Downplaying Their Faults Is Pretty

Natural Texas Politicians Make Terrible, Terrible Presidential Candidates. Phil Gramm, I Remember The 'phil Gramm For President' Campaign. I Thought That Was The Worst Thing In The History Of The World, But Rick Perry Was Possibly Worse.

Until Eleanor Roosevelt, There Was Only One Or Two First Ladies In All Of American History Who Made An Impact, Who People Could Even Have Recognized Or Identified. And It's Really Only Been Since Jackie Kennedy That There's Been This Idea That The Family Life Of The President Is Such A Central Thing.

If Immigration Reform Passes, It'll Be A Big Victory For Sanity - Nobody Really Believes It's Healthy For A Country To Have Millions And Millions Of Undocumented Noncitizens Living In The Shadows. But It'll Also Be A Sign That The Republican Party Has Gotten Tired Of Letting The Tea Party Push It Around.

You Reduce Illegal Immigration By Making It Harder To Get Jobs Here, Or Easier To Get Jobs South Of The Border. This Idea That We Can't Pass An Immigration Law Until We Hit Some Imaginary Security Target Is Just A Way To Derail Reform.

The Whole Student Loan Thing Drives Me Completely Nuts. If It Wasn't Possible For 18-year-olds To Sign Themselves Up For Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars In Debt In Order To Pay Their College Bills, The State Governments Wouldn't Have Found It So Politically Easy To Cut Taxpayer Support For Public Colleges And Universities.