For starters, Republicans have to try. W did and got respectable if not outstanding results in his Texas races. If Romney did his coaching wasn't enough to avoid the self deportation line in the debates. Granted, the opposition sets these tripwires, but we haven't gained much ground convincing escapees from corrupt regimes that supporting the crooked party here is not the best way to escape the crooked regime back home.

And then there's Rubio's approach, lie to the stupid gringos about your amnesty bill while chatting about what losers they are with your staff. Such a shame, Biden said he was so clean and well-spoken.

I am against the death penalty on principle, with each execution the government eliminates potential evidence of the injustice of the verdict. And in the current joke setup we spend more on death row inmates than on lifers. On the other hand, I have seen my share of lame-brain pardons and appeal verdicts from the usual suspects to respect the value of putting monsters out of reach of the unuseful idiots who love them. And my advocacy against the death penalty is in inverse proportion to the evil and certainty attached to a case.

I take your point, and of course the lead in is intentionally provocative. Employment is a complex market, made moreso by distortions from machinations creating and supporting a permanent underclass. Points for consideration:

1. While underclasses are hardly a new development, they are anathema to the founding principles of the republic.
2. The minimum wage is a job destroying abomination. I will happily lock arms with you for its abolition. It is not proportionately applied to the imported underclass population or their employers.
3. The cost of employing in America legally, even in a right to work state, is inflated by any number of inherent liabilities incurred in the act, many invented or exacerbated by laws and regulations. Taxes, insurance, termination expenses, etcetera. The underclass, living below the radar, has access to jobs that violate our laws thanks to their own legal vulnerability. Meanwhile, the latest buffoonery, ObamaCare destroys jobs and businesses from sea to shining sea.

The very legislators that nourish the underclass cripple the citizen employee.

No question. Big business donors who own many legislators on both sides of the aisle pay Washington handsomely to maintain a cheap underclass work force. Rubio has picked a lucrative clientele. 

With this one idiotic bill Rubio has trashed and burned his reputation as a savvy outsider with grassroots cred and a razor sharp eye for all that is broken in Washington and linked his name forever to the insider's insider, the Plastic Man of reaching across the aisle, John McCain. Finally, Plaz has found a young heir to the faux Conservative crown. Let the republic weep.

This immigration bill is to immigration reform what the Obamacare bill was to healthcare. "Comprehensive," broken in every particular, and lacking the very features Rubio cites as strengths. Obama has been a bad influence on Rubio, teaching him that a bold lie is better than a hard truth. Even Obama is starting to receive some comeuppance now that our cowardly, lackwit press has found itself on the receiving end of the Regime's War on Everyone and Everything.

Rubio has done everything he needed to to assure his status as a media darling and yet another inside the Beltway fop. I wipe my feet of him. 

This is so far removed from the sort of substantive debate we hear from Epstein, Yoo, and Senik and other Ricochet podcasters, or Coffee & Markets, that I'm not even going to score it. JP has offered far sounder arguments for his opinion in more serious forums and JT ably wields an awfully big sledge pointing out the American experience with QE solutions. 

But the QEs have been different in structure, both from each other and from their historical predecessors, and their effects have been swamped by enough legislative and regulatory mischief to argue that the first step to solvency is to dissolve the federal government. By the time the federal government had recapitalized their favored lenders to restore liquidity, Dodd-Frank, to mention one, introduced federal penalties for making the bad loans that federal legislation had been penalizing banks for not making for a generation. And then there's the problem of an unstable velocity of money. It turns out that the number of tomes the same dollar is spent a year has a huge impact on the economy. When the government is demonstrably incompetent, the velocity slows and the engine seizes. Instant karma, better than animal spirits.

Jebby was stupid several different ways.

Biological infertility is the general use of the term among American adults, the statistical definition is an obscurantist one. So this was a racist slight against wigglers and ova of this great nation. He was not addressing a high school demography club. Full buffoon points for this alone.

As the remaining aspirant to high office in a family that inherited the Reagan legacy and turned it to ash, he bears a familial legacy of steadfastly not turning back the invading drug cartels, murderers, assassins, rapists, Marxists, and freeloaders that have washed in on a sea of federal indifference since the Reagan Amnesty.

Said family also being notorious for it's patristic approach to politics that brooks no organized defense or, heaven forfend, sale and marketing of their proposed federal policies. Combine with the philosophy that a "legacy" of public service involves widening the federal role in a somewhat less utterly broken way than their train wreck spewing opposition, and you've gone a long way toward explaining the expenses driving the average age of the American mothers in the direction of 40. 

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Didn't we used to have one of those?

Given that the last Iranian Presidential election was a rigged game to avoid a similar result that included murder and mayhem on the part of the "victors", this is cheerful news indeed. Meet you back here in a year to assess the aftermath.

There is a distinction to be made between jobs Americans won't do and jobs that our bloated government succubus has sucked out of the above ground economy, in imitation of their European counterparts.

And this "best" Bush is ill-advised to use the statisticians' definition of fertility with a mainstream audience that may take it that he is denigrating their wigglers. Not very bright, politically. In this case, the fertility difference is the skew as families assimilate from a society where scarcity is the norm and children are the retirement security to one where children reduce material affluence and retirement security is a more complex question with children only a part of the equation.

Bush draws his support from Big Business at a time when the grassroots are demanding representation and the Republican leadership in Washington is actively despised, and for good reason, by the rank and file. And Speaker Boehner's proud announcement that the Tea Party Caucus is dead at  the opening of this 113th Congress, at the apex of a massive federal effort to harass and suppress the movement in bold defiance of the Constitution, will be remembered long after this GOP leadership is flushed.

Seriously? Better to give an organ away when selling it might mean educating your children, medical and retirement care for your parents, a second dress for the missus? For a deceased donor, it might mean a family otherwise suddenly deprived of a breadwinner can afford job training, mortgage security, or even a little time away from work to recover from the sudden blow. The "windfalls" will not always be attractive, but Richard Epstein has made an excellent case that the opportunity costs, paid in suffering, pain, and death every day, is itself an unnecessary, intolerable, and inhuman burden. 

The absurdities and idiocies of the current organ donation system have been brilliantly cataloged by Dr. Epstein in Ricochet conversations, Ricochet Podcasts, and articles and papers on the web. 

Egypt? Seriously? Obama has converted the heart of the Arab world from a reluctant but mostly reliable ally into a total wildcard run by a Muslim Brotherhood known for a long history of working hand in hand with the mullahs in Iran, and running terror and colonization operations in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. 

The only question remaining is whether Obama's US is a useful idiot or a fellow traveller.

The NSA and IRS scandals complement each other nicely, actually. They tell us the massive NSA data dragnet is just peachy because our selfless civil servants commute on angels' wings each day, and the IRS goose stepping is no problem because it was just a few of Constitutionalists, patriots, and jews, nobody honest hard working Americans care about. 

These two matter because Dems in solid blue states are starting to wind back their unqualified support for their dear leader. 

And the AP and Fox scandals matter because the lap dog media has been bit in the whatsits after sitting on it for over five years.

Imagine that, the Tea Party was right all along. What next?

The Regime is murdering a 10 year old by indifference and no one in the media is highlighting the irony of the "for the children" party behaving thus. 

Not to mention that this is a classic case of misregulation. It is the doctors' concern what the parameters are for compatibility of an organ for a given patient, not the usual suspects at HHS.

Coming soon: the Syrian Campaign! Change the topic! Turn the page! Drop the documents on Friday!

It is morally imperative that we invade Syria with all due haste. Have you seen the news? Have you noticed the polls? Our beloved One is under fire! 55% of Americans now believe that the federal government is a threat to them! How can we complete our transformation and embrace our own glorious revolution if the One is defamed by defenders of that quaint albeit ridiculous Constitution?

We must embrace the cause of the Syrian people and prepare the way for our blessed brothers the Muslim Brotherhood to bring the same bliss and wisdom to Syria that they have brought forth in Egypt and Palestine and Lebanon!

Agree! Agree! Or we will audit thee!