Shamnesty Senators Won't Give Up

They're determined to wreck this country one way or another, and clearly are not listening to the American people.

Immigration Bill Sponsors Vow to Press On

The authors of a comprehensive immigration bill said today that they would try to resuscitate the measure, which stalled Thursday when the Senate refused to cut off debate, as President Bush urged senators from both parties to bring the bill back to the floor.

"We are not giving up, we are not giving in,” said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, who helped write the bill in months of negotiations with the White House and a small bipartisan group of senators.

Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, the chief Republican architect of the bill, voted against limiting debate. He said he wanted to give conservative Republicans "a little bit more time to get amendments together, to get them considered, so that we can finish the bill with an opportunity for everyone to have their say."

Yes, well we've had our say, and we want no part of this bill. Oh, and we now return to the name-calling.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat, who is a co-author of the bill, said talk show hosts were partly responsible for derailing it.

"I’ve listened to talk show hosts drumming up the opposition by using this word amnesty over and over and over again," Mrs. Feinstein said. In 15 years in the Senate, she added, "I’ve never received more hate or more racist phone calls and threats."

She provided no evidence to back up her statement.