A vote for sanity: DREAM Act should be a no-brainer for anyone with an ounce of sense and decency
Click here to view this media There were students out today on Capitol Hill, trying to make the final push for the DREAM Act, the cloture vote for which is tomorrow. In a normal political environment, this bill would be a no-brainer. I called the offices of Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, one of the Democratic holdouts who is reportedly planning to vote no, because I still have a lot of family ties back in Montana, including some political ties, and voiced my extreme disappointment at his betrayal. I was told the senator doesn’t support “amnesty”; I answered that it’s obvious the senator has swallowed the outpouring of lies about the act. It’s also obviously making the nativists nervous — which is why they’re pulling out all the stops. (See the utterly mendacious Mickey Kaus in Newsweek today, regurgitating just about every falsehood about this bill and giving it the patina of mainstream mediahood. And oh yeah — Mickey’s a liberal. Uh huh. Sure. He just never seems to find any liberal position he actually agrees with. Anyway, keep the phone calls up. Here are the numbers: D’s fence sitting: Claire McCaskill (MO) 202-224-615 Mary Landrieu (LA) (202) 224-5824 Kay Hagan (NC) 202-224-6342 Mark Pryor (AR) 202-224-6342 Joe Manchin (WV) (202) 224-3954 Kent Conrad (ND) (202) 224-2043 R Leaning yes: Lisa Murkowski (AK) (202) 224-6665 D’s likely voting no, who should feel pain: Tester, Baucus, Nelson Max Baucus (MT) – (202) 224-2651 Ben Nelson (NE) – (202) 224-6551 Jon Tester (MT) – (202) 224-2644
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A vote for sanity: DREAM Act should be a no-brainer for anyone with an ounce of sense and decency
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on December 18, 2010. Filed under