Reporters chased a dodgy John McCain into the bowels of the Capitol a short time ago to get him to answer whether he supports the GOP’s new push on “birthright citizenship.”
All McCain would say is that he supports Mitch McConnell’s call for hearings on the issue.
But with this new-found issue percolating up from the tea party right and only suddenly enjoying any “mainstream” attention of any kind, supporting hearings is tantamount to supporting a constitutional amendment that would deny citizenship to children born on U.S. soil whose parents live here illegally. There’s no halfway point on this issue.
Can John McCain really get away with this?
David Kurtz
David Kurtz is Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of Talking Points Memo where he oversees the news operations of TPM and its sister sites.