I just saw this Sunday piece by Josh Marshall in which he "senses a shift" in Republicans' stylistic knavery from the pretend neolithic to the more habitual paleolithic. "Are Republicans deciding they don’t want to do immigration reform after all?" he asks. "[I]t’s only in the last couple weeks that I’ve heard Republicans doubting the premise that they need immigration reform to pass," he answers, seemingly bushwhacked in thought.
I'm not quite sure what to make of that, Josh. I haven't seen such innocence of mind since Leslie Stahl thought she could get John Boehner to either say the word "compromise" or at least concede that compromise has something to do with finding "common ground."
No, no, Republican pols are nothing if not politically correct--meaning gleefully submissive to their dominatrix base, who just happen to loathe all Latinos for being the welfare-absconding scofflaws they are, all of them, every last one of them, not to mention shhhhh a bit dark.
And just when, Josh, did Republicans "decide" they wanted to do immigration reform? Do you mean to tell us that you actually buy stock in what these nihilistic guttersnipes say to the national press when they're not otherwise consoling the Christian rustics over the Allah-worshipping Obama's next and rather imminent villainy?
Simple rule of prognostication, Josh: Any legislation that conveys any benefit to Obama's legacy or in any way promotes this country's general welfare is GOP-doomed. Mitch must rally the hayseeds and the speaker must protect his speakership and Obama's thundering despotism--oddly conducted through a "lack of leadership"--must be neutralized and those, according to the dysgenic Party of Lincoln, are the nation's only needs.
His observation is not inaccurate. In the brief interlude between the time Republicans objectively considered their long term electoral prospects if they did not pursue engagement with the Latino community through immigration reform and the time Rheince publicized his Republican manifesto there was some small buzz on the right about maybe this working for them. After that document was published it was evident that all hands were doomed to go down with the ship.
Posted by: Peter G | April 09, 2013 at 11:17 AM
That window seemed pretty solidly closed a good three months ago, hardly "only in the last couple weeks."
Posted by: PM | April 09, 2013 at 11:35 AM
I'll grant you PM that the window was very brief and yet it was touching in a way to see Republicans speak ever so hopefully of engaging the Latino community before slamming closed the door. Nah! What were we thinking. Rubio is too fragile a vessel to carry that load.
Posted by: Peter G | April 09, 2013 at 10:01 PM