Thread: Demise Of the 'Grand Bargain'

I hope this wasn't posted yesterday. I checked the search.


June 11, 2007
Demise of the ‘Grand Bargain’ (A.B. Stoddard)

@ 11:12 am

Just days after shelving the high-stakes immigration reform bill, today the Senate takes up a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. Democrats are fine with it failing; they just need to get the Republicans on the record defending Gonzalez for future use in campaign commercials. We’re not getting anywhere on substance but you can sure take the political temperature of Congress these days and it’s clearly so hot they can’t do their jobs. What’s on for tomorrow? President Bush will attend the GOP Senate lunch and implore his fellow Republicans to forge ahead with the immigration package they rejected. They will listen, hot under the collar, but the reception could be chilly.

[b]With the death of the “grand bargainâ€

Kyl must have taken to many drugs and doesn't understand the American people when the speak. American people usually don't speak out but they have and the Republican Senators need to listen.

I watched that CNN spot with Kyl (and a few others doing the President's 'spinning' on his behalf...). He was asked "Have you heard much feedback on this issue from your constituents?" (exact wording escapes me this morning, but it was very close to that...).

His answer: "In a word - yes".

I think illegal immigration is going to hurt both partys, at this stage of the game I would not bet on who will hold the majority after the 2008 election!! The Demacrates are not immune to this problem.

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Originally Posted by PhredE

I watched that CNN spot with Kyl (and a few others doing the President's 'spinning' on his behalf...). He was asked "Have you heard much feedback on this issue from your constituents?" (exact wording escapes me this morning, but it was very close to that...).

His answer: "In a word - yes".

It's too bad they don't ask the obvious follow-up question:

"Are you going to pay any attention to it?"