when you look at the way that it s starting in the senate now, there was a giant vote to move forward. giant vote, yes. you can go down the rabbit hole focusing on all the issues of the amendments. we don t know what s going to happen in the senate. everyone s guessing it s going to pass the senate. yes. are there changes that you see brewing in terms of what could happen to this legislation that you think would make it not worth it? is there anything you think is a game changer or game breaker you re worried about? this question of citizenship. this question of citizenship. a lot of the amendments coming to the floor right now are about, should there be a path to citizenship for people like me? all i know is in 21st century demographic america, there is no such thing as second class citizenship. and in many way it, our senators are only revealing themselves to history. when history comes down looking at grassley and jeff sessions of alabama what is it going to say? this is i
event to talk about the need for immigration reform to pass. and talking about it in a personal way. he s got his phone out there, what he s referring to on the phone is something he has brought out before when he talked about this issue, to make it personal. it s an 1850 poster that he says was a poster of advice to immigrants from ireland. which he says his ancestors read about life in america as they were trying to get to america. he s telling his personal story. also, nbc news reporting today that a group called republicans for immigration reform is about to start running ads in favor of reform. even targeting individual house republicans to persuade them to vote yes. a republican vote. a really mainstream republican group is doing that. if this happens, it s as big a deal as health reform or wall street reform, or anything else legislatively that s happened in this post bush and cheney era of politics. but weighing the prospects for whether or not it s all going to happen means pa
their 2013 is like everybody else s 2012. statewide job openings in this election year in virginia include governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. all the big ones. the republican party of virginia handpicked their candidates for those jobs this year. they scrapped the whole primary vote thing and used a convention to crown their candidates. that resulted in the off the hook far right slate of republican nominees they got themselves. larry sabido says this is the most right wing slate of republican candidates to run in the state ever. the dynamic ended up being, in the lieutenant governor s race, the guy on the right was very heavily favored to win the
awarded best interior design of any luxury brand. lease this 2013 cadillac srx for around $399 per month, with premium care maintenance included. republicans in the wisconsin senate today passed a mandatory ultrasound bill. look at what happened when they took the vote. the guy you will see completely losing his mind here is the republican president of the state senate presiding over the vote. his name is senator michael is. mike ellis. he s the guy in glasses. watch what happens when he forces through this vote on the forced ultrasound bill. watch this. i move the body vote immediately on the current question. the question before the house is nondebatable. the question before the house is nondebatable. the clerk will call the role. senator carpenter.
them with events like this and tapes like this that they re releasing pulling out all the stops. doing everything they can to make their case by giving this issue a face that makes it not just esoteric policy. it s not just the white house and not just immigrant communities who are making that case. the case including the personal case is now coming from some previously unexpected corners like this guy, congressman paul ryan. after the bill gets through the senate, it will go to the house. and republican house speaker john boehner spoke yesterday positively or at least not negatively about the possibility of reform passing the house, too. he hinted he might bring it up for a vote, even if it is mostly democrats in the house who support it, and only a minority of republicans. there s paul ryan today doing an