LATEST UPDATE: From The Blaze:
After reading Scott’s AP story on the failure of the DADT amendment to the defense spending bill, something jumped out at me: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also voted against the measure as a procedural tactic. Under Senate rules, casting his vote with the majority of the Senate enables him to revive the bill at a later date.” Which signals to me he knew it was going to fail all along, unless he engaged in some “No, you vote first — no, YOU vote first” and cast his vote once he realized the bill was doomed. [ Dirty Harry got even dirtier! Notice that he let many of his underlings risk their political futures on this and then covered his rear end. – JS ]
UPDATE: This was prevented today in the Senate but stay alert because Dirty Harry promised we will see it again – maybe in the lame duck session!
By Conn Carroll at The Foundry
One of the foremost responsibilities of the federal government is to ensure the security of our nation. It is right there in the Preamble to the United States Constitution: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” This week the U.S. Senate is scheduled to take up the FY 2011 National Defense Authorization Act. This legislation is necessary to fund the defense of the United States and its interests abroad. The House already passed their bill in May. But Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) would rather talk about amnesty.
Why is Reid doing this? One only need look at the RealClearPolitics aggregate polling data: he is in a dead-heat reelection battle with State Rep. Sharon Angle (R). That is why Reid bypassed usual Senate procedure and included “the DREAM Act” in the defense bill. The DREAM Act creates a “path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. before the age of 16, have lived here for 5 years, and either serve in the military or attend college. But the bill also prohibits the government from deporting anyone who has even filed an application for the program. This essentially gives amnesty to anyone who applies regardless of whether they actually qualify for the act’s protections. Worse, the program would also allow applicants to sponsor their immediate family members for a green card. While current law prohibits sponsorship of illegal immigrants living in the United States, this leaves open the possibility that they could fraudulently, through falsified documents or other means, sponsor their parents who are in the U.S. illegally – creating an even larger amnesty.
By itself the DREAM Act is terrible public policy. It would reward illegal aliens for violating federal immigration laws. It would encourage more illegal immigration by sending the message that the United States does not take its immigration laws seriously. And in an additional slap in the face to law-abiding Americans, it offers in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants, while legal students in the rest of the country would have to pay out-of-state tuition rates. But forcing this measure into the defense authorization bill is just shameful.
[ This political dirtiness by Harry Reid is despicable! He chooses to expose a non-political issue, the funding and thereby the safety and well-being of our warriors, to a filthy bit of pandering for more illegal alien votes. This one issue alone should be enough for all of us, political identifications aside, to rid Washington of this type of vermin who put their own sinecures above the needs of those who actually serve this country. Speak out loudly or we are going to be seeing a lot more of this filth! – JS ]
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