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The grotesquely offensive assault on the American voters was dealt a crushing blow as clueless supporters of the Senate Immigration Reform Bill blew up in dramatic fashion when they realized that their coveted bill was going down in flames.

Some smart and many reluctant Senators voted against the attempt to end debate and essentially kill the bill by a vote of 53 to 46, a total of 16 votes short of the necessary majority to invoke cloture.

Reaction was as expected.

Ted Kennedy ironically summed up my idea of the entire state of the senate when he said “We know what they’re against — we don’t know what they’re for,”

No shit, clueless as always. So Ted Kennedy did what most clueless morons do when they fail at their attempts to pull the wool over an informed opponent, he reached for the ad hominem comparison to Nazis.

Perhaps, Mr. Kennedy suggested, the bill’s opponents envision some kind of “gestapo” to round up illegal immigrants. “That’s their alternative?” Mr. Kennedy shouted. “That’s their alternative?” - N.Y. Times

Pretty strong words coming from the only active U.S. Senator to have walked away scott free from a drowning companion, much like a heartless Nazi would have.

But Ted Kennedy wasn’t the only Senator to travel down the path less gracious in the realization that a power to the people moment was about to temporarily right a listing ship. Senator Dick “Turbin” Durbin attacked opponents of the bill as negative voices of exclusion; i.e. xenophobes and racists.

“Even if you disagree with this bill, don’t end this debate,” said Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who urged his colleagues to reject “these voices of exclusion” opposing the measure and not “say we are surrendering to these negative voices across America.” - LA Times

Senator Lindsay Graham proved why he will likely be sent packing in the next election by using scare mongering as a platform.

“remember this day if you vote no. You will never have this day again…. This is as good as it is going to get.”

I will offer an alternative to Mr. Graham, “Remember this day because you voted yes. You may never have this day again but hard working Americans will continue to push for border enforcement that will not discriminate against legal immigrants while protecting the residents of this fine land. You certainly are not as good as it gets.”

Meanwhile it appears that the writers and editors at the Washington Post simply write anything for effect.

“This immigration debate has become a war between the American people and their government,” proclaimed Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who led a small group of Republican senators who used every parliamentary maneuver they could find to stymie progress on the bill over the past month. “It transcends anything about immigration. It has become a crisis of confidence.”

Apparently the staff writers at the WaPo are too stupid to pay attention to what has actually been happening on the Senate floor. It was Harry Reid who used unprecedented methods to shelve amendments and limit debate by handpicking which ones would be included by staying on the floor thus denying all Senators except for himself a chance to offer amendments. The plan was outed on July 26th and we actually saw it in action yesterday. So my message to the Washington Post is the same as it always has been, you are full of shit, even when you get close to reporting the story correctly your classless activists in the newsroom continue to prove why American’s are turning away from the MSM in droves.

This was a victory for the American people. The issue was not partisan although democrats and republicans alike opposed the bill for different reasons. What really happened was that this issue underscored how out of touch our high brow elitist politicians are with the American electorate. Congressional approval ratings are at an all time low and this will only help get people to the polls and vote for change in 2008.

As the saying goes, you are either with us or you are against us. It’s time that our elected leaders look in the mirror real hard and decide which side of that equation they are on.

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