BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

Teddy Kennedy

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In October, 2000, if you had predicted a George W. Bush presidency would include the Vice President lobbying the Senate for the right to torture people, you would have been called an alarmist nutjob. If you had predicted the President, himself, would threaten to veto any legislation that curbed torture of prisoners [...]

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Apparently oblivious to the breathtaking irony of the moment, The Decider sent forth the Snowman with this edict:
“What the president has said all along is that he wants to make sure that people who become American citizens have a command of the English language,” Snow said. “It’s as simple as that.” (Um, sure, Tony)

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You didn’t think this immigration “crisis” was real. You knew it had a manufactured feel to it. You couldn’t quite put your finger on it, but there was something unsaid, some real reason for all the sudden commotion, that had nothing to do with stealing jobs or draining resources.
True, it served well as [...]

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None of the arguments in favor of coming down hard on undocumented immigrants rings true. They all seem to have undercurrents of manufactured fear and unacknowledged racism.
People fool themselves that their only concern is for the rule of law, the letter of the law – even though most of these same people aren’t quite [...]

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I’ve avoided the immigration debate until now because it seemed like such a futile argument. Nobody’s changing anyone’s mind and the whole thing had such a manufactured quality to it that I expected someone to jump up and yell “SUCKA!!!!” if I took the bait.
But over at Democratic Underground, AztecGringo put an irresistibly human [...]

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