As the vote on immigration nears, unsurprisingly the spotlight has been become brighter and the debate more intense.  Marco Rubio (R-FL), the highest profile conservative in the Gang of 8, has had a dramatic new opponent in his former close ally Jim DeMint, head of the Heritage Foundation. Meanwhile, Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL) have been spearheading an attempt to try to drown the bill in ...

Republicans are refusing to learn the lessons of the last election, failing to put adequate support behind an immigration deal at the outset of Washington’s new hot debate, immigration, that would enable them to address the deep issues with Latino voters they’ve created. It lends validity to the accusation society thrust upon this party when they explicitly rejected them in November: The GOP is becoming the ...

Recently, John Cornyn (R-TX) addressed Dream Action Coalition in the Houston Chronicle regarding our recent op-Ed piece in the same paper.  While this is a much more measured response than the original “Complete bs” tweet we received earlier in the week, we still feel that the Senator misses the point on immigration. To quote an article DRM wrote earlier this year (Chuck Schumer, Border Fences and Immigrati ...

Jeff Sessions is on the shortlist of people who are fighting the national wing of the Republican Party’s agenda to rebrand itself amongst Latinos effectively enough to completely end the momentum they’ve built since November.  Coming off the gun debate after being the party that filibustered background checks with roughly 86% approval that may have helped prevent the Boston bomber from outgunning police, th ...