How and why the Illegal Immigrant Amnesty bill failed

Captain Ed has details.

Excerpt from the memo circulating around The Hill:




"There are three primary reasons the bill failed:

* The complicated legislation, constantly being tweaked by the White House and Deal-Makers, is full of loopholes and problems that deserved amendment and full consideration -- consideration denied by the Democrats.

* The White House, certain Democrats and the Deal-Makers blatantly disregarded the legislative process -- drafting the bill behind closed doors, skipping the committee process, jamming the bill through the system, limiting the number and type of amendments that could be offered and trying to close down debate on the bill long before appropriate concerns with the bill had been addressed fully.

* The American people rightly refuse to buy what the Deal-Makers are selling -- the rewarding of legal status in our country to millions who ignored our laws in exchange for yet another promise to fix our broken immigration system."

The bill's supporters are trying to resurrect it.

Let's see if they learned their lesson.