Earlier I noted that for the first time since the November election I’ve seen Republicans openly questioning whether they really need to get behind immigration reform. Or, to put it more concretely, whether the politics dictates that they need it to pass. But there’s something else going on too: Senate Democrats need to start seriously considering whether they’re getting played by the Gang of 8 charade. Read More

Are Republicans deciding they don’t want to do immigration reform after all?

Party elites speak through the traditional media while party bases register their opinions through voting and giving. This applies equally on both sides of the partisan divide. And I should add that I use ‘elite’ in this case not in a pejorative but purely in a prescriptive sense. That’s made it difficult to get a proper read on just where we are on the immigration reform debate and a host of other issues on which Republicans seemed inclined to move on after the November defeat.

But I’m sensing a shift. Read More

That’s what we’re discussing right now at TPMPrime. The dime version of my view is that as horrific as it is, I’m in total sync with the administration’s extreme reluctance to get involved militarily. I think it’s a bad, bad idea.

Police in Hamas-controlled Gaza doling out head-shavings and beatings for “indecent” hair.