links for 2010-12-23

Neither Republicans nor Democrats are saying much about the defeat of the DREAM Act. It seems most Democrats would rather not bring up one of the Obama "losses" during the lame-duck session of Congress; Republicans are too busy grousing that START opposition melted like butter. The reactions of both sides suggest that keeping the immigration issue alive rather than solving the problem is uppermost in the minds of politicians.
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E-Verify for Employers

Secure the border

No free ride visas for lefty technology companies who don't want to hire Americans who make too much

An America first immigration policy and hell to the corporations and unions that have screwed the American worker

Senate Democrats spent the lame-duck session slogging through endless motions to break filibusters, but they’re quietly maneuvering to curtail these Senate stall tactics — even though they’ll have a weaker caucus next year.

After weeks of closed-door meetings, Democratic reformers are pushing a handful of rules changes, including a simple majority to change Senate rules at the start of a Congress, a requirement for senators to actually filibuster when they’re filibustering and a push to get rid of anonymous holds.

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Please do since the GOP will take back the Senate in 2012 and Dems will be in the minority.

Lisa Murkowski isn’t gunning down caribou on national TV like that other famous Alaskan, but the Republican lawmaker is going rogue in the Senate just weeks after staging the most stunning back-from-the-dead political win of the 2010 cycle.

Murkowski is already showing a fierce independent streak, becoming the only Republican to cast votes on all four items on President Barack Obama’s wish list: a repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” a tax-cut compromise, the START deal and cloture for the DREAM Act.

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Murkowski is a Big Government RINO anyway. Shame she was re-elected.

But, when GOP takes over the Sente in 2012 she should have no plum committee assignments.

Uncertainty reigns in the race for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee despite the fact that the election to pick a new head for the party is now less than a month away.

Conversations with a number of strategists close to the RNC — and its 168 voting members — suggest that none of the six candidates in the running are anywhere close to securing the 85 votes they need to claim the chairmanship in January.

But, two tiers of candidates have begun to emerge with the top three seen as potential winners and the bottom three regarded as longer shots although, given the number of undecided voters and the unpredictability of the ballot process, it's hard to count anyone totally out at the moment.
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Anybody but Michael Steele is how I see it.