The Absurd Report

A number of photos were taken at yesterday’s Dallas illegal immigrant protest, including this one of a Democrat recruitment flyer encouraging Mexican immigrants to vote for Democrats in 2006.

The fact that the Dems are recruiting at these protests isn’t a surprise. It fits into their big picture of race and politics (which is why the flyer’s visual puts Texas and Mexico together). The Democrats classify people based upon race and then work to corner the racial voting collectives. At this point, the white vote is already split down the middle, half voting Democrat, half Republican. The Dems have cornered the black voting collective with over 90% voting Democratic. If Democrats manage to corner the Hispanic vote like they have cornered the black vote, Republicans won’t win the White House for a very long time. This is the Democrats’ dream,….

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Why The Democrats Suck By Marc Cooper

Kevin Drum, among many others, are struggling to refute the notion (raised in my blog posting below this one) that Harry Reid and the Democratic Senate leadership are primarily responsible for unnecessarily scuttling the immigration reform compromise of last week.

Let me begin my counter-rebuttal by saying that I fully understand Drum’s (and Reid’s) logic and, in fact, I concede that what the Senate Democrats did is completely coherent and consistent with their record on this issue (and their behavior in general).

Quickly summarizing the Drum/Reid argument: After a bi-partisan Senate majority agreed on an immigration compromise last Thursday night, Reid sensed that he and the Dems were being suckered into a Republican trap. They were worried that Bill Frist would allow an almost unlimited of amendments from hard-right wingers that could distort the intent of the bill. And even though those could be defeated on the floor, the compromise — it is argued– would be turned into something noxious when it went back to the House for conference. That’s certainly likely and even probable. When the conference version would eventually come back to the Senate for re-ratification — perhaps in unacceptable form– the Democrats would then be forced to vote against it. They would look weak on the issue of border enforcement and would have fallen right into Frist’s trap right on the eve of the mid-term elections. So goes the argument. That’s why at the last moment, on Friday, Reid employed parliamentary maneuvers to block a vote.

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