Schumer asks, 'do our Republicans have a pass' on immigration amendment

Our Republicans? Here's how we get to that...

In the Judiciary Committee mark-up of the Gang of Eight immigration bill yesterday, Sen. Sessions offered an amendment that would limit eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit to citizens and lawful permanent residents. In other words, immigrants who receive registered provisional immigrant status (i.e., legalization) would be barred from getting the generous taxpayer-funded benefit (approx. $2000). Although Gang of Eight members have vociferously promised that illegal aliens who receive legal status would not be eligible for public benefits under this bill, Senators Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin joined their Democrat colleagues in voting down the amendment, which was defeated on a party-line vote.

Tells you a lot about where they're going with this; however, Daniel Horowitz of RedState perhaps made a more profound catch...

RedState: A common ploy in parliamentarian scheming is for leaders to hand out hall passes for vulnerable members to vote against leadership’s proposal, knowing that it has the votes to pass anyway. The rationale is that those members should be able to hoodwink their constituents without compromising passage of the bill. This dynamic usually plays out with the leadership and rank-and-file of the same party, but during [yesterday]’s Senate Judiciary Committee markup, it was Chuck Schumer who was handing out hall passes to Republicans.

Somehow I don’t think that voters in South Carolina and Arizona elected Graham and Flake to serve as a puppy dog for Chuck Schumer.

If this doesn’t illustrate for you what is wrong with the whole framework of this amnesty bill, I don’t know what will.

Not just what's wrong with this bill, but what's wrong with D.C.! Time for those two to take McRINO with'em and go home, courtesy of a more knowledgeable electorate (one would hope).