Neither victory nor defeat, but a continuation

The good news: the cloture motion on the Comprehensive National Suicide Act, which if it had passed would have led to the quick passage of the bill, has been defeated by 33-63 votes.

The bad news: Majority Leader Reid, instead of withdrawing the bill, as he had earlier said he would do in the event cloture failed, now says, according to the AP, that he will give the bill more time before yanking it and moving onto other matters:

“We need to complete this marathon,” Reid said.

His decision set the stage for yet another procedural vote later Thursday that will measure lawmakers’ appetite for a so-called “grand bargain” between liberals and conservatives on immigration.

So we’re not out of the muck yet.

Here is the webpage where you can get your senators’ Washington phone number, or click on each senator’s name and get his or her home state numbers.

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Gintas writes:

“We need to complete this marathon,” Reid said.

Was this a marathon? Really? It sure seemed like a wind sprint to me. I believe he means, as one of the ruling elite, that he is in this for the long haul. If this bill fails, they’ll keep going and going, like the Energizer Bunny, trying bill after bill. This bill wasn’t a marathon; the total effort is a marathon.

LA replies:

I agree 100 percent. As Rosemary Jenks said in the NumbersUSA conference call yesterday, unless the open borders side is truly and permanently defeated, they will keep coming back and trying to pass bills like this, forever. However, I’m not sure what she meant by such a permanent defeat of the other side. How would this happen? What would it consist of?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 07, 2007 12:50 PM | Send