{"id":64,"date":"2013-06-20T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/20\/right-turns-on-one-of-its-own"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:14:00","slug":"right-turns-on-one-of-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Right turns on one of its own"},"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>How quickly the tide can turn atop Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., went to D.C. in early 2011 as one of the tea party\u2019s golden boys. Now he\u2019s one of the GOP wing\u2019s chief targets. Why? Because the young man has the temerity to push for immigration reform that provides undocumented immigrants a \u201cpath to citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/306717-right-rips-rubio-as-gop-votes-slip-away\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/306717-right-rips-rubio-as-gop-votes-slip-away\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/306717-right-rips-rubio-as-gop-votes-slip-away<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rubio has this idea \u2013 along with several other senators of both major political parties \u2013 that giving hard-working people who happen to be in this country illegally a path to becoming citizens amounts to \u201camnesty\u201d for breaking the law.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a non-starter, according to the tea party wing of the Republican Party. Senators have brokered a deal to beef up border security and finish building a 700-mile wall along the southern border, which is seen as a sop to conservatives who dislike the notion of immigration reform in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I believe another key Senate Republican, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, has it right. Graham \u2013 hardly a wild-eyed liberal \u2013 is on board with immigration reform. He said this week his party is condemning itself to a \u201cdemographic spiral\u201d if it doesn\u2019t agree to immigration reform. Indeed, with racial and ethnic minorities changing the face of America \u2013 and of its voting bloc \u2013 Republicans continue to be seen as the party of \u201cold white men\u201d who have no appreciation for the inexorable change that is taking place in front of their very eyes.<\/p>\n<p>What in the world is happening to a once-great political party?<\/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>How quickly the tide can turn atop Capitol Hill. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., went to D.C. in early 2011 as one of the tea party\u2019s golden boys. Now he\u2019s one of the GOP wing\u2019s chief targets. Why? Because the young man has the temerity to push for immigration reform that provides undocumented immigrants a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=64\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right turns on one of its own<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}