Has Obama's penchant for governing by imperial dictum inadvertently [or possibly unavoidably] given cover to GOP house to do as it pleases on the immigration bill? Having effectively rewritten a part of Obamacare by royal decree [actually, a blog posting] it seems to me the GOP can now legitimately claim that it is impossible to deal with the 'amnesty' issue under this president because he cannot be trusted to abstain from simply rewriting the bill once it's law in order to suit and serve the political ends of the left. Sure, if the press refuses to push back on the Obama Imperium it may be a hard message to sell - and yes, you're gonna be demagogued as racists, but that was going to happen no matter what - still, looks like there's cover in it to me.
The problem with immigration reform has always been one of trust and the people promoting and defending the Gang of Eight bill either for some reason don't see that problem, are grossly underestimating it, or are in denial - or they're just flat out lying. I mean, David Brooks went on a bit of rant the other day over how he thought it incomprehensible that the GOP was not sold on the Gang of Eight bill, could see no rational reason for them not to embrace it - but even if allowing the point made by him to be judged reasonable it is still only true if the bill is enacted as written - if once a law it's to be constantly undermined and twisted and abused in order to serve a liberal agenda, well then that's a pretty damn good reason for the GOP to reject it, or reject at least the amnesty part of it. Now, Brooks is a smart guy so how can it be he's not seeing this? Either he's glossing over the truth in the name of advocacy, or he's in denial about how corrupt and self serving the administration is.
