…as the president accuses us of not reading the bill, debating the bill, so many of the arguments in support of the bill aren’t about the bill — DFR and Grover have the jobs-Americans-won’t-do and restrictionism-is-bad-politics arguments, but they don’t seem to want to go all out in support of this Bush-Kennedy legislation. DFR freely admits the bill has flaws; she is glad Congress is debating this important issue — immigration. Yes, terrific — we’re all for debate here (ahem ). But this bill? Should it become law? I don’t see a lot of people (exceptions would include John McCain) spending a lot of time staking their reps on this bill.

Bill Kristol’s problems with the Senate bill is notable on this point, I think. He’s used the word yahoo before. But he’s not a Bush-Kennedy man .