Well, those protests were well timed for the quickie way they tried to pass McKennedy. Remembe the fingerpointing at Sessions and Reid?
"The felony thing was not thought out, and just blew up, unexpectedly. Color me cynical, but the felony thing was just WH window dressing anyway, I suspect."
I think it was very well thought out. And devious. Those protests were well-funded, well supplied, well planned (some were instantaneous).
Early on Rove was leaking to the media that the "Republican conservatives" would be the problem. Given his experience with liberals deep seated needs to not advocate themselves but define themselves againt the "right wing" they fell for the meme. To this day though many Democrats age against you wouldn't know it. MSM asks them no questions, gives them no voice. They're pushing this anti-worker bill on the basis of hate for people they consider anti-worker!
The Republican Party has been split over how to confront illegal immigration. ... The Border Protection, Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2004, HR4437, would for the first time make illegal presence in the United States an aggravated felony. ... "The good news," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who is close to the White House, is "the Senate is not going to pass an enforcement-only bill, and the president is not going to sign it." Norquist said most House Republicans will vote for the bill "so they don't get yelled at" by voters. ... The Sensenbrenner bill has angered business, a GOP constituency. Randel Johnson, vice president for labor issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said flatly, "The House bill is unacceptable to the business community."