Andrea Mitchell Hails 'Really Moral' Defense of Gays, DREAM Act Vote the 'Dumbest Thing' for GOP

December 20th, 2010 5:35 PM

When liberals count heads in a Meet the Press roundtable, they’d look at Sunday’s panel and classify it this way: two Republicans (Joe Scarborough and Mark McKinnon) one Democrat (Newark Mayor Cory Booker) and a nonpartisan reporter (Andrea Mitchell). The conservatives, on the other hand, see two centrists pandering to liberals, a liberal mayor, and a liberal reporter. Mitchell dropped two liberal bombs on Sunday. First, she joined other liberals in hailing a “really moral” stand for gays in the military:

And you have to give a lot of credit going back to the passionate and really moral stand taken by Mike Mullen, the admiral who is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. When he first testified to [tje Senate] Armed Services [Committee] and said, "You cannot ask our uniformed men and women to tell a lie about themselves. That is against the whole conduct of the military code." And that principled stand, a little more reluctantly but still going along with it, Robert Gates saying, "We, we serve. We will follow the orders." That outweighed, I think, what the combat--the Marines and some of the front line forces were saying.

Mitchell also trashed the Republicans for their stupidity in opposing the DREAM Act, since anyone who wants to win in politics panders to illegal aliens. (Was that proven in November?)

You know, I think the smartest thing that, that the White House did in the last couple of days, and the, the dumbest thing that the Republicans did was the DREAM Act. To go against giving a fast track towards citizenship to infants who came here, and with the growing Latino community in 2012, that is going to turn out to be a real setback for Republicans because these are, are people who wanted to serve in the military and get educated and contribute to this society. It is a win-win from the standpoint of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

So every child who came to America illegally was an "infant"? Reporters have featured 18-year-olds who came to America at nine and now claim "This is the only country I know." But they weren't babies.

The centrists also had difficulty seeing anything definitive in the House Republican landslide. Scarborough insisted "We govern in the middle. We always have. With, with apologies to Arthur Schlesinger, there's not a pendulum swing ideologically in America. America stays in the middle, and we saw it." We saw it at the polls?

Mark McKinnon defended No Labels by claiming a massive groundswell of support: "Well, the political -- 63 percent of Americans are disenfranchised with what's happening in Washington because they see this harsh, poisonous environment and harsh partisanship. A thousand people from--representing all 50 states came to New York to help launch this effort called No Labels, which is designed to bring more civility to politics and address the hyperpartisanship."

I'd love to find the footnote that describes how 63 percent of Americans support McKinnon's crusade to take all the ideology out of politics.