The media and government have a lot of little tricks up their sleeve. It’s simple propaganda. Tell the viewer that it will pass so the viewer loses the will to fight against it. When this “compromise” was first announced, they announced it as a done deal when no one had even looked at it.
It’s the same thing as the democrats repeated claims that the war in Iraq is lost.
Exactly.
On the day of cloture Barnes was predicting it would pass overwhelmingly. I believe Rupert Murdoch is shilling for Bush on this and may have given instructions to keep things as pro-amnesty as possible.