In a bid to bypass critics, the Senate will pass the plan and then merge it with a House bill, observers say. Washington - Republican leaders will try to pass President Bush's controversial guest-worker proposal without putting it to a direct vote in the House.Observers say the new GOP strategy that begins today is for the House to deal only with the more politically palatable issue of increasing border security and clamping down on employers. Republican leaders then will let the Senate pass some form of a guest-worker plan.
After that vote, senators and House members will merge the House's border security bill with the Senate's legislation in closed-door meetings.
If so, then what is left of the Hispandering GOP Big Tent will sink slowly beneath the waves. Conservatives have already pretty much abandoned ship; conservative money to the RNC has slowed to a trickle. Lets see how the GOP Washington crapweasels like running for reelection without conservative support.