The Anchoress gives a pep talk on media bias after stating the cold hard facts:

By the way, we’re outnumbered. Team Mainstream has all the heavyweights, the guards, the tackles and the microphones, too - so they call the plays the way they see them, regardless of what is actually happening.

This is how I know we're grossly outnumbered:

Immigration 08' (Mobilizing Immigrant Voters) - "Simon Rosenberg has worked in national politics and the media world for more than 20 years."

GOOD Sheet: Coming to America - The GOOD Sheet (progressive agitprop) is being distributed by Starbucks.

Glenn Reynolds echoes The Anchoress:

EARLIER, I promised some thoughts on what to do about the news media's outright campaigning for Obama. They're not just in the tank, they're functioning as arms of the campaign, and Obama's strategy shows that he knows that and is relying on it.)

If you want to have a media environment that isn't dominated by the Gwen Ifills and Keith Olbermanns of the world, you need to ensure that other kinds of voices flourish. That means supporting the alternatives with your eyeballs, your subscriptions, your advertiser-patronage -- basically, your money. Businesses need money to flourish. There's a vast underserved population out there, for news, entertainment, movies, etc., and if people start serving it, the current "mainstream" media won't be so mainstream anymore. So if you're unhappy with current offerings, put your money where your mouth is.

I suppose Glenn's strategy will work until the DEMS pass the Fairness Doctrine.

Labels: democrats, immigration, left-wing media, liberals

It's dead. A BIG win for conservatives. Reid probably gets a victory because an overwhelming majority of Americans opposed the bill. Michelle Malkin had the best coverage (hour by hour since this morning). She quotes Senator DeMint at length:

"When the U.S. Senate brought the Amnesty bill back up this week, they declared war on the American people. This act created a crisis of confidence in their government. Thankfully, the American people won today," said Senator DeMint. "This is remarkable because it shows that Americans are engaged and they care deeply about their country. They care enough for their country to get mad and to fight for it, and that’s the most important thing of all. Americans made phone calls and sent letters, and convinced the Senate to stop this bill."

"The Senate rejected this bill and the heavy-handed tactics used to ram it through. Americans do not want more of the same – amnesty and broken promises on the border. Americans want legislation to be written in public – not in secret – and they want Congress to engage in an open and fair debate."

"There is a better way forward without this bill. The President has said that the border security measures can be implemented over the next 18 months, and they can be done under current law. Now the Administration needs to prove it and stop holding border security hostage for amnesty."

I'm still on the fence (no pun intended) re: my official position. It was a pique against GWB by a faction of his own base; however, he [the President] isn't a conservative.

The loss of our majority status in 2006 was significant and MANY conservatives believed that some time in the wilderness would benefit our party by helping our leaders return to those conservative principles - limited government and fiscal responsibility - that have been the hallmarks of our party. Maybe it's working.

As a postscript...

My litmus test (whether or not a bill grows BIG government) was always Ted Kennedy and he seemed vehement about passing this bill. Why can't BIG government use the agencies ALREADY in existence to enforce the law?

GWB demonstrated once again that he does what he feels is right AND not what some pollster tells him.

Ramesh Ponnuro over at NRO writes:

Post Mortem

President Bush's humane and generous instincts combined with his moralistic and arrogant ones to produce a political fiasco that could have been a policy fiasco as well.

Labels: immigration

***UPDATE***

Amnesty cloture passes. The BIG winner is HRC.

The DEMS are so riddled by BDS that they're going to torpedo the amnesty bill tomorrow delivering some much needed life into a conservative base that appears listless. The great news is that GWB isn't running in 2008 and by allowing cloture to fail those illegals can't join unions and get addicted to DEM social services. More importantly, this is the final separation of conservatives from GWB.

A Bush Loss Is a Good Thing -- for Everyone! [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
From a grassroots coordinator:

Boxer is a likely NO; there is a rumor on the Hill that Dems are saying "Bush is going to lose his cloture vote." I hope that is true.

06/25 04:06 PM

These are the Senators whose decisions will likely determine whether the amnesty passes or not:

Bond (R-Mo.)
Bingaman (D-N.M.)
Burr (R-N.C.)
Boxer (D-Calif.)
Cochran (R-Miss.)
Conrad (D-N.D.)
Ensign (R-Nev.)
Levin (D-Mich.)
Gregg (R-N.H.)
Nelson (D-Neb.)
Hatch (R-Utah)
Webb (D-Va.).

Source: Michelle Malkin

Labels: democrats, immigration

Fowler over at NRO makes the same point I do...

El Burro Es Muy Quieto

Not a single hee-haw on DNC website about the major issue of the day. Absolute silence. No praise for Teddy for rolling W on immigration.

The DEMS are smart (in an evil and slithery kind of way). They've just boosted union enrollments 20%, have new victims for their social programs, and can enjoy the fireworks from a divided GOP.

Kate O'Beirne writes:

Analysts at the Heritage Foundation have the current legislative text of the immigration deal and are alarmed at provisions they view as dangerous loopholes. They point out that once the bill is signed its language appears to create a "cease and desist" order on law enforcement given what looks like a prima facie assumption that any illegal alien is eligible for amnesty and can therefore be given preliminary legal status. Under the "Treatment of Application" section, once an application for the new "Z" visa has been filed, it appears that the government has only "one business day" to identity a disqualifying factor or the visa must be issued. And lots of provisions are apparently able to be waived by Cabinet secretaries so there's plenty of discretion for the next Clinton administration.

Labels: immigration

Here is Wizbang:

There are some things that you just know are a bad idea. Leaving teenagers unsupervised on a weekend. Letting the neighbor who can't even remember your name "borrow" your new rider mower. And trusting a "bipartisan" bill from Congress.

What a piece of work, this latest thing on "Immigration Reform".

It's got something for everyone, which is what usually happens when committees of poll-driven narcissists put out public policy. There are Republicans who like it, there are Republicans who hate it, there are Democrats who like it, there are Democrats who hate it, there are both Republicans and Democrats who won't say whether they like it until they find out from their staff which position is more poll-popular in their state or district. The whole issue of Immigration Reform has been a total mess for years, and it's not as if putting Pelosi and Reid in charge of the whorehouse has improved the character of the lineup.

As you might expect, I give President Bush a little slack for this. The GOP-controlled Congress sat on its hands rather than deal with this for years, so it's not as if he could expect Donkey Kong to get it right. And like it or not, President Bush's 2007 position on Immigration Reform is the same as it was in 2000 when he first ran for President...

Labels: immigration

wedge issue
–noun
an issue that divides or causes conflict in an otherwise unified group: Immigration is a wedge issue for the Republican party.

red herring
–noun
something that draws attention away from the central issue.

shrew
-noun
a woman with a violent, scolding, or nagging temperament; a scold.

Every keystroke and breath WE waste on this issue provides cover to the DEMS to act on their inherently traitorous and anti-American behavior on real issues like national security, taxes, spending and government growth. We're also providing opportunities for them to solidify their slim majority in Congress.

The Goracle is going to become the nuclear option because eventually we're going to need someone to stop Hillary Clinton. I'll take the Goracle for four years versus that canckled shrew.

Labels: immigration

Top Democratic leaders and activists see Hispanic migration as a long-term opportunity for the party. The arrival of additional immigrant workers is "bad for blue-collars," Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told National Journal late last year. But immigrants can help elect Democratic majorities, and "if [a Democratic Congress] were to significantly strengthen unions, then you would offset the negative effect on the income of workers," he said.

That vision thang...

UPDATED
Not sure if this is true, but here's a post alleging that the DNC influences the message Univision broadcasts (kind of tinfoil hat for me).

Labels: democrats, immigration