I suppose no conservative should propose anything, since it could not get by a Democrat congress.
Yeah, only libs like Slick Willard and Rudy should propose things.
Politics is the art of compromise.
We applaud the failure of Senate Democrats to get past the 60 vote cloture number in funding Iraq with surrender language in the bill. We would not applaud a 40 vote bloc of Democrats that stops strong measures against illegals, but that would be the situation faced.
You do not propose extreme positions guaranteed to galvanize the opposition and prevent any future compromise if you want to make any progress at all. Claiming that “we don’t need new laws, enforce the ones we have” is clearly a non starter in that the courts have stopped it.
There HAVE to be new laws designed to dodge the basis of the court decisions. Those new laws can’t become laws unless they get through Congress. Proposing something extreme immediately defined the probabilities of success in that regard as zero.
A more well-considered and analytical proposal designed specifically to appeal to Democrat interests while achieving the goal is the correct course, not issuing a proposal that has already failed in courts and thus making your campaign look stupid.