Gregg failed country with his vote on immigration
By Mark Brighton
July 16, 2007 9:30 AM
On June 28, the Senate did the right thing and saved the country from S. 1639, euphemistically called The Amnesty Bill for Illegal Aliens, a bill which 80 percent of the country recognized as a recipe for disaster. It wasn't because of anything Judd Gregg did.

Until Thursday, an unfathomable madness was gripping Washington. George Bush was putting his full weight behind a bill that would not have solved the illegal immigration problem and certainly would have meant incalculable damage to his own party. And to top it off, our Republican senator, Judd Gregg, has now voted twice in favor of it. No excuse is good enough — for either of them. Did Gregg think he was going to get an invitation to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom?

This is the type of bill that defines a man, where he stands and what he believes is good for the country. And our senator was found wanting in both areas. If the senator is thinking that time heals all wounds, I have news for him:Some wounds are fatal.

Albeit with the greatest reluctance, I will join the madness. I can't even believe I'm saying this, but I'm begging Burt Cohen to run again against Sen. Gregg at the next opportunity. Burt, not only will I vote for you, I'll campaign for you. Well, I might not go that crazy, but at this moment I would vote for you.

Because with you, Burt, at least we "know who you are."

The writer is a Portsmouth resident.

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