Amnesty Bill Is Losing Support
Keep calling your Senators. The pressure is too much for them!!!
by Charles Coughlin
It looks as though the battle over the Senate’s Amnesty Bill is turning against George Bush and the Open Borders crowd. A Reuters article reports “A group of Republican senators opposed to a sweeping immigration overhaul that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants said on Thursday they were determined to torpedo the bill when the Senate resumes debate next week. ‘The process has been rigged from the beginning, which we think gives us justification to use every measure possible to slow this thing down and stop it,’ said Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, at a news conference. DeMint and other Republican opponents argue the bill amounts to amnesty for millions of law-breakers with no guarantee that tough border security and workplace enforcement measures would go into effect. They argue the legalization program will only encourage more illegal immigration.”
Just a few weeks ago it looked as though this bill would be rammed through regardless of public opinion. Trent Lott appeared on TV telling pro-Amnesty Senators to ignore the talk radio show hosts. The Washington Post notes “It was a casual shot across the bow, a comment last week from Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott: Advocates of an immigration overhaul would have to ‘deal’ with talk-radio hosts who he said don’t know what is in the legislation but want to kill it nonetheless. The return fire to that passing comment has been withering, as some of the nation’s most prominent conservative talkers turn on a man they once defended adamantly. …A National Review blogger tagged the senator ‘Vacant Lott.’ Conservative talker Hugh Hewitt warned that Lott, R-Miss., would only ‘further motivate the base because to the reality of a bad bill and past insults is now added a genuine note of dislike’ for those conservatives. ‘When I hear a United States senator say that what I do for a living is a ‘problem’ that the government has to ‘deal with,’ you can interpret it any number of ways,’ Rush Limbaugh said on the air. “He’s either saying, ‘Well, we’re going to have to come up with our own ways to overcome them’ or ‘We’re going to just have to wipe them out.’ …(after stirring up the talk radio hornet’s next, Lott said) ‘I’ve had my phones jammed for three weeks. Yesterday I had three people answering them continuously all day.’ “
Trent Lott isn’t the only one to get his phone lines jammed with angry Americans. A massive grass roots campaign has been launched by various Internet patriots to kill this bill. The campaign seems to be working. Both Senators from Georgia have announced that they will vote against the bill. Senator Kaye Bailey Hutchison from Texas has announced her opposition to the bill as well as Senator John Cornyn, the other Senator from Texas.
The Senate came under a withering amount of criticism a month ago, which resulted in the bill being declared “dead” by Senate majority leader Harry Reid. 49 Senators voted to filibuster –more than enough votes to lock up the bill indefinitely. Despite all this, the Amnesty Bill was brought back from the dead thanks to pressure from the worst president in American history, George W. Bush. Given the complete irrelevance of this lame duck president, it’s a wonder that anyone would even return his phone calls, let alone make a suicidal career blunder by sticking their necks out for an illegal alien amnesty on his behalf.
The battle is not over yet, but it’s looking good for our side. We need to keep pressuring the Senate and demanding that they kill this bill. After you call your Senators and tell them to vote no on Amnesty, call Senators in other states too. The Amnesty Bill is the biggest threat to the future of America, and we should all make a maximum effort to tell our politicians what we think about it.
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