Vote on cloture this morning

(Note: I’m trying to do my bit, but when I call senators’ offices, the phone call goes through and then the line goes dead. This happened to me both on Tuesday and this morning.)

Roy Beck writes:

DEAR OPPONENTS OF THE SENATE AMNESTY BILL,

Phone calls have to be made quickly this morning but still are important for keeping a final sense of urgency and magnitude in every Senate office.

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 [Senate contact page.]

The Democratic Cloakroom is saying that the Senate is scheduled to start an hour of debate at 9:30 a.m. and then vote on the amnesty cloture at 10:50 a.m.

There are quite a number of Senators who went to bed tonight saying that after voting YES on amnesty cloture Tuesday they were leaning toward voting NO Thursday after watching the embarrassing display of high-handed authoritarian procedures by both Democratic and Republican leaders that blocked any semblance of open debate or amendment process on Wednesday.

The Big Money special interests, the White House and Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.) are offering all kinds of goodies and privileges to Senators who will hold their nose and vote YES this morning.

Your calls are the only things that can add weight to the power of citizen expression these last few weeks and counteract the pro-amnesty lobby.

It is so important that you make clear in very short phone calls that a NO vote on the final bill will not be given credit by the public if the Senator votes YES on the cloture today. In fact, a NO vote after voting YES on today’s cloture would be proof of a Senator trying to deceive the public.

Bloomberg News is reporting that three Senators who voted YES on Tuesday are seriously thinking about a NO today:

Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) Richard Burr (R-N.C.) Kit Bond (R-Mo.)

And Bloomberg reports that these three are leaning toward NO:

Jim Webb (D-Va.) John Ensign (R-Nev.) Pete Domenici (R-N.M.)

We likely will need every one of them if we are to keep the Kennedy/Bush Comprehensive Amnesty bill from getting the necessary 60 votes for cloture….

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 28, 2007 09:14 AM | Send