{"id":2959,"date":"2010-02-01T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T19:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2010-02-01T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T19:59:23","slug":"but-they-will-be-back-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/but-they-will-be-back-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"But they will be back next  year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NRO Online<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monday, February 01, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nStick a Fork in It   <\/strong>[Mark Krikorian]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amnesty advocates are still clinging to the fiction that a &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; immigration bill is possible this year. The reality is, as a &#8220;veteran Senate lobbyist&#8221; tells the Post, &#8220;immigration is deader than a doornail.&#8221; This is why the amnesty crowd is getting testy with their man in the White House. Luis Gutierrez, amnesty&#8217;s loudest champion in the House, said of the president&#8217;s state of the union speech, &#8220;He was very weak on immigration, lackadaisical.&#8221; And Frank Sharry, one of the top left-wing amnesty lobbyists, said, &#8220;I had very low expectations, but [the president] surprised even me with how little he said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know schadenfreude is an unworthy sentiment, but in the absence of real victory (i.e., reducing immigration), it&#8217;ll have to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>02\/01 02:02 PMShare<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MTQ2M2Q0ZTRjYjRhMjNkOWM1MWVmYjYwMTY2NTMzMjk=&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRO Online Monday, February 01, 2010 Stick a Fork in It [Mark Krikorian] Amnesty advocates are still clinging to the fiction that a &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; immigration bill is possible this year. The reality is, as a &#8220;veteran Senate lobbyist&#8221; tells the Post, &#8220;immigration is deader than a doornail.&#8221; This is why the amnesty crowd is getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}