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Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate Bill 1639 Amendment Debate
Michelle Malkin is live blogging the United States Senate and the amending of S. 1639.
If you want to watch Dingy Harry Reid, Democrat Senate Majority leader run roughshod over the GOP tune in to C-Span 2.
The deal is done and the folks pushing this bill will have nothing to do with any unscripted debate.
Pathetic.
Flap will be very surprised if this bill passes another cloture vote – but I have been surprised before.
Stay tuned………
Update #1
The Senate is debating something that has NOT even been printed and submitted to the Senate floor.
More foolishness from Dingy Harry.
Are you sorry for voting for cloture yet, Kit Bond et. al. ?
McConnell and Lott should be ashamed of themselves to allow this spectacle. And President Bush?
Can you have negative approval ratings?
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Immigration Off the Table?
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Illegal Immigration Watch: GOP Offers Senate Immigration Bill Change – Go Home First
Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate to Return to Immigration Bill
Illegal Immigration Watch: Reid and McConnell Revive Senate Immigration Bill
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Immigration Off the Table?
Immigration reform stayed alive in the Senate yesterday, albeit not without continuing rancor among Republicans. Restrictionists seem to believe the issue will harm the GOP if it succeeds, but we think the political reality is closer to the opposite: The greater danger for Republicans is if it fails.
We’ve written often about the merits of immigration reform, and we have our own problems with parts of the Senate bill. But it’s worth spending some time on the larger politics of the issue, especially for Republicans. They’re caught between a passionate minority of their party–who oppose any reform that allows illegals a path to citizenship–and the larger electorate, which is more moderate and wants to solve the problem. Like Democrats on national security, this is a classic case in which pandering to the base will harm the GOP overall.
But, the Wall Street Journal obfuscates the REAL ISSUE: Business wants cheap labor and an unending supply of it.
And the piece is full of racial assumptions that racial block voting will continue ad nauseum and ad infinitum.
For more blowback on the WSJ’s silly contentions is this piece in The Corner: Off the Table?
The Senate has taken immigration off the table, only in the sense that they’ve lifted up the plate and thrown its contents into the public’s face. I say that’s going to aggravate a bitter and soon-to-be long-standing national battle over immigration. The Wall Street Journal thinks otherwise. Maybe there are some business folks out there for whom this bill will solve their near-term workforce problems. For them, that suffices to take the issue off the table. But from the perspective of the politics of the nation as a whole, we have only just begun.
Stay tuned as the Senate debates and defeats GOP amendments to the Senate Immigration bill.
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Illegal Immigration Watch: What Awaits Senators When They Return Home
Illegal Immigration Watch: Immigration Bill Advances in the Senate
Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate Watch- The Seven Who Could Stop the Senate Immigration Bill
Illegal Immigration Watch: GOP Offers Senate Immigration Bill Change – Go Home First
Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate to Return to Immigration Bill
Illegal Immigration Watch: Reid and McConnell Revive Senate Immigration Bill
Illegal Immigration Watch: New Life for Senate Immigration Bill?
Michael Ramirez on Paris Hilton AND Illegal Immigration
Michael Ramirez on President Bush and Illegal Immigration
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Iran Watch: Gas Rationing Spurs Violence in Iran
A car burns inside a petrol station in northwest Tehran, 26 June 2007. Angry youths torched petrol stations and long queues formed at fuel pumps after oil-rich Iran announced the start of fuel rationing, triggering nationwide protests.
Iran fuel rationing sparks anger, pump stations burnt
Angry Iranian motorists queued for gasoline on Wednesday hours after the world’s fourth largest oil exporter imposed fuel rationing, sparking chaotic scenes and the torching of two pump stations in the capital.
Drivers raced to fill up their tanks late on Tuesday after the Oil Ministry announced the delayed scheme would finally go ahead at midnight after months of confusion and conflicting statements, forming lines that stretched hundreds of meters.
One fuel station in Pounak, a poorer area of the capital, was set alight while another in eastern Tehran was partially burnt, two of its pumps completely destroyed by fire, witnesses said.
“Last night there were a lot of fights, people were furious due to the sudden decision,” said a 55-year-old pump attendant, who asked for his name not to be used.Those who missed the midnight deadline still faced long lines early on Wednesday in a country where many see abundant and cheap fuel as a right, even after government in May hiked the liter price by 25 percent to 1,000 rials (11 U.S. cents).
Despite its huge energy reserves, Iran lacks refining capacity and must import about 40 percent of its gasoline, a sensitive issue when world powers have threatened new U.N. sanctions in a row with Tehran over its nuclear program.
Ironic isn’t it, that Iran one of the world’s leading oil exporters has a scarcity of gasoline? Yet, they persist in building nuclear facilities for nuclear power – NOT.
The Iranian Mullahs covet nuclear weapons and are facing a third round of United Nations Security Council sanctions over their nuclear program.
Iranians pump gasoline into flasks at a petrol station in Tehran.
Iranians line up to pump gasoline at a petrol station in downtown Tehran, 26 June 2007.
This violence highlights Iran’s achille’s heel. Any military action against Iran because of their reckless nuclear program by Israel and/or the United States would target Iran’s oil fields and their oil refineries. Iran’s economy would quickly stop – as would their military because of the lack of gasoline/fuel.
An Iranian man walks past a damaged petrol station in the northwest of Tehran.
Iranians watch a petrol station burn in Tehran, 26 June 2007.
Will this violence spur blowback by the Iranian clerics on the Iranian people?
You bet…..watch for it…….
And, also watch the FECKLESS United Nations attempt to impose harsher economic sanctions on Iran.
Stay tuned……
There’s rioting over gas rationing in Iran. Bloggers covering the turmoil here , here, and here. Iran is blaming–who else?–the U.S. for the unrest.
The Corner’s Iran round-up here.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir June 27, 2007