And then some! Pretty sure this is a fool me twice moment for the President and Republicans. This is certainly not an 'art of the deal' policy...it's just disappointing, and predictably so...
On Thursday’s Mark Levin show, The White House has done something extremely disappointing; they have taken DACA and expanded it to include Dreamers which brings the number to 1.8 million and offered them citizenship. This is a bigger number than even Barack Obama contemplated. Those outside of the 800,000 are those who did not come forward. Some are crooks and criminals and others didn’t have evidence that they came here as children. But we are told not to worry because of concessions the White House got. After this, Daniel Horowitz of Conservative Review calls in to talk about DACA. The main problem is that the DACA compromise President Trump and the Republicans are engaging in is the wrong mix of ideas and politics. They have lost their leverage and Democrats don’t have any incentive to agree with them. They will just pocket the 1.8 million and not build the wall like Trump had campaigned on. Democrats are just doing to Trump what they did to Ronald Reagan, promise border security while not appropriating the funds when they reclaim power. In addition, you will see the pretend conservatives come out and say: “What do you want perfection”? There is no perfection, that is just a diversion and Republicans are giving Democrats numbers they didn’t even dream of. This is why we need serious people of substance talking about this.
CR: On Thursday, the White House told reporters that the Trump administration will propose an immigration deal that will grant amnesty with a path to citizenship to 1.8 million so-called “Dreamers” in exchange for funding for a border wall and reforms to chain migration and the diversity visa lottery.
On his radio program, CRTV host Mark Levin interviewed CR Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz on the content of the deal and the political ramifications of supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants. Horowitz told Levin that the main problem with the Trump immigration plan is that Republicans have said up front they “badly want DACA” and have lost their leverage with the Democrats.
“Democrats have no incentive to ever agree” to the reforms in the deal, Horowitz said.
The Democrats “do not operate in good faith,” Levin said, questioning why Trump would offer amnesty with citizenship for more illegal immigrants than the total number of DACA recipients. “It’s a huge error. Huge.”
Towards the end of the interview, Levin said this was not the immigration deal conservatives expected from President Trump and urged congressional Republicans to fight against amnesty.
“We expect conservatives in Congress to hold the line,” Levin said.
Don't be fooled, Mr. President. They'll do to you what they did to Reagan. Different times, same outcome. No solution.
How far we have fallen as a political system: An entire political party is now willing to shut the government down over a policy exclusively for illegal aliens, not Americans. Even more appalling is that the very leader of the shutdown is a man who has lied to us numerous times on immigration and has created the very immigration crisis we face today by pushing similar amnesty policies before. Most ironic, Schumer himself once expressed support for the very policies he is now calling racist and over which he has triggered the Schumer Shutdown.
...but beyond the standard Democratic hypocrisy that's become par for the course, several other common sense Americans have it precisely right...
"The fact of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, we are blackmailed by the Democrat Party at least once a year, typically multiple times a year. We are blackmailed by the Democrat Party that insists on more spending OR that its priorities come first and our priorities come never. ... The Democrat Party today is saying either you legalize 800,000 illegal aliens or we're gonna shutdown the government for the entirety of America. 320 million Americans, the hell with you. Screw YOU!"
They’d rather shut down children’s health insurance and military funding to give illegal immigrants amnesty. #SchumerShutdown doesn’t seem to help Americans first. https://t.co/meE1QpkPa4
Graham-Jeff Flake-Durbin-Gardner plan ignores Trump's popular pro-American immigration reforms, gives amnesty to more than 3.5M illegal aliens, as well as their parents & 25K foreign nationals on temporary protected status. https://t.co/AobmqNscU6
Senate Democrats put politics above national security, military families, vulnerable children, and our country’s ability to serve all Americans. We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands.
So, will this shutdown once again be blamed on Republicans? Certainly. The Democratic propaganda wing (a.k.a. The Mainstream Press) will blame this one on the GOP just as they blame for practically EVERYTHING, but part of the fault lies within a Republican Party that allows its unprincipled RINOs to take the lead in governmental acquiescence and ultimate failure...
Every year the people are told that there is a budget showdown, and if the Republicans don’t cut off the freedom and liberty wing of their party and become reasonable and nonpartisan, they will cause a government shutdown.
Every year the Republican leadership insists there will be no government shutdown, then turns and throttles the freedom and liberty wing and, by extension, the people who put them there, telling them to shut up and sit down.
Then, every year, certain Republicans give away so much leverage over fear of a government shutdown that now, after about a decade of this, they have played their part in the possible destruction of this nation by way of our $20 trillion in debt.
Where does all the fear come from? From the fake outrage ginned up by the media, of course.
Republican leadership constantly put themselves in a box of media outrage because they lack purposeful messaging, detectable principles, or any real disagreement with the Democrats on a large majority of issues that regular Americans truly find important. And for that, the Republicans will, indeed, always get the blame.
This results in frantic offers by the Republican leadership to find a way to procrastinate or make a deal detrimental to their own party’s stated mission in order to create the illusion that they have averted the very terrible shutdown.
That’s not leadership. That’s simply playing the game the Democrats and media want them to play.
But there's really no need to continue with this charade, because there's never any apocalypse from such shutdowns...
"I'm not scared of a government shutdown. Are you, folks? ...[every weekend] the government has shutdown, and here we are, eating, breathing, clothed, most of us; in our cars, in our homes, in our offices, most of us. We're utterly and completely unaffected. The government shutdown for nearly a month under Jimmy Carter and nobody noticed, and nobody will notice it now. We get this cacophony of media coyotes howling, and front groups howling, and Democrats howling, and miscreant Republicans howling. But the fact of the matter is most of you will be completely unaffected by this. No, the United States military isn't shutdown. No, the CIA isn't shutdown. No, the Border Patrol isn't shutdown. Here's the irony: The very programs and the policies that the Democrats and the liberals promote, most of them will be limited! ... Most of the departments and agencies that are affected are on the domestic side. So the Democrats are saying, 'hey, we're gonna commit harakiri, unless you give us what we want.' And I say let them commit harakiri! Let them say'we stand for the illegal alien against the American citizen.' Let them say it!"
Fact of the matter is even with the government shut down, food inspections, federal law enforcement, airport security checks and other vital services will continue, as will Social Security payments, other federal benefit programs and military operations. So this is purely political drivel that's all about Schumer Democrats choosing illegal aliens over American citizens. Plain and simple. For Republicans to continue fretting over theatrical shutdowns and not lead us out of this ridiculous illusion is almost as offensive. It's certainly abhorrent for those cheerleading for lawlessness alongside Dems.
UPDATE: As fast as they shut it down Friday, they fired it back up Monday. That was an extended weekend! Hardly a shutdown. The Schumer Dems chose illegal aliens over the American people during this short-lived government shutdown and that position clearly BACKFIRED...
Schumer buckles, and the media spins on. Congrats to the President and Republicans for the time being, while we continue to monitor whether Congress will do the right thing.
45 years has been far too long. This one's easily a copy/paste job, because I agree with every single word of Horowitz's assessment...
CR: Today is the annual marking of the grim milestone of Roe v. Wade. The annual March for Life, although well intentioned, is the day every Republican politician can freely feign outrage over a decision that led to the deaths of 60 million babies while refusing to use the constitutional tools they have to rectify this evil.
Particularly jarring about this year’s march is that it coincides with complete GOP control of Washington, and nobody paying the slightest attention to the power they hold to rectify the abortion travesty. In fact, it appears that virtue-signaling about babies has become an end to itself rather than ensuring their brains don’t actually get sucked out with taxpayer funds. Meanwhile, there’s a thing or two conservatives can learn from Democrats.
It’s eerie watching the March for Life as we are in the midst of a budget battle in which funding for Planned Parenthood is not even up for debate — with Republicans in full control. The publication of the videos two years ago showing Planned Parenthood engaged in trafficking and harvesting of baby organs was a watershed moment in the 45-year debate over Roe because it proved conclusively that abortion was not about being a “safe, rare, and legal” necessary evil, but rather a triumph of barbarism as a virtue in itself.
Nonetheless, Republicans, who could have forced the issue even under Obama, won’t even discuss the issue of these unborn American dreamers who are being wantonly killed every day. Nope. The entire landscape of debate over the budget is about amnesty to illegal aliens, which has nothing to do with a budget anyway, unlike funding a criminal organ trafficking network.
And speaking of illegal aliens, it’s awe-inspiring to observe the asymmetrical warfare between the two parties. The GOP, when in the majority and buttressed by the Planned Parenthood videos, will not even entertain merely cutting off taxpayer funding for a criminal abortion enterprise. Yet, Democrats, even when in the minority, will fight to the brink of a shutdown to get amnesty and taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens — completely extraneous to the budget bill.
That is because whereas Republicans seek office, Democrats seek power. While Republicans will use our issues to get elected and then avoid every opportunity to advance that agenda, Democrats will use their election victories (and even losses!) to advance their agenda while leaving no stone unturned — legal and illegal — to block dissent.
Which brings us to the ultimate shutdown of our government – the reign of judicial supremacy.
Any discussion of abortion, or frankly, any important issue these days, is meaningless without discussing judicial reform. What we learned in 1973 was that if an unelected court can decide a fundamentally political and philosophical question not addressed in the Constitution — and have that decision unflinchingly adhered to by all the states and the other branches of the federal government — then there is no limit to what they can do to our Constitution, sovereignty, security, and society.
This point was so tragically and absurdly on display this past year as the second most important court in the land mixed an expansion of abortion jurisprudence together with lawless immigration jurisprudence to create a right for illegal aliens to trespass and demand access to an abortion. Yet nothing seems to jolt Republican members of Congress out of their slumber to discover that Article I gives them 100 percent control over the lower courts and that Article III Sec. 2 grants them full power to regulate the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
The entire strategy of the “Right” for the past 45 years has been to legitimize judicial supremacy, while promising to get enough of their own people on the courts to overturn bad decisions. Aside from the numerous other faults in this argument, there is no guarantee that Alito and Gorsuch would necessarily reverse Roe and Casey, at least not categorically. And even if they would, it’s clear we’d only have three votes.
Meanwhile, as we’ve legitimized the specter of judicial supremacy, the courts have redefined married, citizenship, foreign policy, sexuality, and election laws. The list goes on.
It seems that there is no floor to the depths of judicial Gomorrah that will ever elicit a righteous reaction from the Right to use its constitutional powers over the courts. We’ve seen that 60 million dead babies weren’t enough reason. Mandating transgenderism in the military, abortions for illegals, and concocting an international right to immigrate aren’t either. After all, if courts can make death out of life, they can make denizens of aliens and Y chromosomes out of X chromosomes.
Courts are now elevating Roe and Casey to such a level that states are being prohibited from even imposing basic safety regulations on abortion clinics or banning the most gruesome abortion practices. They are even forcing states to actually fund Planned Parenthood. As we learned in the illegal alien abortion case, anything short of directly driving an illegal alien to an abortion clinic is deemed an undue burden on a fundamental right. Legal immigrants have no First Amendment right to donate to political campaigns or Second Amendment right to own a gun, but illegal aliens now have the “right” to the phantom amendment of abortion, which has been elevated over real rights.
And what is the reaction from the GOP and even so-called social conservative groups? Crickets. They obsequiously listen to every whim of a district judge, even when it violates statute, Constitution, settled case law, common sense, and morality.
This is the permanent, categorical, and almost irreversible government shutdown nobody is discussing. We can only go so long as a nation when states are forced to follow illegitimate edicts of illegitimate powers but other states can openly thwart the most legitimate and foundational laws flowing directly from constitutionally granted powers. And we can only go so long as a nation when one party is willing to fight for the illegitimate and immoral with 100 times the gusto the other party is willing to fight for the legitimate and the moral. The solutions and tools are there for us in the Constitution. But we won’t come to a resolution on abortion or any other important issues as a nation until Republicans care about 60 million murdered babies as much as Democrats care about illegal aliens.
A new year brings new challenges. 2017 demonstrated some noted accomplishments, but there are still major ones to confront in 2018, including significant measures that the majority party ran on and were elected in 2016 to implement with immediacy upon winning both houses of Congress and the Presidency. Repealing and replacing Obamacare was one of them. And though there's been some unraveling with the repeal of the individual mandate at the end of the year, this socialized medical approach continues to remain enshrined in law and in the minds of Washington. Though I could go on about that (maybe for another post), there is another major measure that the focus has now turn towards, one which continues to affect America's citizenry in detrimental fashion regarding society, culture and sovereignty. Yep, we're talking immigration, primarily illegal, but in much of a sense, the overall concept and its exhorbitance at this critical point. And who better to lead this topic into a new year than a favorite professor of common sense, the Great One...
On Tuesday’s Mark Levin show, Do you realize over the last half-century, every significant change in immigration policy has taken place without the support or affirmation of the American citizenry? We’ve been deceived about this over and over and over again by Democrats and Republicans alike. Not only is every single big immigration policy pursued without the support of the American people, it occurs often under the cover of darkness. It is both Republicans and Democrats who have pursued open-borders policies over the years. The Democrats want to destroy America but the Republicans have no excuse. What we need from the President and conservatives in Congress is for them to articulate a conservative position on immigration before we lose this country. The Democrats have boxed us in but we don’t have to be, as enforcing immigration policy has nothing to do with race. It is regrettable that Republican leadership is not making the case for republicanism and national sovereignty. Enforcing our immigration laws is not an alt-right position but an American position. In addition, the wall was Trump’s top issue, yet he is wavering, which is very concerning. Two parties are united against the people today. We have been losing our country since the 1965 Hart-Celler act and the Supreme Court decision in 1982 that allowed children of illegal immigrants to come to attend public school.
"Who is it who are the real humanitarians? We are! We want people to know that in order to come here, they shouldn't try to sneak across the border where they might be killed or raped or something horrific may happen to them. We want them to know that there's an orderly process. You follow the orderly process, you may or may not get in. You do not have a right to come to America. You do not have a right to be legalized in America. You do not have a right to a citizen of America. You do not have a right to have welfare in America. It all began changing during the Great Society..."
"...and what I regret is that neither the White House nor the leadership in the Senate nor the leadership in the House, ALL of which we control, make the articulate, comprehensive case for Americanism, for republicanism (little 'r'), for national sovereignty."
Then security, then reform. Instead, we hear about a 'bill of love'?
President Trump says any DACA legislation “should be a bipartisan deal. This should be a bill of love.” pic.twitter.com/beNcsfYK1j
So, what does that mean? See here. Some good, some not so much(and some of the excerpts give one a good idea of what they really think of constitutional conservatives who desire a restoration of law and order first). But the conclusion:
The message is clear: Trump will be flexible on immigration reform, even potentially supporting a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the future. But if a deal on DACA is going to be made before the March deadline when protections for DACA recipients expire, border security measures and the wall must be included.
We'll see how this pans out, but honestly, I hold more hope in the States and its People than more of the same from Washington on the matter.
