Many Democrats unhappy with immigration deal

Though some news sources would like to make us believe otherwise, all is not lost on the Comprehensive National Suicide front. As a blogger at Red State reports (apparently drawing on this New York Times article), many Democrats are unhappy with the deal, especially as it would make amnesty take longer and would also apparently downgrade family connections in favor an employment point system.

Paul Henri writes:

Please tell readers to call not only their senators but also the senators in the article who are identified as being unhappy with the deal and thus as possible fence-sitters, namely Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Robert Byrd, and Byron Dorgan. Senator Reid in particular is in a position to feel the climate and thwart his fellow senators on this train wreck. Two representatives identified as being doubtful are Rahm Emanuel and Xavier Becerra. Readers need to understand this is crunch time, and therefore, they must work hard even though it takes away from their jobs; they must make up their lost time on the weekend. I plan to work tomorrow, and so should they. This is when it burns, when it hurts to keep fighting; this is what separates champions from those that finish second. Champions did not have it easy.

LA replies:

If liberals such as Clinton and Schumer are unhappy with the package it is because it is not liberal enough. Therefore callers should consider carefully the arguments they use for such senators.

Daniel writes:

As it stands, the Senate proposal gives so much to the Democrats and the hard left that they would have to be stupid not to take it. And we know from history that it is not the Democrats who are the stupid party, the Republicans are.

All this talk about left Democrats possibly revolting is just so much head faking by the Democratic operatives. At the last minute all the “reluctant” Democrats will come into the fold and the Democrat leadership will point to this fact as a demonstration of Democrat good faith and compromise. The Republicans will fall for it and drop their opposition.

I pray that I am wrong about the above, but I don’t think so.

The hour is dire, but I will not give up. One consolation: if this bill passes, this is truly the end of the Republican party as an effective force in American politics.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 18, 2007 12:01 PM | Send