Hillary at the Gate (Getting 'testy'...AGAIN)

New York magazune ^ | Chris Smith

[IrishMike]

With immigration and Dubai, Senator Clinton is triangulating a foreign policy, one issue at a time. Too bad Iraq is part of the triangle.

Those pesky, petty reporters. After fifteen minutes of listening to a city councilman, a congressman, a congresswoman, and Senator Hillary Clinton flay the right-wing Republican proposals for immigration reform, a TV reporter wants to change the subject.

“This is about immigration!” says one of Senator Clinton’s press aides.

“But we’ve asked six or seven immigration questions!” replies the TV guy. “We have to do other topics!”

“Well, this is pretty important,” Clinton says sternly.

Indeed it is. Millions of hardworking immigrants, thousands of small businesses, and the country’s economic prospects are going to be affected by the outcome of the nasty debate taking place in Congress. Which is what makes the substance of what Clinton has been saying, and the circumstances of today’s press conference, all the more puzzling. She fires off one truly excellent line, about how the Sensenbrenner bill would criminalize Jesus, ensuring headlines the next day and deftly summarizing her staunch opposition to the most reactionary proposal. She’s in favor of “a path to earned citizenship.” But then she goes back to playing the role she’s had for most of this debate: cautious bystander. “I support several of the bills,” she says. “I’m trying to create a compromise for a bipartisan bill . . . We need comprehensive reform . . . A harsh position doesn’t end the problems.”

[Jumpmaster]

Who was the "co-President" that wanted to pack the electorate with his Citizenship 2000 program?

[mewzilla]

Clinton chauffeur an illegal immigrant

[EagleUSA]

Hopefully, someday, someone will shove the Marxist Medusa's criminality, massive hypocrisy, and lies right up her address....she just wreaks of liberal ThugoRat anti-Americanism and power-mongering.