Amnesty Will Pass The Senate

....because there will be the votes for cloture - if the Democrats look to their longer term political interests.

Mark Krikorian in the Corner says there are thirty-three solid votes against cloture (and, therefore, for killing amnesty...again). The eight additional no votes will come, if they do, from a group of eight senators - six of whom are Democrats.

Do the math. If the Dems want to rule the Senate for decades to come, Senators Bingaman (D-NM), Boxer (D-CA), Conrad (D-ND), Levin (D-MI), Nelson (D-NE), and Webb (D-VA) will vote "yea" and watch the implosion of their opposition colleagues begin - and just in time for the Fourth of July holiday, too.

Of course, that implosion isn't entirely dependent on the half-dozen Donks. I could just as easily see four or fewer of them turn what passes for their brains to tapioca and some or all of the fence-sitting 'Pubbies push amnesty over the top instead.

There seems to be no end either to Democrat ambition or Republican stupidity. As I told Jen today about the inevitability of President Rodham, I really do hope I'm wrong. But my tendency for error correlates all too closely to instances when it doesn't prove favorable to my desired outcomes.

Today has some bad mojo indeed.