Washington Post Goes All-In on Busting Senate Rules to Get Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

When you pay attention intently –
actually, actually intently, when the crickets cease chirping – you simply would possibly hear
the sound of People clamoring for an enormous amnesty for unlawful aliens. If
you do, you most likely stay in Portland, San Francisco, Brooklyn, or within the neighborhood
of some overly woke faculty campus. Most different locations, individuals’s priorities are
jobs, taxes, secure streets, and even getting our border underneath management.

One different place you would possibly encounter an obsession with amnesty for unlawful aliens is on the airwaves of the 24-hour cable “information” channels and on the pages of elitist once-great newspapers and magazines. The Fourth Property has lengthy since ceased to operate as an goal supply of data that permits the general public to make up its personal thoughts about essential points. However in current months it has morphed right into a lobbying power, pushing for enactment of a woke political agenda – by any means mandatory.

At President Biden’s one (and solely) extremely staged “information” convention on March 25, “journalists” overtly lobbied him to declare his assist for altering longstanding Senate guidelines. When President Biden, working off of index playing cards itemizing pre-approved questioners, referred to as on Yamiche Alcindor, the PBS anchor didn’t a lot pose a query, as exhort the president to take a political place. “Why not again a filibuster rule that at the least will get round points, together with voting rights or immigration?” she requested passive-aggressively.

The drum beat of “information” media lobbying continues. Within the Might 4 version of the Washington Put up, columnist Greg Sargent implores Senate Democrats to scrap the rule that requires a 60-vote majority to convey most laws to the ground for a closing vote. Regardless of holding management of the Senate solely by advantage of Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote, Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is reported to be critically contemplating this selection by attaching large unlawful alien amnesty measures to an already pork-laden infrastructure invoice.

Below Senate guidelines, a provision generally known as “reconciliation” will be employed to enact laws that may have a budgetary affect that’s not “incidental” by a easy 51-vote majority. (In reality, amnesty would have a profound budgetary affect, simply not a really helpful one. It might price the general public treasury trillions of {dollars} over the approaching many years.) The transfer would additionally run roughshod over one other Senate rule requiring all amendments to a invoice to be germane to the laws being thought of. Passing off immigrants as “infrastructure” is likely to be a heavy carry, even for the silver-tongued senator from New York.

Whereas Sargent concedes that it’s “unclear whether or not the Senate parliamentarian will agree that these immigration modifications would have budgetary affect” that meets the edge for reconciliation to be invoked, what is obvious is that in the case of amnesty for unlawful aliens and different woke immigration insurance policies, the elitist media are not goal observers with a mission to tell the general public. They’re full-throated advocates with a mission to jam their political priorities down the throats of the general public.