Non Democratic Government- First Atlantic Yards..now..

Immigration 'reform' from Steve Sailer:

Under the leadership of Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), various Senators and Bush Administration officials pulled an all-nighter on Wednesday. By noon Thursday, the bleary-eyed politicos had concocted an illegal immigrant amnesty (a.k.a., "comprehensive immigration reform") bill behind closed doors.

I presume politicians don't have Smoke-Filled Rooms anymore, so you could call this the Red Bull-Filled Room approach to deciding the fate of America.

No committee hearings are to be held on what may well be the most important legislation of the decade. Senator Chuck Grassley [R-IA] pointed out, "It's disappointing and even ironic how the deal announced today skirts the democratic processes of Congress. It was cut by a group of senators operating outside the committees of jurisdiction and without public hearings on key components."
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Even more appallingly, Reid wants to hold the crucial "cloture" vote to shut off the possibility of a filibuster, the best chance to derail it, on Monday, May 21!

It is utterly impossible for the United States Senate to exercise the due diligence commensurate with the importance of major immigration legislation without extensive hearings.[like rushing through 5000+ page documents and giving laymen only 66 days to review them a la Atlantic Yards]

From a good government standpoint, what we are witnessing is perhaps the most irresponsible and shameless attempt to hustle a pig in a poke past the public in recent memory. Of course, that's the whole point of the exercise -- to not let us simple citizens in on the process of deciding who our fellow citizens will be.

It's only a modest exaggeration to call this an attempted coup against the American people

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Note the same modus operandi as Atlantic Yards- skirt the normal processes, hustle it through before anyone's had a chance to know what hit them. The ugly question is why? who stands to gain from this and why?

Even if you were FOR amenesty - and I can't imagine anyone but an illegal or someone wanting cheap labor being for it - the idea of rushing to vote on something with more pages than the bible and giving the american public, let alone the senators no time to read it is outright deception -is this how we want our government to function? How can someone intelligently vote on something when they haven't even read it? (and remember 'little' loopholes can have big consequences as in the 1986 immigration 'reform' which was supposed to end illegal immigration but actually increased both legal and illegal immigration)

This is the 'new' way for establishment circumnavigate the process - MSM presents a 'soft' picture of the bill, ignoring its true nature, its hustled through amidst a 1000 other mindless distractions and American Idle and de facto our national sovereignty has vanished.