As I’ve been saying, its a government by the people, for the people and they have spoken on the immigration bill:

“As the Senate prepares to resume debate the ‚Äúcomprehensive‚Äù immigration reform bill, the legislation continues to face broad public opposition. In fact, despite a massive White House effort, public opinion has barely moved since the public uproar stalled the bill just over two weeks ago.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 22% of American voters currently favor the legislation. That’s down a point from 23% a couple of weeks ago and down from 26% when the debate in the Senate began. Fifty percent (50%) oppose the Senate bill while 28% are not sure.

Among the public, there is a bi-partisan lack of enthusiasm for the Senate bill. It is supported by 22% of Republicans, 23% of Democrats, and 22% of those not affiliated with either major party. It is opposed by 52% of Republicans, 50% of Democrats, and 48% of unaffiliateds.
From an ideological perspective, the bill is opposed by 59% of conservatives, 54% of liberals, and 45% of political moderates. Among those for whom none of the traditional ideological labels apply, just 20% are opposed.

Support is found from 20% of conservatives, 32% of liberals, and 18% of moderates.
Just 32% believe it would be better to pass the current bill instead of doing nothing. Forty-five percent (45%) believe it would be better to pass nothing at all.”

It appears that the message from the people is getting through:

“Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a key opponent to the bipartisan immigration bill that will be taken up again next week, said Sunday that support for the legislation ‚Äúcontinues to erode.‚Äù

“We’re going to use every effort to slow this process down and continue to hold up the bill and read it to the American people and show them that even though they may favor the ideals of the legislation that the legislation won’t get us there,” Sessions said. “And we’re going to need a national commitment from the president through the Congress, really a mindset change, in which we say, ‘We can make this system lawful.’”

The people seem to agree.

UPDATE: To note the post above, I received a email from Ron today and emailed back that it would seem that the Tarrance report is a little off kilter with every other poll, CBS, NBS/WSJ, and Rassussen which also asked some pretty specific questions. Therefore I would like to see a little more of Terrances methodoloy before jumping clean to the other side.

Specifically, here in South Florida the approval rating among Republicans jives the 22-25 percentile quoted by other polls. Among Democrats it’s even worse.

Once thing is for sure, if Republican support was even near 70 percent we wouldn’t see all the backing off the bill we have seen so far.

UPDATE II: Capt Ed (via Corner), has the quote of the day:

“When was the last time Congress worked so hard to pass legislation that so few supported, so many of which supported it because it won’t work, and whose opponents hated it so badly? Certainly not within my memory.”

Not mine either…