Sadly The Health Care Bill Vote Means Likely Death of Immigration Reform

Unlike perhaps I suspect 60 percent of the readers of my blog I am for immigration reform such as we saw proposed by Bush and McCain in 2006 and 2007. Basically what I call "pathway to citizenship" and others call Amnesty.

If the Health Care bill vote goes through it is my opinion that it will be the death bell for immigration reform for a good while. Which shows too bad the Democrats did not do more to help out Bush on this in 2007!!! However no crying on spilt milk I suppose.

Now immigration reform is a tough sell anyway. It also does not help that immigration reform allies are often at cross purposes at each other. In 2007 we saw this in a vivid way. While the Bishops and other GOP and Democrat folks were pushing common sense compromise others were advocating and sending out emails for their folks to vote for every Poison pill that was offered. Some of our friends at the Catholic social Justice group Network , which has been in the news lately, were some of the prime offenders.

So what does this have to do with the Health Care Bill .

First the Obama administration, who I am not convinced is too big on immigration reform to start with, has used a ton of political capital here. I am not convinced further that they will make the democrat party members to possibly walk the plank twice on what in some districts will be a very controversial issue.

BUT THIS IS THE MAIN PROBLEM.

I think a lot of people realize that these CBO numbers on the Health Care Bill are being played around with and underestimate the cost.

So how is this linked?

What happens when the two issues are linked!!! All these new people (MILLIONS AND MILLIONS and MILLIONS) are now going to have be added to the Health Care Bill or to be more precise possibly after today THE HEALTH CARE LAW.

I cannot IMAGINE how expensive that will be. It will also add big time to State Budgets that are impossible strain already. THE CBO numbers for the health Care bill will not look pretty at all.

To be blunt people are going to go BAT@#@@ crazy!! I can already imagine the stuff the Heritage Inst will put out.

Have no mistake, I , along with the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, the Cato Inst , Robert George, and other like minded conservatives will support immigration reform. However after today the passage of the Health Care Bill has made our job a heck of a lot harder.