{"id":9098,"date":"2010-03-08T08:14:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T13:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2010-03-07T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T14:14:35","slug":"stupid-like-a-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9098","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Like A Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allahpundit at <em>Hot Air <\/em>on <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/03\/05\/you-know-what-america-needs-now-a-brutal-political-battle-over-amnesty\/\">the administration&#8217;s push on amnesty for illegals<\/a>, quoting his former boss Michelle Malkin, notes that while these things pop up from time to time&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;maybe this time is different.<\/p>\n<p><em> Obama took up the issue privately with his staff Monday in a bid to advance a bill through Congress before lawmakers become too distracted by approaching midterm elections\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If anyone can deliver immigration reform to America, it\u2019s an \u201cassertive\u201d president with a 45 percent approval rating who\u2019s lost three big state elections in a row.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this isn&#8217;t about giving green cards to illegals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wild card is the GOP. Obama obviously wants to use this as wedge issue, to try to cut the Dems\u2019 losses in November by reminding Latino voters that Republicans are \u201cnativists\u201d or whatever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an attempt at a wedge and a distraction; Obama believes he can count on a thick film of GOP sovereignty activists to put a crack in the party&#8217;s opposition, and get the Tea Party &#8211; whose members are largely anti-illegal-immigration, but it&#8217;s not the Parties&#8217; focus by any means &#8211; to divert its attention.<\/p>\n<p>So will Obama&#8217;s fragile, panicky cohort of Blue Dogs stay the curse?<\/p>\n<p><em>Course<\/em>, I mean.\u00a0 Will they stay the course?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahpundit at Hot Air on the administration&#8217;s push on amnesty for illegals, quoting his former boss Michelle Malkin, notes that while these things pop up from time to time&#8230; &#8230;maybe this time is different. Obama took up the issue privately with his staff Monday in a bid to advance a bill through Congress before lawmakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","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=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}