I guess if you are not feckless, you have feck.
Frist Finds Feck, Funds Fence?
Only 28 votes against cloture.
By Mickey Kaus
Updated Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, at 9:35 PM ET
Fencewatch Final Act? The Senate has invoked cloture on the Secure Fence Act, 71-28. Senator Frist, brimming with feck, says that what the MSM told us for a year would never happen--passage of a non-comprehensive immigration bill that Senator McCain must hate**--will happen within hours.
Tomorrow the Senate will pass this legislation and send it to the President's desk for his signature.
Take that, Dick Morris! ... P.S.-Failure to Triangulate: Hillary voted No (as did Cantwell and Menendez). ... Update: The LAT sees a potential last-minute snag. ... The NYT and a Frist aide say the vote could slide to Saturday. ...
**--McCain voted Yes, in what would seem to be a strategic retreat. It's true, as Friedersdorf argues, that a successful fence could establish conditions favorable to a McCain-like semi-amnesty. But not for a few years, I should think. ... 6:17 P.M. link
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