Posted on 05/01/2013 3:38:29 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Mickey Kaus is right, of course. Not remotely is this an obstacle to passing the Gang of Eight bill. If anything, it’s a little nudge towards passage from Schumer and company.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has told advocates that he will offer an amendment during the bill markup next week allowing gay Americans to sponsor their foreign-born partners for green cards, just as heterosexual couples can. The measure is likely to pass because Democrats face pressure from gay rights advocates to deal with it in committee, rather than on the Senate floor, where the odds of passage are far less favorable…
“It will virtually guarantee that [the bill] won’t pass,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a member of the Gang of Eight negotiating group, told POLITICO in a brief interview. “This issue is a difficult enough issue as it is. I respect everyone’s views on it. But ultimately, if that issue is injected into this bill, the bill will fail and the coalition that helped put it together will fall apart.”…
Democrats, led by Leahy and the party’s progressive allies, are expected to make the high-risk push because they aren’t convinced that Republicans would ultimately abandon the measure if it includes protections for same sex couples. The GOP made similar threats about the Violence Against Women Act before Congress passed a version that covered victims of domestic violence in same sex relationships, advocates point out.
Total Democratic victory on immigration doesn’t just mean enacting a path to citizenship with phony border security provisions. It means preserving certain grievances against the GOP that can be used against them in 2014 and beyond to keep core Democratic constituencies alienated when Republicans try to build on the “goodwill” they’ll have allegedly earned by passing this thing.
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The problem is, for many gays, everybody is their partner.
Of course the ones with HIV and AIDS can go to the front of the line for free health care.
morons
shudda told him he can collect his donations from Mexicans
That means we are approaching the end of it.
Talking about illegals ... wow
This bill must die
Da*&. That minority (gays) is going to take this country down one way or another.
Yup.
If they aren’t their partner right now, give them a few days. “Thursday night off” comes once a week.
Unfortunately they are not. The gay marriage had a lot to do with gay Americans marrying their "partner" and getting a marriage visa to bring them here.
“we are approaching the end of it”...
It isn’t just the pyramid scheme “end” we’re approaching.
They are so trying to buy votes... sickening.
Only a superstitious pagan believes that an economic collapse has religious meaning.
rats
How do you say “Charlie Christ” in Spanish?
Marco Rubio.
Got a letter today from Rubio he wanted money for the GOP....Sent it back no money
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Me too. Did the same thing with a “Friends of Boehner” letter except they got lots of negative comments from me!
"4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the -- day of July, 1798, intituled "An Act concerning aliens," which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force (emphasis added)." --Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
so I’m supposed to react with “ok, that’s it, now they’ve gone too far”?
i don’t believe in superstitions, and i am not a pagan. however your cmment was intended, it was a double fail.
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