Clay Pigeon = Dead Duck
Democratic Senate leadership incompetence on track to derail the Illegration bill. Praise where praise is due for Harry Reid:
The Senate immigration bill lost supporters yesterday and hangs on by a thread heading into this morning’s showdown vote, after lawmakers voted down amendments making illegal aliens show roots to get legal status and cutting off their path to citizenship.
This morning’s vote is on a parliamentary question about limiting debate, but it boils down to a vote to block the bill …
“The way this has been handled, I’m not going to take a leap of faith,” said Sen. Richard M. Burr, North Carolina Republican, who voted to advance the bill on Tuesday but said the way Democratic leaders ran the floor yesterday left no room to “take a bad bill and make it better.”
Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, said he has voted to keep the bill moving a half-dozen times already on “cloture” votes, but yesterday’s debate showed him the bill is probably unsalvageable.
“I’ve given them six or seven cloture votes,” he said. “I think this clay pigeon is becoming a dead duck.”
… Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, tried to thread the bill through the floor through a technique known as a “clay pigeon,” after the target in skeet shooting. It involves introducing one amendment and then exploding it into a series of amendments, and allows Democrats to block out other amendments.
But that infuriated a small group of Republicans who said they were being shut out of the debate. They spent the day disrupting Mr. Reid’s plans, leaving the chamber at a standstill. Last night, they sensed victory.
“They tried to railroad this through today, but we derailed the train,” said Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican.
Captain’s Quarters: Dems set to blame Bush in Dead Duck’s paternity test.
Bush has been slammed by the right for this abomination of an amnesty bill, but before this is over, we may be saluting his evil genius for giving Kumbaya bi-partisanship the old school try before doing something radical like … I don’t know … enforcing the law.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:25 am on Thursday, June 28, 2007
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June 28th, 2007 at 9:46 am
The entire Senate appears to have turned into idiots. Whatever Reid and Kennedy have, it must be contagious. I hope that the CDC is working diligently to contain the infection to the Senate Chambers.
June 28th, 2007 at 11:57 am
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June 28th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
2007.06.28 “No Illegal Left Behind” Roundup — Special “Clay Pigeon or Dead Duck?” Edition
!!!Yo, Jorge! Up yours! Cloture failed!!! See previous: 2007.06.27 No Illegal Left Behind Roundup It’s make or break time, maybe. If the Masters of the Universe can come up with 60 votes for cloture on the Jorge McKennedy No Illegal Left Behind bill t…
June 28th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Thank God the thing failed, and in no uncertain terms as well. For the life of me I can’t figure out why the Republicans went along with this, unless they were counting on the public outrage to pressure the Doomicrats and save them from themselves. That way nobody could call them “racist, nyah, nyah!”
In any case, I’m still angry and distrustful at the way this was handled, and I hope the legal immigrants in this country are fuming as well.