That is a gamble, as I pointed out in that post. You can gamble that R’s will be in a better position and I would like to see that to be true.
The risk is, what if it doesn’t happen or worse, what if the opposite does?
That is a gamble? THAT is a gamble?
How utterly silly.
There is very little doubt that pubbies will lose more seats if they pass this bill than if they don’t. That ain’t a gamble by any stretch.
Or maybe you slept through the part where conservatives turned S1138 around from a sure thing to ‘on life support’, by calling and writing by the tens or hundreds of thousands, maybe more. There are more than enough voters enraged by the pubbies’ stupidity to swing at least 6 seats in 2008. That’s huge.
Let the democrats pass a bad illegal immigrant amnesty bill — the majority opposes it, and will run them out of office.
However, the democrats don’t support this bill either. The liberal interest groups noted that they expect 35 democrats, and 25 republicans, for the bill. Thats 70% of the democrats, and 55% of the republicans. We won’t be able to blame THAT on the democrats.
Yes, we should have tried harder to get what we wanted last year, when we had the majority in the house. Yes, it was the rabid anti-illegal closed-border anti-trade republicans who stopped us from a rational compromise.
But that doesn’t mean we should buy into the crap we are getting now.