Wow. Fred Barnes’ role as a press aide for Karl Rove masquerading as a journalists is well known, but this is absurd: “a national consensus has formed around what the president calls “comprehensive” immigration reform–that is, impenetrable border security plus earned citizenship and a temporary worker program.” Anyone who’s been paying the slightest bit of attention to American politics would know that’s wrong; all three of those things, either alone or in combination, remain deeply, deeply controversial.
For what it’s worth, my view is that Democrats ought to be doing their best to ensure that intra-GOP divisions prevent a bill from passing this year. Nobody knows exactly how the midterms will play out, but Dems are all-but-certain to pick up some seats and be able to pass a bill in 2007 that’s better than any possible compromise in the current congress.
