representative Jeff Flake (R - 06) 202-225-2635 202-226-4386 http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative Raul Grijalva (D - 07) 202-225-2435 202-225-1541 http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D - 08) 202-225-2542 202-225-0378 http://giffords.house.gov/IMA/issue_subscribe.htm