{"id":135245,"date":"2017-11-01T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135245"},"modified":"2017-11-01T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T02:53:54","slug":"watch-means-lets-find-someone-else-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/watch-means-lets-find-someone-else-blame.html","title":{"rendered":"Because “On My Watch” means “Let’s Find Someone Else To Blame”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t particularly blame anything Donald Trump has done for Safullo Saipov’s terror attack in New York City. Honestly, his policies to date have been fairly ineffectual, and there’s little sign that anything he’s done (or could have done) played a role in this attack (or might have stopped it).<\/p>\n

Still, there’s that “on my watch” and “the buck stops here” principle of when bad things happen during a president’s tenure in office. And Donald Trump cannot abide any hint that, as President, the buck might stop with him.<\/p>\n

So a visa program that was proposed by Chuck Schumer, co-sponsored by a number of Republicans, passed in 1990 with a bipartisan vote of 231-192 in the House, 89-8 in the Senate, signed into law by GOP President George H. W. Bush, has been around for over twenty years, was found to be no particular risk by the GAO under GOP President George W. Bush in 2007, would have been eliminated<\/i> by Schumer in the 2013 effort for Immigration Reform that was defeated by House GOP, and was allegedly<\/i> the basis for Safullo Saipov being admitted into the US in 2011 after demonstrating he met established educational \/ training requirements … has magically become a way to accuse Schumer<\/i> for being somehow responsible for Saipov’s terror attack.<\/p>\n

Because that’s the way Donald Trump and the right-wing punditry and media roll.<\/p>\n

(For the record, I think the “Diversity Visa Lottery” program is a fine thing, because, yes, diversity and representation from around the world<\/i> actually helps<\/i> the United States, and the folk admitted under it are not useless dregs of society but people with education and\/or vocational training.)<\/p>\n


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\n\u2018A Chuck Schumer beauty\u2019: Trump calls for end to diversity visa program<\/a><\/span>
\n\u201cWe need to get rid of the lottery program as soon as possible,\u201d the president told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don’t particularly blame anything Donald Trump has done for Safullo Saipov’s terror attack in New York City. Honestly, his policies to date have been fairly ineffectual, and there’s little sign that anything he’s done (or could have done) played a role in this attack (or might have stopped it). Still, there’s that “on my … Continue reading “Because “On My Watch” means “Let’s Find Someone Else To Blame””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,17,380,740,1071],"tags":[1196,938,1077],"class_list":["post-135245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-race-racism","category-trump","tag-immigration","tag-terrorism","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Chuck-Schmer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128348,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/trump-bush-bush-and-911.html","url_meta":{"origin":135245,"position":0},"title":"Trump, Bush, Bush, and 9\/11","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Oct-15 8:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"While the words \"Donald Trump is right\" seem to not want to pass my lips, in this case (broken clocks and all that) it's true. 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