September 30, 2006
Fence Passes Senate Overwhelmingly
I am absolutely stunned by this:
Among its final tasks before leaving to campaign, the Senate on Friday night passed and sent to President Bush a bill authorizing 700 new miles of fencing on the southern border...The Senate vote on it Friday night was 80-19.
When I heard that the filibuster was over and it was coming up for a vote, I was confident that it would pass, but I thought it would get somewhere in the range of 60 votes or so. But 80?! Wow! I'm very pleasantly surprised by that. Remember all those people saying that voting to crack down on illegal immigration was such bad politics? Well, apparently, not only virtually all Republicans now think that it's good politics, but the majority of Democrats think so, too. I guess the media elite were just wrong once again. I'm shocked.
Among its final tasks before leaving to campaign, the Senate on Friday night passed and sent to President Bush a bill authorizing 700 new miles of fencing on the southern border...The Senate vote on it Friday night was 80-19.
When I heard that the filibuster was over and it was coming up for a vote, I was confident that it would pass, but I thought it would get somewhere in the range of 60 votes or so. But 80?! Wow! I'm very pleasantly surprised by that. Remember all those people saying that voting to crack down on illegal immigration was such bad politics? Well, apparently, not only virtually all Republicans now think that it's good politics, but the majority of Democrats think so, too. I guess the media elite were just wrong once again. I'm shocked.
