My column in The Hill is up — discussing those moments yesterday morning when the “fragile coalition” supporting the immigration bill fell completely apart:
One hint came when Harry Reid walked into the Senate chamber. My notes from yesterday morning say, “Reid walks in — looks tired — not like a guy who knows he’s going to win.”
By that point, it was all just talk. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), one of the last speakers for the Democrats, worked himself up into one of his classic leather-lunged orations, even though at the time I counted just eight senators in the chamber.
It really was all over but the shoutin’. And if you had to pick just one senator to do the shoutin’, Teddy would be the one.
So he went on and on, suggesting, among other things, that the bill’s opponents might be planning to create a “Gestapo” to root out illegal immigrants…