Kill-America champion expresses doubts about ultimate success

Here is good news on the immigration front from the AP, posted Sunday afternoon at the New York Times and Monday at Dan Stein’s Report:

McConnell Says Immigration a Close Call

WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate’s top Republican said Sunday he could not predict whether stalled immigration legislation will pass, citing questions among conservatives as to whether it guarantees amnesty to illegal immigrants.

“It’s a mixed picture,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who called the vote, which is expected before lawmakers begin their Fourth of July vacation, too close to call. “There are good things in the bill, and not so good things in the bill.”…

On Sunday, McConnell said several Republicans were disappointed with provisions involving the so-called Z-visa, which provides a means for illegal immigrants to gain interim legal status.

On the other hand, support for bill provisions that would boost money for border security is strong, he said.

“When we get to final passage, it’s hard to know whether the votes will be there to pass it or not,” McConnell said. “We’ll finish Senate consideration of the immigration bill one way or the other.”

McConnell, a soulless, economy-is-everything, open-borders type married to Elaine Chao, Bush’s Secretary of Labor, was in the forefront of the successful effort to revive the Comprehensive Black Death Act on June 14. If, just three days after his and Sen. Reid’s frightful victory in getting enough GOP senators to sign on to the bill to make it worth Reid’s while to return the bill to the Senate floor, McConnell could speak so uncertainly of its prospects for passage, then clearly he and Reid do not have the sure support for the bill that they thought they had.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 19, 2007 12:43 AM | Send