It's Coming Back!

We knew it wasn't dead.

Fox News: Majority Leader Reid Close to Reviving Senate Immigration Bill---

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will approve a new deal on immigration on Thursday and move to bring the once-dead legislation back to the Senate floor next week, Democratic sources told FOX News.

Details of the immigration compromise remain to be finalized, but top Democratic sources say Reid has closely monitored the behind-the-scenes dickering over policy changes and a finite list of amendments due for consideration. Based on the latest updates on the policy and amendments, Reid will approve the compromise and move late Thursday to put the bill back on the calendar for Senate consideration in the middle of next week.

"He's going to bless it and he's going to get the Senate back in the business of dealing with immigration," said a source in the Democratic Senate leadership.

The principal change to the bipartisan immigration compromise that Reid shelved last week is the addition of $4.4 billion in added border security spending. That money will be added to the base bill to return to the floor. Any other changes to the immigration bill will have to be made through the amendment process.

Oh, joy!

And, of course,

Earlier in the day, President Bush agreed to the plan in hopes of winning over fellow Republicans.

"We're going to show the American people that the promises in this bill will be kept," Bush said in a speech to the Associated Builders and Contractors.

I will not be bought. I will not change my opinion on this matter just because they promise to add money to enforce the border security.

GOP sources tell FOX News that the new bill has enough support from Republicans for Reid to prevail on a procedural vote to get the bill to final passage.

As Michelle Malkin notes,

It's do or die time, people.

The GOP elites have chosen. If you have an objection, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Speak up now! Let them know we aren't stupid and that we aren't going to fall for false promises of enforcement.

More at Hot Air.

And don't forget to read "The best way to restore trust", from some anti-Amnesty Senators.

Let the Amnesty Crowd know you aren't going to stand for this:
The Senate
The White House
The House (Let them know they can expect lots of angry calls & e-mails if they fall in line with this shamnesty.)

Paris' Slammer Syndrome

Over at Townhall.com, Janet M. LaRue (chief counsel for CWA) has a great column:

Hilton’s Slammer Syndrome Results in Premature Evacuation

LaRue seems to have a great sense of humor. Here is a portion:

Until Barbara Walters or Diane Sawyer attends to Paris Hilton’s obsessive compulsive media attention disorder, or until her publicist appears at a press conference to explain her “medical condition,” we can only guess at the affliction that served to spring Paris’s privileged posterior from the Los Angeles County jail.

Some common afflictions of the rich and shallow come to mind:

* Beverly Hills Nervosa: Tremors associated with residing outside the 90210 zip code

* Follicle Phobia: Fear of combing her own hair

* Congenital Servantitis: Catatonic state caused by separation from hot and cold running servants

* Media Aphasia: Inability to speak with anyone not wearing a press badge

* Jumpsuit Fever: Shortness of breath from wearing ugly clothing

* Disconjunctivitis: Inability to look at regular people

You really should read the rest of these "common afflictions of the rich and shallow" (not to mention the rest of the column).

It's So Right

While I was eating my lunch, I was watching the Fox News coverage of Paris Hilton's jail-break and court appearance. Ann Coulter was on with Neil Cavuto and much to my great surprise, I completely disagree with her opinion on the matter.

I think that Paris was appropriately sentenced, considering her probation violations, and am very glad that the judge has ruled she will now serve all 45 days in jail.

Come on, she is put on probation, which she violates twice. Then she is late to her hearing, where she is sentenced to 45 days, which the Sheriff immediately drops to 23 days. When she begins to serve it, she spends three days there and finds she isn't enjoying it (imagine that!), and he sends her home. Why not just send her to Las Vegas to have fun?

It was very wrong of Sheriff Baca to release her after only a few, short days in jail and put her on house arrest in her mansion. What a hard way to pay consequences (See here.). According to the Smoking Gun, the Los Angeles officials have received thousands of e-mails from ordinary citizens, outraged over the Celebrity Treatment Paris Hilton has received. You can read some of the letters there.

And the reason: she's ill or suffering from poor mental health?!? That's ridiculous. How many sick and crazy people are in that jail---still in that jail---despite their diseases/mental illnesses? We don't let people out of jail, when they have been properly tried and convicted and sentenced, just because they are ill or crazy. Jails/prisons have medical facilities just for these sorts of situations.

So, today, she has a court hearing, which she arrives at late, and the judge, thankfully, throws the book at her: she'll be serving all 45 days.

Ann Coulter thinks this is taking the celebrity treatment too far the other way, but others on the panel with Neil Cavuto, including Fox News business analyst Dagen McDowell, think that that celebrities ought to be held to a high standard. I agree. Paris Hilton thinks she's fabulous and all that is wonderful, just because she's rich and famous (because she's rich and slutty and blonde), and she needs to understand that no one is above the law. It shouldn't matter how much money you have or how famous you are.

I agree that Paris ought to be made an example of. She and her little fellow slutty-drunk friends (Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, etc.) need to grow up and face their consequences. They get away with anything they want: drinking under age, driving while drunk, etc., etc., etc. This has to stop and Paris being forced to pay the consequences is a good place to start.

Of course, she doesn't think so:

Paris Hilton was taken from a courtroom screaming and crying Friday seconds after a judge ordered her returned to jail to serve out her entire 45-day sentence for a parole violation in a reckless driving case.

"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.

(emphasis added)

No, Paris, what's not right is you getting to leave jail early just because you're sad! Wah, wah! What's not right is people being killed by drunk drivers who weren't sentenced to jail after being caught and ended up killing people. Paris didn't hurt anyone . . . this time, but there's always a next time. Pray she's learned her lesson.

I heard Greta Van Susteren, who was in the court room, on Fox News earlier saying that anyone who saw Paris would have known that she obviously needed medical attention. Too bad. Immature children often seem to be under psychological distress when they are upset; that sort of behavior is rightly known as a "temper tantrum." Children throw them when they don't get their way and they are sad and angry. That doesn't mean Paris shouldn't be made to accept the consequences of her actions. Perhaps, in the future, she'll think before she drives drunk, violates her probation, shows up late for court, or accepts special treatment (in regards to the law, that is, as, obviously, she's treated specially everywhere for some silly reason). And let's not even talk about Geraldo Rivera who was behaving as though poor Paris was being guillotined for her crimes. Please!

This situation only serves to remind us all that everyone, regardless of how wealthy or poor, ought to follow the law and be given the appropriate consequences. I hope all those silly teenage girls who want to emulate Paris and Britney and Nicole and Lindsay look at Paris in jail and realize that the same thing will happen to them if they decide to drink and drive.

Mostly, I hope that her 45 days in jail will help Paris Hilton grow up. She is an immature, skanky child and needs to stop acting like she's so important and fabulous and God's Gift to the world. She isn't, though she is God's child. Pray that she learns to listen to Him.

More at Hot Air.

Amnesty Bill Dead?

Both Fox News and CNN are reporting that the Amnesty bill is dead, as a second vote this evening failed.

Good news, but will it stay dead?

Colluding With The Enemy . . .

. . . makes you the enemy.

Via Michelle Malkin (who has done a ton of liveblogging on the dark and dirty deeds going on in the Senate Chamber):

From the Washington Times Insider Politics Blog:

Stephen Dinan, our excellent national political reporter who has led the way for months on coverage of immigration legislation, captured this priceless moment in his story this morning as the supporters of the bill struggled to keep it together.

The late-night vote was on an amendment that would require illegal aliens who get legal status to have a minimum level of health insurance. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is the chamber’s most liberal member, was — not surprisingly — opposed.

Writes Mr. Dinan: “Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona both went to check with Mr. Kennedy before casting their votes to match his. Soon after, (Arizona Republican Sen. Jon) Kyl also switched his vote to match Mr. Kennedy’s.”

The amendment was defeated.

All three of these Republicans proudly claim to be conservatives. Strange bedfellows indeed.

(emphasis added)

With "representatives" like these, who needs the Democrats to oppose us?

(Visit Hot Air to see Lindsey Graham having a temper tantrum like a thwarted 7-year-old---hilarious.)

Michelle wrote:

Readers are e-mailing that they are having trouble getting through to their representatives. Just a reminder that the amnesty hotline set up by open-borders activists is still working.

Just ignore the propaganda and you should be connected quickly to your senators:

1-800-417-7666.

Call or e-mail!

Pun Intended?

AP: Judge freezes congressman's assets

"Congressman" would be Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) who, one will remember, had stashed a bunch of bribe money in his freezer (oh, yes, and then made the National Guard, right after Hurricane Katrina) drive him to his house to retrieve it---from his freezer).

A forfeiture charge is among the 16 criminal counts Jefferson is facing. Prosecutors have already said they will seek to recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars from Jefferson that they believe he obtained illicitly by peddling his influence to help broker business deals in Africa.

Jefferson is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in U.S. District Court.

Wow, 16 criminal counts. "Peddling his influence." And I thought the Democrats were the party of upstanding morals?

Finally

Remember Representative William Jefferson (D-LA)? The man who, in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina, had the National Guard escort him to his home so he could retrieve the bribe money he had stored in his freezer? Remember him?

Well, it has only taken a year and a half for this:

AP: GOP seeks to expel Jefferson from House---

WASHINGTON - Republicans moved on Tuesday to seek Rep. William J. Jefferson's expulsion from Congress, a day after the Louisiana Democrat was indicted on charges of taking more than $500,000 in bribes.
[. . .]
Republicans, citing Pelosi's election-season promise to run the most ethical House in history, sought Jefferson's expulsion from the chamber, possibly before he comes to trial on the bribery charges.

Justifiable, wouldn't you say?