THE BAD DREAM ACT IS DEAD!

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DREAM Act Goes Down in Flames in Senate

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Published December 18, 2010 | FoxNews.com

An immigration bill that would blaze a trail to legal status for hundreds of thousands of undocumented students went down in flames in the Senate on Saturday, delivering a critical blow to Democrats and Hispanic activists.

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Both sides, which have fought tooth and nail over the bill immediately reacted to Saturday's vote.

"Now, the next Congress can start to put unemployed Americans back to work by eliminating the ability for illegal aliens to hold jobs and by reducing the number of unnecessary permanent foreign workers we currently bring in legally every month," said Roy Beck, president and founder of NumbersUSA.

Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said, "It is deeply disappointing that the Senate today refused to even allow a vote on the bill."

House Democrats vowed the fight was not over.

"Though disappointed by the result of today's DREAM Act vote in the Senate, we are not deterred in our determination to continue advocating for this critical legislation," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.

Comment:

Well, maybe the good guys don't always lose these days after all. This is most assuredly it for the DREAM Act for at least two years. It lost two votes in two weeks. The Senate still has a few things to do before it finishes up for the year and goes home for the holidays. Afterwards, the Republicrats take over, and the pro-amnesty people are SOL. I still say the entire system is rotten, but every now and again they do something right. I wonder how long before they screw us over in some other way. Well, we'll just have to wait and see.
Comrades, below is a list of how our senators voted. I included the Democans who voted against amnesty, which was only five. Also, a list of the six Republicrats who voted yes. Of the remaining 89 senators, all the Democans voted yes (including my two senators, Barbara Boxer (Jewish), and Diane Feinstein (also Jewish). All the remaining Republicrats voted no. Comrades, for those of you who still bother to vote in our farcical elections, I hope you'll remember who voted yes and who voted no when they come up for reelection.

Now, let's look at the individual votes ( asterisks *** before names means they are Lame Ducks who leave office Jan. 5) . . .

DEMOCRATS WHO SHOWED WONDERFUL VALOR AND VOTED 'NO' (against the amnesty)
(Ark.) Pryor
(Mont.) Baucus
(Mont.) Tester
(Neb.) Nelson
(N.C.) Hagan

Where would we be without you activists in Montana? Congratulations to all of you in those four states for helping these Senators understand the importance of ignoring the appeals of their Party leaders (including the President) to support an amnesty.
(W.Va.) Manchin didn't vote but issued a statement that he opposed the DREAM Act amnesty.

All other Democrats voted YES for the amnesty today.

In a Senate filibuster roll call like this one, the effect of not voting is the same as voting NO. Sen. Manchin is brand new and takes the seat held close to forever by the late Robert Byrd who was one of our most reliable Democrats to stand for American workers against unfair foreign labor competition. We are looking to West Virginians to make sure Sen. Manchin continues that tradition (although you didn't succeed with your Sen. Rockefeller today).

REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED 'YES' FOR THE AMNESTY \

(Alaska) Murkowski
(Ind.) Lugar
*** (Utah) Bennett

In a Senate filibuster roll call, the effect of not voting is the same as voting NO. Our whip counting beforehand indicated that the following three were committed to vote NO, even though they didn't end up voting at all.

(Ky.) *** Bunning
(N.H.) *** Gregg
(Utah) Hatch

All other Republicans voted NO against the amnesty.

That accounts for all 100 of the Senators.

The next sections just look at groups of those Senators in a different way.
OF DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED 'NO' ON DREAM AMNESTY IN 2007, THIS IS HOW THEY VOTED TODAY

Baucus NO
Conrad YES
* Dorgan YES
Landrieu YES
McCaskill YES
Pryor NO
Tester NO

OF REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED 'YES' IN FAVOR OF DREAM AMNESTY IN 2007, THESE FLIPPED AND VOTED 'NO' TO OPPOSE TODAY

McCain AZ
* Brownback KS
Collins ME
Hutchison TX
Snowe ME
DEMOCRATS FACING RE-ELECTION COMPETITION IN 2012 WHO VOTED 'YES' FOR AMNESTY TODAY

Stabenow MI
McCaskill MO
Webb VA
Lieberman CT
Nelson FL
Klobuchar MN
Bingaman NM
Brown OH
Cantwell WA
Kohl WI
REPUBLICANS FACING RE-ELECTION COMPETITION IN 2012 WHO VOTED 'YES' FOR AMNESTY TODAY

Lugar IN