Mar 27, 2014
A range of observers are capturing the dire political implications for the Republican Party should they continue to block immigration reform this year. Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas writes a new column in The Hill, titled “GOP DOA in 2016,” that captures how the short-sightedness of the Republican Party...
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A Sign of How Much the Politics of Immigration Have Changed Democrats in the House of Representatives are demanding action on immigration reform and using a variety of procedural tactics, such as today’s “previous question” on the national parks bill and the filing of a “discharge petition,” to try to force a...
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Republicans have a moth-to-flame relationship with Rep. Steve King. Privately they’ll tell you he’s an asshole, but when it comes to votes, there’s no doubt about it, King is running the show. That’s why the least productive, if not counter productive, Congress in history has allowed no votes on immigration reform — but...
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This Isn’t About Obama, This is About You In an attempt to circumvent House Republican leadership, who have refused to advance pro-immigration legislation through regular order, Democrats in the House of Representatives are set to file a discharge petition on HR 15 this week. For House Republicans who claim to be...
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The Washington Post editorialized about immigration reform this weekend: IN BLOCKING immigration reform in the House of Representatives, Republicans have frozen in place a system that much of the nation, and many in the GOP, regard as an exemplar of American dysfunction. Hence the irony that so many Republicans...
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On Immigration Reform, It’s Now or Never for the GOP In a must-read article entitled “Republican Strategists Split: Focus on 2014 or 2016?” Laura Meckler and Beth Reinhard of the Wall Street Journal explore an existential question for the Republican Party: if the Party shelves immigration reform in 2014...
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RNC Chair Reince Preibus pushed his alternate version of reality this morning on “The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd,” when he tried to insist that Obama and the Democrats are to blame for not passing immigration reform, rather than the Republicans. As Preibus said about passing immigration legislation (h/t...
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Republicans in the House of Representatives seem to be planning to ignore immigration reform this Congress, to the detriment of the country, Colorado, and their own political interests. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) and his fellow Republicans have offered weak excuses for their inaction, despite the fact...
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The Legal Authority and Political Consequences of Executive Action on Deportations In February, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) slammed the brakes on immigration reform. Last week, President Obama ordered Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review his options for executive action to reduce deportations. These developments beg the question: if...
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For at least some amount of time after their 2012 shellacking, Republicans understood that they had to seriously change their image and become more attractive to more voters if they were ever to win back the White House. Exhibit #1 was their 23-75% rout with Latino voters, which was why...
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