While it sometimes seems like I’m a hyperpartisan Democrat, I’m really not… I just believe that the Republicans have lost their way, completely and utterly. Von, a conservative writer at Obsidian Wings, hits the nail on the head:

VIOLATE THE LAW, get a reduced penalty?  Scamnesty!  How dare you disrespect teh rule of law!  Blah blah blah.

VIOLATE THE LAW, get a reduced penalty? Hooray!  It’s not a real crime anyway! Blah blah blah.

Yup, it totally makes sense for the party of small government to punish workers and praise perjurers.  You see, we don’t want a path to citizenship for workers, but we do want more convicted perjurers.  Because perjurers are, like, completely oppressed and stuff by massively unfair partisan witchhunts — even partisan witchhunts undertaken by the convicted perjurer’s own partisans!  (How frightfully rude of them.)

Grownups:  Please come back.  The party misses you.

The rest of the nation misses you, too.