looks like gin blossoms are starting to bloom...
Posted on 08/22/2015 7:13:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of human beings. To will an end is to will the means for the end, so the Republican clamors are also for the requisite expansion of government’s size and coercive powers.
Most of Donald Trump’s normally loquacious rivals are swaggeringly eager to confront Vladimir Putin but are too invertebrate — Lindsey Graham is an honorable exception — to voice robust disgust with Trump and the spirit of, the police measures necessary for and the cruelties that would accompany his policy. The policy is: “They’ve got to go.”
“They,” the approximately 11.3 million illegal immigrants (down from 12.2 million in 2007), have these attributes: Eighty-eight percent have been here at least five years. Of the 62 percent who have been here at least 10 years, about 45 percent own their own homes. About half have children who were born here and hence are citizens. Dara Lind of Vox reports that at least 4.5 million children who are citizens have at least one parent who is an illegal immigrant.
Trump evidently plans to deport almost 10 percent of California’s workers and 13 percent of that state’s K-12 students. He is, however, at his most Republican when he honors family values: He proposes to deport intact families, including children who are citizens. “We have to keep the families together,” he says, “but they have to go.” Trump would deport everyone, then “have an expedited way of getting them [“the good ones”; “when somebody is terrific”] back.” Big Brother government will identify the “good” and “terrific” from among the wretched refuse of other teeming shores.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
George Will, a pompous jerk, can kiss my lily white @ss...
Dear George,
They are lawbreakers. LAWBREAKERS. Not just once. Their are continually breaking the law by their presence here.
Why don’t you by a clue and see that the VAST majority of Americans want the lawbreakers to leave and come into the country LEGALLY.
Did Georgie write this or did his wife who is on the Walker payroll?
Pray America is waking
for a pundit he’s pretty clueless. Majority of illegal immigrants vote democrats. If they were all made legal gop would be doomed. Democrats are rigging the democratic system by importing voters. If they all gop, I highly doubt dem would be so enthusiastic in letting them in
looks like gin blossoms are starting to bloom...
As long as Republicans act like Democrats, George Will likes them fine.
Thought Georgie Will said his campaign collapsed two weeks ago?
You are absolutely right.
The a hole said the exact, I mean the exact same thing about REagan... go back and look it up...
This guy is a total loser when it comes to walking the walk... the only guy worse than this is O’Reilly... the gutless wonder, think skinned of all TV hosts....
We finally get someone who rides in, like Teddy Roosevelt... and these two imbeciles trash him...
I stopped watching O’Reilly about a year ago.....anyone who still watches this phoney baloney... is nuts...Only low informational voters do...
And he’ll tell you he’s an INDEEEEEPENDENT... He’s a joke...a coward... total coward...
Oh, do you honestly think he writes his own books? No way... he pays his ghost writer a fortune..to that for him...
He’s a total fake...and it is coming out...and Trump is exposing him....
Fox News is obviously when it pertains to Trump, the spin STARTS here...
Exactly.
And it’s the other way around from his article title. Trump’s immigration plan, or something very close, is the only thing that has a chance of saving the GOP. They can either hitch their wagon up, or be left behind, gathering dust.
The first act of an illegal alien in this country is breaking our law. Someone doesn’t have to look far to see that when their first act was to ignore one of our laws, they can’t be relied upon to respect our other laws.
Well, George, where were you when the government wasn’t enforcing the laws they passed back in ‘86?
If the Federal Government were as busy enforcing immigration laws as they do tax laws, there wouldn’t be hand-wringing over deporting criminals and the crimes they commit.
Trump’s immigration plan could and will spell doom for the GOPe, Georgie Will, Charlie KrautHumper, and a multitude of other like-minded useful idiots.
Fixed the title...
yup
Well heck, at least he will accomplish something then!!
Go Trump, Go!!
Down from 12.2 million. The man is a lying scum. There are 11 million in California.
If enforcing the law means the GOP is finished, then my all means enforce the law
“What Trump will do is not mass deportation, it will be mass enforcement of our laws.”
that is exactly what needs repeating and repeating and repeating
Good lord, what will it take for him to stop ?
Add Rove, Krauthammer and Luntz to the list.
Years ago, he was an aide to Senator Allot of CO; Allot was soon defeated, and the CO GOP has been feckless ever since. There was a two-term conservative senator, Bill Armstrong. Otherwise, not too much
Most of Donald Trump's normally loquacious rivals are swaggeringly eager to confront Vladimir Putin but are too invertebrate -- Lindsey Graham is an honorable exception -- to voice robust disgust with Trump and the spirit of, the police measures necessary for and the cruelties that would accompany his policy. The policy is: "They've got to go."
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