Monday, May 29, 2006

What will those crazy, yahoo republicans do next?   [Rich Lowry]

This Washington Post story from yesterday reports that vulnerable congressional Republicans are listening to their constituents back home and overwhelmingly deciding on that basis to oppose the “path to citizenship.” Just another sign of how out of hand this immigration debate has gotten. According to the Post, “the opposition spreads across the geographical and ideological boundaries that often divide House Republicans.” So it will no longer do to pretend that opposition to amnesty/path-to-citizenship is the position of only a crazed fringe of the right-wing. Instead, it represents the mainstream of GOP opinion, and if Senate Republicans aren't willing to bend to it, there will be no immigration bill at all this year.

05/29 03:18 PMShare