GOP opposition to DREAM a hot Sunday topic
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by kos
Mon Dec 20, 2010 at 06:08:04 PM PST

Not that they care what anyone thinks about them, but taking a baseball bat to innocent kids didn't play well on Sunday.

NBC’s ANDREA MITCHELL: The dumbest thing that the Republicans did was the DREAM Act. … that is going to turn out to be a real setback for Republicans because these are people who wanted to serve in the military and get educated and contribute to the society.

NEWARK, NJ MAYOR CORY BOOKER: To tell people who’ve been through high school, high school presidents going on to college some of the best brains who have no relation to their home country. This is crazy. It’s hurting America.

GOP STRATEGIST MARK MCKINNON: The Republican Party has got to recognize Hispanics are the huge growing demographic in this country. … We gotta send the right signal to Hispanics in this country in addition to the fact that it’s the right policy.

FOX NEWS’ JUAN WILLIAMS: The one thing that I regret…is the defeat of the DREAM Act for the immigrants and the immigrant kids. I just think, again, Republicans play politics with real lives, real people, real aspirations and they leave the immigration issue on the table when that’s the real business of the American people.

Any Republican interested in having his or her party remain a viable national party into the next several decades has to be cringing at this vote. While the asshole caucus blocking this included five Democrats, the brunt of the political fallout will be born by Republicans, who voted -- on live national Latino TV -- to punish children for transgressions they didn't commit.

One could point to the strong family tradition in the Latino community, but when it comes to kids, there's no culture that doesn't viscerally recoil at violence against kids. And this vote was, in effect, an act of violence against kids -- destroying their ability to serve their nation or educate themselves, all the while threatening to physically remove them from the only country they call home.

Republicans have short-term advantages -- the shitty economy, a demobilized Democratic base, and the Citizens United ruling that allows them unprecedented access to unlimited corporate funds. But just like a culture the GOP can't control, so too will demographic changes continue to erode their inherent advantages.

That's what everyone says, when they get their ass kicked!

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