Bush's conservative critics on immigration keep warning that he's
destroying the conservative coalition by prompting this fight. I've been a bit skeptical of such claims, since the tendency among people who do politics professionally is always to overblow the everything. But
this (
via Jonathan Singer) seems real enough: "The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors' rebellion over President Bush's immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Friday in The Washington Times. "
If only the story were in a real newspaper.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/06/asunder/40768/