Posted by
DD on Friday, June 29, 2007 1:17:41 AM
On her website Sen. Feinstein posted a Press Release outlining her reaction to the immigration bill's defeat. In it she said that "very few people understood what the bill actually did." The truth is exactly the opposite: the bill failed because too many people understood what the bill actually did. It wasn't voter ignorance or apathy that killed the bill, it was the intensity of the opposition that ultimately defeated this bill. In fact, constituent calls were so numerous that they might have shut down the Senate switch board. In any event, this oppositoin to this bill was created and motivated by substantive flaws in the bill, not ignorance of what the bill did.