I've seen this movie before...Pass Amnesty or Obama will do it anyways - Granite Grok

I’ve seen this movie before…Pass Amnesty or Obama will do it anyways

blazing-saddles-shoot-the-sheriffThat would be Blazing Saddles (1974), one of the funniest movies of all times (and due to its Political Incorrectness, could never be made today).  And what US Senator Chuckie Schumer said to Republicans was effectively what Cleavon Little did as Sheriff Bart; when threatened to be killed by others, Bart took his own pistol and threatened to kill himself to get out of the situation of being threatened to be killed (bad grammer, but it works).  Schumer (emphasis mine):

It’s crystal clear where the issue of immigration reform is headed, and Republicans have only two choices to make. They can either help pass comprehensive reform which will greatly reduce the flow of illegal immigrants, grow our economy by bringing in needed workers in high tech and agriculture areas, and provide a hard-earned path to eventual citizenship for the 11 million in the shadows, or they can sit idly by and watch the President greatly curtail deportations while 11 million continue to live in limbo here in America. The choice is clear; a reform bill has the support of liberals, moderates, and conservatives and all we need is the courage of the Republican leadership to make the right and obvious choice. -cs

So, will the DC Republicans, yet again, put forward the Democrat agenda (the debt ceiling passage with nothing Conservative in return – a blank check to the Democrats) so as to not let Obama just continue to do unilaterally do it anyways.  Or what the Senate Republicans did here in NH – promote Obama’s Medicaid Expansion in return for….er, nothing.

Sheriff Bart was in a Western spoof – the brilliance of the movie is that we were all in on the joke as it happened for the false choice presented.  But this is real life even as the same proposition is not just being offered but demanded.  In effect, the Republicans are being told “Affirm what we Democrats want or Obama will continue to go rogue and do it anyways.  And we’ll still blame you.”

Problem is, will the DC Leadership understand that they might create their own tragedy instead of a comedy?

(H/T: Big Government)

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