!!!Yo, Jorge! Up yours! Cloture failed!!!

See previous: 2007.06.27 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup

It's make or break time, maybe. If the Masters of the Universe can come up with 60 votes for cloture on the Jorge McKennedy No Illegal Left Behind bill this morning there's no chance of it not receiving the 50 votes it needs for final passage by the end of the week. If they can't, Dirty Harry says the bills finished for good. Just like he said 3 weeks ago. He was lying then and he he may well be again. Regardless of how the vote goes we'll end the day with a damned good list of bogus Republicans to work against in next spring's primaries, or maybe even in next fall's general election if they're running against Blue Dog Dems. Personally I'd rather just hang the sons of bitches with brand new Mexican ropes but I don't guess that's likely to happen.

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Michelle Malkin's live blogging the cloture vote here. I may not do anything but read what she writes for a while. *** Ed Morrissey is also live blogging *** 53 votes against!  Road kill! ***

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Senate immigration bill suffers crushing defeat

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Opponents effectively killed President Bush's long-fought and emotion-laden Senate immigration bill Thursday when members voted against advancing the controversial legislation.

The tally was 46 to 53, 14 votes shy of the 60 needed to end debate.

The president, who visited the Capitol this month to push hard for overhauling the nation's immigration laws, delivered a brief statement shortly after the vote saying he was "sorry" Congress could not reach agreement, calling its "failure to act" a "disappointment." ...

Awww, poor Jorge's disappointed. Well boo frickin' hoo. Cry me a damned river. There are a whole bunch off people who voted for Jorge in the last election who are way past disappointed in the way he's helped try to shove the shamnesty bill down our throats up our asses. Maybe he needs to move south where he'll be among people he cares about.

Below the fold:

• Now What?
• Illegals bill loses support in Senate
• Immigration Measure Appears Imperiled Again

See also:

• God bless immigration
• Bill Quick: The World Turned Upside Down
• Fred Dalton Thompson: A Good Day
• Coleman: I Didn't Trust The Government, Either
• Congressional Will
• Okay, It's Really Dead This Time
• A new attack ad: Meet Senator Switchback
• Wall Street Journal morons wonder: Who’s behind Hot Air’s attack ads?
• Bruce Kesler: Corker Corks It
• Bush facing GOP mutiny over immigration
• Video: “Talk radio has had a field day,” wheezes Reid
• Amnesty Bill Defeated In Senate Vote
• Clay Pigeon = Dead Duck
• Amnesty dies, the Republic survives
• Who Sires The Dead Duck?
• Immigration bill struggling
• New Senators Resist Overhaul of Immigration
• Senate Immigration Reform Bill Takes Step Toward the Grave
• Immigration Stance Is Costly for McCain
• Immigration Bill Is Toast
• Immigration Bill May Not Get Through the Senate
• Immigration Bill Going Nowhere
• Fla. Sheriff Targets Illegals

Now What?

Ed Morrissey

The immigration bill is dead, yet again, after the Senate rejected cloture by fourteen votes. In the end, the compromise could not even gain a majority in support of what conceptually may have been a passable compromise, but in reality was a poorly constructed, poorly processed mass of contradictions and gaps. Many of us who may have supported a comprehensive approach to immigration found ourselves amazed and repulsed by both the product and the process of this attempt to solve the immigration problem.

So what should happen now? The problems of immigration did not disappear with the failure of the cloture vote a few moments ago. Congress needs to act to resolve them -- but they need to do so in a manner that respects the processes of representative democracy, and in a manner that builds the confidence of Americans rather than fuel their cynicism. ...

Illegals bill loses support in Senate
By Stephen Dinan

The Senate immigration bill lost supporters yesterday and hangs on by a thread heading into this morning's showdown vote, after lawmakers voted down amendments making illegal aliens show roots to get legal status and cutting off their path to citizenship.

This morning's vote is on a parliamentary question about limiting debate, but it boils down to a vote to block the bill.

Just two days ago, 64 senators voted to revive the bill, with many saying they wanted to give the Senate a chance to improve the bill through amendments. But after a messy day in the chamber yesterday, with dozens of objections, arguments on the floor and five amendments defeated, at least a half-dozen senators said publicly or privately that their patience has run out. ...

Read the whole thing. Dinan's been providing excellent coverage on the situation all along and if he's predicting the cloture vote will fail I'd say there's a very good chance it will.

Immigration Measure Appears Imperiled Again
Defeat of Amendments Briefly Raised Hopes
By William Branigin and Jonathan Weisman

The Senate yesterday turned back a series of amendments from both parties aimed at substantially altering controversial immigration legislation, but the bill shed supporters as it became mired in procedural hurdles that left backers concerned about its prospects.

The legislation faces a make-or-break vote this morning when senators will decide whether to cut off debate and move to a final vote tomorrow. If it does not get the 60 votes necessary, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has said he will pull the bill, all but dashing hopes for any meaningful legislation this year.

Top legislative aides in both parties predicted today's vote would be very close but would fall short of keeping the proposal alive. ...