MICKEY KAUS: Don’t Let The Scandals Distract You: The Immigration Bill Is The Biggest Deal. “It’s time to wake up! Conservatives — while you are (rightly) excited about NSA snooping and partisan IRS corruption, the Congress is about to change America in a more profound, permanent way right under your noses. In the process it will hand President Obama the major second term achievement that will help him overcome the very scandals that are distracting you–or, rather, make his survival or re-ascendance unimportant. He will have won. Democrats will have shaped the future electorate to their own liking. They’ll have transformed what America is.”
To be fair, I heard Limbaugh last week saying that the immigration bill was the single most important thing going on. But it’s hard to stay focused in this environment. Hey, maybe there’s something to the dense-pack theory after all . . . .