Amnesty for Felons? Si, says the senate!

The proposed immigration legislation gets more and more ridiculous every day, as the senate attempts to hammer out something that can sneak through.

It reminds of a saying that was popular back in my days in the music biz: `You can't polish a turd.'

The latest cave in was over an amendment proposed by Arizona Senator John Cornyn(r-AZ) to bar felons—including those court-ordered to be deported—from the proposed amnesty.

Since there are over 600,000 illegal aliens the courts have already ordered deported that the ICE can't find, it seems eminently reasonable that the senate would at least want to protect the American people and have at least a pretense of enforcement of our laws.

Guess again.

The senate voted down Cornyn's amendment 51-46 against,pretty much along the expected party lines. Instead, they limited it to certain gang members and sex offenders - assuming the ICE ever bothers looking for them in the first place. So that means drug dealers, people deemed security risks, people with infectious diseases, burglers, people convicted of felonies like tax fraud, using fraudulent documents and a host of other felonies and misdemeanors are on track for amnesty.

This travesty was proposed, of course, by Senator Ted Kennedy and supported by Senator John McCain.

McCain was joined in opposing the amendment by the Senate's four Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sens. Joseph Biden of Delaware, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, and Barack Obama of Illinois.

That should give any interested parties a pretty good idea of how rigorous `enforcement' will be if a Democrat is elected in 2008.

After his defeat, Cornyn said those who voted against the proposal "failed to take an opportunity to help restore public confidence that we're actually serious about passing an immigration law that could actually work."

No-o kidding, Senator.

McCain, of course has other problems, as he was absolutely hammered for his immigration stance by Romney, Hunter and Giuliani last night at the GOP debates..but more on that later.

As for the current nonsense in Washington, I'll say it one more time: WRITE, CALL, E-MAIL AND FAX YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM THAT IF THEY VOTE FOR THIS OBSCENITY,NOT ONLY WILL YOU VOTE AGAINST THEM BUT YOU WILL WORK FOR THEIR OPPONENTS.

DO IT NOW AND DO IT OFTEN.