Report: McCain says guest-worker program lacks votes

[TomInTib]

Frist screws McCain

Senate compromise on immigrant bill faces filibuster threat

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senate backers of a guest-worker program being debated as part of comprehensive immigration legislation say they do not have the votes to break a threatened filibuster, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

GOP senators who support the guest-worker program met with Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, on Monday night seeking a compromise that could help them pass an immigration bill. The proposed compromise would have given special treatment to long-term illegal immigrants.

But Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona -- who, along with Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, proposed the guest-worker program -- told the AP that he didn't have the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster, a parliamentary procedure used to block legislation in the Senate.

The compromise, which Frist floated Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer," was described by Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter as the "roots concept."

more:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/04/immigration/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. A BAD idea...B-A-D...no matter HOW you slice it.

THERE. I fucking SAID it.

:patriot:

[saltpoint]

2. Just a point on McCain's stature. I feel the vote prediction he made

here was accurate, and I concede that point, but overall, he's in a position to make a lot more happen than he did.

I just don't care to have someone like that in the White House.

Go, Dems.