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tosh

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Fri Nov 21, 2014, 11:36 AM Nov 2014

AJC's Jay Bookman: On immigration reform, next move is the GOP’s

Memo: To congressional Republicans

Subject: Immigration

I hear you’re angry?

Yawn. Everything angers you. And when anger is a permanent condition, it loses whatever emotional impact it might once have had on others. Nobody fears it any more.

Yet clearly, that anger has become very very important to you. You keep it at blast-furnace levels, turning daily to Rush and Hannity and Breitbart and Fox News to stoke it with more fuel, whether legitimate or imagined it doesn’t seem to matter. Just make it burn. And the truth is that you’ve been angry about a lot of things for a lot of years, most of which have nothing to do with Barack Obama, although he sure does make a convenient target for it."

more at http://jaybookman.blog.ajc.com/2014/11/21/on-immigration-reform-next-move-is-the-gops/

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Jay says it so very, very well.

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