Welcome back and great links, Molly! I especially liked the Kagan one about winning, and Sowell’s “take” on the immigration debacle. I read on NRO’s Corner yesterday that we conservatives CAN make a difference by contacting our Congresscritters, by speaking out, and by resisting amnesty for lawbreakers.
I think the reason the immigration “deal” is so repugnant to conservatives is that it condones erosion of the laws of this country with the shallow excuse that it is “good for the economy”. Well, it can be argued that murdering old people or homeless people are “good for the economy”, too, but that doesn’t make them legal or right, and we don’t grant those criminals amnesty for their acts, which is what Sowell has been saying.
I just want a couple of our pubbie Congresscritters to have the courage to stand up and say: I was elected to uphold the laws of this great country, not to defeat them by destroying the fabric of the justice system. I oppose amnesty for criminals, whether they violate our immigration laws or any other laws in force. Every citizen in the US should want that we all play by the same rules and follow the same laws, and not exempt some people who disrespect our laws. (/wishful thinking)