Today’s Veritas Salad is thanks to the food preparers at National Review. Perusing its online pages today we found a wealth of pithy commentary. The Editors of NR are right on as regards the proposed immigration reform measure being promoted by the House Republican leadership.
The way to do enforcement first would be to pass enforcement bills and leave it at that. If the Senate passes them and the president signs them and subsequently enforces them after they survive legal challenge, well, then you have enforcement first. But everyone knows that none of this would happen — such bills wouldn’t pass the Senate, or even get a vote if Harry Reid had anything to say about it. And even if they did and the president signed them, no one can have any confidence that he would enforce them.
So it is simple, prove conservatives wrong as regards the trustworthiness of border /immigration enforcement. Then talk of who deserves some sort of legal status can proceed.
One crucial aspect to the immigration debate we see is the lack of emphasis on the need to end citizenship status granted simply on the basis of birth on US soil, regardless of the citizenship of the parents. It drives much of the political pressure for amnesty for lawbreakers; is an inducement to illegal border crossing; and is unfair to children of and to the parents abiding by our laws.
Read the entire worthy critique, here.
Detroit is what Democrats do
Kevin Williamson has a bang up commentary on Detroit entitled Progressivism Kills. Alternatively it could be titled with the line he uses therein, Detroit is what Democrats do.
Detroit represents nothing less than progressivism in its final stage of decadence: Worried that unionized public-sector workers are looting your city? Detroit is already bankrupt, unable to provide basic services expected of it — half the streetlights don’t work, transit has been reduced, neighborhoods go unpatrolled. Worried that public-sector unions are ruining your schools? Detroit’s were ruined a generation or more ago, the results of which are everywhere to be seen in the city. Worried that Obamacare is going to ruin our health-care markets? General-practice physicians are hard to find in Detroit, and those willing to accept Medicaid — which covers a great swath of Detroit’s population — are rarer still. Worried about the permissive culture? Four out of five of Detroit’s children are born out of wedlock. Worried that government is making it difficult for businesses to thrive? Many people in Detroit have to travel miles to find a grocery store. This is the endgame of welfare economics: What good is Medicaid if there are no doctors? What good are food stamps where there is no food? What good are “free” schools if you’re so afraid to send your children there that you feel it prudent to arm them first?
A list of offenses that rival King George III
After Williamson, we wandered into Andrew McCarthy’s scathing indictment of the prosecution of Dinesh D’Souza. As a former federal prosecutor McCarthy’s analysis of the overreach is authoritative. But besides that, what we also found compelling was his litany of Obama Administration offenses to our Republic. It is a list that reads like the indictments present in the Declaration of Independence. Review them and then read McCarthy’s article. We excerpt here only some of the Obama offenses McCarthy lists.
Then there’s the gargantuan Obamacare con job: the sedulous administration lying, the willfully false lulling, the law’s unconstitutional enactment, the lawlessly imperial “waivers,” the shameful subsidies to buy off members of Congress and their staffs, the unlawful IRS enforcement in states that declined to participate, the transparent campaign to usher in a single-payer government takeover by breaking the health-care insurance system. It is the most massive fraud in American history, and there will be no investigations or prosecutions.
We could go on about faithful execution of the laws, Obama-style: the non-recess recess appointments; the Justice Department’s racially discriminatory civil-rights enforcement; the Solyndra “green-energy” boondoggle, featuring Obama’s blatant misrepresentations of a publicly traded company’s financial health and his subsequent override of a federal law meant to protect taxpayers — the better to shield his cronies from losses when the company inevitably collapsed. (Now that’s Obamacare!) But such offenses are not the half of it. What is most breathtaking is the Obama administration’s vindictiveness . . .
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“Wrong on principles”
Maybe the GOP geniuses should get Bart Stupak in on the “negotiations”. He knows how to get ironclad promises from Our Dear Leader…just ask him.
We need to start raising some hell about this. You don’t have to like Gov McDonnell or Gov Christie. They are/were huge RINOs anyway but big threats to Democrats. Messing with D’Souza on top of all this just stinks of partisan bs. There is a pattern here. Anybody who poses a threat to the regime gets hosed.