Drunks and Us
Tapscott on the right week that was:
Winston Churchill once remarked that God takes care of drunks and the United States of America and so it seems to be as we approach the end of a remarkable week in which milestones of success for the conservative movement have come one after another.
One footnote to the immigration debate is that as some parties predicted, now that it’s crashed and burned it turns out the parentage and the failure was all Bush’s. AP:
President Bush’s immigration plan to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants while fortifying the border collapsed in the Senate on Thursday, crushing both parties’ hopes of addressing the volatile issue before the 2008 elections.
The Senate vote to drive a stake through the delicate compromise was a stinging setback for Bush - who had made reshaping immigration laws a centerpiece of his domestic agenda - engineered by members of his own party.
It could carry heavy political consequences for Republicans and Democrats, many of whom were eager to show they could act on a complex issue of great interest to the public.
“Legal immigration is one of the top concerns of the American people and Congress’ failure to act on it is a disappointment,” a grim-faced president said after an appearance in Newport, R.I. “A lot of us worked hard to see if we couldn’t find common ground. It didn’t work.”
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., his party’s lead negotiator on the bill, called its defeat “enormously disappointing for Congress and for the country.” But, he added: “We will be back. This issue is not going away.”
No stinging setback for Kennedy. All he did was negotiate for his party. Hey, wait a minute. What’s this, another 11 graphs down:
The measure was the product of a liberal-to-conservative alliance led by Kennedy and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., that forged an immigration compromise intended to withstand challenges from the left and right.
Not to gratuitously kick the AP, but in other business, Confederate Yankee thinks they might have another Jamil Hussein issue.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:41 am on Friday, June 29, 2007
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June 29th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Amazing how that works. Of course, it requires that all of us suffer from the grossest form of memory loss.
It is a defeat for Bush, as well as those in congress who wrote and worked for it. Bush has the the most stunning tin ear about certain things. Would that his character would show the same steadfastness on the issue of Iran, where he seems to have succumbed to the “realist” disease that got us here in the first place; beginning with Iran, it seems it may end with Iran.
June 29th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
If they weren’t using the same promises that they used in 1986, they might have had a better chance of success. The border was supposed to be closed by now. They sounded much too eager to keep it open ‘for the families.’
June 29th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Jihad in Londonistan
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