Open­Congress reports Repub­li­can Reps. and Boy­da Come Out Against Bush’s Path to Cit­i­zen­ship Plan. Nine­ty-sev­en rep­re­sen­ta­tives signed a let­ter ask­ing Speak­er Pelosi not to bring any bills to the floor allow­ing peo­ple already liv­ing in this coun­try a path to cit­i­zen­ship. As Open­Congress explains:

Where they state, in the first line, that the group of sup­port­ers is “Demo­c­ra­t­ic and Repub­li­can,” they are refer­ring to the fact that one Demo­c­rat , Nan­cy Boy­da (D‑KS), accom­pa­nied 96 Repub­li­cans in sign­ing the letter.

Immi­gra­tion was an issue the Con­gress­woman ran on, and it’s good to see her step­ping for­ward on it (though I can’t say I see eye-to-eye with her on this issue). I do wish she would­n’t have giv­en these Repub­li­cans a bipar­ti­san figleaf when they crit­i­cize a Pres­i­dent from their own par­ty. What could be seen as a split with­in the Repub­li­can par­ty gets mud­dled this way. Ah, well, she can’t sat­is­fy par­ti­san like me all the time.