The commitment to immigration enforcement is alive and well and living in the House GOP. Yesterday, the Republican leadership picked immigration as the club to attack the union-organizing bill — they made a “motion to recommit” that would have sent the bill back to committee with an instruction to add a provision barring illegal aliens from voting in union elections. It failed 202-225, but the leadership was nonetheless pleased with the result. All but 8 Republicans voted for it, along with 13 Democrats (many more would have voted for it had the Democratic leadership allowed it to be offered as an amendment, rather than as a blocking measure). As a bad sign for amnesty supporters, 8 of the 13 Democrats were new members — including those who defeated hardliners J.D. Hayworth and John Hostettler. So much for the November election being a vote for amnesty.