Well, Speaker Boehner, Minority Leader McConnell, looks like you win this round. I’d urge those of our readers who have Republican representatives or Senators to call or write them today to stop the omnibus funding bill if they haven’t already, also known as the “Crominbus,” from passing, but it looks like we’ll see a vote in favor of it soon, so it is almost certainly too late. The NRO editors spell out some of its problems on the main page, while admitting it has some good provisions, and a few days back on the Corner Yuval Levin and Michael Needham reminded us of the basic problem with this approach. It simply gives Republicans too little leverage for resisting the implementation of, or for simply retaliating against, Obama’s Big Amnesty executive order action[scroll below for why it isn’t an order].
But I think it’s Carl Perkins who best captured my feelings towards this whole GOP approach:
P.S. For NRO readers interested, Joe Clay had about 8 or so other sides that are equally great, and I talked about The Gravedigger V and 80s garage music in a an old Songbook post.
UPDATE: Developing, but at this hour it looks like that call to your representative might be worth it after all. The House vote to pass has been delayed.