Not as much as an overstatement as you might think considering his Godwin-invoking disdain for representative government:

LONG KNIVES OUT AFTER BORDER BILL
By ROBERT D. NOVAK

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These callers recently swamped phone lines to GOP congressional offices with threats that they never would vote again for anybody supporting “amnesty.” While that intimidated previous supporters of the immigration bill, its opponents reacted to the xenophobia of their backers as a ray of light in the bleak political landscape.
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“This isn’t a day to celebrate,” McConnell said in his post-mortem, contradicting victory cheers by DeMint and Gingrich. Indeed, Republicans drove another nail in George W. Bush’s political coffin and undermined hopes for the growing, winnable Hispanic vote. Contending the time “wasn’t now” for immigration, McConnell added: “It wasn’t the people’s will. And they were heard.” He was blaming Republican failure on his fellow citizens, which seldom works in politics.

Apparently Mr. Novak holds Republican party politics above The Will of the People ™. Novak certainly has an interesting take on the Establishment Republican’s attempt to bribe Hispanic voters into joining their electoral landscaping crew, but it’s the scorn he heaps on the politicians who finally listened to their constituents that he spins so poorly.

Amnesty did not succeed because the voice of the people was finally heard and the only “long knives” Novak’s subtle nazi cleansing reference confers is to the Republican leadership that stabbed every American in back.

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