Day: May 14, 2014

Famed Ohio Vote Counter Karl Rove tried to say that Hillary Clinton is brain damaged, all the while lying to American people about the nature of Hillary's hospital stay (Hillary was in the hospital for 4 days, not 30, for a blood clot, not for brain injury). This is a typical Rovian Republican manuever: say something outrageous about a candidate just to get people talking about the candidate negatively. But you don't talk about the Big Dog's wife that way:

"First of all, I've got to give [Rove] credit," Clinton told moderator Gwen Ifill. Rove's smear "embodies that old saying that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. First they said she faked her concussion. And now they say she's auditioning for a part in The Walking Dead."

Damn. Now that is an insult.

"If the Republicans don't do it they shouldn't bother to run a candidate in 2016. I mean, think about that. Think about who the voters are."

Those are the words and opinion of Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue, on the need to pass immigration reform. Added to Mitt Romney's declaration last week that the GOP really needs to raise the minimum wage, and we are started to see a real split of the Republican Business Party from the Republican Crazytown Party. For you see, say what you will about Republican businessmen, but most of them tend to be able to understand reality. They understand that without immigration reform, the Republican Party as it currently exists will never again win a presidential election. And yet... First Read:

"Immigration is really a 'rock and a hard place issue' for the GOP: If they don't get the issue behind them, the GOP will struggle to win presidential elections. But the cost of getting the issue behind them -- short term -- could be more of a problem than many in the Acela Corridor realize. We've gone back and forth about whether we think immigration can get done either this year or EARLY next year. But judging by how divisive the issue still is -- and how potent the issue still is in primaries -- we're just not sure how it gets done without causing major internal damage in the GOP."

Immigration forces the GOP to make a choice: Either it wants to be the White Racist Party, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, it passes immigration reform and lets all the white racists out there leave the party for whatever KKK or Nazi organization they can find. If it doesn't pass immigration reform, the GOP wants to be the White Racist Party. Simple as that. We have a ton of polling results from the past week and this week inside....