RedState editorializes on the rush to pass immigration reform:
We do not know whether the bill is good or bad. However, given the Senate's desire to hastily write it and rush it through sight unseen, we can infer that it is most likely not something which would be supported by us or by the American people; otherwise, why would such secrecy be necessary?
Senators who actually care about the deliberative process and open government should do everything in their power to delay this legislation's consideration until after Memorial Day. Beyond these parliamentary concerns, though, is the issue of the war supplemental. One hundred days have now gone by with no supplemental funding for our troops who are currently in harm's way. Funding the war is a far more important and far more immediate issue than "comprehensive immigration reform," and should take priority.
Well said.
Haste makes waste, it is true. Haste also lays waste to the principles of deliberative democratic decision-making. If the compromise immigration reform package is as good a bill as its backers say it is, then surely it can only gain support from the American people as they are given time to learn more about it. The rush to pass it in secret - before the final bill is even written down on paper and put online for people, lawmakers and citizens, to read - suggests that it's a bad bill designed to hoodwink the American people into thinking Congress has "done something" about the problem.
Better they do nothing. Er, no. Better they do nothing legislatively and instead focus on enforcing the existing laws.
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