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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 1-24-2018
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The Patriot Post® · The Demos' Temporary DACA Defeat and Retreat
By Mark Alexander · Jan. 24, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/alexander/53678-the-demos-temporary-daca-defeat-and-retreat
“Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.” —James Madison (1791)
Last week, in a comprehensive analysis of the Demos’ DACA deceit1 regarding illegal immigration, I provided clear evidence of their pandering political duplicity — in their own words.
For example, during Barack Obama’s2 tenure, recall the strong condemnation of illegal immigrants by then-Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who declared3: “People who enter the U.S. without our permission are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the U.S. legally. … When we use phrases like ‘undocumented workers,’ we convey to the American people that their government is not serious about combatting illegal immigration. … I think it is illegal and wrong.”
In 2013, when Republicans were holding up government funding over Obama’s so-called “Affordable Care Act4,” Schumer declared, “No matter how strongly one feels about an issue, you shouldn’t hold millions of people hostage.”
How about in the last presidential campaign? Then-candidate Hillary Clinton5 had this to say about DACA: “We have to send a clear message — just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean your child gets to stay. We don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws.”
Right.
So what changed?
A few years ago, when the Democrats were still feigning concern for their blue-collar and union worker constituencies, whose jobs and wages have been deflated by unchecked illegal immigration, they talked tough about illegal aliens. But their proposals were all smoke and mirrors. They routinely made fake political plays for Latino and Hispanic voters6 while pursuing policies that protected their traditional constituencies.
Now, however, as its lower- and middle-income voter blocs are hemorrhaging, the Democrat Party7 is turning its back on those traditionally supportive groups and opening a socialist voter pipeline to flood America with its most promising future constituency — Latinos. And labor union fat cats, whose member rolls have also been hemorrhaging, see these largely unskilled and low-wage immigrants as their future dues payers.
As clear evidence of that disingenuous shift, former Hillary Clinton campaign aide Jennifer Palmieri let the truth slip out earlier this month when she warned in a memo that the Democrats’ fight for DACA “is also a critical component of the Democratic Party’s future electoral success8.”
It’s almost as if Democrats believe their constituents are clueless as to what their dear leaders are saying. And, sadly, that’s a pretty fair and accurate description.
So what would be the best way to disable the Trump administration’s immigration agenda to ensure the Democrats’ “future electoral success”? Why, a government shutdown over DACA9, of course, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck “The Negotiator” Schumer!
Schumer believed that Democrats could successfully blame a shutdown on Donald Trump10 and the Republicans.
But that calculation was wrong, and Republicans hung the shutdown like a noose around Schumer’s neck as Trump wisely stayed on the sidelines.
By midday Monday, Schumer was in full retreat11, claiming, “After several discussions, offers, counter-offers, the Republican leader and I have come to an arrangement … to reopen the government, to continue negotiating a global agreement, with the commitment that, if an agreement isn’t reached by February 8, the Senate will immediately proceed to consideration of legislation dealing with DACA.”
Democrats voted to support the GOP’s temporary funding resolution through February 8th, the next opportunity for a Schumer shutdown. Notably, last week House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared, “The GOP short-term resolution is like giving you a bowl of doggie doo, put a cherry on top, call it a chocolate sundae.” (Too easy to parody that remark.)
Of the temporary reprieve, Trump responded, “As I have always said, once the government is funded my administration will work toward solving the problem of very unfair illegal immigration. We will make a long-term deal on immigration if, and only if, it is good for our country.”
However, the Left’s response to the Democrats12 was swift and brutal — and even the Democrats’ most entrenched MSM propagandists13 conceded this was a humiliating defeat.
The Washington Post14 lamented, “Democrats Lost Their Nerve In The Shutdown Battle,” noting, “What’s clear is that on the very first day of the shutdown on which the federal government was actually supposed to be open, Democrats pretty quickly took a deal that was well shy of what they were demanding.”
WaPo’s congressional reporter Erica Werner said in disgust, “We now await Democrats’ spin about how this isn’t a cave.”
The Associated Press15 led with “Shutdown deal puts spotlight on Dem leader,” noting, “For two days, Schumer … succeeded in keeping his party unified. But as the shutdown moved into its third day, the New York Democrat and his party buckled as several Democrats backed a deal to end the shutdown.”
And there was more condemnation to follow!
According to a New York Times headline16, “Democrats Blink In Shutdown Impasse.”
CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta, conceded: “‘Trump wins again…’ Schumer and Dems ‘caved … gambled and lost.’”
CNN’s Chris Cuomo said Democrats got “spooked and the GOP got a boost. They got a deal to make a deal. Maybe.” |
