The Republican House spent very little time Wednesday afternoon dispatching with the doomed "compromise" immigration bill they dragged popular vote loser Donald Trump into supporting, kicking and screaming. They defeated it so badly, it barely got a majority of the majority—112 Republicans voted against it, while just 120 voted for it.
Speaker Paul Ryan's rare vote (he was a "yes") wasn't even enough to bring Republicans around. Even Freedom Caucus guy Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, who spent weeks "negotiating" the bill with the supposed moderates in the conference, voted against it. Which is why you never negotiate with the maniacs.
There were several things proven by these weeks and weeks of fruitless negotiations on immigration. The first: Republicans don't give a damn about the Dreamers or the children currently ripped from their families. They don't want to find a solution. Second, the supposed moderates only cared because they are vulnerable in November, but they don't care enough to not get played by leadership and the Freedom Caucus. Whether out of ignorance of how the process works or because they were easily duped by Ryan or because they wanted it to happen, they killed any hope of any kind of immigration reform happening between now and November.
Finally, they proved what one Republican told CNN: "I think we are proving to ourselves that Republicans cannot pass an immigration bill."
Not just to themselves—to the whole nation.