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REPUBLICANS SHOULD TRY DOING SOMETHING POPULAR
December 20, 2017
When the Titanic struck an iceberg, the crew might have rushed to the storeroom, grabbed the materials and spruced up the ship with a shiny new coat of paint. Women in their beautiful fur coats could stand on deck, admiring the lustrous sheen, as everyone pointed to it saying, "What a thing of beauty!"
The new paint job would have "succeeded" to the extent that it would make the Titanic more lovely, but today we would recognize that it might have been kind of beside the point.
Word has now reached us that congressional Republicans have passed tax reform. Everyone is standing around admiring the lustrous sheen, pointing to it and saying, "what a thing of beauty!"
The iceberg is immigration and the Titanic is our country.
Picking the battleground on which to fight is one of the most important advantages the ruling party has. But instead of choosing the fights that make Republicans heroes and Democrats swine, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have decided to lead with the GOP's least popular ideas.
They're being bullied by rent-seekers, hucksters and people who don't have America's self-interest as their No. 1 concern -- or in their top 20 concerns. Cheap labor advocates don't actively hate America, like university professors do. They're just indifferent to it. We wish you the best of luck getting re-elected, but in the meantime, we need more foreign workers.
If the Chamber of Commerce's arguments were popular, they'd make them boldly and loudly! Instead, the mass immigration advocates make their case quietly behind closed doors.
Republicans seem to be afraid of having the argument about immigration. What they ought to fear is NOT having that argument.
They need to hold months-long debates on building the wall, ending the anchor baby scam, shutting down sanctuary cities, restricting "refugees," having a total immigration moratorium, and on and on and on.
Not only will they be saving the country, but Republicans will be bewildered by how popular they'll be. Why haven't we been talking about immigration for the past 20 years?
Didn't everyone else just watch a reality TV star win the presidency by running on immigration? Imagine those same issues being pushed by you guys. Wouldn't it be fun to be popular for a change?
Whether out of cowardice or stupidity, Republicans keep pushing 10-to-40-percent-popular ideas, while leaving the 70-to-90-percent-popular ideas on the table.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-12-20.html
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Now, I don't agree with everything Coulter is saying here, but there are 2 key points she is right about.
A full moratorium on all immigration would be popular, and tax breaks are not what Trump was elected to do.
Those first time voters, or voters that hadn't come out in 30 years for trump, didn't do so for trump to cut taxes, and threaten war with Iran. If that was the case, they would have voted for Bush.
Discuss.....
December 20, 2017
When the Titanic struck an iceberg, the crew might have rushed to the storeroom, grabbed the materials and spruced up the ship with a shiny new coat of paint. Women in their beautiful fur coats could stand on deck, admiring the lustrous sheen, as everyone pointed to it saying, "What a thing of beauty!"
The new paint job would have "succeeded" to the extent that it would make the Titanic more lovely, but today we would recognize that it might have been kind of beside the point.
Word has now reached us that congressional Republicans have passed tax reform. Everyone is standing around admiring the lustrous sheen, pointing to it and saying, "what a thing of beauty!"
The iceberg is immigration and the Titanic is our country.
Picking the battleground on which to fight is one of the most important advantages the ruling party has. But instead of choosing the fights that make Republicans heroes and Democrats swine, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have decided to lead with the GOP's least popular ideas.
They're being bullied by rent-seekers, hucksters and people who don't have America's self-interest as their No. 1 concern -- or in their top 20 concerns. Cheap labor advocates don't actively hate America, like university professors do. They're just indifferent to it. We wish you the best of luck getting re-elected, but in the meantime, we need more foreign workers.
If the Chamber of Commerce's arguments were popular, they'd make them boldly and loudly! Instead, the mass immigration advocates make their case quietly behind closed doors.
Republicans seem to be afraid of having the argument about immigration. What they ought to fear is NOT having that argument.
They need to hold months-long debates on building the wall, ending the anchor baby scam, shutting down sanctuary cities, restricting "refugees," having a total immigration moratorium, and on and on and on.
Not only will they be saving the country, but Republicans will be bewildered by how popular they'll be. Why haven't we been talking about immigration for the past 20 years?
Didn't everyone else just watch a reality TV star win the presidency by running on immigration? Imagine those same issues being pushed by you guys. Wouldn't it be fun to be popular for a change?
Whether out of cowardice or stupidity, Republicans keep pushing 10-to-40-percent-popular ideas, while leaving the 70-to-90-percent-popular ideas on the table.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-12-20.html
_____________________________
Now, I don't agree with everything Coulter is saying here, but there are 2 key points she is right about.
A full moratorium on all immigration would be popular, and tax breaks are not what Trump was elected to do.
Those first time voters, or voters that hadn't come out in 30 years for trump, didn't do so for trump to cut taxes, and threaten war with Iran. If that was the case, they would have voted for Bush.
Discuss.....
