A few years back, there was a local election where a candidate (a Democratic one, actually) would go on the radio and say “Godless Chinese communists” all the time. It was his go-to line and it seemed to help him in the polls, though he ultimately lost, fortunately. Jeb’s latest, along with Scott Walker’s recent …
Immigration
“These New Assets”
You would think that if anything were beyond the pale, even for today’s GOP and its conservative base, it would be chattel slavery. Seriously. If there were any thought that ought to be simply unthinkable in the twenty first century, America, it would be that it is not simply illegal but actually evil to turn another human being into …
Just A Slob Like Some Of Us
The only thing better than Donald Trump is people who go on the teevee to tell people how rich and classy and yooge Donald Trump is. Donald Trump supporter Terra Compton Grant explained to CNN that the GOP presidential candidate’s plan to deport up to 20 million undocumented immigrants was a way to provide more …
The Party Of Deportation
As Greg Sargent points out, the latest CNN poll finds Republicans overwhelmingly want to deport some 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US by a nearly 2-1 margin. By 56-42, Americans support developing a plan to legalize undocumented immigrants over stopping their flow and deporting those already here. Independents agree by 58-39, and moderates by …
Another One-Sentence Fix Situation
While Europe is trying to spin giving in to Greece’s no vote on austerity as a sudden need for “humanitarian aid” and China is ordering investment firms to buy stocks to shore up its markets, here in the States we’ve got a $72 billion debt problem with Puerto Rico. Democrats in Congress say the time has …
The Lawless Cruz-ecutive
If elected president, Sen. Ted Cruz has a novel idea for dealing with the Supreme Court’s recent Obergefell ruling on same-sex marriage: ignore the judicial completely and rule by executive fiat. Ted Cruz has some unsolicited advice for the states not specifically named in last week’s Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage: Ignore it. “Those …
One Vote Makes All The Difference
Today the Supreme Court agreed to hear a Texas case later this year that could rewrite the political map for Latinos in states with a large number of undocumented residents. Since the 1960s, the high court has enforced the “one person, one vote” rule to require that election districts be roughly equal in population. This …