Senate Kills the Immigration Reform Bill

As all of you have heard by now the senate killed this God awful piece of legislation called the immigration reform bill. This is great news, of course. The people were finally heard on this issue and enough senators had to change their vote. Unfortunatelly one of my senators, Judd Gregg, still voted the wrong way on this bill. Needless to say I won’t be voting for him again. He is not up for re-election in 2008, so perhaps he believed he could get away with this sellout of America.

Instead of going into this bill and the senators who voted for and against it, I am going to take this time to talk about another issue concerning this bill.

And that is the fact that while this bill is dead right now, it will be coming back again. Luckily for the American people it will not be passed before the election season really gets under way. Right now only the hardcore political junkies are paying attention to the primary season. That will eventually change and what better time than the primary season to let the candidates tell us where they stand on the immigration issue. This is an extremely important issue going forward and we should have the opportunity to vote for a candidate who is on the same side of the issue that we are. It should not be rammed down our throats the way the senate tried to do.

That being said, we are probably going to have a Democrat as the next president. We cannot afford to have Democrats with a larger majority in the senate or this bill will cruise through and become law. I know that this bill was President Bush’s bill and he wanted it to pass, but the Democrats wanted it even more. It will come up again if they are in power. And it will pass. I don’t care how upset you are at the president about the war or immigration, we cannot afford to let this discontent haunt eveyone in his party. We need to distinguish between president Bush and the senators who were against this bill.

Discontent with the president in New Hampshire last November led to Democrats regaining control of all branches of state government for the first time in 100 years, we are now paying the price(literally) in New Hampshire. We cannot let this happen to the federal government.

Unfortunately, as I said before, only the hardcore junkies are following right now. I am afraid that by the time the average American starts to pay attention they will have forgotten that Republicans killed this immigration bill, and in their discontent for the president they will vote even more Democrats to the senate.

This could be disastrous to the future of the country.