Republican Senators who vote for this may lose their seat in the primaries, which is good, or in the general, which may balance out in the end. In other word we could pick up seats in borderline states like Washington and Oregon but lose seats in SC or Arizona. Either way the amnesty ideas will be one the new Senate will shun.
If the bill passes, it is game, set and match. It matters not what future Senates do. We will have legalized the status of 12 to 20 million people, which will effectively sow the seeds of our own destruction. You can’t unring a bell.
Hopefully, we will lose the Sr. Senator from Texas. She is voting in line with the McPain bunch, and telling us it is against the bill - that we just don’t understand.
I keep telling the talking heads on her phones that if she were above board and honest, it would be refreshing, and we would understand.
I think it would be very unwise to
a - Assume amnesty would fail in the House after Senate passage,
b - Consider this episode in terms of 'good' or 'bad' for one or the other political party, and
c - Even entertain the notion that congress is capable of presenting a bill so absolutely bad that the current president would fail to sign it.
So long as 'reform' is somewhere in the title, he'll sign just about anything that comes along. Anything, that is, that allows his compadres to stay where they are and allows future administrations to carry on with our traditional lack of enforcement.
When it starts to smell too bad, in twenty years or so, they can do it again - just like they are doing now.
We have one repubbie in the Senate in Oregon, Gordon Smith, and I can pretty well predict that he is gone in the next election. He has lost most of the support he had in the state. This means a Democrat most likely will take the seat. Don’t count on picking up seats for the GOP in Oregon.