No, it isn’t. You want to come live in the real world, fine, come over and we’ll talk. You want to talk about a dream land where everything is perfect, wait until Jesus gets back.
I’m happy to have an adult discussion about this. But politics is about chipping away gradually at an issue in order to get to a long-term goal.
By the way, if you have a magic wand that will fix the immigration problem, let me know — I want to see you wave it.
So, by that standard, an anti-abortion politician should vote no on a partial-birth abortion ban, simply because it is not the whole enchilada?
Returning the issue to the states means that abortion at least slows down throughout red state America. It makes it possible to enact reasonable restrictions even in the blue states. It puts power into the hands of the people of each state, rather than in the Hillary Clintons and the Ted Kennedys.
No, it ain't the whole enchilada, but it's progress.