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Out with the old Republicans, in with the new Republicans
on May 24, 2013
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I had read headlines about this speech by Ted Cruz, but watching it finally was even better. As background, Sean Sullivan at WaPo’s The Fix points out our house is divided, Ted Cruz vs. John McCain: Welcome to the new normal in the Senate: Sen....
Are we distracted by scandals while Democrats walk away with the immigration amnesty prize?
on May 22, 2013
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I received an insightful email from reader Karen Sacandy: Dear Professor Jacobson: I’m among your many grateful readers, but at this time, the Democrats are like Thomas Crown in the flick, “The Thomas Crown Affair,” who created a distraction over here, while over there, he...
Did Boston Bombing kill immigration “reform”?
on May 02, 2013
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Threw the bill off its fast track.
“buy an airline ticket, apply for a student visa, and come now”
on April 17, 2013
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The 844-page Immigration Reform bill was dropped on the public late yesterday. There will be a rush to a vote as on just about every other legislative behemoth in the past four years. David Frum, so far, is one of the clearer heads on the immigration charade...
In Memory of Mary Earle Texada Phillips
on March 23, 2013
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Pat Austin at And So It Goes In Shreveport is one of my favorite bloggers. I am a big fan of hers. Pat was part of the Not One Red Cent group which launched Marco Rubio’s primary challenge against Charlie Crist. I have communicated with her...
David Frum gets it right on amnesty
on March 22, 2013
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I’ve been a pretty harsh critic of David Frum, but when he gets something right, I’m willing to acknowledge it. And he’s right about the pro-amnesty wave taking over the Republican Party, which mistakenly thinks rewarding lawlessness is a good thing. Frum writes, Immigration Amnesty: The...
Does the NRSC get it, or just trying to neutralize the internal opposition?
on March 22, 2013
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Maybe it’s because a group of Tea Party / conservative bloggers helped launch Marco Rubio’s primary fight against Charlie Crist, in a story rarely told anywhere except here, Give Some Credit To “Not One Red Cent”. That group of scrappy misfits (I’m going to catch...
Politico’s next act: Real News Organization or Gawker (no offense to Gawker)
on March 15, 2013
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Politico's latest cheap shot at Sarah Palin
Rand Paul found that sliver of principle on which right and left agree
on March 07, 2013
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Rand Paul’s filibuster of John Brennan yesterday, which went on for over 12 hours, was a phenomenon. He was joined at various times by Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ron Wyden, and late in the night, Tim Scott, Ron Johnson and others. As the...
“Liberal” cartoonist/columnist confuses rhetoric with reality
on February 18, 2013
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Behold “liberal” cartoonist/columnist David Horsey’s latest horsey—- in the Los Angeles Times. It is no wonder Florida Sen. Marco Rubio needed to grab a bottle of water in the middle of delivering the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. The speech...
In case you missed them
on February 18, 2013
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Some posts from the weekend, which was busier than usual: “Submit We Much” Week at College Insurrection Elizabeth Warren’s heroic Senate demagoguery American Women, not Koch Brothers, birthed the Tea Party Movement Colorlines and The Root accuse Marco Rubio of promoting racism A changing of...
Sunday Night Open — Maker’s Mark Surrenders
on February 17, 2013
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I don’t claim to be a marketing genius, and I don’t drink much (at which point you collectively say, “that explains a lot”), but it truly made no sense to me when Maker’s Mark decided to dilute its bourbon. It has surrendered to the outcry:...
This will be dealt with
on February 17, 2013
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The nature of the hostility directed at me has changed over the years. In 2008-2010, it was mostly Obama supporters upset that someone who taught at an Ivy League law school would dissent. I guess they figured their love letters weren’t working, so that has...
Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals
on February 17, 2013
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I previously wrote about how BuzzFeed Politics has combined “the culture” and savvy crafting into a highly effective tool for undermining Republicans with subtle and not-so-subtle mockery. “Look at the goofy cat, look at the goofy celeb, look at the goofy Republican” is more dangerous...
NASTY WATER carriers
on February 16, 2013
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Ted Cruz is making all the right enemies, and they are out for him often and early. For Marco Rubio the meme is WATER, for Cruz it’s NASTY. The title of this NY Times article originally was Ted Cruz Runs Counter To The Senate’s Courtly...
Hagel fails to beat filibuster on day of more troubling revelations
on February 14, 2013
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The Washington Free Beacon reported today about a speech Hagel gave in 2007 — as reported at the time by one of his supporters — that the State Department had become an “adjunct” to the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Hagel supporters are fuming, but he was...
