April 25, 2010 - Pensito

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Will Latino Republicans Defend Hateful Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law?

April 25, 2010May 11, 2010 Trish

ImmigrantLg Arizona’s dreadful new anti-immigrant law, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer within hours of Pres. Obama denouncing it, isn’t the slam-dunk wedge issue Republicans might have hoped for. Sure, chronically aggrieved Tea Party types who take in too much Lou Dobbs are thrilled. Guilty until proven innocent pretty much sums up how the law will work for most members of the brown community.

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April 25, 2010April 25, 2010 Jon Ponder

It used to be you couldn’t go downtown in the evening without running into half a dozen evangelists ranting and raving and carrying on; some of them put on their shows in tents or at camp meetings, and some of them just stood around on street corners and worked up a crowd. They’d stir people up for a while, but they always got over it. But now we’ve got just this one evangelist, this Billy Graham, and he’s gone off the beam. He’s… well, I hadn’t ought to say this, but he’s one of those counterfeits I was telling you about. He claims he’s a friend of all the Presidents, but he was never a friend of mine when I was President. I just don’t go for people like that. All he’s interested in is getting his name in the paper.

Day: April 25, 2010

Will Latino Republicans Defend Hateful Arizona Anti-Immigrant Law?

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– Former Pres. Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), speaking in 1962

Poetic Justice

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“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”