Hapless Harry is really pushing the envelope of unelectability.

And he just killed hispanics voting for Dems in the midterms; boy, the Dems really know how to piss people off.

Just as well. I’m not sure Harry could pass any “reform” that didn’t include a new fence, a national id card, and requirements that doctors and hospitals report undocumented patients to the INS.

Boxturtle (Anybody think Harry could do any better?)

Pop quiz: What do the following have in common?

1. Impeachment
2. Single-payer
3. Public option
4. Immigration reform

Hint: it rhymes with “cough on the navel”.

The corporations which own the congress have told the Democrats that it’s time for Republicans to take control again. That’s the only thing that makes sense because nobody is this politically obtuse

The Senate should be able to drag financial reform out until after the elections.

According to The Washington Post, officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement were so eager to drive up the number of deportations beyond the level they were in Bush’s last year that they set quotas and spelled out how agents could meet them.

I can’t wait for Gutless Harry to lose his election. Unfortunately, the idiot fucking Dems will only make someone even more useless and conservative the Majority Leader.

It appears that some single-issue groups aren’t yet familiar with the other side of Harry Reid’s mouth.

The Art of Demotivation: Chairman Edition. Now playing in Corporations Legislative Bodies Everywhere. Privilege Has Its Privileges(TM)

Reid deserves to lose, maybe, but he won’t.

A few weeks ago, senators Kerry and Schumer had a behind-the-scenes arm wrestling match on whether the climate/energy bill or immigration bill would be on deck on the Senate’s calendar, after financial reform. The climate bill won.

It’s better strategy to get the climate bill done asap and take up the immigration bill during the late summer/fall, just in time to mobilize the Latino base and to expose teabaggers as the racists that they are.

Both the climate bill and immigration reform bill will be done…not as well as we might like, not as quickly as we might like, but they will be done.

I voted today in the Republican primary to get rid of the creationist contingent in the Texas State Board of Education, but I don’t really feel like I live in a democratic society. I don’t know what it is, but we seem to have minimal control over our government. Harry Reid needs to be put on his fucking ass. He should have been a long time ago. But we don’t have the democratic mechanisms for doing so. This needs to change. But I don’t know how that will ever happen. It’s a catch-22.

Immigration reform is the way forward: time to pass a national version of Proposition 187. And remove birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. That’s the kind of reform we need!

“It’s such a miserable way to make cash that Cerberus and its fellow oligopolists have resorted to setting up plasma-sucking franchises along the U.S.-Mexico border, which have mushroomed like Starbucks Coffee did in the ’90s.” -from “Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions” – from “Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions” (hattip Gitcheegumee)

Pesky parasites for 5, Dave? (hattip Gary Larson)

I think we are living at the end of a kind of socioeconomic-political Cretaeous age. Consider not resisting the “wuzzie line“. Don’t stop doing your part to be conscious and improve things for yourself and the collective. We’ve all got choices at the personal level. Job #1 is detaching from then shutting down the DeathStar Casino.

Well, surprise surprise. I wonder why. Pretty odd thing to have happen randomly out of the blue, in the middle of a process with no final decision, eh? Amazing, it came within 48 hours of Reid publicly advocating taking up a policy issue Rham has made it clear he doesn’t want to see addressed. It’s not just GOPpers this issue puts on the spot, but also Rham’s expanding conservative blue dogs.

He was my Senator for over a decade. I know you guys don’t see it, but the White House and Reid are involved in some serious hardball right now. From where I sit, he is the only one giving Rham any flack at all. I don’t see how we can blame Reid if all the “progressives” back the WH in the demand nothing be done. Like HCR, he can either escalate to open war with the WH lacking a broad consensus in the caucus or stay in the game and wait for an opportunity to land a punch. If you want Reid to be “strong” – democrats have got to start siding with him over Rham/Obama, he doesn’t have the power to impose unilateral decisions and isn’t going to wage a party-damaging fight that is impossible to win.

So long as his image is burnished for 2012, Obama really doesn’t give a fuck if the party is destroyed. This gives Rham the same tactical advantage as a suicide bomber. IMO, consistently tearing Reid down is one of the best things that could happen for Rham’s agenda. Any way it goes, I don’t see how the WH methodology won’t lead to some serious institutional resentment in the long run. Obama can’t just keep ruling by smashing his own people in the mouth forever, another shoe is bound to drop at some point.

(I know, this goes against consensus disdain, but that’s my view).

Oh, surely the closer Congress gets to the midterms the more likely they’ll tackle comprehensive immigration reform. It’s a winning issue for Democrats and puts the GOP in a tough spot, so I can’t see Harry Reid, in his strategic genius, wanting to touch it in 2010.

Here in the Sonoran Desert or for my affectation of ChicanoLandia, Harry Reid is identical to Barack Obama in that both cater to the “lowest common denominator” and in the instance of Immigration Reform, that is the white folks in our America. So, when I see and hear “progessives” casting me as a “wedgie issue” relative to the ballot box, I am not impressed one iota.

With the Affordable Care Act, Chicanos were happy to accept this legislation with the reality that this lowest common denominator is held on high and praised by the many who have yet come to realize that the Democrats in Congress are incapable of any clear thinking. And immigration reform will undergo this usual and assorted regimen for this fallacy for the lowest common denominator.

Obviously, Jane Hamsher is correct in her concern for establishing a new dialectal, but it will never come to fruition, when I am denigrated to the back bench for the “wedgie”.

I’m done talking about this. The idea that immigration reform is going to get a vote in 2010 is ludicrous, no matter what ANYBODY says.

Unfortunately, the idiot fucking Dems will only make someone even more useless and conservative the Majority Leader.

There has to exist a different description of Harry’s Apolitical behavior as describing him as conservative would imply a minimalist of Ideology.

Reid deserves to lose, maybe, but he won’t.

yep, I saw the sun rise in the west this morning also

You CIP’s and BBL’s all seem to want “reform”, that you never actually get around to defining. Why is that? I want “reform” to. Lets “round up” all people in this country illegally, and send them back to their country of origin. If they return again, illegally, put them in a work prison. Another reform would be to place a moratorium on any new immigration from central and south America. I would allow those people from those area’s, who are already “standing in line” to be “fast tracked” into this country, as they have demonstrated their willingness to “abide” by our laws. I would also expand the “quota’s” for those from Africa and Asia who want to immigrate to this country, legally. This way, we assure ourselves of a “better mix” of people coming into this country. I would “streamline” the process for people who what to immigrate here, but with the provision that they must be self sustaining within the first year, or they lose their spot in the immigration chain. Right now, those people illegally coming to this country our taking “slots” that should be used by those willing to abide by our laws.

Can you tell me what “immigration reform” are you talking about? What exactly will be reformed? Will it stop the flow of illegals? Will it punish those who employ illegals? “Reform” is a nice “buzz-word” but it really doesn’t tell anyone anything about what you mean by reform. Arizona seems to have “reformed” their immigration policy, lately. I see from Drudge, they will now round up all illegals and deport them. I think that that is the kind of “reform” most American’s want.

So, I gather from the lack of response, none of you CIP’s or BBL’s actually have a reform plan?