Immigration Cloture Fails Big

We needed 40 votes to kibosh the undead, sovereignty-yielding shamnesty bill.  Looks like we not only thwarted cloture, but did so with a full-on Senate Majority - 53 votes against, according to a preliminary count.

The final tally should be available here sometime after noon.

Humpbot is delighted.

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Update:  Republicans who voted for amnesty:

Bennett (UT)
Craig (ID)
Graham (SC)
Hagel (NE)
Kyl (AZ)
Lott (MS)
Lugar (IN)
Martinez (FL)
Gregg (NH)
McCain (AZ)
Snowe (ME)
Specter (PA)

More Democrats (15) found their way to the anti-amnesty side than did Republicans (12) to the anti-sovereignty side.  Of that dirty dozen, only Lindsey Graham is up for re-election in 2008, meaning we ought to see an interesting Senate primary in South Carolina next year.

Among Presidential candidates, Clinton, Obama, Biden, and McCain were all on the losing side.  Only second-and-a-half tier candidate Sam Brownback voted on behalf of the American people (though it appears it may have been a last minute change of heart).

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Update:   Allah has laid out the chronology of the votes, thus separating the principled from the weasly, and finds Brownback's double-back to be the weasliest of all.