The Fix Is In

As the Senate voted 64-35 to take up the immigration bill, we the unwashed have to feel that there is something going on that we aren’t a party to.

OK, so Julie Hirschfeld Davis says that the victory of the president and the bill’s backers was a sometime thing.

Their victory was fleeting, though, giving way just hours later to stalling tactics by GOP foes. Conservatives succeeded in delaying until Wednesday consideration of a package of amendments designed to pave the way for a final vote on the bill.

But is all this real, or just kabuki, as Michelle Malkin writes?

More and more, I am beginning to think that the events of Hurricane Katrina are representative.  They represented a failure of government at all levels: federal, state, and local.

We can expect more such failures.  Government is never very good at anything, but the more that it sucks into its orbit the worse that it does.

And today we have a government that just doesn’t care.

This immigration bill is not about doing anything or solving anything.  It is about “doing something,” and that is different.  It won’t really secure the border because that is too hard and governments don’t do hard things.  It won’t solve the illegal immigration problem because the lure of the US economy is just too great. 

The American people will pay for this, of course, good and hard.  And the suits will just ride off into the sunset.