Link: CampaignToons :: Alien Invasion – Chupacabras for Our Nation’s Borders. CampaignToons is a brilliant little company, I have to admit. I think cartooning has a significant future in political messaging. It’s fun, it’s cheap, it’s compelling, and it’s a good way to satirize your opponent. This particular message struck me as interesting because of … Read more
Link: Gregoire sends Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez $50 million bill. Wahington Governor Christine Gregoire followed Janet’s example in holding the Federal government accountable for its promise to reimburse states for the cost of housing criminals who are also NAFTA refugees in state prisons. Next up: Arnie has also promised to take action on this issue. … Read more
There is a certain irony in the fact that extreme right wing movements tend to end up victimizing the very people they claim to fight for. In the heyday of the KKK, for example, when it was at the appogee of its influence and membership, Stetson Kennedy documented how KKK leaders used the organization to … Read more
I have done that naughtiest of things: I have flip-flopped. I have concluded that a policy I used to tepidly favor is, in fact, a poor idea and losing proposition for the Democratic Party. So, now I guess I’m unelectable. Oh well… The Gordian knot of immigration is the conflict between the GOP’s nativists, Democrats’ … Read more
I got a very interesting mailing from the Democratic Party’s National Immigration Forum and Dean’s new outreach center, the American Majority Partnership, the other day. I reproduce it here entirely. It outlines the amendments to the Senate compromise that have been offered, those under consideration, and those likely to be considered in the near future.
Chairman Dean has made our position on immigration reform clear: We
support comprehensive immigration reform that strengthens our borders,
protects U.S. workers and their wages, reunites families, and allows
those who pay taxes and obey the law to earn the opportunity to apply
for the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
These are the right policies and the right values. Democrats may not be polling with a majorities on every single issue we support on immigration, but we are standing for what’s right and principled, and that is more important to building an enduring consensus of principle, than to tack with every gust of the political winds.