I’m very curious to hear more about what happened here and whether it’s part of a pattern. Sen. McCain just held what seems to have been his first townhall back in Arizona since immigration reform became a headline issue over the last few weeks. And the response does not seem to have been positive with the folks at this town hall. Take a look. We’ll be tracking this very closely.
Late Update: The first AP report on this town hall has few details but the headline seemed telling: “McCain defends immigration plan to angry residents.”
Later Update: This sounds like it was a fun moment …
Some audience members shouted out their disapproval.
One man yelled that only guns would discourage illegal immigration. Another man complained that illegal immigrants should never be able to become citizens or vote. A third man said illegal immigrants were illiterate invaders who wanted free government benefits.
McCain urged compassion.“We are a Judeo-Christian nation,” he said.
I’ve had this happen to me so many times. You send out a mass email and it gets garbled up in the server and it comes out the other end with a picture of Karl Rove in an SS Uniform.
White House says Rubio’s spokesman is wrong, they have met with Rubio’s staff. The gist seems to be that they did meet with Rubio’s staff. But the staffers say they didn’t request ‘input’.
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It must have happened before. But I can’t think of another example of politics quite as weirdly comic as that developing around immigration reform. At least in recent years, the normal model is that both sides profess optimism and good will about finding a compromise when, in fact, they are either far apart on policy or simply don’t want to agree at all — usually both.
But here it’s just the opposite. Both sides want a bill. They actually want the same bill — or at least they’ve both signed on to the same bill. But there’s the problem, a political problem. Establishment Republicans feel they must support the immigration bill the President supports. But they need to convince the base of their party that they fought him like crazy to get it passed. That’s a challenge. Read More