Two words for anybody who thinks this immigration bill is a done deal, and there's no way enough opposition builds:Jonah Goldberg adds:Harriet Miers.
The White House has an enormous political tin ear and was caught very much off-guard about how immigration plays with the base of the party. It is simply amazing how the Rovian approach wants things both ways. On the one hand, they want to govern by pleasing the base in a 50-50 country (which isn't fifty-fifty anymore) while at the same time they're stunned when the base gets miffed when the White House betrays the base in the name of bipartisanship, and then proceeds to mock the base as a bunch of yahoos.MORE:
Related thoughts from John Hawkins.
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