I like Eugene. Here he is telling it like it is.

Activists for Latino and immigrant rights — and supporters of sane governance — held weekend rallies denouncing the new law and vowing to do everything they can to overturn it. But where was the Tea Party crowd? Isn’t the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a grave threat to individual freedom? It seems to me that a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim — and requiring legal residents to carry identification documents, as in a police state — would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and might speak Spanish?

Watch this. And that may be the only SNL bit I show you in awhile.

“This week, Arizona signed the toughest illegal immigration law in the country which will allow police to demand identification papers from anyone they suspect is in the country illegally. I know there’s some people in Arizona worried that Obama is acting like Hitler, but could we all agree that there’s nothing more Nazi than saying “Show me your papers?” There’s never been a World War II movie that didn’t include the line “show me your papers.” It’s their catchphrase. Every time someone says “show me your papers,” Hitler’s family gets a residual check. So heads up, Arizona; that’s fascism. I know, I know, it’s a dry fascism, but it’s still fascism.”

– Seth Meyers

Marc Ambinder seriously wants to know if conservatives have lost their minds.

Hang on a second. Here ya go.

The GOP is now making a historical reference to Guy Fawkes and themselves. A little more background here.

Let’s put it this way. Guy Fawkes tried to kill the King of England and all of Parliament.

So, in short, the GOP wants to link themselves to a concept of, let’s be honest, the equivalent of killing President Obama and blowing up the Capitol.

It’s there in the historical record. The one they want to tie themselves to. They want to assassinate any member of our government they don’t agree with.

Smart.

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Robert Reich makes a no-nonsense and obvious point about entitlement funding, if you just spend a few minutes looking over the data. Immigrants have nurtured and strengthened our nation in the past and they’ll continue to do so, no matter what the color of their skin or language they came hear speaking.

What’s weird is how acceptable the argument is. I just got done reading Geraldo Rivera’s The Great Progression and he made basically the same argument in one of his chapters. Why was I reading that book? Well, I’ve promised myself to try to read some socio-political books of folks I don’t really agree with. Reading any O’Reilly or – gasp! – Coulter or Malkin seemed to be useless. I at least share some skin color with Rivera so it seemed a good start. And, frankly, when he’s not spouting anti-union, anti-progressive rhetoric he’s been brainwashed with, he’s the kind of Republican you can at least agree to disagree with, and even agree on some common sense ideas. Like the immigration issue.

Palin: still an idiot and a liar.

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History truly does repeat itself.

Another example of why I still refuse to give a dime to NPR. This morning on the drive in to work, I listened to this piece of shit reporting which tried to make anti-government militias soft and cuddly. Awww. No, actually, they want to violently overthrow the government. Period. I don’t give a damn if they *do* honestly want to help the police once in awhile. Most of their time is spent training how to kill said policemen and other law and defense personnel.

Just the other day, Talking Points Memo hosted an article on how Tea Bagging Traitors are trying to paint a happy face on their racist, secessionist hate prop. At least TPM is aware of what kind of sham argument that is. I mean the Tea Bag candidate for governor of New York state is a lover of racism, pornography, bestiality. The Oklahoma Tea Party isn’t happy with just trying to gain success at the ballot box, it also wants to stock up on guns and ammo and form a militia.

But hey, that’s nothing on Virginia, which demands that you and I honor and commemorate the racists and traitors of the Confederacy.

Traitors get hung. Racists are wrong. Both need to know they are agents of hate and evil and are clearly non-American. Coddling these behaviors and making them feel credible will do nothing to better any of us.

Frank Rich is absolutely right in this week’s article. We live in a culture where no one actually apologizes and everything that goes wrong is magically someone else’s fault.

We have to do a better job with the next generation because the one before us really blows.