Dick Morris: Border Crisis Could Wipe Out Democrats In Midterms

by JASmius

Mayhap it will; mayhap it won't.

But then, the Toe-Sucker always has been an optimist:

The flood of undocumented migrants into the United States might become an electoral tsunami that sweeps away Democrats in the November elections, handing control of the Senate to the GOP, political analyst Dick Morris told Newsmax TV on Thursday.

Morris laid out a scenario for Senate realignment that connects developments in Washington to growing national anxiety over the immigration crisis:

• As protests multiply in communities where the federal government had hoped to shelter the new arrivals, pressure will grow on the president to deal with, and to repatriate, thousands of the children from Central America who crossed the border alone in recent weeks and months.

Which he will, of course, chortlingly ignore.

• Republicans in Congress, sensing opinion on their side, will demand concessions from the president in exchange for his $3.7 billion emergency aid request: a reversal of the president's 2012 policy easing child deportations; and his consent to changes in a 2008 law that also prevents rapid repatriation of children from certain countries.

Which he will, of course, chortlingly ignore, and turn against the GOP with charges of "cruelty" and "callousness" and "lack of compassion" and, naturally, "racism" that Democrat congressional candidates will adapt and magnify as the means of keeping the Senate and re-taking the House.

• As the president considers the GOP offer, the Senate as a whole under Majority Leader Harry Reid will object to concessions that anger Hispanic voters who want amnesty and a path toward citizenship for the new arrivals.

O will never consider any GOP offer other than unconditional surrender.  Ditto Senate Democrats.

• The resulting stalemate will leave a group of Reid's Democratic colleagues up for re-election this fall in a difficult position: facing a backlash from voters who are increasingly troubled by the crisis.

They're already in a difficult position with a collapsing economy, ObamaCare coming 'round again with the huge premium increases coming this fall, and the avalanche of Obama scandals. That's another reason why they'll latch on to the border crisis as the ultimate distraction.

"They are out there, vulnerable, because when Obama is sending out this [emergency] funding bill, the Republicans are going to say… 'We won't give it to you unless you repeal the statutory protections these kids have so that we can send them right back.'

"At that point, the Senate Democrats will say, 'No, we don't want to send them right back,' and that could wipe them out in the midterm elections," said Morris.

Ordinarily I would dismiss Morris's optimism as sunny-minded nonsense.  2012 ought to have demonstrated for all time that the U.S. electorate has been "fundamentally transformed" into a rubber stamp for whatever Barack Obama wants to do.  Accordingly, a majority of the public will always back him and fiercely oppose Republicans regardless of the issue and the facts on the ground.

But this, I think, is different.  One thing I've always said is that liberalism always "gets over" with the lumpenproletariat because (1) the ends always sound good - on their face, who wouldn't support concepts like "fairness," "justice," "spreading the wealth," "saving the planet," etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum? - and (2) LIVs and NIVs are never shown the reality of the means, and how, because of that reality, the ends are unattainable.  Environmentalism is a good example: when greenstremists are out of power and we enjoy economic prosperity - which is to say, as long as "fighting global warming" remains an abstraction - they're at least superficially popular.  But when LIVs and NIVs elect such radicals, and they enforce their Marxist-inspired crackdowns, and the economy is bludgeoned into carbonlessness and recession, and jobs cease being created and start disappearing instead, suddenly the public flirtation with "greenness" fades as "kitchen table" issues correspondingly return front and center.  "Feeling good" about oneself is all fine and good, but it doesn't pay the bills and put food on the table.

In the same way, the reality of Barack Hussein Obama's "fundamental transformation" had not truly hit home until now.  In his first term the economic privations could be and were blamed on George W. Bush, but the remainder of "Hopenchange" was a fuzzy abstraction.  ObamaCare was unpopular but hadn't been implemented yet.  The Obama Doctrine overseas - aiding jihadist networks like ISIS, handing Libya over to al Qaeda, Egypt to the Muslim Brotherhood, Iraq to Iran, ceding the entire Middle East to Vladimir Putin as his sphere of influence, gutting U.S. military capabilities and alienating allies via crass, ill-conceived snubs and espionage, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum - hadn't yet produced any major disasters.  The assembly line of Obama scandals were still covered up.

And the consequences of his illegal, unconstitutional "DREAM Act" decree had not hit home.  But now they are, across the country, as The One has effectively erased our borders, invited the rest of the world to overrun and bankrupt us, bringing all their diseases and other biohazards with them, providing cover for countless jihadist infiltrators to carry out their missions of mass destruction and mayhem unfettered.  No city, no town, no community is to be spared, as Murrieta, California discovered firsthand last week.  And all in service to his end of entrenching himself and his party in total, unchallengeable power forever.

The American people have always opposed illegal immigration.  Now even more do.  And they also now know what Barack Obama and his party are trying to do to them.

It's no longer an abstraction.  It's as real as real gets.  And it's beyond the capability of any distraction gambit.

"Wipe out" may be an understatement.  The question is, what will be Barack Obama's response?  Will he chortlingly ignore it and continue his dictatorial rule?  Or will he, shall we say, "take the final step" to secure the "fundamental transformation" he's already accomplished?