{"id":12388,"date":"2009-09-18T19:48:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T19:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/18\/does-he-lie\/"},"modified":"2009-09-18T19:48:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T19:48:50","slug":"does-he-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/18\/does-he-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Does He Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/18\/does_he_lie_98363.html\">A fine piece<\/a> by Charles Krauthammer.&#0160; Excerpt:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">And then there&#39;s the famous contretemps about health insurance for illegal immigrants. Obama said they would not be insured. Well, all four committee-passed bills in Congress allow illegal immigrants to take part in the proposed Health Insurance Exchange.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">But more importantly, the problem is that laws are not self-enforcing. If they were, we&#39;d have no illegal immigrants because, as I understand it, it&#39;s illegal to enter the United States illegally. We have laws against burglary, too. But we also provide for cops and jails on the assumption that most burglars don&#39;t voluntarily turn themselves in.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">When Republicans proposed requiring proof of citizenship, the Democrats twice voted that down in committee. Indeed, after Rep. Joe Wilson&#39;s &quot;You lie!&quot; shout-out, the Senate Finance Committee revisited the language of its bill to prevent illegal immigrants from getting any federal benefits. Why would the Finance Committee fix a nonexistent problem?<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fine piece by Charles Krauthammer.&#0160; Excerpt: And then there&#39;s the famous contretemps about health insurance for illegal immigrants. Obama said they would not be insured. Well, all four committee-passed bills in Congress allow illegal immigrants to take part in the proposed Health Insurance Exchange. But more importantly, the problem is that laws are not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/18\/does-he-lie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does He Lie?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}