Senate Republicans join in another Bush-Kennedy legislative train wreck, McCain helps

WorldNetDaily: Tancredo blasts Senate 'amnesty' :
"'We've had a huge breakthrough' overnight, Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., told reporters.
"Frist said President Bush supports the plan.
"Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who co-sponsored legislation with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the plan 'tough and fair.'"

US Sen. majority leader William Frist (R-TN) has sold out the national interest in trying to get a "compromise" on the Senate version of the immigration bill.

In a nutshell, the compromise gives President Vincente Fox and his junior partner Jorge Arbusto exerything they wanted in an immigration bill with two small exceptions: a commitment to improve border security which is unlikely to be fully funded in future appropriations bills, and the creation of a new group of about two million illegal aliens who don't get amnesty now, but aren't likely to ever be sent home either. This assures that there will be a large nukmber of "oppressed" people who will continue to be a focus of organizing, demonstrating, and lobbying.

So, the GOP gets to be portrayed as mean-spirited and all the people who broke the law become citizens. This is the perfect compromise - Republicans score no points in pusuit of Hispanic votes (many of whom want the border controlled) and the majority of Americans of both parties who want to protect the country see another example of the late Gov. George Corley Wallace's (D-AL) famous maxim that "there's not a dimes's worth of difference" between the parties.

Like that other notable George Bush and Ted Kennedy joint legislative program No Child Left Behind, this immigration bill is an unmitigated triumph for the anti-American party.

At this point, the best we can possibly hope for is for the House conferees to hold firm and report no bill for onsideration by both houses.