If immigration reform is going to get done, this is why:
“More than 100 Republican donors — many of them prominent names in their party’s establishment — sent a letter to Republican members of Congress on Tuesday urging them to support an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws,” the New York Times reports.
But it will only get done if these donors not only threaten the withholding of their big money donations, but also start doing it. Defunding the RNC and other various Republican Party organizations and candidates is the only message Republican congressman will understand. Condemnations about their bigotry and racism doesn’t work because, in their circles and in their districts, their racism and bigotry are commonplace and not a source of shame. And they no longer care about losing all of the Latino vote since they have convinced themselves that they can somehow win all of the white vote.
On Pope Francis:
Byron York on the GOP being too divided to have a civil war:
“It’s more likely that this is just a rocky time for a rejected and confused party. The conflicts inside the GOP today just don’t line up in the configuration of a classic civil war. There are multiple issues involved, and the lawmakers on various sides of various issues don’t lean the same way on each issue. Republicans who are opponents on one issue are allies on another. Looking at the Senate, for example, it’s unlikely that there will be a total civil war between Senate Faction A and Senate Faction B when some members of the opposing factions are united in Faction C, or Faction D, or so on. In other words, it may be that the Republican party is too divided to have a real civil war. Perhaps chaos would be a better description. We’ll know more later.”
This is true. The Democrats never really had a civil war either during our down years from 1969 utnil 1992, as there were not just two sides fighting each other, but twelve.
The Baton Rouge Advocate has found at least a dozen cases where gay men “who merely discussed or agreed to have consensual sex with an undercover agent” have been arrested “based on a part of Louisiana’s anti-sodomy law that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court a decade ago.” If this is true, the every single police officer and prosecutor involved must not only be fired, but sued, both criminally and civilly, for civil rights violations for each act of arrest and prosecution. The police officers and prosecutors must not only be imprisoned, but they must lose all their material possessions as well. Their lives must be destroyed. Maybe that will teach a lesson to the bigots out there who seek to misuse the government to abuse the constitutional rights of others.