HERE'S TWO FROM THE CONSERVATIVE WEBSITES

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzIwY...TNjNjI2ZDdhZmU=
Immigration Reform, for Real

By The Editors

For months, the establishment dismissed those of us opposed to amnesty as a tiny minority of the public and the Congress. On Thursday, that “tiny minority†outnumbered the pro-amnesty forces in the Senate, dealing a humiliating and well-deserved defeat to President Bush. The same White House that insisted that there was no realistic alternative to “comprehensive immigration reform†had better recalibrate its realism now. There always were better alternatives, and the president and his party have no way out of the immigration morass he has created unless they pursue them.

Nor does the country. The public is rightly dismayed at our incapacity to exercise a key attribute of sovereignty: control of the borders.

The next step ought to be President Bush’s.

And in any case, Republicans who seek their own political health no longer have a choice in the matter.


http://www.nypost.com/seven/06292007/posto...n_podhoretz.htm

DUBYA'S END
BORDER BILL THE LAST BLOW
JOHN PODHORETZ

PRESIDENT Bush's disastrous second term has not been without its moments. Unfortunately for him, these moments have come primarily when members of his own party have risen up against him to defy his wishes.

It's also what happened in the early months of the second term, when Bush chose to nominate his unqualified aide, Harriet Miers, to the Supreme Court - and finally backed down and had her withdraw her name after three weeks of lobbying and complaining.

It happened, too, when our clever Democratic senator, Chuck Schumer, stirred up a frenzy last year about the sale of various American ports to a company owned by the emir of Dubai. Bush stoutly defended the deal, which was dead in the water the minute Schumer began his campaign against it, until finally Bush was forced to back down by members of his own party.

But he miscalculated, as he has done so often since his re-election.

But the parlous decision to revive the dead immigration bill and fight for it, only to see it go down to defeat again, was an act of political suicide from which this White House will not recover. On the domestic side, Bush will now only govern until the end of his term in an entirely defensive manner