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If you did not have an opportunity to read the first post on the Senate No Amnesty Scorecard it is a couple of posts back and the following two paragraphs are from its opening to provide a review.

In a continuing series of posts on the GOP 24 some alterations and adjustments have been made based on events of the last couple of days. The GOP 24 should have been at least the GOP 27 with the information that was available at first. With the recent defeat of cloture on S.1639 in Roll Call Vote 235, a simple analysis was done here.

There were two bills for amnesty in the Senate this month. The first was S.1348, the famous back room deal between the Bush White House and primarily Senators Kyl, Kennedy, McCain and Reid. President Bush and these Senators as well as many others are in favor of amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. The bill they offered reflected that desire. The desire to abandon the rule of law and increase the risk to the United States with reckless legislation for political gain.

So the first post on the Amnesty Scorecard featured those Senators who voted no on both amnesty bills meaning they cast no votes on each pair of cloture votes. You could conclude they understood that considering the bill at all may lead to the bill’s passage and in any event there was no reason to debate the bills. The reason being the bills were so flawed and an obvious ploy to provide amnesty for millions of law breakers that no amendments would be able to rectify that.

The first runners up are a mixed group of Republicans and Democrats whose intent may have been to consider and debate the first measure, S.1348, in an attempt to correct its flaws even at the risk of voting on it for passage. Fortunately, after Sinister Harry Reid exposed his intent to control debate or lack of it and stack the deck for passage of amnesty, these same Senators voted against cloture in the 2nd vote and killed the bill. Quickly, Sinister Harry Reid withdrew the bill and introduced a clone for a subsequent attempt to force his wishes on an American public which had clearly expressed opposition to the bill.

Here are the first runner up winners in the Senate No Amnesty Scorecard:

(R-TN) Alexander
(R-GA) Chambliss
(R-MS) Cochran
(R-IA) Grassley
(R-UT) Hatch
(R-GA) Isakson
(D-LA) Landrieu
(D-MO) McCaskill
(D-WV) Rockefeller
(R-OR) Smith
(D-MI) Stabenow

Most of the Senators here had previously expressed opposition ot amnesty or at least the two bills presented by Reid. They all may have done that but confirmation of that was not available here at the time of this post. Regardless, an expression of thanks is owed to all of the above for being instrumental in voting no on each of the two clotures that would have brought each bill up for a vote on passage. Thank you Senators, one and all. Even though it is impossible to know their exact intentions, that is the beauty of voting records. The fact remains at least two of their four cloture votes avoided the possibility that this legislation could pass.

Stanford Matthews
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