Day: November 17, 2014
Cory Booker is the Darling of Wall Street Donors
$1.87 million
Amount Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) received from the securities and investment industry, “making him the top recipient of Wall Street money this election cycle,” NPR reports. “Booker also received more money from real estate groups than any other member, as well as more from the entertainment and tech industries, accountants, and groups considered to be pro-Israel.”
Bill Clinton’s Take on the Midterms
There was a collapse of the youth vote. The African-American vote held fairly steady and was remarkable… we had a little bit of a loss of the Hispanic vote perhaps because the president didn’t sign an order on executive action on immigration reform.
— Bill Clinton, quoted by Politico, on the results of the 2014 midterm elections.
Who Knew ‘Progressive’ Meant ‘Dumb-Ass Liberals’
I get a big kick out of them using the word ‘progressive.’ My gosh, they’re just straight old dumb-ass liberals anyway.
— Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), quoted by Huffington Post.
Impeachable? Here Are 18 Immigration Executive Orders Issued by Recent Republican Presidents
Republicans claim that that Pres. Obama’s plan to establish temporary legal status for undocumented immigrants by executive order is illegal.
Read the full report from the American Immigration Council: Executive Grants of Temporary Immigration Relief, 1956-Present
They have issued a series of threats against the president if he signs the order to stand up the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, including blocking the nomination of attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch, shutting down the government again and/or impeaching him.
According to a detailed report from the American Immigration Council, however, presidents have routinely altered immigration policies by executive order, including 18 such changes by five recent Republican presidents — Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. None of these presidents was threatened with political reprisal for signing the orders, of course.
Here is an overview based on the AIC report:
