At the core of the progressive strategy is the relentlessly trumpeted message that there are no valid opposing viewpoints. Anyone who has ever pointed up the actual data on the global climate, or pointed up the fact that marriage has nowhere at any time been defined to include homosexual bonds, or pointed up that an individual has the right to keep all his money, save for what government needs for clearly specified basic functions, or, to the point of this news story, pointed up that laws regarding national sovereignty are to be followed as written, is told that there is no room for his or her value system in the new order and that there is no alternative to keeping his or her mouth shut.The Obama administration is "not bluffing" in its intent to take executive action on immigration policy if House Republicans don't act soon, top Democratic leaders warned Thursday.President Obama has delayed any potential changes to his deportation policy to allow House GOP leaders time to bring legislation to the floor this summer. But if the Republicans don't act in July, the Democrats say, unilateral changes by Obama are inevitable."We're at the end of the line," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Thursday during a press briefing in the Capitol. "We're not bluffing by setting a legislative deadline for them to act."Their first job is to govern," Menendez added, "and in the absence of governing, then you see executive actions."Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) piled on. Noting that a year has passed since the Senate passed a sweeping immigration reform bill with broad bipartisan support, he urged House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring a similar bill to the floor."I don't know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today," Durbin said. "And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration."
The war for America's soul has not reached maximum ugliness by any means.
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