John Hawkins gives some details about the death of the Shamnisty bill:
My source told me that he thinks this will kill the bill because the Senate has now voted against cloture 3 times and that means that if they want to bring it back up, they’ll probably have to start from scratch and go through the regular committee process.
Believe me, my friends, when I tell you that going through the committee process pretty much excludes about 90% a what was in this piece of trash. The problem for the bill’s backers, is the majority of it will stand up to the light of day.
And now, hopefully, neither will they.
Addendum: (David L) This was certainly not Dirty Harry Reid’s finest hour. After moaning about his desire to legalize twelve milliion illegals, and his commitment to get an amnesty bill passed, Reid pulls the bill. Nicole Gaouette and Maura Reynolds, LA Times:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) immediately announced that he would pull the bill from consideration and move on to energy legislation. But he left open the possibility that lawmakers could still reach a decision on immigration legislation and called on Bush to do more to help.
“Even though I’m disappointed, I look forward to passing this bill,” Reid said after the vote. “There are ways we can do this. There’s lots of support for this bill on the outside; the problem was on the inside of this chamber.
“We are committed to immigration reform. We believe the country needs it,” Reid said. “Let’s have President Bush work with us on this.”
What the nation needs is not amnesty, a.k.a. comprehensive immigration reform, what we need is border securty. The democrat, Byron Dorgan, who did as much to kill the bill as any democrat understands. Allahpundit, Hot Air, has the video. Dorgan get long winded, but stays calm and makes sense. Lindsey Graham and John McCain would well advised to do likewise.
Dorgan is right. Fix the border first, stop the flow of new illegals, before attempting to legalize the old ones, also callled putting the horse before the cart.
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