[clawrence3]

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will not allow a vote on a House-Senate compromise that does not have the support of most GOP lawmakers or one that would undermine the reelection chances of his at-risk members, aides said. According to GOP lawmakers and strategists, about 75 percent of the 231 House Republicans are steadfastly opposed to the Senate bill or even a watered-down version of it.

So, using my "fuzzy math", 75% of 231 is about 173 members - that leaves more than enough Congressmen to pass the compromise bill.

[Jameison]

"So, using my "fuzzy math", 75% of 231 is about 173 members - that leaves more than enough Congressmen to pass the compromise bill."

# 1. Those are WaPo figures. The same WaPo also claims that most Americans support the Senate Bil in that article, even tho nearly all GOP House members have had their constituents contact them, and overwhelmingly write against the Senate Bill.
Where is the WaPo getting their figures from?
Kos or DU?

# 2. Those same Republican House members voted overwhelmingly for the very tough House Bill didn't they?
Real votes trump "WaPo "polls" any day.

# 3. The only maths that counts is the 239-182 vote FOR the House immigration Bill when the votes were taken.

[puroresu]

If the Senate bill passes, then our nation will be well on its way to becoming a one party banana republic. Imagine California's politics nationwide. Leftist Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress as far as the eye can see. Leftist Democrat presidents as far as the eye can see, with the occasional exception of a "moderate" Republican, assuming he has popularity from some other venue (similar to Arnold). A permanent and shrinking conservative minority in the central part of the nation, and a few southern states. North Carolina, with 14 electoral votes, being the largest GOP leaning state, Texas and Florida having gone the way of California sometime around 2012 or so.