MORNING MESSAGE
Here’s
something (not) to look forward to: Thanksgiving dinner with your family in the
time of Trump. This week you’re heading home to spend quality time with your
family. Of course, your right-wing brother-in-law (RWBIL) is going to be there,
spouting off quotes from Trump and Rush and fully Foxified. Actual facts will
not be present at this table and would not penetrate the Drudge-shield if they
were, but conspiracy theories will abound. Brace yourself.
Bernie Goes Big On Immigration
Sanders
proposes his own immigration executive action. W. Post: “…he would take
executive action to allow undocumented immigrants who’ve been in the United
States for at least five years to stay in the country without fear of being
deported … Sanders’s plan also includes provisions to allow undocumented
immigrants to purchase health insurance through the exchanges created by the
Affordable Care Act …”
Clinton
pledges to stop saying “illegal immigrant” when asked during Facebook Q&A.
The Hill quotes: “Yes, I will. As I’ve said throughout this campaign, the
people at the heart of this issue are children, parents, families, DREAMers.
They have names, and hopes and dreams that deserve to be respected.”
Obama’s
immigration orders in Supreme Court’s hands. Bloomberg: “The court could act
imminently on a request by Texas and 25 other states for a 30-day extension of
the deadline to respond to the administration’s bid for a hearing … If the court
grants the request, the justices would have to deviate from their normal
scheduling practices to consider the case during the nine-month term that ends
in June. The administration says the court should allow only an 8-day extension
to ensure the case can be heard this term.”
Clinton Holds Iowa Edge
Hillary
up by 9 in Iowa. NYT: “More than four out of five Iowa Democrats think
Hillary Rodham Clinton can win the general election, compared with only half who
think the same of Senator Bernie Sanders … More voters in the new survey said
that Mr. Sanders could better handle the economy, voters’ No. 1 issue, and more
think he shares their values and cares about people like them.”
“Hillary
Clinton’s Middle-Class Tax Pledge Divides Democrats” reports Time: “Critics
say it is a crafty political move that would limit the ambition of proposals on
everything from expanding Social Security to healthcare reform. It reinforces a
long-running Republican argument that some would prefer to defeat head on. And,
to put it simply, it makes it hard to pay for things Democrats want.”
Kochs Seek Corporate Criminal Sentencing Reform
Bipartisan
sentencing reform talks caught on corporate criminal sentencing reform. NYT:
“…that joint effort is facing its most significant test — over a House bill that
Koch Industries says would make the criminal justice system fairer, but that the
Justice Department says would make it significantly harder to prosecute
corporate polluters, producers of tainted food and other white-collar
criminals.”
Treasury
Secretary Lew defends Dodd-Frank in Bloomberg oped: “…it would be
irresponsible to turn the clock back to the era when these monitors were not in
place and we experienced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Yet that is exactly what some Republicans are attempting to do, and Democrats
should not join them.”
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