Senator Lindsey Grahamnesty opened his piehole again…

In an interview earlier this week, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. _ a backer of the sidetracked immigration bill _ said the one-at-a-time approach may prove impossible, even for tougher border-enforcement measures that now seem popular.

"The only way we're going to get Ag jobs or DREAM Act" or pathways to legal status for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, Graham said, "is to do it together. This idea of 'Just do the enforcement,' there are no votes for that."

There are no votes for enforcement? Is he kidding?

I guess we can just forget about the Secure Fence Act of 2006 which passed in the Senate and House by a significant margin and has already been signed into law.

Does he not realize that the 53 votes against cloture last week were a signal that the American people are demanding enforcement first?

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) gets it.

"The American people believe that until we're able to secure our borders and enforce our laws, taking additional steps is really not in the best interests of the country"

Senator David Vitter (R-LA) gets it, and so does Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA).

"There should be a very strong sense of urgency in this country to simply carry out the law, the mandate, for 854 miles of fence that we passed in the 109th Congress"

In fact, it seems that Senator Grahamnesty is one of just a few Republican Senators that just doesn't get it. Hopefully when it comes to his re-election, he just wont get that either.

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