Well, it didn't turn out that way, and they are learning that just
because it would make great sense, be common sense in most areas of the
country--that is areas that are not the fringe
that voted for Hillary Clinton, but most of the country would say it is
common sense. It isn't common within the original 10-by-10 mile
boundaries of the District of Columbia, which are no longer 10 by 10
after ceding the land west of the Potomac to Virginia back in the
1840s. But number four in this Hayward article: ``Obama banned immigration
from Iraq, and Carter banned it from Iran.
`` `Fact-checking' website PolitiFact twists itself into knots to
avoid giving a `true' rating to the absolutely true fact that Jimmy
Carter banned Iranian immigration in 1980, unless applicants could
prove they were enemies of the Khomenei theocracy.
``One of PolitiFact's phony talking points states that Carter `acted
against Iranian nationals, not an entire religion.' As noted above,
Trump's Executive Order is precisely the same--it does not act against
an `entire religion,' it names seven countries.''
But, you know, I had some personal experience with PolitiFact. I used
the word earlier today, ``hack,'' ``political hack,'' in an interview,
and that is what I think of PolitiFact. They shouldn't be called
PolitiFact. They ought to be called ``PolitiHack.''
I know I was speaking here on the House floor--I think it was last
year--and I made a statement based on data received by the Senate on
the percentage of American citizens and the percentage of noncitizens--
non-American citizens--who were in Federal prison for possession of a
controlled substance. The reason I singled out possession was because
President Obama has tried to make it appear that people in Federal
prison have gotten such a bad rap because they really--just simple
possession--they didn't deserve to be in prison so long. There is this
whole intimation that, gee, there are people in Federal prison for
possession of controlled substances who should have been let out a long
time ago, and that is why we needed to have our laws changed.
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