Me at Q&O [1] just now:
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Think about who was pushing this immigration deal:
A moderate Republican president, a bunch of liberal Republican Congress critters, and a gaggle of liberal Democrat Congress critters. Remember, as I’ve said all along, Bush is no conservative, never has been.
So, now let’s examine the momentum set up by yesterday’s action in Foggy Bottom…
* This amnesty nonsense, got sent to defeat. Score one for conservatives.
* The supposed “fairness doctrine” bites the dust by a wide margin, That’s two.
* The supreme court decides that the best way to stop a racism is to stop making laws based on race. That’s the hat trick.
So, now, The Democrats are taking their opposition to the war seriously again? Laughable.
Rather than this being Reid trying to, as you suggest, capitalize on the defeat of the President, it looks from here like Reid is trying to play to his base so as to recover something of the large amount of momentum he’s lost to the conservatives.
His ability to do that, though, now that the conservative base has been fired up to the extent it has, is limited at best. This effort too, will fail.
Update: Mark Tapscott [2] is on the same wavelength, and says in part:
We have been blessed with three signal victories. First, there was the success of the Right side of the Blogosphere in stopping the attempted revival of the Bush/Kennedy/McCain immigration reform bill in the Senate. Nobody can legitimately doubt now that conservative New Media has genuine political power to shape American public policy.
Well, that and Talk Radio. And Tapscott adds a victory I’d neglected…(You know you’re doing pretty well, when you forget the list certain among your victories…)
In FEC v Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., Messers Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Kennedy struck down a key provision of the McCain-Feingold assault on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of political speech, the ban on certain broadcast ads aired during the 60 days prior to a general election and 30 days prior to a primary election.
Which, in turn, serves to put a chokehold on McCain’s run for the presidency. After all, he was the one who cosponsored that monstrosity. But that’s another post.