[Molly Pitcher]

I don't know if this qualifies as "insight" or not, but it occurs to me that for some Rs, at least, there is the idea that this may be the best bill we can get....looking to '08 and its propects...a Dem in the WH...more of them in Congress. So, make the sausage now, before it gets even nastier!

I'm not inclined to buy this year's recipe, but others may...

[tillacum]

I agree with you Molly. Our republicans seem to be floundering around the 2008 election and will side with the democrats to keep themselves in DC. There are some repubs who are in name only, the reason they are repubs is because that’s the only way the could be elected. (Ron Paul) They only pretend to be conservative. They follow the democrat line very closely. Look at jeffords who used the republicans to get to DC. Republicans who have been reelected many times seem to follow rather than lead when they are the majority. I don’t understand them. We do have a few real Republicans, ie, Kyl, Cornyn.

[Miss Marple]

I think that this is the best bill we can hope for, given that we lost the majorities. With a democrat president, we would probably get full-blown amnesty with immediate citizenship and democrat registration cards.

I still want to see what is in the bill. I have read some of the stories which list the provisions, and some I don't agree with and some I do...which is, I guess, the nature of a compromise.