Color this old dog heap highly pissed. I'm going to have to choose my words very carefully lest I end up with Los Federales on my doorstep. I'm not a whole long way from bein' ready to call for armed revolt -- easy enough for me to say since on a good day I can walk almost a quarter of a mile before I have to sit and pant for a few minutes. And that's if I ain't carryin' nothin'. Been hearin' a lot of talk about startin' a third party. Bad idea. Not that I have much use for either of the two existin' major parties, but to go from a standin' start and build up to controllin' enough legislative seats to matter could easily take so long there's nothin' left worth savin' by the time it happens, just Mexico del Norte. Our only realistic hope is to dethrone a bunch of bogus "Republicans" and install real honest to God patriots in their place. "Red Dogs" maybe. (Yeah, I think I like that.) Regardless of whether the Jorge McKennedy shamnesty bill ends up passin' or not, by the end of Thursday we're going to have a damned good list of people who've forgotten how to dance with the people what brung 'em and need a quick trip home. The time to start makin' plans for makin' it happen is Friday morning, if not before.
Senate votes to revive illegal-alien bill
By Stephen Dinan
The Senate voted yesterday to resurrect its immigration bill, overcoming opposition from conservative Republicans and setting up a week of showdown votes on amendments and passage.
The vote was 64-35 to revive the bill, four more than the 60 needed, but many senators said they may change their minds and vote to block the measure in the next key test, scheduled for tomorrow. Overcoming a blockade would again require 60 votes. ...
Even if the bill survives the Senate this week, the House may be a bigger challenge for Mr. Bush, who faces a full-scale revolt in his own party on the issue.
House Republicans voted 114-23 yesterday to pass a resolution disapproving of the Senate bill, a stark move that sends a signal to Mr. Bush, House Democrats and Senate Republicans.
House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said he gave a "heads-up" to the White House that the vote was coming and "they weren't happy about it." ...
"They weren't too happy about it." Aww, cry me a frikkin' river. Those Founding Father dudes had a pretty good idea allocating seats in one house of Congress in proportion to the populations of the various states and giving each state the same number of seats in the other, but it's becoming pretty clear to this ol' dog that they really blew it allowing any congresscritter go more than a couple of years without facing the voters. When they crown me Top Dog that's one of the first things I'll change, right after I ship about 20 million illegal aliens back where they came from.
Cloture Cometh
Ed Morrissey
It looks like the Senate will attempt to pass cloture on the comprehensive and incomprehensible immigration reform package tomorrow morning. Thanks to an unexpected failure to kill an amendment, the cloture vote will most likely come in the morning, perhaps as early as 10:30 am ET: ...
