"Last year's bill is not the solution for this year"

The U.S. Senate is that great, august body of aging statesmen that tempers the rashness of the House of Representatives and the power-hungry executive branch, right? Well, just to show that they are not above politics, one august senator has this to say, WaPo:

"Last year's bill is not the solution for this year," said Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.), one of [the immigration reform bill's] architects who is now general chairman of the Republican Party.

That's right. The nature of illegal immigration in this country has changed so much in the past year that a bill that won 63 votes in the Senate a year ago is now untenable, at least to Republican senators.

I don't know whether to be angry or ashamed.