Hey, Big Government?
We don’t trust you:
A major problem for those who want an immigration bill is lack of faith in government to do all the jobs it’s set itself well. People don’t trust it to be able to execute—to do, adequately, the thing it’s set itself to do in its big new laws. We always look at the motives and politics behind a big bill, and talk about that. But simple noncrisis execution—the ability to track and deal with a Tamerlan Tsarnaeu, or to patrol and control a huge border—is a big reason why people lack faith. Because, you know, they read the papers.
It’s spending too much effort and resources on things in which it has no business, and falling down on its constitutionally legitimate functions. It needs to be reined in, and refocused.
“People don’t trust it to be able to execute…”
I would claim that there is also a lack of trust that the government would even *try* to execute – never mind whether or not they are capable of doing the job well.
“Do not listen to the doubters! Trust Big Government! Love Big Government! Big Government loves you!”–Baghdad Jim.
Of course it won’t work, and they have to know this. It’s all part of the bill of goods they are trying to shove down our throats.
Motive? What exactly is the motive???
I can understand (though vehemently disagree with) self-serving pandering. The problem (setting aside the issue that it’s a disastrous policy) is it won’t work. For example, illegal immigration isn’t a core issue for Asians, but Romney lost the Asian vote by more than he did the Hispanic vote. Also, McCain (the public face of the 2006 Amnesty push) did very poorly among Hispanics in 2008, barely 2 points better than Romney did in 2012. Also, look back at the hispanic vote after the Reagan amnesty.
Therefor, the Republican calculus seems to be this; gain a few points (at best) amongst hispanics so R’s only lose them by 2-1, while adding 10 to 20 million of them to the voter rolls, thus gaining the democrats a net of several million votes. This is electoral suicide.
It is also (and even more importantly) insanely bad for the country. We’re talking about adding 10 million plus people (more likely 20 million) who are in a demographic (poor) that’s a net taker of public funds to the eligibility rolls over time.
So what is the motive? I’m serous here; the political motive they seem to have is flat-out impossible as it is glaringly obviosuy that the result will be the opposite of what they seem to seek, and the same is true on the economic and balanced-budget side.
So, it’s both electoral and economic suicide. And they think this is a good idea?
The Republicans involved in the current amnesty push are living proof of why the Republican party is known as “the party of stupid”.
The worst thing is it’s happened before. The Reagan amnesty was supposed to give us border enforcement too. It didn’t, yet they are essentially saying “you can trust us this time”.
I am beyond furious with the Republicans involved in this, and I’d be much more inclined to support a democrat who opposed it than one of them.
Perhaps Republicans have forgotten that in order to win, they also need Republican votes and Republican donations?
As was said in 2007, if they do this, NOT ONE DAMN DIME!
CJ, if this goes through it won’t matter if you don’t donate… because no Republican will ever win elected office again.
And yet Rubio and McCain are out there all day long, carrying Chuck Schumer’s water.
People who want more and bigger government invariably turn around and complain about politics, and politicians.
It’s like they don’t know what causes it.
Furthermore, the mission of big government is never to solve problems, but to exploit them. Because of the politics. And the politicians.
There is one, and only one, thing that big government can be counted on to do: act in the best interests of politicians.
And thus against the interests of everyone else.