If Other Cows With Mad Cow Disease

When A Nominee Doesn't Get 60 Votes, You Shouldn't Change The Rules, You Should Change The Nominee.

This Bill [immigration Reform And Control Act Of 1986] Is A Gamble, A Riverboat Gamble. There Is No Guarantee That Employer Sanctions Will Work Or That Amnesty Will Work. We Are Headed Into Uncharted Waters.

We Are On The Precipice Of A Crisis, A Constitutional Crisis. The Checks And Balances, Which Have Been At The Core Of This Republic, Are About To Be Evaporated By The Nuclear Option. The Checks And Balances That Say If You Get 51% Of The Vote, You Don't Get Your Way 100% Of The Time. It Is Amazing, It's Almost A Temper Tantrum.

Do Not Let Arguments Of Expediency Persuade You. That Is The Slow Road To Oblivion. That Is The Tortured Path To Undoing Step By Step, Bit By Bit, As The River Creates A Canyon, The Way Of Life That We Love.

We Need To Make Sure Middle-class People Are Able To Pay The Bills. We Need To Make Sure That Poor People Don't Starve. Those Are Values, Too.