Phony Dem candidate who was put forward by former Rep. David Rivera to be charged by Feds.
Marco Rubio’s political future is based on convincing Tea Partiers and base Republicans that his immigration reform plan is vastly preferable to the awful Obama plan — even though Rubio hasn’t decided what his plan includes on really any key point. So who’s the first anti-reform fish to get reeled in? Apparently, it’s Charles Krauthammer. He seems to get that there’s no real difference between the plans. And that both amount to what he calls “instant amnesty”. But still Rubio’s plan is worth getting behind because … well, he’s not Obama.
In addition to being abrasive and serially disliked, it seems Sen. Cruz’s penchant for imitating Joe McCarthy may have been even greater and of longer standing than we knew. In this case, the habit of lying for political advantage seems even more clear.
Jane Mayer just posted this piece at The New Yorker website in which she notes that only two and half years ago Cruz gave a Fourth of July speech in which he accused at least twelve members of the Harvard Law School faculty of being not only “Marxists” but communists “who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.” Read More
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer tells Cavuto the majority of Americans oppose a ‘path to citizenship’ (even though the opposite is true). Watch.
Indiana Republicans pushing new transvaginal ultrasound mandate bill.
TPM’s David Taintor is out with another story this afternoon on John McCain’s interactions with an Arizona couple whose son was killed in the Aurora movie theater massacre last year.
You may have already seen the video where McCain told the young man’s mom that she needed “some straight talk” on assault weapons. Now you can see the impersonal form letter McCain’s office sent earlier this month in response to a very personal email written by the man’s father.
How is it that a Senator’s office ends up sending a form letter to a grieving parent of a child killed in a mass-shooting? The answer is that there’s no excuse. But two letters we received from TPM Readers shed some role on just how bad it’s gotten and the role of astroturf campaigns in the problem.
From TPM Reader MB …
It’s surprising how bad American political staffs have become at handling routine constituent correspondence like this — routine, that is, in the sense that elected officials can expect to receive frequent letters that require some modicum of understanding and acknowledgment.