“IT’S POLITICS!!!”<\/p>\n
I find the fracus\u00c2\u00a0of attention surrounding\u00c2\u00a0Lindsey Graham fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0 Harry Reid put aside the Cap and Trade bill in favor of next tackling Immigration.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 See what amounts to the Conventional Wisdom here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I guess it ends with this?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0mollification? \u00c2\u00a0 Can you “mollify” Lindsey Graham at this moment? \u00c2\u00a0But\u00c2\u00a0in the meantime, the political gamesmanship swayed every which way.\u00c2\u00a0 I am linking to the National Review’s “Corner”\u00c2\u00a0because — well, it presents the Republican interpretation of events here<\/a>…<\/p>\n There is an old adage in Washington, sometimes you can choose a bill or you can choose an issue. The Democrats know they are not going to get an immigration bill out of this. They want the issue and they want it now.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And Harry Reid wants it personally because he thinks it’s a Hail Mary that might help him in Nevada where he is way behind, and it might. And Obama wants it because he thinks it will galvanize his base.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Charles Krauthammer, ladies and gentlemen.\u00c2\u00a0 Genius?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Immigration slices and dices every which way, politically, — boosts and depresses both parties and boosts and depresses\u00c2\u00a0parts of\u00c2\u00a0the bases –\u00c2\u00a0and if Obama and Reid could somehow lend it to neutrality, they would.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, they’ll take the up-side — suddenly that 60 – 40 Hispanic advantage just balloons right on up.\u00c2\u00a0 It may well be that “Cap and Trade” was doomed, just as it may well be Immigration is doomed.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you, National Review.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose you could go ahead and go to things certainly not doomed — House Resolutions celebrating the anniversary of Beatle Bailey is rather non-controversial.\u00c2\u00a0 From the Republican way of thinking, everything is doomed before the election cycle: they have 41 Votes in the Senate, they’re filibustering away.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama comes in with a heavy load of pledges through a campaign designed to\u00c2\u00a0demand a lot of pledges (ie: it’s a long one) — and the Senate trips its way through one of them, and on to the other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In consideration of labelling the policy shiftings “politics”, sometimes there’s matters of policies that go with your politics.\u00c2\u00a0 The Governor of Arizona called\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Federal Government on this, didn’t she?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Lindsey Graham is a putz.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “IT’S POLITICS!!!” I find the fracus\u00c2\u00a0of attention surrounding\u00c2\u00a0Lindsey Graham fascinating.\u00c2\u00a0 Harry Reid put aside the Cap and Trade bill in favor of next tackling Immigration.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 See what amounts to the Conventional Wisdom here. I guess it ends with this?\u00c2\u00a0mollification? \u00c2\u00a0 Can you “mollify” Lindsey Graham at this moment? \u00c2\u00a0But\u00c2\u00a0in the meantime, the political gamesmanship swayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}