{"id":582,"date":"2014-02-07T23:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T06:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-10-04T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T19:32:28","slug":"conservatives-for-big-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives for Big Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave to Reason Foundation and\u00a0 libertarians to Point out \u00a0hypocrisy of\u00a0 Conservative Republican when it come to\u00a0 limited government \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shikha Dalmia\u00a0 has written \u00a0a wonderful article, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/gops-border-control-plan-a-recipe-for-bigger-government\/article\/2543683\">GOP&#8217;s border-control plan a recipe for bigger government<\/a>, pointing out the hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Speaker John Boehner Thursday pulled the plug on his immigration reform \u201cprinciples\u201d after his fellow Republicans refused to go along.<\/p>\n<p>One reason why the proposal received a cold reception was that the GOP\u2019s self-appointed moral guardian Ann Coulter bandied surveys showing that immigrants will \u201cwreck the country\u201d with their Big Government-loving ways. \u201cIt&#8217;s not their [Republicans\u2019] position on amnesty that immigrants don&#8217;t like,\u201d she harrumphed. \u201cIt&#8217;s Republicans&#8217; support for small government, gun rights, patriotism, the Constitution and capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if Republicans love liberty and small government, they sure have a weird way of showing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conservative republican position immigration and trade, how it violates the principals of individual liberty, capitalism, and limited government \u00a0\u00a0is why I left the Republican Party, reject any form of conservatism, the tea party and conservative media.<\/p>\n<p>I have to agree with her; the conservatives in the party want to restrict all immigration because new citizens tend to lean democratic. \u00a0The conservative in the republican like to dress restricting immigration in terms like securing the boarders first or reforming immigration while never saying how they will improve the legal immigration process. This bad policy has been going on since 1997 with an article in 1997 National Review <a href=\"http:\/\/heartland.org\/sites\/all\/modules\/custom\/heartland_migration\/files\/pdfs\/4377.pdf\">Electing a New People<\/a>. For once I wish a Republican get a\u00a0 back bone and stand \u00a0up to the likes of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and tell them both, if you don\u2019t like it then go start your own little party we will bury you and be rid of\u00a0 the specter of the Know Noting party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave to Reason Foundation and\u00a0 libertarians to Point out \u00a0hypocrisy of\u00a0 Conservative Republican when it come to\u00a0 limited government \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shikha Dalmia\u00a0 has written \u00a0a wonderful article, \u00a0GOP&#8217;s border-control plan a recipe for bigger government, pointing out the hypocrisy. \u201cHouse Speaker &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,195],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-refusenik","tag-immagration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}