Sure. But then, he was trying to get elected, and when amnesty was a bad thing, not a noble gesture to allow the best of us to come out of the shadows where racism and xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment (and the threat of having to pay taxes) sadly forced them. Once they jumped the border.
Now, though, he wants the Bushies to groom him for bigger things, maybe as a running mate for Chris Christie. And that requires new narratives and new alliances.
Priorities, people. Besides. Maybe hanging out with Schumer, Menendez, McCain, and Graham has helped him evolve. Into the very thing, on this issue at least, that those who elected him specifically rejected.
Lucky for him, Senators no longer have to represent the interests of their states. That old constitutional check was just too constricting to progress.
And that’s what we’re about: progress. Which I believe is now defined as “seen to be voting for shit that sounds good on bumper stickers.”
(h/t Mark Levin)
I forget what the word or phrase is for: Well, we are fucked either way, but less fucked with [Christie/Rubio] than Clinton/Weiner].
Sorta like finding yourself cornered in the shower your first week in prison and having to size up the upcoming damage
They may permanently lose the base and have nothing to show for it, but think of how many additional bureaucrats they’ll be room to budget for in Washington!
SteveG, unfortunately, your GOP prison “friends” would hold you down and tell you “it’s going to happen, best to get it over with, trust us.”
Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love to Town)
So he has to compromise on his way up but, just think of all he will accomplish when he is on top!
How dare you quote them without allowing them to revise and extend their remarks.
Ha ha, the next presidential race will be the second Bush vs. Clinton, with the first coming in 1992.
How depressing, charles.
All the people in this country and we can’t come up with a better couple of choices?
…for Big Joe Supersnake and the Penal Goliaths.
Once four of the last five presidents have been named Bush or Clinton, we can’t be far from the offspring of Chelsea Clinton marrying one of the Bush brood to bring the warring factions together thus bringing peace to all the land. Love live the king!
I know if I were an illegal immigrant, I would walk over broken glass to come out of the shadows, pay a fine, and begin to pay income taxes.
FONDEST DREAM, yo!
We will, of course, subsidize those who are too poor to pay the fine.
For Freedom and Fairness!
I welcome our new criminal underlords, esse.
charles, sometimes, you have a truly evil imagination.
Chelsea is rapidly approaching 40. She better breed if that nightmare is to come true.
Jan Brewer: This Gang of Eight bill is a victory for Arizona
Yup
My ass gets sold for two bags of Skittles and a Top Ramen and I get sat on by Christie.
Great day all around…
Jan Brewer is become Chris Christie without the flab. Unless I’m missing something, she’s changed her position some 90°+ since SB1070. I guess waggling her finger in Bammy’s face marked the high point of her career. Wonder what they got on her?
Oh, the Supremes took a Right to Work case today. Kinda ironic, asking an arm of our current Federal Government to protect a thing once known as ‘privacy’.
http://www.nrtw.org/en/press/2013/06/supreme-court-to-hear-mulhall-06242013
#RunSnowdenRUN
Votes like a Crist? Then vote out like a Crist.
Via Malkin, the Republicans voting for cloture so far:
Corker, Ayotte, Chiesa, Collins, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Kirk, McCain, Murkowski, Rubio, Wicker
you know what to do
Alexander, too.
Charles wrote:
And so endeth The War Of The Poses.
I can’t vote Rubio out. I don’t live in Florida. I can’t even get Lloyd fuggin’ Doggett out of my district. I helped get you Cruz. That’s all I could manage. But Vote Rubio out. Tell him he stuck you in the back just like the cypher he replaced and now he’s gone.