{"id":51120,"date":"2022-04-07T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51120"},"modified":"2022-04-07T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:36:40","slug":"political-stunts-dont-solve-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51120","title":{"rendered":"Political stunts don&#8217;t solve anything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Political stunts get an occasional laugh or they might allow the individual who pulls it off to crow a little; however, they rarely \u2014 if ever \u2014 result in actual solutions to pressing problems.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has offered a doozy of a stunt. He intends to round up immigrants who come into Texas, place them on buses and then send them to Capitol Hill to give the federal government a chance to deal more directly with those Abbott said are creating a crisis on our nation\u2019s southern border.<\/p>\n<p>He blasts President Biden\u2019s immigration policy and says if the president won\u2019t protect our border, then states have an obligation to act.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that the president has so far failed to come to terms with the immigration issue in Texas and other southern-border states. His policies aren\u2019t working.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the answer? It is not the trickery, chicanery and political stunt work that Greg Abbott is delivering.<\/p>\n<p>If only the governor and his Republican pals in Texas would find a way to work\u00a0<em>with\u00a0<\/em>the Biden administration instead of trying to show \u2019em who\u2019s got the bigger cajones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political stunts get an occasional laugh or they might allow the individual who pulls it off to crow a little; however, they rarely \u2014 if ever \u2014 result in actual solutions to pressing problems. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has offered a doozy of a stunt. He intends to round up immigrants who come into Texas, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Political stunts don&#8217;t solve anything<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2006,2245,2505],"class_list":["post-51120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-immigration","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51121,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51120\/revisions\/51121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}