This ain’t good: But that fact is that no matter how righteous immigrant advocates view their cause, and as much as Latinos claim to desire immigration reform, the paltry voter participation rate of Latinos continues to be unimpressive to either party. Pew Research Center reported that while African Americans and whites had reached parity in their voter participation rates at …
Immigration
Don’t dream, it’s over
Immigration reform, in any meaningful sense, is probably dead: In a bad sign for reform, the Republican chairman of the House’s immigration policy committee told a conservative radio host Monday that he opposes a path to citizenship even for young documented people brought to the United States as children, often referred to as DREAMers. House …
I set out running but I take my time
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? …
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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