Top GOP Pundit Bill Kristol Praises Obama Immigration Order As ‘The Right Thing To Do’

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Top GOP Pundit Bill Kristol Praises Obama Immigration Order As ‘The Right Thing To Do’

By Ian Millhiser on Jun 17, 2012 at 11:40 am


On Fox News Sunday this morning, host Chris Wallace asked Bill Kristol, a leading GOP pundit and apologist for the Iraq War, how he felt about President Obama’s recent announcement that the Department of Homeland Security would halt deportations of many undocumented students. Wallace probably did not expect the answer that he got:

KRISTOL: I think its a sensible policy. I think it would be much better if that were the law of the land, and I think the president’s pushing the edges of prosecutorial discretion in saying we’re not going to enforce a law in order to leave these people in the country. But I think it’s the right thing to do, actually.

Watch it @ link~

Notably, this is a significant shift from Kristol’s previous attitudes about President Obama’s immigration policies. Two years ago, Kristol falsely accused the Obama Administration of being “reluctant” to enforce immigration laws, when in fact deportations are at record highs under President Obama.

Kristol’s transformation, however, closely maps the GOP’s efforts to paper over their recent anti-immigrant positions as the November election draws nigh. During the primary, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigned with the former hate group attorney that wrote Arizona and Alabama’s harsh immigration laws — on Martin Luther King Day. This morning, however, Romney twice refused to say whether he would reverse Obama’s recently announced pro-immigrant policy. As Kristol put it this morning on Fox, the Republican standard bearer’s hardline past on immigration is a “big problem for Romney.”

[rhett o rick]

1. One of the powers of the Presidency is lax law enforcement in specific

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area. Bush did it with EPA and Pres Obama should try it with medical marijuana dispensing.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Wow, that almost makes me want to retract my support...

almost.

I guess once in a while, when trying to polish a turd, you hit a bright spot.

Blind squirrel finds an occasional nut and all that.

This is pandering, to the extreme. Anybody who actually believes he means this is not paying attention.

[steve2470]

6. pandering, yes nt

[BeyondGeography]

3. Have to think there's a good part of the base that is fuming over this

And every statement like this from the GOP establishment, which can do the math, will push some of them closer to staying home in November. Not a staggering number but, as we know, every vote counts.

[Turbineguy]

4. The gameplan of the Neocons

seems to have gone off the rails.

[lame54]

5. This is not good...

Kristol is wrong about EVERYTHING

[yellowcanine]

7. "Top GOP Pundit Bill Kristol" Only in his own mind. Unless arrogance is your standard of

Measurement.