Everyone hates this immigration bill! The poor thing must feel like I did in junior high school. According to Rasmussen, a scant 26% of the public supports the bill. Do you have any idea how low that number is? Even the president has a higher approval rating!
As I’ve predicted to anyone who’s had the misfortune to speak with me the past week, the crux of the issue is border enforcement:
“Seventy-two percent (72%) of voters say it is Very Important for “the government to improve its enforcement of the borders and reduce illegal immigration.” That view is held by 89% of Republicans, 65% of Democrats, and 63% of unaffiliated voters.”
While good faith disputes can be had regarding what to do with the current batch of 12 million illegal immigrants, seemingly only Ted Kennedy and John McCain think it’s a swell thing as a matter of policy to have a porous border and other encouragements that will inevitably create a new batch of 12 million illegals after this one begins flaunting its Z-Visas. Oh, and while you’re staring agape over the fact that we’ve finally found an issue that Democrats and Republicans agree on, don’t forget to note how astonishing that 89% number is on the Republican side of things.
You know what’s almost funny about this? If this Spruce Goose of an immigration bill passed and John McCain won the Republican nomination, his Democratic rival would use it to bludgeon him in the general election. Such rewards for reaching across the aisle and knowing more about this issue than anyone else in the room – it’s almost not fair. Of course, neither one of those things is going to happen so no need to lose any sleep over it.
The people I really feel bad for are the McCain dead-enders who have so ably carried Senator McCain’s water through thin and thinner the past several months in the belief that he should be president. How could they have known that McCain would go out of his way to grotesquely antagonize and betray the entire Republican Party? Other than his entire past history, of course. But still, this was the new McCain. Sadly for them, the numbers are now in and John McCain has not only seized hold of a position that 89% of his party opposes, he has done so with his characteristic vigor on an issue which the party is passionate about its opposition.
What will the McCain dead-enders do? My prediction is we’ll find some of them on an island off of Okinawa 20 years from now, clutching pictures of the emperor and copies of this thousand page bill muttering, “It was his turn.”
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