After more than a little trying I think I’ve finally gotten a handle on this immigration debate. Or at least the president’s slice of it, which goes by the name of ‘comprehensive immigration reform’. If I understand this right, ‘comprehensive’ reform is reform that’s so comprehensive that it reforms the thing in question in every way possible at the same time.
So, for instance, comprehensive sex reform — which, given how things are going in Washington, could be just around the corner — would mean expanding abstinence education and reducing the number of sexually active teenagers while also fulfilling the universal dream of teenagers everywhere to get laid.
More prosaically, comprehensive military reform would involve replacing all soldiers with robots while increasing the Army’s size by five divisions and reorganizing the force structure around sub-divisional units.
Politics and policy make for strange bedfellows, especially when it’s all politics and no policy.
