Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month. This part of the process is a chance to fix America’s broken immigration system and end today’s de facto amnesty for those who live here illegally. It will also show that Washington can [...]
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Marco Rubio’s Immigration Ad Hits D.C.
“Isn’t it reasonable for these conservatives to assume that you’ve been duped here?” – Laura Ingraham THE TV AD starring Marco Rubio finally popped up over the weekend or at least that’s when I finally saw it. As you’ll see when you watch the ad above, it’s basically trying to bolster his conservative cred while [...]
Romney’s Babbling, Jeb Bush is Flip Flopping, and Republicans Remain Utterly Confused
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “I think there has to be some difference between people who come here legally and illegally. It is just a matter of common sense and a matter of the rule of law. If we’re not going to apply the law fairly and consistently, [...]
Liberals have Won, But Don’t Tell Ted Nugent
Mr. Nugent, who is also a National Rifle Association board member, will be a guest of Representative Steve Stockman, a Texas Republican who recently made headlines by threatening to file articles of impeachment against Mr. Obama if the president issued executive orders that strengthened gun control laws. [...] “I will go in at least 20 [...]
Top Story — Pres. Obama Offers “Fact Sheet” on Immigration [Text], While Rubio Hits Rush Limbaugh
“We define ourselves as a nation of immigrants.” — President Obama DELIVERING REMARKS in Las Vegas today President Obama outlined his priorities on immigration reform. On the other hand, administration officials told media outlets that they believe a path to citizenship needs to be more straightforward. They believe a trigger system, like the one in [...]
Top Story — Demographic Shellacking Leads to GOP Immigration Epiphany, Legislation Pending *Updated*
“This is consistent with our country’s tradition of being a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.” – Senator John McCain (Press conference announcing new immigration reform push) ISN’T IT amazing what a demographic shellacking can do. Packed room at the press conference announcing the latest effort in immigration reform. A powerful group of [...]
Romney Thinks He Lost Because Obama is Oprah
YOU GET a gift, single woman. You get a gift, Hispanic man. And you college kid, you get a gift, too. Oh, and African Americans, you especially always get gifts. As for the rest of America, we got the biggest gift of all, because Mitt Romney isn’t our president. From the New York Times: In [...]
People of Color Come Into Paul Ryan’s View
EARTH TO Rep. Ryan, the loss in 2012 has been baked into the political cake for a very long time. But all of a sudden it’s the “urban vote” that did in the Romney-Ryan ticket: “The surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the [...]
Top Story — It’s the Demographics, Stupid
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AND BY stupid I mean former Governor Haley Barbour’s assertion that Sandy cost Mitt Romney the presidency. I made the case preemptively that Romney couldn’t blame losing on Sandy, knowing what was bound to come in what I believed (and wrote) would be [...]
Demographics Against Romney, But Enthusiasm for Obama Lower than in ’08 for Key Groups
WHEN YOU hear the Democratic standard bearer talking about his views being the same as Romney on Social Security, then see an email confirming his contention, it’s hard to get excited when both men running for president intend to tinker with the social safety net. Only 73 percent who support Obama say they are “extremely [...]
Romney Gains After Debate But Demographics a Killer
THE DEBATE continues to rebound in Mitt Romney’s favor. What remains intransigent are the demographics. African Americans, Hispanics, and especially women, would have to fall out completely with President Obama to change the race’s trajectory enough for Mitt Romney to overtake him. There is no evidence yet that this has begun to happen. Republicans are [...]
Romney Would Honor Obama’s Special Visa for Hispanic Youth
IN AN interview on Tuesday, Mitt Romney began a much delayed reach out to the Hispanic community. President Obama has been leading with this community in long-term polling for months. It came at a stop in Denver, Colorado. “The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is [...]
Romney Lets It Fly in Florida, As Campaign in Free Fall Gets More Bad News
“.. I mention my dad. My ad was born in Mexico of American parents living there. … ..they came back to the United States and my dad had to get help, financial help, the government helped his family to be able to get on their feet again. By the way, that’s the way America works. [...]
Buchanan: If Welfare is a “Narcotic,” Barack Obama is a “Drug Dealer”
NOBODY BOILS down Republican extremism better than Patrick J. Buchanan. Quoting F.D.R., then twisting it into an example for maximum affect, the Southern strategy guru is reeling it out on Fox these days, after MSNBC kicked him to the curb. A writer who boiled down Bush’s Iraq war misadventurism better than most, Buchanan once offered [...]
Romney’s Bad, But His Base Is Worse
To pin recent stumbles on Stevens would be to overlook Romney’s role in all this. As the man atop the enterprise — in effect, the CEO of a $1 billion start-up — Romney ultimately bears responsibility for the decisions he personally oversaw, such as the muffling of running mate Paul Ryan’s strict budget message and [...]
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