Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Sunday said that despite all that the bill still might not have enough votes to pass.
McConnell predicted the Senate would wrap up work on the measure "one way or the other" before the holiday.
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Some annotated links to opinions in the continuation
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Elizabeth Dole @ Charlotte Observer: Same ole song
FH @ Detroit News: "The president's credibility is all used up by his conscious strategy to neglect immigration enforcement -- part of a shameful drive to cheapen American labor for the advantage of business."
Dick Morris @ The Hill: "Bush is paying the price for failing to move swiftly to build the wall authorized by Congress last year. Each brick would have bought him more and more support for today’s compromise. Allocating extra money now for border enforcement won’t impress anybody. Where’s the wall that we already paid for?"
Charles Krauthammer@ RecordNet: "Comprehensive immigration reform is in jeopardy because it is a complex compromise with too many moving parts and too many competing interests"
John Ensign, National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC): "The number of calls to our personal offices as well as to the NRSC are overwhelming and they are overwhelmingly against the bill. It's, I don't know, ...a hundred to one against." [interviewed by John Hawkins @ Right Wing News]
Ed Morrissey @ Captain's Quarters also interviewed Senator Ensign for Heading Right.
Slobokan @ Townhall: "Unless we, the American people, force Congress to fund the enforcement of our current laws, we will be left with a status quo that is entirely unacceptable. That's why we need enforcement of our current laws, not empty promises in the Senate Amnesty Bill."
Tom Dewesse (via Silly Lizze's Rock) on the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Is this just a loose association, like your local Chamber of Commerce, or is it a de facto unofficial treaty, with the Immigration Bill being part of the deal? You decide.
CQ Today: "Two amendments — one from the left and one from the right — may be the ultimate test of whether a fragile coalition will hold when the Senate brings back the stalled immigration bill."
Mexica Movement (or, why protest for improvement of our country when we can invade yours).
CNN: Conservative Bloggers in full revolt
Roy Beck of Numbers USA explains the situation:
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