[Steelfish]

This is pure theatrics. I won’t pass the Senate (maybe Reid will not even put it up to a vote) and in any event a certain presidential veto. So what’s the point about all this? Unless Congress acts, illegals are entitled to free k-12 education. What does the Bill do to this? Driver’s licenses for illegals? The Bill does not address any of this.

[Starstruck]

This is pure theatrics.

So the House should just sit on their hands and do nothing? This is what Obama on the campaign trail is saying they are doing. They don't have any solutions. Start passing bills out of the House and make Reid be the obstruction. Make the Democrats be the do nothing party.

[SamuraiScot]

So what’s the point about all this?

It's Gowdy, doing the job he was elected to do:

Propose a good, effective, Constitutional measure.

At minimum, it's a great weapon to use on Democratic candidates THIS FALL who oppose it. This Obamigration thing is absolutely killing them in the polls now.

Even if it doesn't pass, it gives the States more cultural momentum to do just as Levin says and enforce the borders themselves, with or without the measure. It gives us a head-start on sending all those Guatemalan gangsters home.

It reminds the American people in a tangible way what their real rights are, how their government is supposed to work, and what "normal" means.

This is leadership. You don't get victory in one battle. But, Congress or not, States could start doing this next week.

[Resettozero]

This is pure theatrics.

Take it you don't like Gowdy's idea much. It makes good sense.

Yet almost anything Gowdy says these days is usually labelled as theatrics (in so many words) by one FR poster or another.

[uncitizen]

If its not theatrics then Gowdy must be getting serious threats on his life and that of his family members. That is how the Obama gang rolls.