{"id":391,"date":"2007-06-28T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/28\/immigration-cmon-swing-again\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T16:07:52","slug":"immigration-cmon-swing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/28\/immigration-cmon-swing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration: C&#8217;mon, swing again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the immigration bill has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/06\/28\/AR2007062800963.html?hpid=topnews\">once again gone down in flames<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Fine by me.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d certainly like to see some improvements and changes to US immigration laws, but I&#8217;ve zero faith in this Congress getting it right and I don&#8217;t view it as some pressing emergency.\u00c2\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t to say I&#8217;ve not enjoyed the show, though.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 GOP xenophobes versus GOP marketphobes?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s not to like about that?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m just disappointed that it ended so quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 C&#8217;mon, George, you can&#8217;t back down now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the immigration bill has once again gone down in flames.\u00c2\u00a0 Fine by me.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d certainly like to see some improvements and changes to US immigration laws, but I&#8217;ve zero faith in this Congress getting it right and I don&#8217;t view it as some pressing emergency.\u00c2\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t to say I&#8217;ve not enjoyed the show, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So the immigration bill has once again gone down in flames.\u00c2 Fine by me.\u00c2 I&#039;d certainly like to see some improvements and changes to US immigration laws, but I&#039;ve zero faith in this Congress getting it right and I don&#039;t view it as some pressing emergency.\u00c2 This isn&#039;t to say I&#039;ve not enjoyed the show,\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"politics\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/28\/immigration-cmon-swing-again\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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