{"id":8144,"date":"2012-06-24T11:33:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T18:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2012-06-24T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T18:33:53","slug":"republican-bullshtology-to-excuse-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/24\/republican-bullshtology-to-excuse-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Bullsh*tology to Excuse Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Willard and the Republican Party have a problem.  After they supported such egalitarian policies as Papers Please and self-deportation, after they unanimously voted against the Dream Act, and since they are pandering to racists and nativists for support, they need to cover that all up, they are trying find reason to oppose Obama\u2019s immigration policy that do not highlight the truth their actions have revealed.  For the results they deserve a PhD in Bullsh*tilogy.  (PhD = Piled Higher and Deeper.)<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24GOPImmigration\"Last week, President Barack Obama announced a Department of Homeland Security directive allowing undocumented immigrants eligible for the DREAM Act to avoid deportation and acquire work authorization<\/a>. People who were brought to the country under the age of 16, have been here longer than five years, and are under the age of 30 are eligible, but only if they don’t have a criminal record and they have graduated high school, obtained a GED, or served in the armed forces. <\/p>\n

Republicans have voiced a number of objections to the new policy, but many of them are complete nonsense. Here are just a few of the false narratives we’ve seen repeated over the past few days:<\/p>\n

This is amnesty!<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

This is the DREAM Act by fiat!<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

It’s a power grab!<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Republicans would have compromised, if only Obama had let them!<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Republicans would compromise, if only Obama secured the border!<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Obama had his chance to reform immigration and didn’t make it a priority!<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Obama messed things up for Rubio!<\/strong>… [emphasis original]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Mother Jones<\/a>><\/p>\n

Needless to say, all these reasons listed, except for the last, are lies.<\/font><\/p>\n

The source article is a goldmine of information and links.  What I have done is shared only the heading for each section.  I strongly encourage you to click through and read the rest.<\/font><\/p>\n

I could be not more pleased that Republicans are doing such an excellent job of alienating Latinos for the sake of pleasing racists and nativists.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Willard and the Republican Party have a problem.  After they supported such egalitarian policies as Papers Please and self-deportation, after they unanimously voted against the Dream Act, and since they are pandering to racists and nativists for support, they need to cover that all up, they are trying find reason to oppose Obama\u2019s immigration policy […]<\/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-8144","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\/8144","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=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}