Sunk deep into The Wall Street Journal’s 680 word discussion of the California elections [California Reprieve – June 7 2006. Access requires subscription.] is the key if grudging concession discussing the Bilbray victory:

Some conservatives are touting his victory as proof that anti-immigration is now a winner for Republicans, and they may be right this year. (VDARE.com emphasis)

As far as I know this is the first time this fanatical Open Borders enforcer has ever conceded the possibility that being against massive immigration could be an electoral asset. One can almost excuse the silly remark as the article buries itself in California minutia:

The bigger news in California is that voters said no to Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner’s universal preschool scheme…

Of course, The WSJ is absolutely right that narrowly holding the ultra-Republican 50th District is not much of a triumph. Prospects for the Republicans holding the House, on this basis, look poor. But the plain fact is that without mobilizing the anti Kennedy-Bush Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration Bill vote, Bilbray would probably have lost. Their feeble prescription:

Spending is also among the big political problems facing the Republican Congress… the sooner the Republicans mend their spending ways and return to a reform agenda, the better their prospects for hanging on to the majority in November.

is irrelevant for the upcoming elections this Fall. “Marcus Henry”s analysis today is on the money:

Perhaps a few congressmen in very safe districts can go slumming with the open borders lobby and show bravado by insulting their base.
But for most House Republicans that kind of thing is a luxury they cannot afford in 2006. It will lead to disaster.