I agree. The only ones who seem to get it are those who do not live or work in Washington.
Sounds like something Trent "Vacant" Lott would say.
Mitch McConnell should be thrown from office, IMO.
“The pessimism among Republicans”
Gee, I wonder why? Ignore your base, then call them racists, then try to ram secretly crafted legislation down our throats that ignores the Border Problem altogether...
Get back to basics or you will be offering insightful commentary on a cable news channel, tax cuts, decrease spending, don’t alienate your friends out in flyover country and support the President on obvious War on Terror issues like Gitmo and pressuring Al Qaeda detainees...
Duhh......
If McCaonnell was just sandbagging, I have no problem with that. Much better than actually supporting this turd.
Novak is a conservative commentator, but his spin is all wrong here.
He’s swallowed the inside-the-beltway conventional wisdom that ‘doing something’ is what people want over ‘doing nothing’. He swallowed the phony idea that its was only ignorant boobs calling up the senate.
Never mind the Rasmussen poll that showed 2 to 1 against the bill.
Never mind that Rasmussen also reports now that Republican identification has gone *up* in the wake of this bill, and that immigration is the one topic that republicans are trusted more on than democrats.
Never mind that acceptance of this bill is hardly a linchpin for gaining hispanic support, and whoever is thinking that is on crack.
Whatever deriliction of duty McConnell apparently had, the fact remains that HARRY REID is the majority leader. Reid put the measure on the Senate floor and concocte the play pigeon strategy.
For McConnell to get ‘blamed’ for Reid’s failure to get the bill through would be an acceptable conclusion only in outer space ... or DC.
Add Novak to the “Fred Barnes” doesnt get it list.
Here in real America we are just glad the bill died.
Just another pompous Beltway ass. Bite me, Novak.
If i’m not mistaken , Novak is a registered Democrat that happens to have some common sense . Definately not a RINO .
Buh-bye, Senator Switchback.
Another late switcher was Sen. Sam Brownback, seeking the Republican presidential nomination as the candidate of the right. He voted for the first cloture motion on Tuesday to keep the immigration bill alive and put out a news release on his presidential Web site explaining his vote. On Thursday he voted again for the bill. But when it became clear the measure had failed, he changed his vote from aye to nay and scrubbed his earlier statement from the Internet.
Novak is a sack of crap.
Novak is name calling? What a hypocrite!
How many Mexicans live in his neighborhood?
Maybe he should get off his fat a** and do his own chores, or hire an American at a fair price to do it.
How could somebody who has been around as long as Novak possibly believe that Republicans would EVER get more than 50% of the Hispanic vote?? The GOP got less than 30% in the last election! That means that for every 10 new Hispanic citizens, the rats gain 7 votes to every 3 for the Republicans. And even IF the GOP percentage soared to 40 or 45%, the result is STILL a net win for the rats. Good grief! Will somebody in Washington do the math?
Bush and a few Republican idiots cut their own throats by joining up with Kennedy and pushing this stinking abomination of a bill, a bill they ADMITTED stunk up the joint when they proclaimed they could never pass it in an election year! (Notice Kennedy is nowhere to be found these days, by the way?) No sympathy for the Republicans here. None. I only hope the good guys like Sessions, Vitter, and DeMint don't pay a price for their colleagues' malicious stupidity.
-PJ
McConnell simply saw that train coming, and didn’t want to be squashed by it. A lot of the GOP wafflers got religion on this near the end. John Warner says he hasn’t seen a public reaction like this in 30 years of Senate service. The people roared on this one, and we shouldn’t stop until we fix the problem with security and deportations. THEN allow more legal immigration. But take care of the illegal problem first.
He says the congressional Republicans are pessimistic about their future because of "unpopular president waging an unpopular war." If that's why they're pessimistic, then they're fools who are unable to assess reality.
Further proof? How about the voice of the people being dismissed as a "hysterical onslaught from constituents demanding the death of the "amnesty" for immigrants they heard vilified on talk radio."
I realize who his audience is and who signs his checks, but there is no reason to pay any attention to his analysis. He's clueless or is trying hard to appear that way.
I read this weekend that “Scottish-Law” Specter was quoted as saying, “The will of the Senate will prevail” on the immigration bill.
Republican’s are now more trusted on the immigration issue than Dems, post shamnesty. Rasmussen poll (discussed in another thread):