Reid=Failure=Immigration=Loser=Bush
Ah the sweet smell of failure.
This morning the current iteration of the immigration/amnesty bill died in the Senate as the proponents of this compromise legislation failed to earn the 60 votes necessary to invoke cloture on the measure. What’s more encouraging is that they could not even muster a simple majority.
Today is a victory for the American people who refused to rollover and let our employees dictate the agenda.
[…] What else can I say other than occasionally, just occasionally the people who work for us actually do what they’re told. Yesterday’s failure of the shamnesty bill in the Senate (and the associated waving of the white flag by the White House on the issue) marked a victory for we the people. Then later in the day we were treated with a landmark, by the book (in this case the Constitution), ruling from the Supreme Court declaring that race could not be used as a determining factor for student facility assignment by a school district. […]
just confirms what i said in the summer months leading up to last November’s debacle. republicans would have fared much better in that election if they had the stomach to take this issue on as part of that election cycle.