Dead Again

I can't say I'm all that surprised that the immigration bill can't pass the Senate. Demographically speaking, I think I'm about as close to being the core constituency for this bill as you can get without being either an illegal immigrant or someone whose business model depends on the employment of illegal immigrants, and I'm not all that broken up about what's gone down.

Pro-bill liberal groups were essentially reduced to arguing that the Senate just needed to pass something called "comprehensive immigration reform" so that the conference committee could change it around in a couple of dozen ways. That may well have been the correct calculation, but it's not the kind of thing that gets people calling their senator and urging him to vote for the bill.