I have a piece up this morning highlighting some fightin’ words from the No Surrender Caucus in the Senate. Members include:

McCain

Kyl

Lieberman

Bond

L Graham

Cornyn

Demint

Honorable Mentions:

Lott

Thune

McConnell

I’ve talked to Senate aides who wish more would speak up, and that the honorable mentions would ratchet it up. But one thing seems quite clear: This is not the great divide among Republicans that immigration was, by any stretch. The bulk of the Republicans seem to want to give the surge a chance. One clued-in staffer said to me this morning: ” I predict, will be that after all the screaming and hundreds of news reports about the GOP breaking from Bush, NONE of the Dem amendments will pass, and we will largely be at status quo ante until September.”