When is a ‘crisis’ not a crisis? When it is GOPropaganda

He’s baaack! Suffering under the delusion that the GOP really wants him and needs him, that scion of the Bush Dynasty, Jeb Bush, along with his own version of “Bush’s brain,” Clint Bolick from the “Kochtopus” Death Star, the Goldwater Institute, have an op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal (pay wall) detailing their solution to immigration reform and the influx of child refugees from Central America.

“We’ve had enough Bushes.” – Barbara Bush

Ed Kilgore at the Political Animal blog dissects this piece in Jeb’s Tin Ear:

Today [Jeb’s] got an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with conservative movement warhorse Clint Bolick about the refugee crisis. Most of it is standard GOP rhetoric about the fecklessness of the Obama administration and the accidental impact of Anti-Trafficking legislation. But then, at the very end, the authors run off the rails:

The best antidote to illegal immigration is a functioning system of legal immigration. We must rebuild one that is economically driven—for example, looking for those whose skills and drive will make a difference—in our national interest and true to our immigrant heritage.

President Obama has promised to once again act unilaterally if Congress fails to take up immigration reform. Now is the time for House Republicans to demonstrate leadership on this issue. Congress should not use the present crisis as an excuse to defer comprehensive immigration reform. Whether President Obama is making health-care policy by fiat or using the Environmental Protection Agency to circumvent the lawmaking process, we have too often seen what happens when the president oversteps his constitutional authority. Avoiding similar disastrous results will require legislative action by both parties.

No, Jeb, no, that’s the wrong answer. The right answer is to do nothing about the broader issue of immigration, making “border security” the priority for the next year or five years or fifty years. And when the time is ripe, we don’t want to hear any of your “guest worker” bushwa, either; that’ s just another form of “amnesty” for lawbreakers. It’s time to round ‘em up and move ‘em out, or at least pretend that’s what we are going to do.

This isn’t a real hard “message from the base” to discern. I’m really beginning to think this guy doesn’t want to be president after all.

No, but Clint Bolick and the “Kochtopus” Death Star, the Goldwater Institute, really, really, really want to be inside the White House. They hitched their ride to the wrong horse. Tea-Pubicans are not listening to Jeb Bush.

Tea-Publicans in Congress, who for weeks now have been hair-on-fire crazy on FAUX News about the “crisis” of undocumented refugee children crossing the border from Central America, intend to do nothing before the August recess. The GOP cannot rightly call this a “crisis” when they intend to do nothing.

Tea-Publicans want to force President Obama’s hand to deal with this “crisis” in a humanitarian way by executive orders — and then use his executive orders as a pretext for impeaching the president. GOP leaders are telegraphing this strategy.

The GOP hasn’t considered the long-term consequences of this strategy: impeaching the president over immigration will cement the image of the GOP as the anti-immigrant “white man’s party,” and whatever hope the GOP had for appealing to minority voters will forever be lost. The changing demographics of America will send the GOP the way of the Know-Nothing Party and cast it onto the ash heap of history.

Greg Sargent has the GOP strategy in the Morning Plum today:

CONSERVATIVES URGE GOP NOT TO ACT ON BORDER: House Republicans yesterday rolled out their plan to address the border crisis, and the Post reports that Ted Cruz is urging House conservatives to hold firm against any compromise. And this is perfect: As the Post reports, none other than Steve King is praising Cruz’s fortitude in this regard.

As noted here yesterday, House Republicans may not be able to pass any border crisis plan, because conservatives are explicitly urging the GOP to do nothing at all because it could lead to negotiations with the Senate over immigration, which is an absolute No No.

QUOTE OF THE DAY, OBAMA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME EDITION: Also from the above Post story, this explanation from Steve King as to why conservatives may oppose any final border bill is instructive:

“We’re putting our head in the noose and associating ourselves with the president’s problem.”

And there you have it. Conservatives must not support any response to the crisis because it will not only lead to negotiations with the Senate, but because it will help #Obummer clean up “his” mess.

The GOP is firmly in thrall to anti-immigrant extremists and demagogues like  Steve “cantaloupe calves” King and Ted “Calgary” Cruz who want to deport the estimated 11 million immigrants already here, and to build a double-barrier wall with a flaming mote and asbestos alligators along the Mexican border. Too bad we didn’t have this along the Canadian border to keep Canadian born Cuban immigrant Ted Cruz out.