Los Angeles’ May Day immigration reform rally was attended by approximately 60,000 people — including Emilio Estevez and Gloria Estefan and a contingent of 500 LGBT supporters as well as groups representing almost every ethnic and progressive group in the greater Southern Califonria area — making it the nation’s largest.

A dispatch from the Department of Unintended Benefits, via TPM: California Tea Party groups are calling San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s boycott and raising him a … boycott. The mayor raised the ire of California Tea Partiers this week when, in response to Arizona’s passage of a controversial immigration law, he announced a boycott of [...]

Of all the boycotts and lawsuits and potential initiatives and splits among nationally recognized Republicans in reaction to the dranconian immigration law in Arizona, perhaps nothing will lead to as much action as the strong statement published by the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association.

If the Democrats stick to the strategy they used on health care, they will kick their own base in the teeth, tack way to the right, and waste billions of dollars by funneling it to well-connected corporations. We could actually have a bill labeled “immigration reform” this year, but it will just be a plan to stick a hundred billion dollars worth of high-tech military robots every ten feet in the desert, and provide a handful of new H1-B visas to the tech companies.

On Monday, I asked whether the White House would put the screws to the Blue Dogs to pass immigration reform the way they did on health care, and the answer appears to be “no.” Rather, they will rely on their tried-and-true game plan for dealing with issues important to “f&%king r#%ard” liberals.

George Will comments on the new Arizona immigration law and proves he is past his “use by” date and needs to be put out to pasture with the other jackasses.

I’ve been on the offensive against Senator Graham for the past two days, expressing frustration with his mind-boggling hypocrisy and wholly apparent lack of integrity. I believe his participation in the crafting of climate change legislation was completely disingenuous, and I don’t think he ever actually intended to see it through to completion. His rhetoric throughout the process has been anything but helpful, and it was becoming apparent by mid-March that he was looking for an excuse to bail on the effort, blaming superficial process concerns for his lack of resolve. And as it turned out, that is exactly what happened yesterday. If Democrats have an ounce of sense they’ll never again take anything Senator Graham says at face value.

Now, that doesn’t at all mean that Harry Reid doesn’t share the blame for the Senate’s failure to address the issue this year. Those who blame Senator Reid for his decision to prioritize immigration reform over the climate bill make a number of good points. Senator Reid’s decision does in fact appear to be, as Senator Graham put it, a cynical political ploy designed to shore up his chances to maintain his seat this November. So yes, I think Senator Reid’s decision, which may have been implicitly backed by the Obama administration, was a plainly political move that played no small part in how all of this unfolded.

Immigration just might be the issue that breaks through the White House “veal pen” strategy and forces them to deal with an issue — or risk the defection of an important part of the Democratic base in the 2010 elections.

We’ve been here before in Arizona. And this could end the same way.

Say, have you noticed how often Chuck Schumer has been nuzzling up to Lindsey “Huckleberry” Graham lately?