Obama delays amnesty
for illegal aliens until after election
by John Hayward 6 Sep 2014, 8:05 AM PDT
"Comprehensive immigration
reform": an idea so popular that the American people must never,
ever be given a chance to vote against it.
After months of listening to Big Media pundits explain how Barack Obama's impending executive order to grant amnesty to
millions of illegal aliens had Republicans checkmated, a craven White House
chose Saturday morning to drop the news that the President would be delaying
those orders until after the midterm elections. No mystery about
why: as I said above, the American people must never be given a chance
to vote on this, and contrary to all that blather about how amnesty is an
inevitable winning issue for Democrats, a terrified Democrat Party has been
hissing at Obama that he'll doom them to oblivion in the midterm elections by
passing out those amnesty party favors before actual American citizens go to
the polls.
Politico remembers
the salad days of mainstream-media spin on amnesty, just to remind everyone of
what the "conventional wisdom" said, before voters began making
themselves heard:
Just a few months ago, immigration reform seemed like a
political winner for the White House on multiple fronts.
It was a high-profile way for Obama to illustrate a Congress
unwilling to act, driving him to find solutions without them. And for the
midterms, it was going to be the president’s way of boosting Democratic turnout
among both Latinos, labor and a wider progressive base that’s increasingly
identified immigration reform as a top cause. Voters who turn against Democrats
by Obama acting were likely already motivated Republican voters anyway, went
the thinking.
And there were several key states where that turnout,
particularly among Latinos, seemed like it could be a factor in a win,
including Sen. Mark
Udall’s re-election bid in
Colorado, the Senate bids of Bruce Braley in Iowa and Michelle Nunn in Georgia,
along with House races across the country.
But even as the White House said that the Department of
Homeland Security, and not politics, would guide the decision, conversations
with endangered Democrats began almost immediately. The resistance came from
expected spots, like Sen. Mark Pryor in Arkansas, but in recent days, even from
people like reliably liberal Sen. Al Franken, running in a race that he’s tried
to keep from becoming competitive.
While the Left tries to manage its disappointment over
coming so very close to replacing the American electorate with an
imported model that would be more friendly to liberal policies, sane people are
looking at Barack Obama's manufactured border crisis, thinking about the
growing threat of international terrorism, watching Obama's limp economy creak
through another disappointing unemployment report, and seeing absolutely no
reason to believe five million fresh loads of amnesty would be a good idea.
The idea of issuing executive orders that would prompt another massive
stampede across our virtually non-existent border, while we're doing battle
against the new terrorist super-state Obama allowed to take root in Iraq, isn't
just bad politics - it's freaking insane, to a degree that transcends
partisan considerations among moderate Democrats. I'll bet some of the
panicked Democrats pushing Obama to hold off on his executive orders are seeing
internal polls that show their own voters turning against them.
The old conventional wisdom held that amnesty was a battle
that Democrats could win, if it was merely a bitter partisan battle that
divided the country into warring factions. What changed over the last few
months was the growing sense that a good number of Democrat voters are growing
nervous about the border, and certain Democrat constituencies aren't pleased
about getting shoved aside to make room for their new romantic obsession with
illegal immigrants.
There are few issues on which the Ruling Class - including
the cheap-labor portions of the Republican coalition - is so widely divorced
from the priorities of American citizens. Listening to the amnesty caucus
talk about immigration reform is like watching extraterrestrials discuss the
current weather conditions on Saturn - it's got nothing to do with what's
actually happening on the ground in the real working-class world.
There's also the danger of a big Obama unilateral amnesty
push destroying all chances for any sort of major immigration reform
plan, a calculation that isn't going to change after the 2014 elections.
In fact, I'll offer a grim prediction for the amnesty caucus: today's
retreat is going to be followed by another climbdown after the election, in
which Obama tells supporters his hands are tied by the new Republican Senate.
It's possible for Obama to work out a more moderate immigration deal with
the Republicans, one that goes very light on amnesty and very heavy on border
security - they're fairly comping at the bit to pass something like that.
But a post-election amnesty executive order would spoil those chances
forever, and realign the electorate in a way Democrats won't like, come 2016.
Mark Udall
Mark Udall is a U.S. Senate senator, married to Maggie L. Fox, and an honorary co-chair for the Third Way.
Note:
Maggie L. Fox is married to Mark Udall, and the CEO & president
for the Climate Reality Project.
Albert A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate Reality Project.
Foundation to Promote Open
Society was
a funder for the Climate Reality Project,
the Brookings Institution (think tank),
the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and Amnesty International.
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Lee H. Hamilton is an honorary trustee at
the Brookings Institution (think tank),
a co-chair for the Independent Task
Force on Immigration and America's Future, and his nephew is David F. Hamilton.
David F. Hamilton is Lee H. Hamilton’s nephew, and was a canvasser for the Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now (ACORN).
Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was the plaintiff
in ACORN vs. Illinois State Board of
Elections.
Barack Obama was the attorney for ACORN vs. Illinois State Board of Elections,
and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin LLP was the legal adviser for
the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
R. Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and the president of
the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
James S. Crown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank)
Lester Crown was a lifetime trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Frederic V. Malek
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), the founder & board member for the American Action Network, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Hispanic
Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
Jeb Bush is an advisory
committee member for the Hispanic
Leadership Network, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Dianne Feinstein
is a member of the Alfalfa Club, a U.S. Senate senator, and married to Richard C. Blum.
Richard C. Blum is
married to Dianne Feinstein, an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and a governing council member for the Wilderness Society.
Theodore
Roosevelt IV is a governing council member for the Wilderness Society, and a director at the Climate Reality
Project.
Albert A. Gore Jr.
is the chairman for the Climate Reality
Project.
Maggie L. Fox is the
CEO & president for the Climate
Reality Project, and married to Mark
Udall.
Mark Udall is married to Maggie L. Fox, a U.S. Senate senator, and an honorary co-chair for the Third Way.
Mark Udall is married to Maggie L. Fox, a U.S. Senate senator, and an honorary co-chair for the Third Way.
William M. Daley
is a trustee at the Third Way, a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
and was the chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Commercial
Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday,
December 17, 2013
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