"He also needs Conservatives in the GOP. Nothing is going to get passed. Tancredo and King just laid down a line in the sand ... no amnesty. Like the Miers debacle ... we Conservatives will win in the end."
No, you will not win in the end.
The House may hold firm, but the Senate will not bend to the enforcement only approach of the House, which means that immigration reform will die in Committee.
Which means that NOTHING will be funded, there will be no anything, and the status quo will continue exactly as it is now.
The conservatives lost everything tonight.
I am OK with nothing passing. we have two national elections in the next 30 months, let this issue be taken into campaigns and voted upon.
"The conservatives lost everything tonight."
Oh yeah, we should follow the socialistic French approach to politics. Right. We have lost nothing. We will prevail, and if we don't on this particular issue, the Pub party in general will have lost everything tonite, not just the conservatives. We will lurk in the weeds, through another Dem administration, until, just like in France, things get so bad that we will be welcomed back with open arms as saviours, this time true conservative saviours, not with the RINO's we are now dealing with, whon are the same as Dems anyhow. So, like a Phoenix, if we lose in the short run, we shall rise from the ashes in the long run. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. In France, it seems things just keep getting worse, and there is no better. Socialism will do that to you.
Conservatives lost nothing because, tonight, they started with nothing and wound up with nothing.