... into the U.S.
At the same time, Ryan Powers of ThinkProgress offers "Conservative talker suspended after blaming swine flu on the ‘millions of leeches’ from Mexico" about Jay Severin making stupid comments that aren't absolved by containing a grain of truth (thinkprogress.org/2009/04/30/severin-immigrants-racist).
And, Fernanda Santos of the New York Times offers "Mayor’s Appointee Draws Fire...
... Further, even as he bashes them, Ryan Powers of ThinkProgress quotes Collins and Spectors - both more friends of the Democrats than not - as in favor of spending money on preparedness. [1]
Compare their comments to this February 8 quote from Charles Schumer (link):
"All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the [National] Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the...