Posted by
Charlie on Monday, July 30, 2007 3:50:47 PM
The Department of Homeland Security spending bill was just passed. The bill included an amendment to include $3 billion in additional funds to strengthen border control and interior enforcement. The amendment was introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Richard Pryor, Democrat of Arkansas.
You remember Senator Graham. He said anyone who disagreed with his position on the Immigration Reform (Amnesty) Bill was a bigot. I don't know if Pryor said anything this stupid but his position on the amnesty bill was the same as Graham's.
These two introducing such an amendment can only be looked upon as an attempt to save their cushy jobs in the Senate. They both are up for re-election next year. If the voters in their states don't have a case of short memory both should have vigorous primary challenges. Their opponents should hammer home to the electorate that Graham and Pryor tried to sell out not only the people of South Carolina and Arkansas but the rest of the United States as well. If they are not defeated in the primary it is to be devoutly hoped that they will be defeated in the general election by someone who believes in enforcing our laws or at least has learned a lesson from their defeat.
The bill with the amendment passed by a vote of 89-1. The only dissenter was Voinovich of Ohio. This is the man who when asked by Sean Hannity what he thought about the Fairness Doctrine said, "I'm for it whatever it is." I suppose he can be forgiven for voting against funding Homeland Security since he probably didn't know what he was voting against anyway.
Unfortunately, Voinovich isn't up for re-election next year. He'd be a prime candidate for the dust bin along with Graham and Pryor.
This makes me FURIOUS!!!!!