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It’s the stone racists’ party. People like Paul are just guests in their house.
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Like the vast majority of knee-jerk conservatives, Rand Paul fails to note that the influx of children from Central America is totally unconnected to the Dreamers relief that Obama created, which only applies to children brought here years ago and raised as Americans.
This is just more proof that Senator Poodlerug is woefully lacking in all the qualities needed in a presidential candidate—let alone an actual president.
But he does pander to the rabid/racist GOP base very skillfully—which is the only skill he seems to have mastered fully.
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More GOP “outreach to minorities”, Randy Paul style.
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Right wingers believe that people in Central America are sending these kids because they have a garbled and reductive understanding of the Dreamer policy and mistakenly believe that if they get a kid across the border, he or she becomes a permanent resident. And there is at least anecdotal evidence that many of the parents sending these kids do, in fact, believe something more or less like that.
What’s crazy is the idea that we can control how other people in other countries misinterpret our policies.
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Rand Paul seems to have a pattern of saying things to appease the base, but scare off everyone else. When the latter group confronts him, he denies those statements and assumes no one will notice or care.
This strategery may work in a mid-term when no one is really paying attention, but it will crush him in 2016 when people are paying attention.
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Not sure how exactly Reid is blocking a vote in the Senate on a bill that was passed the day before Congress went on recess. Is Paul suggesting Reid call the Senate back in session to hold a vote on a bill he knows will not pass and for which he doesn’t want to be on the record as actually taking a stand he knows will be used against him? I think he’s more comfortable running away from Dreamers at podunk state fairs and trying to convince people he didn’t say and do things he said and did. Rand is a pathological liar.
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In my experience, it’s Republicans who misunderstand US policy—not Central American parents.
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If they’re seeking “refuse” in the U.S. they won’t be disappointed, we have plenty of it. Including Sen. Paul.
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He’s given up on browns, but he’s still trying to appeal to blacks with his criticisms of the militarization of Ferguson, as well as his interest in mitigating drug and sentencing laws. I don’t think that’s gonna work, given the toxicity of the R brand among the black population, but I’ll give him credit that he can do the basic math of a possible strategy to win the presidency, which is not true of some of the other candidates.
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“go a long way” to mitigating the problem of thousands of Central American countries seeking refuse " Is this a freudian slip or poor proof reading?
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I’m supportive of the House bill and I think it will go a long way to fixing the problem," Paul told Breitbart.com,
a conservative website. "But like everything else, nothing good has
happened because Sen[ate Majority Leader Harry] Reid has decided that
he’s not going to allow any votes on any bills this year because he’s
protecting his members who are vulnerable in the election—he’s
protecting them from any kind of votes. … This is a problem with a
number of issues—there’s been almost no votes on any bills this year
because they’re [the Democrats are] frankly afraid of letting their
members vote in public.
Somebody remind the Kentucky flip flop that the Senate already passed it’s comprehensive immigration reform bill and there’s likely enough votes in the House to pass the Senate version as-is
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It’s one of those silly mistakes that the built-in spellchecker won’t catch. As long as TPM’s credo is “Copy editors? We don’t need no stinking copy editors”, they are likely to continue to be a significant part of the TPM textscape. Copy editors would only slow down the click bait on the way to the front page.
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The antithesis of libertarianism. But hypocrisy is never a problem so long as you hate Obama.
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