Dean Barnett over at Hugh Hewitt’s writes:
And I don’t even want to talk about what will happen to the Republican Party if this bill becomes law.
10) Come on – talk about it.
Okay. It will mean nothing less than the end of the party as we’ve come to know it.
Works for me. We had all three branches of government, and the best we could apparently accomplish was earmarking and bowing to the minority party. They had their chance, and squandered it. I still think that the GOP, in spite of all its flaws, is better for the country than more Democratic rule – fiscally if nothing else – but I’m pretty sanguine at this point about damage to the party because they’re pretty sanguine about what we (the people who put them in office) consider damaging to the country. They can’t be bothered to defend the borders and the rule of law, they can’t be bothered to make the case for Iraq, they can’t be bothered to get qualified judges up for a vote, and the silence was deafening when Trent Lott announced he was “damn tired of those porkbusters.”
Barnett wrote, “Believe it or not, they thought you would greet the arrival of this immigration bill with unbridled enthusiasm.”
In fact, I feel better than fine… if this is the end of the GOP as we know it, I feel pretty darn good. They’ve got nowhere to go but up.
