The first thing I want to do is reject Michael Gerson's manipulation of history.  Gerson, a supposedly "conservative" columnist at the Washington Post - oxymoron? - recently appeared on PBS television, where, smitten with Judy Woodruff, he badly mischaracterized the 14th Amendment.   Addressing Lindsey Graham's call to end the policy which makes the United States the only nation which allows foreigners to crash its borders and be rewarded for procreating, Gerson said that Republicans want "to turn infants in hospitals into criminals," while agreeing with fellow Wapo pundit, Ruth Marcus, that Republicans are "crazy."    This isn't the first time Gerson has left the universe.  Earlier, he wrote that "revoking birthright citizenship would turn hundred of thousands of infants into criminals" (as if anyone is calling for retroactive repeal), and "make a whole class of people grow up knowing that they...(Read Full Post)