{"id":1672,"date":"2010-05-29T02:24:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T09:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2010-05-29T02:24:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T09:24:35","slug":"14th-amendment-under-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/29\/14th-amendment-under-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"14th Amendment Under Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

The controversy over this one is just beginning.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"China-flag\"<\/a> Congressman Barney Frank, in an interview with Shanghai Peoples Daily<\/font>, announced his support for a Constitutional Amendment stating that no people born outside the borders of the United States should receive automatic citizenship.  \u201cPeople not born here are not true Americans,\u201d Frank said.  \u201cTo become citizens, they should undergo the same naturalization process as any other foreigner.\u201d  This would impact the children of diplomats and military families born abroad.<\/p>\n

Republicans have been adamant in their response.  Mitch McConnell called it a Democrat party takeover of our freedoms<\/font>.  Michelle Bachmann said<\/font>, \u201cFrank is trying to distract us from our legitimate claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.\u201d  John Boehner commented<\/font>, \u201cDemocrat socialist-fascists went to a communist publication to announce their betrayal of America.  John McCain, who was born in Panama, called it a \u201cpersonal attack against me<\/font>.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The preceding citation is completely bogus.  I made it up.  But can you imagine the screaming hissy fit that the GOP would have if it were true?<\/font><\/p>\n

The fact here is that the 14th Amendment is indeed under attack, in an interview with foreign press, but the culprit is Rand Paul, who wants to negate the citizenship of undocumented aliens born here.<\/font><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann covered the issue with Thomas Frank.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Why is it that Republicans harp on the Constitution but use it for decoration only?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The controversy over this one is just beginning. Congressman Barney Frank, in an interview with Shanghai Peoples Daily, announced his support for a Constitutional Amendment stating that no people born outside the borders of the United States should receive automatic citizenship.  \u201cPeople not born here are not true Americans,\u201d Frank said.  \u201cTo become citizens, they […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}