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Here’s the list of Senators who voted for cloture today, which is a vote for amnesty. Some of them say that it is a “procedural vote” and now will vote against the actual bill, but this is mere rhetoric. Their vote was a vote for amnesty since now the hurdle was just lowered from 60 votes (cloture) to (after the next cloture vote) 51 votes (passage).
Republican traitors to be noted: Bennett, Bond, Burr, Brownback, Coleman, Collins, Craig, Ensign, Graham, Gregg, Hagel, Kyl, Lott, Lugar, McConnell, Murkowski, Snow, Stevens, Warner, and others. These shills should be challenged in primaries.
N.B. Jim Webb, in whom paleos had some hope, voted for amnesty. Had I known that Jim Webb was going to be such a sellout, I would have backed George Allen.
TRAITORS WHO VOTED FOR CLOTURE
Akaka (D-HI)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Craig (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (R-NM)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
PATRIOTS WHO VOTED AGAINST CLOTURE
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bunning (R-KY)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
RINO Hunter on 26 Jun 2007 at 6:36 pm #
This was a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the amnesty bill. There will be another cloture vote on final passage sometime later this week.
It is possible, albiet unlikely, that 5 votes could be changed this week.
Patroon on 26 Jun 2007 at 6:59 pm #
You forgot to mention Norm Coleman of Minnesota on Republican traitor watch. He better hope all the Somalis, Hmong, Bosnians and Mexicans vote for him when he gets his primary challenge in September of 2008.
Luckily there the House and those members are up for re-election every TWO years instead of every six and they’re not quite as stupid nor suicidal as their Senate colleagues.
ERIC on 26 Jun 2007 at 7:07 pm #
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the only small region in the country where BOTH senators in certain states that connect geographically are consistently voting very ultra-conservatively are Tennesse and Alabama.
Some of these senators that voted the right way (a no vote), voted for liberal reasons, like Rockefellar, Sanders, Stabenow, Bayh.
Others like Baucus, Dorgan, Landrieu, McCaskill, Tester probably had their own reasons they voted the right way.
I remember and have the sources for these members I mentioned, their voting records on other important votes such as Alito and Roberts to the supreme court, and these senators that I mentioned above, who were in the senate when Alito and Roberts were nominated, who voted the right way on this immigration bill DID NOT vote the right way on Alito and Roberts (to confirm them), and on other important legislation votes.
Bottom line, altho these Democrats that voted the right way on this immigration legislation, one right vote doesn’t make them allies.
ERIC on 26 Jun 2007 at 7:33 pm #
Tancredo will round-up the troops in the house to vote against this amnesty bill.
Filmer on 26 Jun 2007 at 9:02 pm #
Will this thing pass the House? I have read that it might not.
Patroon on 26 Jun 2007 at 9:40 pm #
I heard Mark Souder (R-IN) (non-sellout Republican) on NPR this afternoon and he said its dead on arrival. Pelosi wants 75 GOP votes before she’ll bring the bill up and right now all they have is 23.
Speaking of Webb, here’s my take on his vote: I think he feels (or maybe his advisors convinced of this) that he owes his election to the immigrant vote in Northern Virginia and he has to accomodate them with this vote. But he vote against the full bill then I agree he’s a hypocrite so expect him to do so.
Soon aftre he retires from the Senate he’ll be the nation’s foremost historian on the Scotch-Irish because that’s all they be in century’s time, history.
Filmer on 26 Jun 2007 at 10:09 pm #
If it is DOA in the House, then why are the Republicans mortgaging their future to get it through the Senate?
Arm Bar on 26 Jun 2007 at 10:14 pm #
Someone needs to take Webb out behind the barn and give him a good old fashioned Scots-Irish ass kicking. The man is a traitor to his race.
Patroon on 26 Jun 2007 at 10:22 pm #
Filmer, ever heard of the Stupid Party?
Perhaps they feel if they get this at least through the Senate under Bush II’s leadership they can claim some credit in some way from the immigrant vote. But as I said, House Republicans are not as suicidal. The only way it would pass is on a straight partyline vote which Pelosi will not allow or if massive bribary is involved