Is that Garth? Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent!
Posted on 07/01/2014 10:10:48 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
Politico ran an interesting article last Friday about the apparent stall of momentum on immigration reform that was assumed to be on the way to a reasonable compromise just a few months ago. It begins, naturally, with an assault on the liberal immigration reform groups for speaking out of turn and making the president angry with their incessant demands. He’s quoted as saying “If you take the pressure off of them and put it on me, you’ll guarantee that there is no legislation.” Evidently he actually believed that the Republicans would respond to pressure from Hispanic rights groups. (One might have thought that the fact that they wouldn’t even respond to pressure from the Chamber of Commerce, Evangelical preachers and even the Koch brothers on this issue would have made it obvious that such activism was quixotic to say the least.)
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Trent Lott, the Republican Senate whip in 2007, received a lot of those calls from talk-radio listeners. “I’ve had my phones jammed for three weeks,” he told The Washington Post at the time. “Talk radio is running America,” he lamented after the bill’s defeat. “We have to deal with that problem.”
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“Well, that sounds good on the campaign trail, but few of them had actually read data about we admit a million on a path to citizenship every year, we have 600,000 guest workers in addition every year,” Sessions continued. “Few of them had asked themselves, in a time of high unemployment and slow growth, you want to increase the number?” (SNIP)
These are the most active members of the conservative coalition and 73 percent of them believe that “immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care.”
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
The wing nuts should vote in. Rat primaries.
She definitely looks like the sort that boils rabbits.
I thought I was a constitutional conservative. Then I was a member of the great right wing conspiracy. Then I was part fundamentalist. Now I am, apparently, a radical wingnut. How am I supposed to know which line to stand in if they keep changing the placards?
Yeah, and another thing, Koch brothers this, Koch brothers that, what happened to Halliburton?
“Digby” is the stupidest hippie ever to disgrace the internet. When I feel down I like to drop by her place to laugh at the stable of clowns she keeps around for comic relief. That mouth breather David Atkins is always good for a chuckle.
Is that a male female or some other protected class?
I would enjoy seeing Digby with scabies.
I would enjoy seeing Digby with scabies.
Look at me! I’m a wing-nut! I’m against amnesty and I like guns! I’m craaazzzyyyyyyyyy!!!
Nuttier than a fruitcake and twice as crummy.
Go to her website just for snits & giggles. HDP’s articles are pure unintended entertainment.
What if a FReeper got on the PC and banged out the most satirical imitation of a lefty kook’s maniacal ravings on any subject one could imagine?
It wouldn’t come close to Heather Digby Parton’s fevered screeds. Why? Because any FReeper’s got at least half a brain.
immigration causes global warming.
The labelling is why I describe myself as “constitutional conservative”. It’s clear and self explanatory. Let some one find argument that I support following the Constitution and that I support conservative, traditional values.
Time to take back the party from the corrupt radical big government wingnuts !
To: Heather Digby Parton
Get a real job, goofy tooth.
It’s nice to know that liberals have our backs and are willing to let us know about our weaknesses in order to strengthen our opposition against them. Very noble and selfless of them, isn’t it?
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