Rand Paul: Amend the constitution to make sure children of illegal immigrants don’t become citizens.
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House and Senate Democrats still appear to be at an impasse over the regulation of derivatives. Speaker Pelosi actually met with Sen. Lincoln to convince her to loosen the language in the bill. But Lincoln refused to budge.
This does leave us with the paradoxical situation of Lincoln standing firm on the more progressive position and Pelosi trying to get her to allow some softening of the language. Pelosi of course appears mainly to be responding to the demands of Democrats from New York.
At one level, probably most of us don’t care whether BP or another company most of us had never heard of before, Anadarko, has to pay for the damages from the Gulf Oil spill. But there’s one dimension of this that matters quite a lot in terms of finding out what really happened. Read More
Political operatives have known since … oh, the late 1820s not to insult the poverty or humble upbringings of opponents as it almost always backfires on the attacker. But apparently no one told John Kasich’s spokesman Rob Nichols who recently sneered that Gov. Ted Strickland’s allegedly bad record on jobs is no surprise since he’d “grown up in a chicken shack.”
I was going to compare this to Sue Lowden’s ability to torpedo her own campaign through a series of completely unnecessary, unforced errors. Because this has really become a pattern of late — seemingly strong Republican candidates, in a Republican year, managing to trip themselves up through completely unnecessary goofs. But then it occurred to me that there might be a grand unifying chicken theory (GUCT) of the 2010 election since it seems to be a recurring theme.
Marco Rubio: I never meant I wanted to repeal all of Health Care Reform.
The latest from the financial reform conference committee negotiations, via TPM’s Brian Beutler: Both sides in the Senate have struck a deal on the Volcker rule, agreeing to include a smaller loophole in the rule than the pro-industry types wanted. That compromise, though, is just among senators. They now need House negotiators to sign off on it.
I think I’ll just reprint the first paragraph of this one …
The far-right third party that Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle called home in the 1990s supported abolishing “the debt money system” and ran a vitriolic anti-gay insert in state newspapers that portrays LGBT people — or, as Angle’s party called them, “sodomites” — as child-molesting, HIV-carrying, Hell-bound freaks, according to documents obtained by TPM.
Read the rest here.
Salt of the earth American David Jungerman lives in Raytown, Missouri.
And if you’ve been through Raytown recently you might have noticed that he’s got a semi-truck trailer parked on his farm in a cornfield along Highway 71 with the words …
Are You A Producer or Parasite
Democrats — Party of Parasites
Jungerman was fed up with people who “always have their hand out for whatever the government will give them” in social programs.
That was going well until it emerged that Jungerman has pocketed more than $1 million in federal crop subsidy payments in the last fifteen years. $34,000 last year alone. 2000 for whatever reason was a blowout year, when he pocketed $224,763.
Asked by the Kansas City Star how that didn’t make him a parasite too, Jungerman responded, “That’s just my money coming back to me. I pay a lot in taxes. I’m not a parasite.”