Kill Bill: Defeat for the Goldwater Institute
Regular readers of Wacked Econ - all two of you - will recall our take down* of Giuliani campaign adviser** Clint Bolick’s op-ed in the Arizona Republic.
Bolick urged Republicans to set aside their differences and come together over a truly awful immigration bill… for the sake of the Party.
An aside… my favorite scene from Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon speaks to this commitment to Party above principle:
“The Party can never be mistaken,” said Rubashov. “You and I can make a mistake. Not the Party. The Party, comrade, is more than you and I and a thousand others like you and I.”
In his op-ed, Bolick opined that passage of the immigration bill would deprive the enemy - which is to say, Democrats - of an issue that could be used to further divide the Republican Party’s pro-business and racist anti-immigration wings.
Well, I’m pleased to report first here that the immigration bill has gone down in flames. Senate leaders weren’t even able to get a simple majority, much less the 60 votes they needed to end debate.
N.B. By “our”, I mean “my” and by “Giuliani campaign adviser” I mean “Director of the Center for Constitutional Litigation”.