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Will Linda Qiu of the NY Times try real journalism on the "Migrant Caravan"? - 10/31/18
At the New York Times, Linda Qiu blogs the deceptive "Did Democrats, or George Soros, Fund Migrant Caravan? Despite Republican Claims, No / President Trump, echoing the assertions of a Republican lawmaker, said that 'a lot of money' was given to migrants traveling toward the United States. There is no evidence of that" [1]:
GOP wants to know what I think of Trump. I told them. - 10/21/18
The GOP has sent me (and a few million others) a questionnaire [1] asking my opinion of Donald Trump so far. Here are my responses:
Q. Do you approve of the job being done by President Donald J. Trump?
Jim Brulte harms California GOP with a far-left concept - 07/20/16
John and Ken of KFI interviewed California GOP Chairman Jim Brulte today at the GOP Convention.
"Donald Trump isn't a Real Conservative" - 01/09/16
One of the talking points used against Donald Trump is that he isn't a "Real Conservative"; examples at [1]. That talking point might be counter-productive and it exposes yet again that being a "real conservative" isn't actually all that popular.
GOP 11/10/15 Debate: Marco Rubio wants fewer philosophers, more welders - 11/11/15
At the 11/10/15 GOP debate, Marco Rubio said, to wild applause, "I don't know why we have stigmatized vocational education. Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers." Transcript at [1], video below.
Do Tim Donnelly and Neel Kashkari show the GOP can't win in California? - 06/03/14
[UPDATE: RESULTS BELOW]
An Obamacare benefit to the GOP: more Job Creators - 02/27/14
Could Obamacare end up being an electoral boon for the GOP? Let me explain in the context of the video below. The video - from Time Warner Cable News - shows a Job Creator complaining that he can't expand his business to two more locations: if he does he'll hit the 50 employer limit imposed by Obamacare and have to either pay a fine or provide healthcare to his employees.
Mark Zuckerberg's questionable ads for GOP immigration reform plan (FWD US, ACD, Facebook) - 01/31/14
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook is behind a $750,000 ad buy in support of the GOP "Standards for Immigration Reform".
GOP "Standards for Immigration Reform": how it's wrong, how it won't work, what you can do - 01/30/14
The GOP "Standards for Immigration Reform" have been released. It's a short summary of the guidelines the Republican Party leadership will use for their own amnesty push.
First I'll quote the full document, followed by a discussion of some of the ways it won't work and it misleads. That's followed by some very effective things you can do to stop the GOP effort.
Warning: GOP House members are prepared for your questions at August townhalls (immigration, amnesty) - 08/01/13
One of the best ways to block amnesty is to ask tough questions at the townhalls that will be held this month by GOP House members. The key word in that sentence is "tough": the normal questions that are asked won't be good enough.
If regular citizens just get up and rant and rave or ask weak questions, politicians will be able to turn those questions around.
Ask Reince Priebus this very basic immigration question he doesn't realize he raised (RNC chairman) - 06/28/13
This site has covered politicians saying some dumb things, and the following quote from RNC chairman Reince Priebus ranks right up there (link):
How amnesty would have helped Obama trounce Romney (Hispanic vote) - 04/23/13
Here's how (link):
If [11 million illegal aliens] had been on the voting rolls in 2012 and voted along the same lines as other Hispanic voters did last fall, President Barack Obama’s relatively narrow victory last fall would have been considerably wider, a POLITICO analysis showed.
Oops: "Hispanics" now want GOP to stop opposing Obamacare - 04/01/13
In negotiations, when you show weakness and make weak demands, your opponents tend to take advantage of that.
Thus it is with the GOP quest for racial power (link):
Crazy Rand Paul fully supports amnesty, misleading, Hispandering, and reading poetry to do it - 03/19/13
Earlier today, Kentucky senator Rand Paul gave a pro-amnesty speech at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that in some ways is even more shocking and more crazy than the pro-amnesty speeches George W Bush gave. In addition to being borderline nuts, Paul misleads and uses a string of pro-amnesty talking points just like his dad.
RNC's Bush-linked Growth and Opportunity Project: GOP is "scary" to voters, must pass amnesty, Caring Conservatism - 03/18/13
Who better to solve the GOP's demographic problems then acolytes of the people who created the problem in the first place?
Karl Rove wants GOP to engage in identity politics; how that will harm GOP and U.S. - 03/02/13
Last decade, George W Bush and Karl Rove greatly harmed the U.S. through their support for massive immigration.
Given everything, how did Obama win again?? - 01/21/13
In the current upper left corner of Matt Drudge's site, he's celebrating Obama's second inauguration with several links (text as given by Drudge, re-linked by me):
Obama tweets 'Let's go -- bo': from church!
Calls for 'collective action'...
Vows action on 'climate change'...
Protesters target banks...
Paul Ryan Booed...
Broken Jumbotron frustrates thousands on the National Mall...
"Turning Your Back on People Who Are Starving and Freezing is not a Republican Value" (Pete King, Sandy aid bill) - 01/02/13
The video below shows Rep. Pete King fuming about the GOP voting down a relief bill for victims of Hurricane Sandy, saying among other things (link):
"Turning your back on people who are starving and freezing is not a Republican value"
Tom Beaumont and Josh Lederman of AP mislead about immigration, avoid real reporting - 12/26/12
Tom Beaumont and Josh Lederman of the Associated Press offer "GOP shows signs of bending after election defeat" ([1]). I'll discuss why it's wrong after the excerpt:
George W. Bush Institute on "Growth and Immigration" (Matthew Denhart) - 12/05/12
Yesterday, George W Bush returned to the public eye to promote massive immigration, saying ( peekURL.com/zjd4VCT ):
Don't be fooled by Lincoln Club of Orange County's immigration plan (Robert Loewen) - 12/03/12
Last month, the Lincoln Club of Orange County released a "Policy Statement on Immigration Reform" [1]. Their plan is - in a word - delusional. I'll quote the most delusional part of their plan, and explain why it wouldn't work as they want you to think it would.
ACHIEVE Act draft: GOP's version of anti-American DREAM Act immigration amnesty - 11/16/12
Matt Lewis of the Daily Caller has obtained a draft of the "ACHIEVE Act", an immigration amnesty program for younger illegal aliens ( peekURL.com/znPTmcX ). It's the GOP own anti-American version of the anti-American DREAM Act:
Clueless: Mitt Romney reflects on his loss, and still can't figure anything out - 11/14/12
Mitt Romney conducted a conference call with his backers today, and showed that he's as clueless after his loss as he was before.
From this (note: not The Onion):
[Romney said] the president had followed the "old playbook" of using targeted initiatives to woo specific interest groups - "especially the African-American community, the Hispanic community and young people."
Even Matt Yglesias realizes immigration amnesty would harm the GOP - 11/08/12
What is it that Matt Yglesias of Slate can see that GOP leaders can't? Not much: neither are that perspicacious.
John Boehner promises immigration amnesty to Obama and Democrats - 11/08/12
From the New York Times ( peekURL.com/zVg6FPU ):
Fresh off an election in which Hispanic voters largely sided with Democrats, Speaker John A. Boehner said Thursday that he was "confident" Congress and the White House could come up with a comprehensive immigration solution.
Immigration reform is "an important issue that I think ought to be dealt with," Mr. Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said in an interview with Diane Sawyer on "ABC World News."
Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon offer bad policy and bad politics on immigration (RealClearPolitics) - 11/08/12
Over at RealClearPolitics, Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon offer bad advice, bad politics, and bad policy for the GOP.
From "21 Reasons for Obama's Victory and Romney's Defeat" ( peekURL.com/z48qntP ):
Ed Morrissey ready to capitulate on amnesty (Hot Air, immigration) - 11/07/12
Ed Morrissey of HotAir is ready to help the GOP deal itself a losing hand, and is trying to round up others.
Morrissey quotes ( peekURL.com/zSYJQs5 ) this from Jeff Poor of the Daily Caller:
Obama "confident" he'll get immigration amnesty in 2013 (will GOP, Teaparty block it?) - 10/24/12
In a previously-off the record interview with the Des Moines Register, Barack Obama had this to say about getting amnesty in 2013 (link):
Billionaire's ad warns about non-existent threat of socialism (Thomas Peterffy) - 10/13/12
Time for another edition of Billionaires Know Best.
This edition features an ad that Thomas Peterffy of Interactive Brokers (net worth over $4 billion) will spend $5 to $10 million running in swing states. In the ad (video below), the Hungarian-born Peterffy complains about, among other things, the non-existent threat of socialism.
First the transcript of the ad, followed by a discussion of why it's wrong:
Are whining Job Creators just big moochers? Are they patriotic? - 10/09/12
To help you answer those questions, take a look at the let's-defenestrate-noblesse-oblige letter (link) that a major Job Creator - the very rich timeshare magnate David Siegel of Westgate Resorts - sent to his employees, excerpts at [1]. He created the letter by editing an even more explicit similar letter from 2008 [2].
Why isn't Mitt Romney winning, when the GOP did everything right? - 09/14/12
It's less than two months to Election Day, but Mitt Romney is lagging behind while Barack Obama is pulling ahead in key states.
Allow me to channel the greatest thinkers of the GOP (e.g., peekURL.com/zHdnAfd ), the Romney campaign, and the conservative establishment and wonder what's going on?
Why isn't the GOP putting this one away?
GOP consultants: which Hispanic outreach approach is better? - 08/30/12
Here are some quick questions for GOP consultants, pundits, and other thought leaders. If you consult Republican politicians or are in a related field, please answer the questions below [1].
If that's not you, you can still help out by asking consultants the questions below.
If you're a consultant/pundit/etc., I'd like you to first take a look at these two approaches to Hispanic outreach:
Approach A:
The low level of Timothy Noah's reporting (TNR, GOP Convention) - 08/29/12
For an example of the low-level of Timothy Noah's reporting, first see the post about Jack Hitt of Harper's for the backstory.
GOP 2012 Platform on immigration - 08/29/12
The following are all of the excerpts in the GOP 2012 platform that mention immigration.
The entire text is available here: scribd.com/doc/104097929/Final-Language-GOP-Platform-2012
Is Jack Hitt credible? Find out. (Harpers, GOP convention chant, Zoraida Fonalledas, Puerto Rico, Ron Paul) - 08/29/12
Jack Hitt writes for Harpers Magazine and after this I'm going to take the other things he writes with a big grain of salt. He says:
What if Stand Up Florida were smart? (interrupts Marco Rubio at RNC convention; SEIU) - 08/28/12
The video below shows the SEIU-linked group "Stand Up Florida" ("SUF") [1] engaging in dumb behavior during a Marco Rubio speech at the GOP Convention [2]. Five protesters from that group stand up and start shouting assertions, which Rubio deftly handles.
GOP platform supports Arizona-style laws, but includes guest worker program - 08/21/12
First the good news about the newly-passed GOP platform. From [1]:
The official party position now reads that "State efforts to reduce illegal immigration must be encouraged, not attacked," and says the Department of Justice should immediately drop its lawsuits against controversial state immigration laws in Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah.
Guy Benson, Ace Mu Nu can't figure things out (Harry Reid, Romney) - 08/05/12
One of the major problems the GOP has is people who can't figure out how to do things the right way. In some cases I wouldn't care, but in many cases the dumb things the GOP does have an impact on the U.S. as a whole.
Texas 2012 GOP platform goes "liberal" on immigration (IRCOT, Koch) - 06/09/12
The Texas GOP has passed their 2012 platform, and it includes an immigration plank that some will present as somewhat "liberal" or "lenient".
In 1992, Democrats opposed mass immigration almost as much as Republicans - 06/04/12
The attached image is from a new Pew Research Center report about "partisan polarization" [1]. Back in 1992, 78% of Republicans agreed that "[w]e should restrict and control people coming into our country more than we do now". The percentages for independents and Democrats were nearly identical: 75% and 74% respectively.