What About Mitch and Paul

14 September 2017

Cogito Ergo Non Serviam

Trump, Dems Closer on DACA Legislation

Last night, President Donald Trump hosted a dinner at the White House with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). During the affair, they appear to have found some common ground on the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals situation. The kids who came here without papers years ago face deportation thanks to the president's decision to lift the Obama administration's executive order that lets them stay safely. Congress may now act to settle their situation permanently. While the deal announced by the Democrats doesn't appear to be a deal as the White House tells it, there is reason to believe its just a matter of time before there is one.

The Washington Post said, "Trump said that he and Congress are 'fairly close' to a deal and that Republican leaders Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) are 'very much on board' with a deal that would address DACA. The agreement must include 'massive border security,' Trump said in response to shouted questions about whether he had reached a deal on the terms Schumer and Pelosi had described."

His wall along the southern border is not part of this arrangement, but the president claims that the construction authorization will come later.

Congressman Steve King (R-IA) had a fit on behalf of the crypto-fascist right. "The base will leave him -- they can't support him anymore. I am talking about my constituents in Iowa that will say you need to be behind trump. I am. I support his entire agenda .... I support the agenda Trump had when he went into office and I support almost every piece of the agenda -- except the amnesty piece being dangled, and that's so destructive to a first world country. If you do not have the rule of law or respect for that law, the people writing the immigration laws are the people breaking them. We had a protest here, DREAMers coming up demanding we give them amnesty. What right do law breakers have to make demands from the citizens of the United States of America. If anything, they should be pleading for it and not demanding."

Congressman King, of course, is either an idiot or is willfully conflating the law-breaking of Dreamers' parents (who came without papers as adults, a misdemeanor) with the innocence in the eyes of the law of anyone under a given age. The average Dreamer arrived at the age of six -- no state in the union recognizes someone of that age as being capable of a crime. They are too young to have the moral awareness needed to commit a crime. When one is six, one does as the parent says. Mr. King, a self-proclaimed Christian ought to understand "honor thy father and thy mother" includes a degree of obedience. Changing countries because the parents say so is part of that.

Mr. Trump is climbing down from a ridiculous position. Deciding that the Obama era order needed to go as part of his desperate attempt to erase Mr. Obama's legacy, he found himself arguing for the deportation of the least threatening bunch of non-Americans. His base has nowhere to go. Those who continue to support him do so out of blind faith in his alleged super-powers as a negotiator. The wall will come, he has promised, and they take that to the bank.

The real question is whether Senator McConnell and Congressman Ryan are, indeed, on board. Sadly, Mr. Trump saying that they are doesn't mean anything. His word is worth nothing. A deal with Senator Schumer and Congresswoman Pelosi is irrelevant if Mr. Ryan doesn't want to bring a bill to the floor of the House or if Senator McConnell decides he doesn't want it reported out of committee.

The real deal makers are in Congress. The Democrats seem to be willing to help. It's now up to the GOP in the House and the Senate. But then, it always was.

© Copyright 2017 by The Kensington Review, Jeff Myhre, PhD, Editor. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent. Produced using Ubuntu Linux.



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