red states rule
05-09-2013, 04:09 AM
Desperation seems to be setting in at the WH when it comes to amnesity
I thought I came from America, but now I know better.
Unless you're a Native American, you came from someplace else. Share your family's story: http://at.wh.gov/kQgOt (http://t.co/MmtVM4Qqbf) #ImmigrationNation (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ImmigrationNation&src=hash)
<time title="Time posted: 08 May 2013, 20:46:31 (UTC)" class="dt-updated" datetime="2013-05-08T20:46:31+0000" pubdate="">1:46 PM - 8 May 2013</time> (https://twitter.com/whitehouse/statuses/332235084809768962)
That’s their new grassroots-mobilizing gimmick in support of the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill. Rewarding illegals with citizenship flows as naturally and logically from having legal immigrants as ancestors as expanding background checks does from a school shooting committed by a lunatic who stole guns purchased legally by his mother. Follow the link in the tweet and share your “story” to remind Congress that basic border enforcement (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347624/poll-most-voters-think-border-security-should-come-first) is for nativist trolls.
Here’s a story. Once upon a time, millions upon millions of immigrants came to America and paid their own way because there was no welfare state. Dan Foster (http://www.nationalreview.com/node/347680/print):
[P]ro-amnesty Republicans should admit that their anti-amnesty colleagues raise a legitimate concern, and they should use the debate as an opportunity to strike a compromise: Amend the Gang of Eight bill to include means-testing, market-like competition, and block grants for Social Security, Medicare (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/08/new-white-house-amnesty-campaign-unless-youre-a-native-american-you-came-from-someplace-else/#), and Medicaid, respectively, along with a gradual scaling-back to pre-recession levels for food stamps, unemployment benefits, and the like. Allay the Heritage crowd’s concerns by trading amnesty for significant entitlement reform.
Such a move would for sure bring more Republicans on board, while helping relieve Marco Rubio from the Chuck Schumer–shaped albatross around his neck. It might, it just might, stop the melee on the right long enough to shift the pressure to the Senate Democrats by forcing them to assess their own priorities. And it would revive “grand bargain” talks in a creative and unexpected way, a way that precludes talk of tax increases altogether.
Of course, there is probably one chance in 10,000 that such a “grand bargain” could become law. Likelier, stapling amnesty to entitlement reform would doom “comprehensive immigration reform” entirely. But for those of us who think there is currently more bad than good in the bill, and who prefer a piecemeal approach, that’s quite an acceptable loss.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/08/new-white-house-amnesty-campaign-unless-youre-a-native-american-you-came-from-someplace-else/
I thought I came from America, but now I know better.
Unless you're a Native American, you came from someplace else. Share your family's story: http://at.wh.gov/kQgOt (http://t.co/MmtVM4Qqbf) #ImmigrationNation (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ImmigrationNation&src=hash)
<time title="Time posted: 08 May 2013, 20:46:31 (UTC)" class="dt-updated" datetime="2013-05-08T20:46:31+0000" pubdate="">1:46 PM - 8 May 2013</time> (https://twitter.com/whitehouse/statuses/332235084809768962)
That’s their new grassroots-mobilizing gimmick in support of the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill. Rewarding illegals with citizenship flows as naturally and logically from having legal immigrants as ancestors as expanding background checks does from a school shooting committed by a lunatic who stole guns purchased legally by his mother. Follow the link in the tweet and share your “story” to remind Congress that basic border enforcement (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347624/poll-most-voters-think-border-security-should-come-first) is for nativist trolls.
Here’s a story. Once upon a time, millions upon millions of immigrants came to America and paid their own way because there was no welfare state. Dan Foster (http://www.nationalreview.com/node/347680/print):
[P]ro-amnesty Republicans should admit that their anti-amnesty colleagues raise a legitimate concern, and they should use the debate as an opportunity to strike a compromise: Amend the Gang of Eight bill to include means-testing, market-like competition, and block grants for Social Security, Medicare (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/08/new-white-house-amnesty-campaign-unless-youre-a-native-american-you-came-from-someplace-else/#), and Medicaid, respectively, along with a gradual scaling-back to pre-recession levels for food stamps, unemployment benefits, and the like. Allay the Heritage crowd’s concerns by trading amnesty for significant entitlement reform.
Such a move would for sure bring more Republicans on board, while helping relieve Marco Rubio from the Chuck Schumer–shaped albatross around his neck. It might, it just might, stop the melee on the right long enough to shift the pressure to the Senate Democrats by forcing them to assess their own priorities. And it would revive “grand bargain” talks in a creative and unexpected way, a way that precludes talk of tax increases altogether.
Of course, there is probably one chance in 10,000 that such a “grand bargain” could become law. Likelier, stapling amnesty to entitlement reform would doom “comprehensive immigration reform” entirely. But for those of us who think there is currently more bad than good in the bill, and who prefer a piecemeal approach, that’s quite an acceptable loss.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/08/new-white-house-amnesty-campaign-unless-youre-a-native-american-you-came-from-someplace-else/