Patterico's Pontifications

3/11/2010

Immigration vs Health Care

Filed under: Health Care,Immigration — DRJ @ 8:16 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Immigration amnesty advocates from the left and the right are putting pressure on Obama’s health care initiative. From the left:

“A group of Hispanic lawmakers on Thursday will tell President Barack Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are made to the bill’s immigration provisions.”

Meanwhile, Senator Lindsey Graham is making a related argument from the right (I’m using that term loosely):

“Graham to Obama: If you use reconciliation on health care, it’ll kill amnesty.
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“I expressed, in no uncertain terms, my belief that immigration reform could come to a halt for the year if health care reconciliation goes forward. For more than a year, health care has sucked most of the energy out of the room. Using reconciliation to push health care through will make it much harder for Congress to come together on a topic as important as immigration,” Graham said in a statement.”

My guess is the group from the left wants the White House to make immigration its Next Big Issue. I’d like to think Graham has a more complex motive but he could also be worried amnesty is headed up under the bus.

— DRJ

6 Responses to “Immigration vs Health Care”

  1. We do need to make immigration an issue right now. We need to free up jobs for all the unemployed citizens by sending the illegals home immediately.

    j curtis (5126e4)

  2. More signs that the wheels have come off permanently.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  3. I’m having a hard time deciding which one of these is the emptyer threat.

    imdw (017d51)

  4. John Derbyshire has a hilarious summary of the “scholarship” of the Raza department of San Francisco State College. This is the essence of the left wing and its scholarship, unless you count climate “change.”

    Mike K (2cf494)

  5. The Immaculated One has already signaled his clear intent to have Immigration taken up as soon as health care is decided.

    We are on dangerous ground, Spicoli. Assuming the worst (health care passes) the Blue Dogs will be entirely free to vote their conscience for the remainder of this Congress since they will not make it to the next one.

    If health care fails, our secular Messiah will need a political win very badly. This time, the GOP will not put up a united front. I would bet a lot that Brown, for one, would agree to this shamnesty.

    Ed from SFV (f6a87d)

  6. Well, Illegal immigrants are not going to be eligible for health care under Obama’s plan, he said it himself.

    tyree (0a1327)


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