Thread: Call Sessions Tomorrow! The Fix is In!

According to one senate staffer, McConnell and Reid are going to resubmit this abominable bill next week just as Sen. Sessions is with Bush () at an Alabama fundraiser. The full entry is here:

You can't say I didn't warn you. The immigration bill is coming back, probably as early as next week. That's what Senators Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) agreed to today, leaving conservatives on Capitol Hill disappointed and alarmed.

A conservative Senate GOP aide told me McConnell caved under pressure from the White House and Democrats. "They are going to roll over conservatives. They scheduled debate time and a vote for next week knowing full well that Jeff Sessions would be out of town."

Sessions, a vocal opponent, will be in Alabama for a fundraiser with President Bush next Thursday. Sessions teamed with Senators Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.) and David Vitter (R.-La.) last week to take a principled stand against the bill despite tremendous pressure from its supporters. Sessions' absence would put conservatives at a significant disadvantage.

My source said the fact that McConnell would agree to such an arrangement means that he's willing to disregard the interests of his own caucus to appease Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.) and other amnesty supporters. It also suggests the bill's supporters will do almost anything to ram it through even though just 20% of Americans want it.

Please tell Sen. Sessions to stay in Washington next week so that he can help fight this travesty!

I don't understand why he would want to associate with Bush at all.. That is a tad surprising. Hopefully he will reconsider how that will look.

I'll call first thing in the morning.

But if Sessions is as smart as I think he is, he wouldn't been seen with Bush anywhere-especially at a fund raising event.

Do suspect that McConnell and Sessions has something up their sleeve to derail the bill tha they aren't devulging for fear that the plan will get back to the PRO-AMNESTY crowd and give them too much time for a counter strategy???

One could only HOPE!!!

From what I understand and probably read here this was a prearranged thing before the bill. Still Sessions could have got a lot of "street cred" refusing to follow through with it.

Ill call too, he needs to be in Washington.

Sen. Sessions is the first person on my call list tomorrow.

I'll be begging & pleading with his staffers to convince him to say in Washington and not be lured away by Bush (of all people)!

This is not good, having Sen. Sessions out of the loop at a critical time seems like a setup to me. I would advise ALL ALIPAC MEMBERS CALL SESSIONS OFFICE ASAP!

Definitely will call in the morning.

If Bush was willing to cut his overseas trip short in order to revive this amnesty bill than Sessions should be willing to cut his fundraising trip short in order to stop this amnesty bill.