WINNERS:  The GOP Senators who stepped up and told the President: "Amnesty, proposed by a Republican, is still amnesty."
 
LOSERS:  The "dirty dozen" Republican Senators that cast the pro-amnesty vote: Bennett, Craig, Graham, Gregg, Hagel, Kyl, Lott, Lugar, Martinez, McCain, Snow, Specter.
 
WINNERS:  Grassroots activists all around America who got active, and made a difference with their lobbying of Washington politicians.
 
THE BIG LOSER:  President George W. Bush.  My faith in the judgement of the George W. Bush has been profoundly, negatively impacted by this totally outrageous and misguided effort.
 
WINNERS:  All legal immigrants to the United States, whose journey to come here would have been immeasurably cheapened with an amnesty for the lawbreaking criminal immigrants.
 
BIG LOSER RUNNER UP:  Senator Mel Martinez, who was elected as the symbolic leader of the Republican National Committee.  In retrospect, what a terrible choice.  Instead of standing with his Party, and the rule of law, Martinez stood for amnesty.  How embarrassing.
 
WINNERS:  The coalition of over a hundred conservative bloggers with which I worked accross the country as we all urged action to kill this terrible bill.
 
BIG LOSER RUNNER UP:  Senator John McCain is running for the GOP nomination for President, and still managed to vote FOR this bill.  He chose very poorly.
 
WINNERS:  All of the GOP Presidential candidates, including Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and even the non-yet candidate Fred Thompson for all calling for the defeat of this bill.
 
LOSERS:  Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein for being so out of touch — voting for this bill when they represent a state that is so negatively impact by criminal aliens.
 
WINNERS:  All of the House Republicans who stood tall to make it clear that if this did clear the Senate, it would face one heck of a battle in the House.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.