Once Upon a DREAM, Republicans Used To Be Against This

Remember those days?

Was the DREAM Act really that a bad idea?  Probably not… and it deserved constitutional debate.

Unfortunately, Obama ripped that process apart.  That should anger everyone regardless of your political beliefs.

Let’s hypothesize, shall we?  Seal the borders and enforce the laws today.  What happens to the 8-20 million people here in the United States?  Do we cattlecar them back to their point of origin?  What civil liberties are you willing to surrender to satisfy the “deport them all now!” crowd?

The idea of offering non-citizens legal entry while getting an education in the United States already exists — it’s called a visa.  Offering illegal immigrants a path to citizenship while getting an education isn’t a bad solution, folks.  Not to mention being much more humane than police officers, SWAT teams, and ripping mothers away from sons.

The DREAM Act — though imperfect — was an excellent starting point for honest conversation.

…but I digress.  That conversation isn’t necessary… because this guy says it’s not:

Two hearts that beat as one… because every day is Valentines Day at the DNC.

Regardless as to whether or not voices such as Marco Rubio’s earnestly search for genuine immigration reform was something one could agree with or not, the problem is simple.

Obama hijacked that entire conversation.

Through executive order.

…and threw the entire democratic process under the bus.

Frequent readers here at Bearing Drift know that I have a much more catholic (lowercase-c intended) solution to America’s immigration problem than some of our more nativist friends within the GOP.  Obviously, there are voices on the left that would do away with sovereignty altogether — an equally dangerous and reactionary move to counterbalance the inherent nativism on the other side of the argument.

But that conversation can’t be held in a constitutional framework anymore… because Obama and his administration believe themselves to be above such constraints.

That’s a different sort of crisis altogether.

When writers such as Victor Davis Hanson pen articles that scream we are living in revolutionary times, folks need to be worried.  Obama knows that his time is short… and his advisors also know that in the wake of losing blue-collar Americans by promoting same-sex marriages, Obama desperately needs a new electorate.

So 15 million illegal immigrants given the right to vote, followed by rumors of a “reeferendum” on Obama by legalizing marijuana, and another push to cap student debt (and therefore create another credit bubble in the process) and there you have it — Obama in a masterstroke changes the political dynamic of America by working outside of the box.

Revolutionary times indeed.  This time, it’s not the Tea Party demanding constitutional principles — it’s a total rewriting of the principles informing the document.

The problem today is that Republicans as a whole are amazingly quite silent about this constitutional crisis.  No longer content to balance the debate, or even preserve the rubric under which constitutional debate can be held, Republican are either sadly silent or even worse — mildly appreciative of what Obama is doing… provided the pendulum swings to the right in November.

Really?

…because if that’s the best we got, the Libertarian Party is just around the corner.

It’s time for Republicans to set aside some of our differences in the micro to start focusing on the values we share in the macro.

This clear usurpation of power isn’t something alien and strange.  Obama is doing precisely what he promised he would do.  The question remains whether our senators and representatives in Washington are going to do anything about it: grind the government to a complete stop, repeal the ability of the president to use “emergency powers” typically found by Hugo Chavez or some Latin American dictatorship, and fix the problem immediately.

It’s time to reset the American conversation.  Republicans have it within their power to slam the breaks on this sort of usurpation of power.  I doubt we’ll do it… but a guy can dream, can’t he?

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