[antimedia] antimedia: If ever you needed proof....

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Posted by antimedia:
If ever you needed proof....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1182912545.shtml


   ....that politicians [1]don't give a damn what you think (or about
   this country), the recent cloture vote in the Senate provides the
   proof.

     The Senate voted 64-35 to bring the bill back to the Senate floor
     from the legislative limbo to which it had had been exiled earlier
     this month, when it appeared to die after a bipartisan filibuster.
     Bill supporters needed 60 votes to bring the bill back to the floor
     for debate. Had that threshold been missed, it's likely the bill
     would have been dead for the remainder of the 110th Congress.
     Opponents of the Senate immigration bill pushed hard for its defeat
     on the procedural motion but fell five votes short, precisely the
     number they were behind on Monday.
     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.

   So party means nothing. 25 Republicans, nine Democrats and Bernie
   Sanders care enough about this country to vote against the execrable
   abortion known as "fixing" the immigration problem. The rest are
   craven hypocrites who don't give a damn what you, the people think. If
   they did, with 80% of Americans opposing this bill, it would die the
   death it so richly deserves.
   If the House fails us as well, you can kiss America goodbye. In twenty
   years your country will be gone. (Hat tip to [2]The Discerning Texan.)
   Tags: [3]immigration [4]amnesty [5]politics [6]craven

References

   1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286705,00.html
   2. http://discerningtexan.blogspot.com/2007/06/betrayal-continues.html
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/immigration
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/amnesty
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/politics
   6. http://technorati.com/tag/craven