Before you toss in the towel I suggest you join NumbersUSA.
Just because a bunch of politicians try to claim a coalition does not mean that the program gets voted in.
We have been very successful in the House at getting our way, the Senate battle is just warming up.
I agree! We may lose but I am going to be trying my best to block this first in the Senate and then in the Senate/House Conference and then finally on the House floor. I send every fax that NumbersUSA suggest I send and I make most of the phone calls.
My guess is that we won't get everything we want but we may well be able to avoid something as odious as the McCainneddy Shamnesty. President Bush has said repeatedly that he won't support an amnesty and it is going to be very difficult for him to describe that as anything but an amnesty.
Whatever the outcome, it is time to start punishing Republican politicians. I know of two Wyoming Republican Senators who have earned my implacable anger on this issue and I will be voting against them at every opportunity even if it means voting for RATS. I'm sick of the being represented by Chamber of Commerce sock puppets.