By all accounts, the ‘Uni-Tea’ Rally wasn’t a huge success. But Not Racist Week at the Tea Party movement continues tomorrow with a “National Black Conservatives Rally” in DC, sponsored by Tea Party Express. Headlining the event at the National Press Club will be none other than Alan Keyes.
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Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R-NV): Reporters should only ask the questions we want to answer.
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?
Really, what’s the 14th Amendment done for us lately? Couldn’t it use a pruning? Should it not make way for newer, better amendments?
In all seriousness, after Mitch McConnell said last night that he supports hearings into the 14th amendment and ‘birthright citizenship’, his decision has spurred a round of questions this morning about whether or not he actually favors the repeal of the 14th Amendment. An aide to McConnell tells Greg Sargent that McConnell does not support a complete repeal of the 14th Amendment. But that does leave open the question of a little pruning or amending of the 14th Amendment. Would he favor that? Would John McCain? We’re trying to find out.
We’re going to amend the constitution until we get it back to being the real constitution.
Senate Democrats planned to vote on an energy bill this week that includes all the new BP-inspired legislation, but Harry Reid just announced that’s not happening after all. Republicans are filibustering.
Reid just now on Republicans’ new openness to repealing or amending the 14th Amendment to get rid of birthright citizenship: “They’ve either taken leave of their senses or their principles.” Here’s more.
McConnell moves into walk-back mode on repealing or amending the 14th Amendment.