Horray! Rodney Tom is still a piece of shit.

This doesn't go nearly far enough. This bill should include funding for marketing to recruit minors from overseas to come to WA on visitor visas, then overstay and convert to DREAM status.

This would open up higher education to *millions* of otherwise qualified high school graduates. What are we waiting for?

... my bad, no need to explicitly fund the marketing effort, word-of-mouth will be sufficiently effective.

Let's get this into law!

You know what else changed? No Ed Murray to fuck it up.

@2/3 perhaps you should read the proposed law instead of being a dumbass.

Tom's a Democrat, at least in name.

@7 Tom is not a Democrat. As an elected official, you don't get to be a Democrat simply by saying you are a Democrat. It is an organized party, and Tom has been expelled from the Democratic caucus for, you know, caucusing with the Republicans.

@4 Interesting, anything other than "completely open borders" is now racist?

@6 I've read the law. How could it not be interpreted as a welcome for upcoming DREAMers, those that haven't even arrived yet? What disincentive is there to the *future* behavior I described?

The further left Democrats go, the more centrist Republicans will become. Whenever one party cedes the middle ground, the other is sure to occupy it, and no party can hold the center and the fringe simultaneously with success. This is why, at the federal level; we’re going to see The House get serious about immigration reform.

@7 - so a Democratic legislator in the House could wake up one day and call themselves a Republican but not change who they caucus with, automatically making everything the House Democrats do "bipartisan?"

Rodney Tom can call himself whatever he wants, it doesn't change who and what he really is.

@10 no. The R's are still fighting off the teabag fringe, and not really succeeding. They can't both occupy the center and the wingnut fringe.

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That only works for Democrats unless the Tea Party breaks from (or is broken off of) the Republican Party, and the establishment Republicans manage to occupy the middle. Democrats could find themselves far left with a far right Tea Party and establishment Republicans center right. It’s not an impossible scenario… and when republican controlled legislative bodies start talking about Dream Acts and Amnesty (to the chagrin of the Tea Party) and Blue Dog Democrats have diminishing pull on their party, it seems more possible. What’s to say that more than a few Blue Dogs (like Tom) won’t find more they agree with in a center right Republican party than a far left Democratic party?