[Ben Ficklin]

I have a difficult time bashing McCain or Craig because they each co-authored a compromise bill. What would you expect of a compromise with a democrat. The reform bill that McCain co-authored with the rest of the Arizona delegation is very different from the one with Kennedy. Had Craig authored his bill alone without consideration of the dem position, it would be very different than his compromise with Kennedy.

The problem with a republican written bill is that it can't pass. The dems have to support it.

As for what happens in conference, who blinks? One, the other, or both? Or neither?

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The problem with a republican written bill is that it can't pass. The dems have to support it.

The compromise bill these two are proposing is even more liberal and sweeping than what Bush is calling for. I didn't think that was possible but I've been wrong many times in the past.

The GOP controls all three branches of government, if they can't or won't get illegal immigration under control and feel as if scheming with democrats to give away the store is the only answer to solving the problem then should they lose power due to conservative defections they'll have only themselves to blame.

[COEXERJ145]

The problem with a republican written bill is that it can't pass. The dems have to support it.

The reason a Republican bill won't pass is not the Democrats. The problem is Tancredo and the rest of the idiots in his little clique will not let anything pass unless he can claim credit for the bill and declare himself to be the "savior of the western world" as his followers tell him he is. After all, he needs his worshipers to keep stroking his ego and sending those monthly donations.

It's really funny but sad at the same time. The very person who those obsessed with immigration look to as a god is the same person who is holding up any chance at immigration and border reform.