When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he told Bill Moyers that he rejoiced in signing it but he feared that Democrats had given the south to Republicans for a generation.  He was right.

Turn about is fair play.  And it’s another Texan.

John Cornyn is demanding a poison pill to the immigration bill.

Cornyn’s RESULTS amendment forbids undocumented immigrants from obtaining permanent residency until four criteria are met: 100 percent surveillance of the southern border, a minimum 90 percent apprehension rate for illegal border crossings, an operational biometric ID system at air and sea ports, and implementation of E-Verify nationally. He says the measure is critical to ensuring border security.

Cornyn has no idea how we’re going to pay for that.  Texas is last in education and number of people covered by insurance, but we’ll be first at border control?  We have the money for that?

Harry Reid says he ain’t budging.  Yeah, I know he caves like a three dollar suitcase at the train station a lot, but if Reid stands firm on this, Cornyn will have delivered the border states to Democrats for a generation.

It ain’t really karma, though.  Lyndon’s bill included people to the process of democracy while Cornyn’s excludes them.

I would love to see John Cornyn kill the GOP in Texas.  There would be karma in that.