Jeff Sessions amendment to the immigration bill passed, uh-oh

[Greeby]

ayes 83 nays 16

Don't know what its about, but if Jeff Sessions put it up, it can't be good

[TayTay]

1. It's the fence vote

The Senate just voted to put up a 370 mile fence on the US Mexican border. (And 500 miles of vehicle barriers.)


???????????? Why would so many Dems vote for this? It seems to me like a waste of money.

[porphyrian]

2. How incredibly fucking stupid.

I'm guessing they all own stock in the people who'll get the contract to build it.

[LaurenG]

5. Would a fence keep us from climbing over?

It wouldn't keep me out. I agree with you it's a waste.

[marmar]

3. Sessions is a Bush-enabling Brownshirt pig...

It's assholes like him who are destroying this country.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. It's getting heated in the Chamber today

As for the fence...well, Lou Dobbs is looking into the level of funding. Probably coming out of Pentagon funds pre-allocated to private contractors.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the Conference of this bill. I'm also betting it comes back looking nothing like what they voted for initially.

[Greeby]

6. Voting now on the Vitter amendment to remove

"provisions giving legal status to certain undocumented workers"

Edit - forget about it, too many Repukes voting no in the intial list for this to succeed