And Here’s To Bi-partisanship

For all of you who hungar for more bi-partisan workings in Congress, here’s your roll call on the immigration bill cloture vote.

If you count you’ll notice that 10 – count em – 10 Republicans joined 36 Dems voting “Yea” and 15 Dems joined 38 Republicans voting “Nay.”

Now that’s bi-partisanship.

Glenn Reynolds has some advice:

My advice for next time:

(1) Make the process open, transparent, and timely, with hearings, drafts on the Internet, and no last-minute bills that no one has read;

(2) Earn people’s trust, don’t demand it, and treat enforcement like it matters;

(3) Respect people who follow the law, and make legal immigration easier, cheaper, and simpler, rather than the Kafkaesque nightmare it is now;

(4) Don’t feel you have to be “comprehensive” — address the problems you can deal with first. The trust needed to deal with other problems will come later, after you’ve shown some success and some good faith.

Good ideas all.

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