With an endorsement like Chuck Schumer's, it has to be bad. House Republicans should wonder why the Senate's most partisan Democrat is happy with their "piecemeal" immigration reform strategy.
If ever Republicans had a litmus test for making sure they weren't doing something self-destructive, it's asking themselves this: Is Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., grinning about it?
Senate Democrats' chief fundraiser, Schumer engineered the gain of over a dozen seats for his party in the 2006 and 2008 elections. Any "bipartisanship" this dyed-in-the-wool liberal and relentless political militant may claim to be up to is sure to be a Trojan horse.
The Brooklyn Democrat was first elected a lawmaker at 23 nearly four decades ago and has never had a real job outside politics, not even practicing law.
He obviously would like nothing better than to crow to his comrades that he tricked their enemy into yet another amnesty for illegal aliens, providing Democrats with millions of new, dependable votes.
Schumer was definitely smiling Wednesday on CNN, "optimistic that we will get this done" and confident "things are moving in the right direction."
Having had "a lot of discussions" with congressmen of both parties, Schumer reports that House Republicans are more open than ever to amnesty for the nation's 11 million illegals, through a strategy of passing multiple bills on specifics that would be combined with the Senate's already-passed amnesty legislation in a conference.
Schumer notes that "a couple of their pieces are very similar to ours."
Sen Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warns with an eye on the failure of the 1986 "reform" that promised to end illegal immigration, the Senate bill "promises that sometime in the future — trust us, 'wink, wink' — we'll secure the border." Cruz's conclusion: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
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