If You Like Your Sovereignty, You Can Keep Your Sovereignty: Obama Promises Amnesty Will Be Terrific; Senate Votes 84-15 to Begin Debate

This is a test vote and persons voting to begin debate are not necessarily in favor of the final bill's passage.

But it is ominous.

Here's Obama making a cascade of ObamaCare-like promises:

At a White House event a few hours before the Senate voted to debate the plan, Obama emphasized that it would increase spending on border security and require undocumented immigrants to pursue what he called an "arduous" path to eventual citizenship.

"You have to pass background checks, you have to learn English, you have to pay taxes and a penalty and then you have to go to the back of the line behind everybody who has done things the right way and have tried to come here legally," Obama said in addressing a major complaint by Republican opponents who call the reform measure an amnesty.

"Under no circumstances will I nut in your mouth this time, swearsies," Obama added, in the middle of Full Nut.

Okay obviously I added that part about "learning English."

Here are the NO votes to open debate:

Barrasso Boozman Crapo Cruz Enzi Grassley Inhofe Kirk Lee Risch Roberts Scott Sessions Shelby Vitter

In some cases (Kirk, Inhofe) I imagine the "No" vote here is purely for political show and perfectly dishonest.

posted by Ace at 03:06 PM

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