National Waffler Service Watch

Daily Kos' Bill in Portland Maine gives us the National Waffler Service and its Mitt Romney Base Abandonment WATCH for Willard's waffling on the new non-deportation of undocumented youth policy:

ATTENTION REPUBLICANS:

The National Waffler Service has issued a Mitt Romney Base Abandonment WATCH effective immediately in the following area: Immigration.

[Yesterday] morning on CBS, Mitt Romney was asked five times whether he would continue Obama’s new policy on immigration, ending deportations for DREAM-eligible youth. Romney flatly refused to take a position.

A Mitt Romney Base Abandonment Watch means that conditions are favorable for Mitt Romney to back away from his "severely conservative" GOP base-friendly positions---including the mandatory and immediate "self-deportation" of all undocumented immigrants---by increasingly desperate leaps and bounds.

Should an actual base abandonment occur, the appropriate warning will be issued. Please note that these conditions may be accompanied by additional damaging flip flops, flop flips, gaffes, blunders, "hot mic moments," bewilderment at the sight of everyday objects (including doughnuts and rain ponchos), and attempts at humor followed by condescending "HehHehHehs" that come uncomfortably close to sounding like George W. Bush.

Republicans who feel a sense of despair, disappointment, heartburn and/or outrage that Mitt Romney, who never met a position he didn’t change, is the GOP nominee, should understand that these feelings are normal and will never, ever go away.

Republicans are urged to stay tuned to the National Waffler Service for updates, instructions, and links to the nearest online "Chris Christie in 2016" support shelter.

Now back to your regularly-scheduled blogging…

Profile in Cowardice, Cont'd.

Well-lubricated weather vane and Etch-A-Sketch master Willard "Self Deportation" Romney was quizzed by CBS' Bob Schieffer yesterday on the President's order not to deport immigrants who were brought here illegally by their parents. To no one's surprise, when asked if he would repeal the executive order, Willard weaseled out and refused to give a yes or no answer on five occasions.

Clearly, this issue has the Rethuglicans on the defensive, as well it should, considering their abject extremism during the Rethug primaries. When Willard said he thought the "papers please" policies of Arizona's Gov. Jan "Witches Brew" Brewer should be adopted nationally, and that illegal immigrants should "self deport," he locked in his, and his party's, position going into November. No amount of Etch-A-Sketching on his part, or ducking questions, will erase that.

Obama Gives "Dreamers" a Big Break

President Obama announced today he's issuing a policy directive granting children of illegal immigrants the right to stay in the U.S. and work, as long as they've been law-abiding. The action, which halts deportations of this population, bypasses the Rethuglican Congress and puts in place a key feature of the Rethug-stymied "DREAM" Act. It's likely to effect about 800,000 young people, be warmly received in the Hispanic community, and cause major consternation in Wingnuttia, and an outbreak of rude assholery.

Well done, Mr. President!

BONUS: Here's Rethuglican saint Ronald Reagan in 1984: "I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally." Yep, the Rethugs wouldn't elect him dogcatcher these days.