IMMIGRATION FOLLY

The contentious Immigration Bill fizzled to the floor once again with another proverbial whimper-- The mammoth Senate flounder failed to round up enough necessary votes as it bumbled its way to the disappointing ash heap it, once again, deserved-- Another crucially embarrassing performance, or lack thereof, by an impotent, ineffectual and as incompetent a group of statesmen leaders ever assembled in the US Senate-- Mr. Bush lines up votes in the Senate like he goes to war in the Middle East....off the cuff of some kind of fantasy!!!!--

If the votes are not there by a long shot, and everyone knows it in advance, why sully the process, the institution, and, ultimately, yourself by flailing at imaginary victory??-- The DC echelon appears ensnared in some desperate death wish-- Are they not saying in effect that if success is unattainable lets fail in the most pathetic way possible with maximum public exposure??-- Perhaps, we have exported our democracy to Baghdad minus, of course, the caveat of acute sectarian bloodshed that persistently beleaguers al-Malicki and his rather vain attempts to serve the people of Iraq in the face of military occupation and tribal war-- In his case, he has a genuine excuse!!--

It is both sadly telling and yet unsurprising that American confidence in their Congress ebbs in below even that of forlorn Mr. Bush and his dismal lack of positive eye-popping numbers-- To put an obviously dwindling prestige on the line in such haphazard haste for such an arcanely addled legislative charade riddled with bureaucratic complexities is to court a high order magnitude of doom-- Where did 'merit-based point formulas' ever gain credence as viable reform and who on earth could think they could sell it to the American citizen much less illegal immigrants themselves??--

It becomes even sadder to see this meltdown covered so theatrically by many in the mainstream as a major blow to Mr. Bush as if the weak-willed Harry Reid-led demies bear none of the brunt of this bruising public failure-- Once again Reid takes an issue to the Senate body without enough players or even the slim probability of passage-- Most football coaches , if not all, would rather be caught dead than voluntarily take the field with a offensive game plan featuring an absent quarterback and several defenders-- The gluttony of defeat this crew revels in is mind boggling--

The passionate expression surrounding this disputatious and explosive issue will now be allowed to fester in the teeth of economic hardship throughout the long hot summers of '07 and '08 until the elections ratchet up to an ugly intensity and riot becomes a possibility-- Let us all thank these candidate weasels for pimping this volatile issue to maximum political temperature and then leaving the room-- The bill failed because it was a terrible bill and because it sought, foremost for political advantage, to portray a possibility it knew it couldn't deliver-- Attempting to embarrass political opposition by smearing itself with the stink of failure is self defeating futility, if not insane, and irresponsible cynicism at its most visible-- Its failure earlier in the month did not ring a bell to reform advocates that troublesome elements in the prospective legislation needed to be altered in meaningful ways, not just cosmetically tweaked for public relations value-- Bush and his demie coalition did not lift the heavy timber far enough in advance to cobble real victory together and both now wallow like lame, if not dead, ducks in the humble pie of their own making--

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