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But you can't deny the GOP has really taken it on the chin this week... so I ask, WHY NOW? Why not 5 years ago when a fence would have been a 95% approval issue after 9/11?

The WH was pushing for a comprehensive immigration bill including a guest worker program. The Senate [the Reps voted against it 32-23] passed the WH/Dem bill [Martinez/Hagel] and was against an enforcement first bill similar to the one passed in the House. It was the Senate Dems and RINOs who blinked. The Conservatives in the House and Senate won. Such a fence bill would not have been introduced immediately after 9/11.

It was the Senate Dems and RINOs who blinked. The Conservatives in the House and Senate won.

Indeed. The House Conservatives, as well as the Senate Republicans led by Jeff Sessions, deserve much praise. So goes the conventional wisdom this was dead without amnesty attached.

Speaking of which, I wonder what Fred barnes is thinking tonight?

163 posted on 09/29/2006 8:45:51 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)