Long pilloried for being soft on illegal immigration, top Democratic officials have concluded there’s only one way they can hope to pass a comprehensive immigration bill:

Talk more like Republicans.

They’re seizing on the work of top Democratic Party operatives who, after a legislative defeat in 2007, launched a multiyear polling project to craft an enforcement-first, law-and-order, limited-compassion pitch that now defines the party’s approach to the issue.
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No matter how much the DEM LEFT sugracoats illegal immigration, they support amnesty.
The 12 million people who unlawfully reside the country? Call them “illegal immigrants,” not “undocumented workers,” the pollsters say.

Brown boasted about his legendary frugality. "I've only spent $200,000 so far. I have 20 million in the bank. I'm saving up for her." It's true – his stay-on-the-sidelines, bare-bones primary run cost him almost nothing, at least in California political terms. But he also fretted about the impact of all those eBay dollars in Whitman's very deep pockets. "You know, by the time she's done with me, two months from now, I'll be a child-molesting…" He let the line trail off. "She'll have people believing whatever she wants about me." Then he went off on a riff I didn't expect.

"It's like Goebbels," referring to Hitler's notorious Minister of Propaganda. "Goebbels invented this kind of propaganda. He took control of the whole world. She wants to be president. That's her ambition, the first woman president. That's what this is all about."
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Jerry Brown is a SENILE fruitcake

Since this photo surfaced the other day and the kiddies on the left suggested Sarah Palin may have had some breast augmentation, much amusement and discussion has followed, with even the guttersnipes at Media Matters getting their panties in a knot.

Well thanks to tipster Mark, we can now lay this absurd rumor to rest. As can be seen in this photo taken in Kuwait in July 2007, more than a year before most people ever heard of her, they're all real, baby.
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Wow!

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) was injured by a mohair goat on Thursday during a press conference to highlight subsidies to the mohair industry.
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Uh Oh!
The goat nicked Weiner's right hand with one of its pointy, foot-long horns, hard enough to draw blood.

Weiner was speaking to reporters in a park near the Rayburn House Office Building, where he was joined by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and two young male mohair goats, Lancelot and Arthur.

In the election itself, the Republican right was repudiated by its own voters in California's last closed primary at virtually every level. Look at the endorsements of the California Republican Assembly and the results:

Governor: Steve Poizner – Lost 27 to 64 percent
Lt Governor: Sam Aanestad – Lost 31 to 43 percent
Attorney General: John Eastman – Lost 34 to 47 percent
Proposition 14: No – Republicans voted yes
US Senate: Chuck DeVore – Ran third with only 19 percent

So the Republican electorate gave the right wing candidates on average about 30 percent of the GOP primary vote. The CRA suffered a personal repudiation when its former president, Ken Mettler, was crushed 27 to 68 percent in an Assembly primary.
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The Far Right has lost touch with California voters and they were repudiated for more mainstream candidates

Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) isn't going back to the Senate next year after losing his bid for renomination, but he wants a hand in selecting who will take his seat.

Bennett will endorse business consultant Tim Bridgewater (R), according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Bennett joins 2 other candidates in backing Bridgewater, who faces attorney Mike Lee (R) in the June 22 primary.
Bridgewater has support from most of the UT GOP establishment, while Lee has backing from Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-SC) Senate Conservatives Fund and FreedomWorks, the conservative group closely affiliated with Tea Party movements. The Club for Growth spent about $177K in defeating Bennett, but they haven't picked a candidate in the primary between Bridgewater and Lee.
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Payback time for Bennett.