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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Mitt Romney HYPOCRITICALLY Attacks Giuliani on Illegal Immigration
Republican presidential candidates John McCain (L) Rudy Giuliani (C) and Mitt Romney stand at their podiums during the Republican Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, August 5, 2007.
Former Massachusetts Governor and Presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked Rudy Giuliani today by implying the Mayor supported illegal immigration while he was Mayor of New York City.
Preposterous and besides the Mayor’s record is clear.
Now, let’s look at HYPOCRITE Mitt:
1. Illegal Alien Guatemalans mowing his mansion grounds for ten years.
2. While Romney was governor, the commonwealth of Massachusetts became one of the six states with the largest growth in unauthorized migrant population, from 2002 to 2004, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, with somewhere between 200,000-250,000 new illegal immigrants.
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3. In the past, Governor Romney supported more LIBERAL positions on illegal immigration than the 2007 recently failed Kennedy-McCain legislation. In fact, he supported President Bush and Senator McCain’s efforts to change current law in favor of “AMNESTY.”
4. And here is Mitt Romney FLIP – FLOPPING on illegal immigration positions:
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Say what?
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5. In 2006, Romney said “those that are here paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process toward application for citizenship, as they would from their home country.”
So, why is Mitt Romney attacking the Mayor?
BECAUSE
Romney is behind in the polls.
Mitt Romney = HYPOCRITE
Mitt Romney = WRONG for America.
More Mitt Oddities:
Scientology book one of his favorites
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Latino Activists Play Race Card Over Former California Governor Pete Wilson Statue
Statue of former California Governor and Mayor of San Diego Pete Wilson will be on display on Horton Square, outside the NBC 7/39 Building on Broadway Circle, San Diego.
Immigrant Latino activists, calling Wilson “the founder of the pro-racist movement†for his support of Proposition 187 in 1994, vow to block the placement of a statue of former Governor and Mayor of San Diego on private land in downtown San Diego.
“Pete Wilson, to us and to many, represents the worst of the American spirit,” Enrique Morones, founder of the Border Angels group, told City Council members during a non-agenda public comment session at City Hall.
“You can’t separate what he did as mayor from what he did later in life.â€
Right
And, all of the Californians (a majority Flap adds) who voted Proposition 187 into California law are racist too.
MORON Morones continues:
“I’m not saying he’s the same thing as Adolf Hitler,†Morones told a group of journalists outside the council’s chamber, “but to put up a statue in the heart of a city that was a Mexican city? A third of the city is Latino. There’s many of us, and many who are not Latino, who say ‘no’ to this type of a statue.”
Pete Wilson is against illegal immigration and this is the REAL FLAP.
The statue will be unveiled in a ceremony which Wilson will attend on August 25. Morones has threatened vandalism.
Standard……
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Mark Steyn Watch: Impudent Citizens Got Sen. Lotthorn’s Goat
Why the AUDACITY of those citizens.
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Kill the Bill S. 1639 Part 3 – Breaking Down The Senate Vote
First Read has the breakdown of votes on cloture for Senate Bill 1639, the Shamnesty Illegal Immigration bill:
The Presidential candidates: All of the Democratic candidates voted YES. McCain, who was part of the bipartisan coalition that crafted and supported the bill, also voted YES. Brownback’s initial vote was YES, but later, probably when the outcome was clear, switched to NO.
Senators up for reelection in 2008: On the Democratic side, all the blue state senators voted YES (Biden, Durbin, Kerry, Lautenberg, Levin, Reed). But those Democrats running in red or purples states voted NO (Baucus, Harkin, Landrieu, Pryor, Rockefeller).
Most of the Republican senators up for re-election this cycle voted NO (Alexander, Allard, Chambliss, Cochran, Coleman, Collins, Cornyn, Dole, Domenici, Enzi, Inhofe, McConnell, Roberts, Sessions, Smith, Stevens, Sununu, Warner). The exceptions, with YES votes, were Craig, Hagel, and Graham (who is one of the original and most vocal coalition members that wrote the bill).
Senate Leadership: The Republican leadership was split. GOP Leader McConnell, who’s also up for re-election, voted NO. (He had voted YES on another procedural vote earlier this week.) McConnell was joined by Texas Sens. Hutchison and Cornyn, as well as Ensign, who’s responsible for running the GOP senate campaigns this cycle. Lott and Kyl split with the leadership and voted YES.
All the members of the Democratic Leadership stuck together with YES votes: Reid, Durbin, Murray, and Schumer.
Presidential candidates
Democrats voting YES: (all of them) Clinton, Obama, Biden, Dodd
Republicans voting YES: McCain
Republican voting NO: Brownback (originally “yes” but switched)Senators up for reelection in 2008
Democrats voting Yes:
Biden, Durbin, Kerry, Lautenberg, Levin, Reed
Democrats voting NO:
Baucus, Harkin, Landrieu, Pryor, RockefellerRepublicans voting YES:
Craig, Graham, and Hagel
Republicans voting NO:
Alexander, Allard, Chambliss, Cochran, Colman, Collins, Cornyn, Dole, Domenici, Enzi, Inhofe, McConnell, Roberts, Sessions, Smith, Stevens, Sununu, WarnerParty Switchers
Democrats voting NO:
Baucus, Bayh, Bingaman, Brown, Byrd, Dorgan, Harkin, Landrieu, McCaskill, Pryor, Rockefeller, Sanders, Stabenow, Tester, and Webb.Republicans voting YES:
Bennett, Craig, Graham, Gregg, Hagel, Kyl, Lott, Lugar, Martinez, McCain, Snowe, and Specter.********
The Democrats run for cover while conservatives measure up primary GOP challenges to turn-coat Senators.
The Biggest Loser: Ted Kennedy
The biggest GOP LOSER: John McCain
The biggest Switcher: Sam Brownback
The Biggest Winners: Romney, Giuliani and Fred Thompson
Stay tuned……
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Kill the Bill S. 1639 Part 2 – Cloture Refused
Illegal Immigration Watch: Kill the Bill S. 1639
Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate Bill 1639 Amendment Debate
Illegal Immigration Watch: Immigration Off the Table?
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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Illegal Immigration Watch: Kill the Bill S. 1639 Part 2 – Cloture Refused
Cloture for Senate Bill 1639 was defeated in a rout: 46-53.
Since Dingy Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader has said he will pull the bill if cloture is agreed to, the bill is NOW dead.
The Majority leader can bring the bill back later – but unlikely.
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Kill the Bill S. 1639
Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate Bill 1639 Amendment Debate
Illegal Immigration Watch: Immigration Off the Table?
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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Illegal Immigration Watch: Kill the Bill S. 1639
*****Update*****
Vote in the Senate at 10:50 AM Eastern on cloture, C-Span 2
Senate switchboard has been shut down due to overwhelming calls: Sen. Sessions
The latest BUZZ at The Corner
The vote commences @ 11:04 AM Eastern
Notable votes No so far: Bond, Domenici, Ensign, Webb, Bayh, Murkowski, Nelson, Pryor, Burr, Sununu, Collins, Byrd, Coleman, Cochran, McConnell, Warner
Notable Votes Yes: Brownback, Snow, Lugar and McCain
Brownback just switched to NO!!!!
Looks like cloture is failing – hence the bill will be KILLED
Rich Lowry at The Corner is calling the vote a ROUT
Final vote 46-53
Reid promises to bring the legislation back later in the session
Michelle has the story and is live blogging the proceedings on C-Span 2. Flap is watching too.
While we are waiting for the vote for cloture (in about 30 minutes) here are some dire predictions for success of this bill moving forward.
Illegals bill loses support in Senate.
Senate Immigration Reform Bill Takes Step Toward the Grave.
New Senators Resist Overhaul of Immigration.
Immigration Measure Appears Imperiled Again. Shamnesty in deep, deep doo-doo.
And here are some numbers for last minute phone calling (if you are not already too frustrated to continue to call):
Christopher Bond (R-MO) (202) 224-5721
Sam Brownback (R-KS) (202) 224-6521
Richard Burr (R-NC) (202) 224-3154
Larry Craig (R-ID) (202) 224-2752
John Ensign (R-NV) (202) 224-6244
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (202) 224-2541
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (202) 224-6665
The Senate should KILL THIS BILL NOW….. and then go after the Masters of the Universe that sponsored this Shamnesty.
Stay tuned………
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate Bill 1639 Amendment Debate
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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
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Michael Ramirez on Paris Hilton AND Illegal Immigration
Michael Ramirez on President Bush and Illegal Immigration
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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?
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
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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?
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Michael Ramirez on President Bush and Illegal Immigration
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Illegal Immigration Watch: What Awaits Senators When They Return Home
Senate Bill 1639 with a 373 page amendment moved forward today with the support of the following GOP Senators:
Bennett, Utah; Bond, Mo.; Brownback, Kan.; Burr, N.C.; Coleman, Minn.; Collins, Maine; Craig, Idaho; Domenici, N.M.; Ensign, Nev.; Graham, S.C.; Gregg, N.H.; Hagel, Neb.; Kyl, Ariz.; Lott, Miss.; Lugar, Ind.; Martinez, Fla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Murkowski, Alaska; Snowe, Maine; Specter, Pa.; Stevens, Alaska; Voinovich, Ohio; Warner, Va.
Courtesy of the NRO Corner here is what awaits some of these pro-cloture/pro-amnesty Senators from their constituents:
Enjoy and Bye Bye……eventually.
Stay tuned………
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Immigration Bill Advances in the Senate
*****Scroll Down for Updates******
Immigration bill advances in Senate
The Senate voted Tuesday to jump-start a stalled immigration measure to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants.
The pivotal test-vote was 64-35 to revive the divisive legislation. It still faces formidable obstacles in the Senate, including bitter opposition by GOP conservatives and attempts by some waverers in both parties to revise its key elements.
Supporters needed 60 votes to scale procedural hurdles and return to the bill. A similar test-vote earlier this month found just 45 supporters, only seven of them Republicans. This time, 24 Republicans joined 39 Democrats and independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, to back moving ahead with the bill. Opposing the move were 25 Republicans, nine Democrats and independent Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont.
But, the next hurdle are the amendments promised to Senators in order to obtain their vote for cloture.
The vote suggested that key senators and White House officials had succeeded — at least for now — in bargaining with skeptical lawmakers for a second chance to pass the bill. Several senators who have been promised votes on their amendments, including Sens. Kit Bond, R-Mo., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Norm Coleman, R-Minn., Pete Domenici, R-N.M., John Ensign, R-Nev., and Jim Webb, D-Va., switched their votes to support moving ahead with the measure.
And, then, there is the House……..
As senators were preparing for the showdown vote Tuesday morning, House Republicans meeting privately on the other side of the Capitol were plotting to register their opposition through a party resolution. The measure never saw a vote for procedural reasons, but an attempt to kill it failed overwhelmingly, signaling deep GOP skepticism.
“It’s clear there’s a large number of the House Republicans who have serious concerns with the Senate bill,” said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the minority leader.
Flap handicaps a better than even money chance that this bill passes the Senate with some GOP amendments. What will be the result:
1. A stake in the heart to John McCain’s GOP Presidential campaign
2. A House GOP revolt against President Bush reverberating from domestic to his Iraq War policy.
3. A campaign issue removed from the GOP table and resentment of the GOP by its base and loss of Independent voters in border states.
4. Continued Democrat Control of the Congress for the foreseeable future.
Stay tuned……..
cero dineros to send to the RNC
Update:
The list of GOP Senators to hold accountable:
Brownback
Bond
Burr
Coleman
Ensign
Gregg
McConnell
The complete list of GOP Senators voting for cloture:
Bennett, Utah; Bond, Mo.; Brownback, Kan.; Burr, N.C.; Coleman, Minn.; Collins, Maine; Craig, Idaho; Domenici, N.M.; Ensign, Nev.; Graham, S.C.; Gregg, N.H.; Hagel, Neb.; Kyl, Ariz.; Lott, Miss.; Lugar, Ind.; Martinez, Fla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Murkowski, Alaska; Snowe, Maine; Specter, Pa.; Stevens, Alaska; Voinovich, Ohio; Warner, Va.
Is it time to exit the GOP and form a third CONSERVATIVE PARTY?
Indeed, this may jump start the movement.
Update #2
The American people oppose the Senate Immigration bill:
- Based on what they “have read or heard about all the proposals in the Senate immigration bill,” 47% of Americans oppose the bill; 30% favor it.
- 28% say they oppose the bill because it “goes too far toward helping illegal immigrants;” 15% say the bill “does not go far enough.”
Update #3
The Senate procedures and rules Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will use to RAM through S. 1639 for a Thursday final cloture vote.
Update #4
MM has the 373 amendment to S. 1639 that Harry Reid with help from the GOP will ram through the Senate. See how here.
Happy reading……you know the Senators won’t be reading it.
Looks like S. 1639 is a DONE DEAL in the Senate.
Will the House GOP have the Cojones to stop it? Or will they become ex-members of the House?
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