[maica]

Meanwhile, the chastened Republican Party, which will have lost more than a few border moderates, will repackage itself and add a wall at the Southern Border as a core platform point. The Republican nominee in 2008 will probably support that point, and if he does the BorderBots will come roaring back to the polls and the Republicans roar back to the majority.

There will be no "Meanwhile" if we lose the Majority in Congress. Present day democrats will find so many ways to reinterpret Laws it will be like living in Venezuela.

[Vicomte13]

"There will be no 'Meanwhile' if we lose the Majority in Congress. Present day democrats will find so many ways to reinterpret Laws it will be like living in Venezuela."

The Democrats will do their worst, which may well include "going nuclear" in the Senate on every piece of legislation.

BUT, the President will still be President, and it still takes 67 votes to override a veto. The Democrats might have 51 votes in the Senate. They're not going to have 67.

The Supreme Court will remain dominated by Republican appointees, and evenly split between liberals and conservatives.

There will be quite a contrast set up, between a raging Democratic Congress and a stubborn President in his bunker, vetoing everything.

So yes, there will be a "meanwhile". 2007 will be the meanwhile. And the Republicans will have that time period, while Congress and the President do isometrics and everything is paralyzed, to add a Sealed Mexican Border to their list of "untouchable" issues, and nominating a candidate who promises it.

And that gives the GOP power back in 2008.

It would be better to just give the BorderBots their fence NOW, and start building it, so we hold Congress this year.