I enjoy and admire Michael Medved, so it is with some reluctance that I
attack his op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, which is both
cringing and cringeworthy, and represents much that is wrong with the mentality
of today’s GOP establishment. Medved
warns that Republican resistance to the immigration reform bill, and ongoing
GOP efforts to defund Obamacare, raise “false hopes among the base” but ensure
the party’s self-destruction.
He labors under the very simple misconception that a government shutdown
would be “wildly unpopular,” that there is some reservoir of public trust in
the government that would reward Republicans for making it work according to
Obama’s design. That leads Medved to nonsensical arguments, such as that
Obamacare can be “fixed,” or that the rule of law can be “extended” to those
aliens who have defied it (while others obeyed it).
In fact, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that a majority of Americans would prefer to see a
partial government shutdown rather than suffering the implementation of
Obamacare, a law that is costing both money and jobs. And opinion polls have
consistently shown that while the public supports a “path to citizenship” for
illegal immigrants, Americans want border security first--to know with
certainty that this amnesty really will be the last.....To Read More...
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