In his column today, the LA Times‘ Ron Brownstein nicely sums up what we discussed last week on the Republicans’ immigration bamboozle. The Republicans’ effort to blame the ‘felony provision’ on the Democrats is no more than a flat out lie. “Contrary to the description from Hastert and Frist, Democrats and immigrant groups opposed this [felony] proposal from the start.”
Actually, it’s worse than this. Republicans are floundering so badly now they can’t even keep their wedge issues straight from one week to the next. Their big issue one week is the one that they’re running against a bit later in the month. They even want to blame their ideas on the Democrats when anybody watching can see they’re lying through their teeth. They’re the desperate party.
Everybody can see it.
It’s the congress’s version of the president being too afraid to appear in front of non-hand-picked audiences.
