"The Graduated Approach": Senators Say Immigration Bill Coming Back in Pieces
"We have to have a different approach," Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, told the Houston Chronicle after the Senate fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to keep the immigration deal alive on Thursday. "It's clear from the vote that this bill was not the right approach."
Hutchison, who was among 37 Republicans, 15 Democrats and one independent voting to shelve the bill, is pressing for what she calls a "graduated approach." Read the Houston Chronicle article here.
**Update: The US Chamber of Commerce, the driving force behind the failed Senate immigration bill, is now also pushing for parts of the bill to come back piecemeal, according to this article in USA Today.
This is so typical.. Of course the reaction of the unwashed masses wasn't against the ideas and content of the bill... just the approach right guys? To me this is just yet another demonstration of how our system is broken. The average joe only has so much attention for things like this. One might think that the biggest reaction in living history in opposition to a bill might get the message across that 'the people' don't want what they are selling but as long as professional politicians are owned by special interest money we have to keep fighting the same battles over and over.
Just like the arena and the arts package.. it really does not matter what the people say... even the few who do actually get involved and vote. The voice and will of the people is little more than background noise. Those in power can safely do whatever they like and as long as the right words are used.. the right timing and packaging and marketing applied.. it will happen with little fear of negative consequences.. no matter what the cost or outcome.
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