Reid, McConnell Confirm Amnesty Deal Is Near

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I received the following note this evening from a Senate Republican leadership aide that confirms my earlier report about a looming amnesty deal. The new agreement between Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) would give senators time to review the legislation before it's voted on. However, it would not give them a week, as 15 conservative senators previously requested.

This evening the Majority Leader and Republican Leader agreed to delay the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S.1348, last years (sic) Senate passed immigration bill, until the evening of Monday, May 21st (no earlier than 5:30 p.m.).

This will allow negotiators more time to reach an agreement and to allow time for an agreement to be drafted. It will also allow Senators time to review the text of the agreement before the cloture vote on the motion to proceed on Monday occurs.

Negotiations will continue tomorrow.

Read on ...

Stories from the Associated Press and Reuters also make clear that Reid and key Senate Republicans -- Arlen Specter (Pa.) and Jon Kyl (Ariz.) -- could soon reach an agreement that "would legalize the status of millions of illegal immigrants and put them on a path to citizenship."

Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.), who has tried to carefully maneuver around the issue, said during tonight's Republican presidential debate that an agreement is near. McCain, who sponsored last year's bill with Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.), has charged Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.-S.C.) with overseeing negotiations. Graham was in Washington today despite the debate's taking place in Columbia, S.C.

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Is there ant Republican that's worth voting for anymore? They're all so corrupt and controlled by big business that they have no problem selling out they're own country, not to even mention making themselves a permanent minority party. Good riddence.

God I hope it's defeated.

A disaster. No one really wants this. Why are Reps caving like wet noodles?

Well, let's see. Oh yeah, I know. Because they are.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.

They got wet. They're all washed up.

Just because you have the right, doesn't mean you should.

How do we know its aweful till we know what is in it

and Bush will sign it and declare victory.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.

Caving to what or whom? They're just behaving like the self serving (as opposed to serving the people,country and constitution they've sworn an oath to uphold and protect)two faced, double-talking prostitutes that they are.

And they even give prostitutes a bad name! At least a real prostitute's customer is happy after he's been screwed! I'm really not digging ANY of this B.S.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

McCain's presidential hopes are over writing Kennedy's open borders bills for him because Kennedy is now too senile now write them himself. Apparently McCain is also senile.

Kennedy is not senile. He's just still drunk.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.

And not just in the sense that our leaders continue to betray us, even after a stinging rebuke in the 2006 elections, but just by sheer demographics.

It is a pipe dream to think that Hispanics are ever going to be anything other than reliable Democrat voters.

These are not conservative people by any stretch. "Family Values"? The illigetimacy rate of Hispanics is now at 47% and rising fast. A Pew Research poll recently found that even the minority of Hispancs who IDENTIFY themselves as Republicans are very liberal when it comes to the size of government and taxes. In fact, this self-identified Republican minority was found to be MORE liberal on these issues THAN WHITE LIBERALS. And that's the most Conservative of this population!

This is the bunch we're importing in here by the millions with the intention of letting them bring in their entire families to make tens of millions of more? And then to become voters?

And Republicans are going along with this? WHY? Not only is it clearly the wrong thing to do from a fairness/common sense/policy standpoint, it is literally suicide for the entire Republican cause, and will doom this country to be a socialist nation just like the dead states in Europe within one more generation.

Do these "business leaders" who want cheap labor so badly that they'll sell out our country ever just stop and think of the results of these policies? Their business climate will be far less desirable in the socialist state they're helping to create by importing tens of millions of liberal voters from socialist countries to forever change this last best hope of real freedom on earth...

When they are taxed through the roof and regulated into nothing it will be their own faults. They will have not only slit the throat of this country, they will have slit their own throats as well.

This bill CANNOT be allowed to pass.

I knew in 1994 that BUSH was a worthless moron when he became Texas governor. In 2000, all of the conservatives fell for this moron. In hindsight, it was the political money machine behind him that made it all seem so good. Yeah, he was the Washington outsider. Remember that smoke? He is merely the puppet or front man for what has been nothing more than a well organized legal robbery and complete defalcation of the United States Treasury. When they all leave office in 09', they will leave the new debt to us while their financial futures will be secured for generations to come. Whatever happened to what will be more than $4 trillion dollars in new debt in eight years?

And for those who disagree, ask yourself this: If you were one of the many GOP benefactors, either as a contractor or some other butt kissing stooge within the inner circle, and you have guaranteed financial comfort for life after '09, would you even care what happens to this nation? Look for most of the lowlife behind this to bolt on the new manmade beaches in the middle east or Dubai where some of the foremost corporations are relocating for tax avoidance purposes. Hey, there's got to be another place to put your money since America is soon to discover that it has been financially tanked for some time.

Yes, if you were one of the morons in our vastly expanded veggie electorate who voted for BUSH, well, the good news is that you now know that

1) he was never really running this country on his own(how could anyone with an inept command of the English language possibly do this in what was seemingly the perfect first term?) AND;

2) you now know that BUSH should have never been president and that his time as prez is as big of a joke as Clinton's.

The bad news is that you're at least 6 years too late and the hope of ever correcting this pathetic plight that our great nation has undertaken is well beyong the point of no return.

We are now a nation of losers who will have our voting strength diluted by groveling cantina drinking illegal aliens while corporate America continues the march on pillaging the Treasury and the taxpayer.

The smart folks, who are still here in America, have made plans to relocate out of this nation so that those who are left can pay the bills as econo-slaves.

Lastly, the one thing you won't hear in the media:

Both Bush 41 and Bush 43, are now responsible for acquiescing(a popular BUSH 41 term) and signing into law spending bills that now cumulatively total more than half of this nation's federal debt($4.5 trillion of a total $8.8 trillion in total debt). There was not ONE VETO by EITHER of these two presidents over spending. The headline should be: Father-Son duo financially hammer America. When the financial calamity finally does toll, don't look for these two to be around to explain their actions.

[BUSH 41=$1.574 Trillion & BUSH 43=$3 Trillion and running through 2K9]

Like I said, this nation is a total joke and you've been had. In closing and to coin a self-destructive phrase of a previous Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate running for that office in 1990 against then Anne Richards, "They say bad weather is like rape: you can't do anything about it, so you should just lay back and enjoy it."

Bon Appetit!

surely a re-read of your "comment" should tell you how foolish you sound, how pathetic your daily life must be, and how badly you need to leave this horrible place for...say, Holland? Perhaps South East Asia?

Oh wait, I know-move to France or Germany or England...they would love to have you there!

I await your reply that shares your departure date on a one way ticket outside the US where you will immediately renounce your citizenship...

haystack's 12th:
Conservatives (and Presidential Candidates especially) shall offer no aid and comfort to the opposition in times of legislative conflict (and ensuing political campaigns).

Just when most thought there could be no staunch Bush worshippers left, up rising out of the earth comes you. Instead of personal attacks, you should have stayed on point trying to muster a modicum of evidence, if any at all, that BUSH really is the savior for America and that he is good. Your personal attack is demonstrative of the merit that you can't which, in turn, further buttresses my original arguments that we have been sold out by politicians on both sides.

I was going to recommend that you stop using the Fox Knowledge Network(FKN) as your number one news source and start being your own person. But we both know that you are hopelessly addicted to that medium of thinking.

Unlike you, I have served this great nation in the armed forces for many years and have visited abroad. I have lived in France, Germany, and Italy. I never suggested expatriating which is a conclusion you decided to draw on your own. Even though I am new to this forum, I was hoping for a higher caliber of debate here as your post was about as lame as they get. Please tell me that REDSTATE's got more to offer than this shortstack.

By the way, I am a real conservative.

 
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