Recall the old joke about the Stupid party and the Evil party, which occasionally get together in Congress and do something both stupid and evil, which they call bipartisanship.

Along those lines, “Republican” Sen. Larry Craig and Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy have gotten together to push a vast amnesty for illegal-alien farmworkers (see my piece on the measure here.). The Senate will vote shortly before noon today on the Kennedy-Craig amnesty and on a less-bad (but still lousy) alternative. An update on the legislative wrangling is here.

I am now listening to Sen. Craig on C-SPAN 2 actually claim that his amnesty (which would grant green cards to some 3 million people, and maybe more, if it’s as fraud-ridden as I expect) would somehow enhance American security — he just now said his bill would “do a thorough background check”. I address the unreality of this kind of fairy tale in the current National Interest magazine.