I don't buy that at all, quite frankly.
IMO some very powerful interests are pulling strings and the puppets at the end of those strings are dancing.
I asked how that could possibly be given the outpouring of anger against this bill, and he told me that a lot of moderates were afraid of being called racists by people like Michael Chertoff, Luis Gutierrez, and Fred Barnes.
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