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Friday, February 3, 2017
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Rush Limbaugh says there was zero immigration into the US after 1920, but of course that wasn't true
Relative to other periods it was practically zero, in other words quite neglible.
Between 1930 and 1950, legal immigration never exceeded 250,000 a year, and plunged to 23,000+ in 1933 and 1943.
The worst presidential administration for legal immigration in the post-war is George Herbert Walker Bush's. In fiscal 1991 he let in over 1.8 million
You can examine the interactive chart, here.
Gee, Chris Plante is as smart as Barack Obama
Just like Barack, he just said "forebearers" when he meant "forebears".
And I'll bet Chris didn't even go to Harvard Law.
Which just goes to show that a poor education doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg.
Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Liza Meercowskie of Alaska get bitchy, won't vote for Betsy DeVos for EDSEC
Trump's entitled to his appointments, no matter what anyone says, unless of course one of them is Charles Manson.
Get on with it already girls. You are wasting our time and our money, just like Democrats.
The 1250 "refugees" in Australia aren't refugees, they're illegal immigrants Obama agreed to take
Ann Corcoran has been all over this from the beginning last November, here.
She calls it another dirty deal Obama made late in his tenure, part of the continuing revolution don't you know.
Mary Matalin, who bailed on the Republicans last year, is stunned by how much Trump is accomplishing
Here:
It is just stunning what he is getting done, and his people are getting done. And because they are doing it with such authority... they are, it is a complete breakthrough to a new kind of politics we haven't seen since our founding.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Trump's nominee for the Supremes is good as far as it goes
But honestly, if Trump were really dreaming big he would have made three appointments to the highest court, not just one.
Seriously. The Supremes could get so much more nonsense settled with the extra help.
Republicans develop a spine, advance nominees Mnuchin and Price without Democrats who are boycotting the process
From the story here:
By unanimous consent, the Republicans gathered in the hearing room agreed to change the committee’s standing rules, which normally require at least one member of each party to be in attendance for committee work to proceed.
“It’s just another way of roughing up the president’s nominees,” said committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). “They have been treated fairly. We have not been treated fairly.”
Republicans made the unusual move after Democrats refused to attend a vote on the nominees for two days running, arguing the pair had made misleading statements to lawmakers that needed to be rectified.
The Biden Rule: No nominee for a Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year is in keeping with the past practice of a majority
Senator Joe Biden in 1992, here:
But in a speech on the Senate floor in June 1992, Mr. Biden, then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said there should be a different standard for a Supreme Court vacancy “that would occur in the full throes of an election year.” The president should follow the example of “a majority of his predecessors” and delay naming a replacement, Mr. Biden said. If he goes forward before then, the Senate should wait to consider the nomination.
“Some will criticize such a decision and say that it was nothing more than an attempt to save a seat on the court in hopes that a Democrat will be permitted to fill it, but that would not be our intention,” Mr. Biden said at the time. “It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is underway, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over.
“That is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process. Otherwise, it seems to me,” he added, “we will be in deep trouble as an institution.”
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Biased Neil Swidey article in Boston Globe never tells you how the Democrats' Immigration Act of 1965 flooded the country with non-Europeans
He just slides right over that part of the history, here, and never mentions Operation Wetback under Eisenhower, either:
In 1850, 9.7 percent of the US population was foreign-born, according to the Pew Research Center. By 1890, it had jumped to 14.8 percent, spurring Hall into action. In 1920, though, that figure began its steady drop, and by 1970 it had plummeted to 4.7 percent.
By 2015, fueled largely by surging immigration from Latin America, it had rebounded to 13.7 percent, nearly the same level that Hall had found so intolerable at the start of his crusade.
But you can figure it out from this graph, which clearly shows the flood in (non-European) immigration after 1965:
In 1850, 9.7 percent of the US population was foreign-born, according to the Pew Research Center. By 1890, it had jumped to 14.8 percent, spurring Hall into action. In 1920, though, that figure began its steady drop, and by 1970 it had plummeted to 4.7 percent.
By 2015, fueled largely by surging immigration from Latin America, it had rebounded to 13.7 percent, nearly the same level that Hall had found so intolerable at the start of his crusade.
But you can figure it out from this graph, which clearly shows the flood in (non-European) immigration after 1965:
Ann Coulter hates Hardiman for Supremes, so if he's the nominee and Dems stop his confirmation . . .
. . . mission accomplished.
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