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In reply to the discussion: Went to Home Depot this weekend to return an incorrectly purchased item. [View all]SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Matter of fact it's been my experience that when you back them into a corner with facts they double down on the lunacy.
Funny, but since the election I have yet to see one far right lunatic actually admit that it's their policies that lost the election.
Rep Peter King actually said the Republicans have a MANDATE since they didn't lose the house.
I have seen Grover Norquist claim that they lost because Obama said Romney was a "poopyhead".
I have seen pundits and tea baggers claim that if they want to win more elections they need to move further to the right.
I saw this, said today by Ruben Navarrette a conservative latino columnist:
"When the media talk about the imminent arrival of comprehensive-immigration reform, this is what is generally assumed: Supposedly, the tuneup to our immigration system that President George W. Bush first talked about at the White House with Mexican President Vicente Fox in September 2001 is a done deal. Were told: Democrats want it, and Republicans need it.
The assessment is half right. The Republicans need it. But the Democrats dont really want it. Theyve never really wanted it. They only say they want it to trick Latinos and immigration-reform advocates into voting for them again and again.
Which is why reform probably wont happen. Well have a debate but no solution will emerge from it.
So why dont Democrats want comprehensive-immigration reform? For the same five reasons that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid teamed up in 2006 and 2007 with the nativist wing of the Republican Party to kill bipartisan bills and, in 2010, helped scuttle the DREAM Act a mini-legalization program for college students and military."
Yes according to this nutcase Harry Reid killed immigration reform (while claiming to be for it so he could trick the latino voters) while the poor poor powerless Republicans couldn't do anything about it.
Go ahead, convince him of "reality".