Some of us are appreciative of your insight and comments on the issue. You have to admit that to those of us that didn’t have any background on this issue, this is all pretty strange and with the thousand other screw-jobs Obama has done, this is something giving us pause.
Some of us have posted with you for all these many years and we know your bonafides — many of us would rather grip first and investigate second.
Absolutely. And I do not believe that America should take these people. This is Australia's mess and America has no obligation to help solve it. And I think at the moment securing your borders clearly and unequivocally is very important and there shouldn't be anything that looks like an exception or backing down.
But I just want the decision to be made based on facts and accurate information. That's important. Or at least it should be.
Conservatives should be the rational ones insisting decisions are based on facts. OK, I'd like it if the progressives were rational as well, but that worries me less.