{"id":62090,"date":"2017-02-08T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62090"},"modified":"2017-02-07T22:31:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T04:31:26","slug":"tantrum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62090","title":{"rendered":"Tantrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">California Democrats threaten to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2017\/01\/30\/calif-to-consider-enacting-statewide-sanctuary\/\"><span class=\"s2\">entire state a \u2018sanctuary state\u2019<\/span><\/a> by forbidding local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials. Trump, of course, has threatened to withhold federal funds from states that flout federal law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">This could work out really well in the long run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Start by withholding funds from California.\u00a0 They\u2019ll either cave in, or they\u2019ll learn to get along without federal money.\u00a0 If they cave, we win.\u00a0 If they live without the money, we still win, because it helps reduce the amount of money the federal government needs to balance its budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If enough states join the sanctuary movement, we can eliminate federal funding altogether and go back to the way the Constitution was intended to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Genius.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\">I love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: California Democrats threaten to make the entire state a \u2018sanctuary state\u2019 by forbidding local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials. Trump, of course, has threatened to withhold federal funds from states that flout federal law. \u00a0This could work out really well in the long run.\u00a0 \u00a0Start by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62091,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62090\/revisions\/62091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}