Thread: 15 Flip in Senate--Amnesty Up for Another Vote--New Talking

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Friday 15JUN07 1 a.m. EDT


Fifteen Flip in Senate -- Amnesty up for another vote -- New talking points for phone calls

FROM INSIDE THE SENATE, WE HAVE SOME DETAILED NEW TIPS ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR PHONE CALLS HAVE THE MOST IMPACT. SEE BELOW.

FRIENDS, WE NEED A NEW SET OF PHONE CALLS TODAY.

Senate Democratic Leader Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Republican Leader McConnell (R-Ky.) have announced that they have a deal to resurrect the S. 1348 Bush/Kennedy Comprehensive Amnesty Bill.

Several days of voting on amendments could start as early as next Tuesday.

That means that McConnell believes he has FLIPPED 15 of the 38 Republicans who voted NO on cloture on the bill a week ago. By producing 15 more Republican YES votes, McConnell could pass cloture which would end the filibuster and allow the amnesty to pass.

We do not yet know the identities of the FLIPPIN' FIFTEEN. It is quite possible that they will not divulge they have flipped back to a YES vote until that vote actually occurs.

We DO feel we have

The Senate amnesty-guestworker bill that’s in its death throes doesn’t deliver a solution. It only worsens the problem.

It suffers from fatal flaws. It deserved its public execution.

For example, politicians claim S. 1348 requires enforcement measures before the amnesty or guestworker programs go into effect -- the famed “triggers.â€

[quote]For a “comprehensiveâ€