McCain defends bad bill to the bitter end

From The Washington Post:

MANCHESTER, N.H., June 5 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona found himself isolated Tuesday night as he staunchly defended controversial immigration legislation against a barrage of criticism from his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, who argued that the bill is deeply flawed and should not be approved by Congress.

The Senate will begin voting on Wednesday on the fragile compromise, which has the support of President Bush but is opposed by a majority of Republicans and has become a flash point in the contest for the GOP nomination.

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McCain stood his ground as Giuliani, Romney and virtually all the other candidates criticized the bill. Calling immigration reform a national security issue, McCain said that inaction represents "de facto amnesty" for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country.

The worst thing is not letting the 20 plus million illegal aliens who are currently in this nation stay here. After all they are here and the nation survives, although it is harmed. The worst thing is making those 20 million alien criminals citizens because their votes would give the political party which wants to surrender to the Islamofascists, cripple American industry with insane and useless global warming legislation and destroy prosperity with confiscatory taxation a permanent majority in the legislature and permanent possession of the White House.

Right now with a congress in the hands of the Destroy America Party and the White House inhabited by a RINO who seems to be stupid enough to really think that all it will take is amnesty to cause all those Mexicans to become Republicans (or maybe he doesn't think that - maybe he just doesn't care if the Republican Party dies) the best thing would be no immigration bill whatsoever.

As long as the legal status of the illegal aliens stays ILLEGAL it will be possible for a future president and congress who actually possess a brain and a spine to share between them to address the issue in a way which allows the US to survive as a free and prosperous nation.

Challenging his rivals to offer a better solution that could pass Congress, McCain defended the bill as the best compromise on an issue that has deeply divided the Republican Party. "It's our job to do the hard things," he said, "not the easy things."

No legislation that can pass in a Senate controlled by Harry Reid and a House controlled by Nancy Pelosi can be good for this nation and if McCain doesn't realize that he has no business even being in the Senate, let alone running for president.

McCain knows that this is a bad bill and he knows that his support for it will keep him from becoming president. But then he understands now that he never had a real chance at the White House any way.

What McCain is doing here is an attempt to salvage some kind of legacy. He wants to go out as the "brave maverick" who wasn't afraid to buck his own party and sacrifice his own interests to do the "right thing".