Friday, September 15, 2017

"Amnesty Deal Would Be a Huge Win for Trump Foes"

Via InstapunditIf President Trump reverses his campaign promises and supports a DACA amnesty then within the span of a few days he would do to himself what the combined efforts of the Democratic National Committee, the Republican establishment, the Clinton campaign, and an openly hostile media couldn’t do: knee-cap his presidency and separate himself from his base.

Amnesty is where Republican careers go to die. Just ask Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) whose own 2016 presidential run was stillborn because he backed the 2012 “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill after promising voters in 2010 he would do no such thing.

Guess who offered Marco the apple back in 2012? Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). The same Chuck Schumer who is in the process of leading another electorally successful Republican to break faith with his base. But this time it’s the president.

Little did Democrats or establishment Republicans know that in order to separate Trump from the people who elected him, all they had to do was send a New York Democrat to pitch an amnesty bill.

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10 comments:

edutcher said...

Oh, Christ, this is getting silly.

The only word we have for this is Chuckie Schumer's.

Trump has said the Wall is off the table and Chuckie hasn't been in front of a camera in so long, the makeup's congealed worse than Pelosi Galore's face.

Amartel said...

Just watching Chuck and Nancy fake celebrating a fictional nonimminent victory is triggering to people. I think Trump supporters would accept a fair deal in exchange for allowing the fake kids of DACA (they're not kids but you know you're being lied to when someone describing the issue uses that term) to stay so long as the amnesty did not extend to anyone else in their families. The argument is that these "kids" have committed to violation as they were brought here by their parents when they were young and now they're all integrated into our society (albeit not enough to apply for citizenship, apparently, but whatever ...). Fine. So we ought to reward the parents who uprooted them from their native land and cruelly imported them illegally? And the rest of the family who profitted from this move? No way. No apron string or 30 year old anchor babies. Fuck that. And no criminals, either. Being integrated into American society does not include participating in American crime. Go back and do all that in your native land.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

ed, there are two sides to this story. It is not as rosey as you and Surber are making it, nor is it as bad as others would try to have us belief. It is a fluid issue with both danger and opportunity. Trump is no fool, but not everything he does is brilliant. He makes mistakes.
Seeing some push back from Trump's base is a good thing for Trump. Trump will respond to that. Border security is critical and Trump really needs that now to help him in the midterms. Unfortunately we can't trust to GOPe to carry through either.

Schumer is a snake and liar, but he also can set a trap.

ricpic said...

Hey, if Trump wants to commit political suicide there's no law that he can't.

Chip Ahoy said...

Hearing Schumer described as a snake reminds one of the Aesop story Trump told at each campaign stop. And here he is taking up the snake handling practice knowing Schumer for what he is. While the same can be said of Schumer and Pelosi who must regard Trump as at least a snake.

Snakes.

Speaking of snake pits, ever see one of those? They are nothing much to see. Worse than a zoo. One time we were driving across country. We did that a couple of times, actually. Dad liked to drive. Weird, huh? If not all the way across country, sometimes half way, Penn to Louisiana, a couple of times. The whole way, Penn to Los Angeles one time. Los Angeles to Louisiana, Shreveport to Biloxi several times, Biloxi to Penn, N. Carolina to Ohio. All over the whole f'k'n place a bunch of times. Looking back when you add it all up, that really was weird. Mixed in with flying all around. It was ridiculous. Anyway, on one of those long drives we stopped at a souvenir highway attraction site with a snake pit attraction, along with other very odd things that nobody wants. Naturally Barry and I were the most interested in seeing the snakes. We peered over the pit and regarded the snakes down below in the dark. They were pathetic. We both felt sorry for the snakes and our opinion of the souvenir highway attraction place diminished. Just a bunch of snakes trapped in a pit piled up on each other. We felt pity for them. Like a dungeon. We wanted to set them loose to wreck havoc upon the desert environment. They didn't deserve that dungeon pit treatment. Even worse is a snake kept in an aquarium. Their entire herpetological world contained in a glass box. It's not right. Do you imagine the snake is in there thinking, oh man, this is ace, sitting around in this container nice and safe from predators and being hand fed by a human and milked for my venom. No. They escape the first chance they get.

Speaking of death by asp, that's a favorite crossword clue paired with Cleopatra. How romantic. Did you know that Cleopatra was actually the seventh? She was not Egyptian. She was Greek. And this is a bit odd. We pronounce Ptolemy as Tall-emy. Yet the hieroglyphics for that royal name has a little square box meaning "P" so in that language the "P" is pronounced or else it wouldn't be chiseled in stone. Along with another "UE" sign, they're showing that they pronounced the name Petuelemy. Pe-twel-emyIf you like, scroll to end to see it.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

When I was a calf, I used to catch snakes and keep them for a few days. Then let them go.

What exactly is Egyptian? It has been a melting pot of culture and people for thousands of years. The Ptolemy were Greek, but earlier than that were mostly a light brown mocha white Semetic North African people, with some occasional upper Egypt Sudanese leaders.

bagoh20 said...

Stupid is as stupid does, and Trump did join the stupid party. Every Republican President in my lifetime has made a huge mistake with immigration. It's kind of a thing.

ndspinelli said...

Baghdad Ed is in Full Monty mode.

ricpic said...

"Dad liked to drive. Weird, huh?"

Not at all. It has to do with rapture. Those who love to drive will understand. Those who don't won't.

Larry McMurtry wrote a little book, Roads, about his continental driving jags, east to west and north to south mainly. It is about a state you get into driving long distances, a state of rapture inaccessible any other way.. Mainly he drove north to south and south to north over his beloved high plains country, the country he was born and raised on.

edutcher said...

I see the weed wacker, as always, has nothing intelligent to say, so he insists on saying it. And he is wrong as he's been for 2 years, but he keeps carrying Erick Erickson's water.

And, no, the Libertarians, or their shadow alt-right, are never going to become a national party by conning the Conservatives into buying the idea they're the voice of the American Right.

PS The Eminent Mr Surber has a warning for those who get their analysis of the clown car now known as Breitbart.

Or, as he calls it, Steve Bannon's Personal Department of Perpetual Publicity.