I’m beginning to feel the Cruzmentum. Not just because he renounced his Canadian citizenship so that he can campaign to become a natural born American preznit, but also because of this, from Cruz’s school days: “I remember very specifically that he had a book in Spanish and the title was Was Karl Marx a Satanist? …
The Brown Enemy Within
And there will always be a space in my parking lot
I’m a lot more sympathetic to John McCain than many around here, but why do all these fuckers have to qualify decent, human, laudable sentiments with “but I’m not a bleeding heart liberal”: “Oh, I think they’re terrible. But the consequences for the country are worse. Are we going to sit around — 11 million …
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I ain’t signifying
Sorry to be mostly only posting about immigration reform these days, I feel it’s by far the most important political issue out there right now. No one’s vote will be affected by SnowdenGate or IRSGate or BenghaziGate or EgyptGate. What a lot of people don’t get about politics is that some issues serve as cultural …
Obamacare Cooties Mean We Can’t Have Nice Things
Here’s some weak sauce: The Washington Examiner — no friend of the reform effort either — sums it all up “Immigration reform is dead and Obamacare implementation killed it.” Rhetorically, this constitutes a massive improvement over the old GOP line that President Obama will somehow be at fault if the House kills immigration reform, because …
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There’ll be time enough for counting when the dealing’s done
The Sean Trende theory that Republicans can safely ignore immigration reform is gaining a lot of traction, I’m seeing a lot of internets about it today. Today, Trende replies to critics of this idea, including Karl Rove. I’ll explain Trende’s main points and why I don’t agree with them. Trende believes (1) that the Latino …
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Rush never sleeps
I suspect this (via) means comprehensive immigration reform is dead as Dillinger: Sean Hannity, a reliable bellwether on the right, has been on a similar journey since the fall. He announced the day after President Obama’s re-election that he had “evolved” on immigration reform and now supported a “path to citizenship” in order to improve …
68-32
The Senate just passed their version of the immigration reform bill, which will go to the House and either die or be converted into a poison pill. Boehner is so weak that I wonder if there will even be a vote on immigration reform in the House, but if I had to bet, I’d go …