The Washington Post is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is looking to bring back last year’s broad immigration bill back to the Senate floor:

The legislation — which couples a border security crackdown with a guest-worker program and new avenues for undocumented immigrants to work legally in the country — passed the Senate a year ago this month with the support of 62 members, 23 of them Republican, only to die in the House. With Democrats now in control of Congress and with the president eager for an accomplishment, immigrant rights groups believe the prospects for a final deal are far better this year.

This is all well and good except for the fact that most Americans don’t support comprehensive immigration reform. What makes the situation even worse is that for the sake of political expediency, some major GOP’ers are coming out against it, when in last year’s GOP-controlled Congress, they actually came out for broad-based immigration reform. I can accept this from the Democrats, and actually, I expect it. But I am disappointed when I see such political pandering from the GOP:

And, this year, the issue is tangled in presidential politics. One White House hopeful, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), has all but renounced a career-long stance favorable to immigrant rights. And the co-author of last year’s bill, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), has been largely absent from this year’s negotiations, as he soft-pedals his pro-immigration stance.

For such a crucial issue like immigration reform, you can’t just have a certain stance one day and completely change your stance when you run for president (think John Kerry). Not only am I disappointed in the above presidential hopefuls, but this kind of flip-flopping gives the GOP a worse reputation than it already has.

When will the insanity come to an end? Maybe when we enact term limits for Congress.

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*Hit tip to Powerline