Shelly is back! Without leaving! After announcing her retirement , rivers of tears flooded the Wonket seekrit chatcave at the loss of such a proud Swiss-American leaving Congress to do who-knows-what (raise 84 more children? Destroy local school boards? Go back to being an IRS lawyer?
Illegal immigrants -- if you'll excuse the expression -- don't vote. So why is immigration reform such a powerful force among Latinos? I think because Republicans express contempt for all Latinos through their immigration policies. "Self-deport", "English-only", "show me your papers". Those tell many of our fellow citizens they are unwelcome.
<i>ATTENTION REPUBLICANS: Do not read further. I am going to tell a Reagan joke that ends with &quot;Ladies and gentlemen, the Aristocrats&quot;.</i>
Immigration reform is a good idea but the way for Republicans to win Latino votes is to respect people whose families have lived in North America for 25,000 years.
It&#039;s not just Shelly, either. She joined up with Steve King and Louie Gohmert to form the <a href="http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/06\/13\/reps-king-bachmann-and-gohmert-beg-glenn-becks-viewers-for-support-were-losing-badly\/" target="_blank">Cerberus of Stupidity</a> over in Glennbeckistan.
<i>[I]f immigration reform passes, &ldquo;we will never again have a Republican president&quot;</i>
To be fair, she&#039;s right.
Every Republican proposing voter ID laws?
Illegal immigrants -- if you&#039;ll excuse the expression -- don&#039;t vote. So why is immigration reform such a powerful force among Latinos? I think because Republicans express contempt for all Latinos through their immigration policies. &quot;Self-deport&quot;, &quot;English-only&quot;, &quot;show me your papers&quot;. Those tell many of our fellow citizens they are unwelcome.
<i>ATTENTION REPUBLICANS: Do not read further. I am going to tell a Reagan joke that ends with &quot;Ladies and gentlemen, the Aristocrats&quot;.</i>
Immigration reform is a good idea but the way for Republicans to win Latino votes is to respect people whose families have lived in North America for 25,000 years.
&quot;Our mindless bigotry is losing bigtime. Send money now!&quot;
CUNTY FIRST!!!!
I think she&#039;s trying to make a point, but I don&#039;t follow.
Promised Land Libel!!!!
It&#039;s what gets them up in the morning,
You don&#039;t court the electorate that you actually have, you court the electorate you wish you had.
And you do whatever you can to make the former look more like the latter.
Sometimes a corndog is just a corndog. This is not one of those times.
&quot;never again have a Republican president&quot;
Tear down that wall!
It&#039;s not just Shelly, either. She joined up with Steve King and Louie Gohmert to form the <a href="http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/06\/13\/reps-king-bachmann-and-gohmert-beg-glenn-becks-viewers-for-support-were-losing-badly\/" target="_blank">Cerberus of Stupidity</a> over in Glennbeckistan.