Robert Stacy McCain at the Washington Times shared with me an incredible story: “The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors’ rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors.” Reporter Ralph Z. Hallow will have more details in tomorrow’s paper.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why this happened. The combination of President Bush’s amnesty bill with a pro-amnesty chairman of the Republican National Committee, Sen. Mel Martinez, is a major turnoff to many conservative donors. Even before Bush unveiled the immigration deal he negotiated with Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.), conservatives harbored ill feelings toward Martinez.