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Wake Up! (Republican Elite Pushing Immigration Bill)
Daily Caller ^ | 6/11/2013 | Mickey Kaus

Posted on 06/11/2013 9:36:48 AM PDT by mojito

In 2007, John McCain’s “comprehensive” immigrant-legalization bill failed after opponents flooded the Senate with calls, shutting down the switchboard. Despite considerable press hype, the bill didn’t even muster a majority on the crucial cloture vote.

It won’t be that easy this time. For one thing, they have a better switchboard, I’m told. For another, the Republican consultants–e.g. Gillespie, Rove–who helped Mitt Romney lose the 2012 election have taken their own failure as an excuse to push what they’ve wanted all along–a business-pleasing immigration policy guaranteeing a supply of inexpensive labor from abroad and a stream of campaign donations to pay Republican consultants. It beats rethinking the rest of the GOP agenda.

In fact, despite all the talk of polarization and Citizens United, the big money in the immigration fight almost unanimously favors a bipartisan, legalization-first bill. Kochs included. The GOP donor class is asserting itself....It’s spotted what it thinks is an intersection of crude self-interest, high-minded tolerance, partisan strategy and libertarian philosophy.

One of the more influential members of this “donorist” class is Rupert Murdoch, which means that FOX News has for all intents and purposes switched sides, giving immigration “comprehensivists” a monopoly in the MSM–five networks to none. As goes Murdoch, so goes Hannity.

If you are a Republican who worries that a flood of low-skilled immigrants would drive down wages and make America an uglier place, where the rich have cheap servants but even diligent unskilled work doesn’t afford a life of dignity–well, we’re sorry. We’ve booked our Republican for the panel this week–Senator McCain!

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; foxnews; gop; immigrationbill; koch; mccain; nwo; oneparty; rino; rinotraitors; soros
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To: tsowellfan

Exactly.


41 posted on 06/11/2013 8:42:28 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: mojito
"If you are a Republican who worries that a flood of low-skilled immigrants would drive down wages and make America an uglier place, where the rich have cheap servants but even diligent unskilled work doesn’t afford a life of dignity–well, we’re sorry."

I'm more "worried about the F-1'a (student Visas - who disappear regularly) and H-1B (highly specialized knowledge)

This process is akin to letting any 0va\

42 posted on 06/11/2013 11:54:13 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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To: Jacob Kell
It’s a special kind of “defeatism,” Jacob.

Our “friends” have been betraying us for 25 years.

There is no clear solution for this.

If Amnesty passes, Conservatives and Republicans will be voted out of power for generations by the new Black and Hispanic Socialist majority.

If we leave the Republican Party, both the Conservatives and the GOP will become Third Parties with even less political power.

If we stay in the Republican Party, we will have to continue to give up every principle we believe in.

43 posted on 06/12/2013 12:36:45 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: mojito

I have friends and family-—my husband’s family-—who just will not get worked up about this, because if they have an “R” after their names, surely they’re doing what’s right for the country. We shouldn’t be attacking “our side.”

/s


44 posted on 06/12/2013 6:55:36 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: laplata

Do a search on Agenda 21 / Turtle Island. Then ponder all the new bunkers built under DC.


45 posted on 06/12/2013 7:14:27 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: C. Edmund Wright
'is there really a Cornyn poison pill?' ping.
46 posted on 06/12/2013 7:31:34 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

With the word “really” in the question...I am not sure of the answer....


47 posted on 06/12/2013 7:58:12 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Servant of the Cross
'is there really a Cornyn poison pill?' ping.

LINK: Good comment about the Cornyn amendment

48 posted on 06/12/2013 8:06:40 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: Westbrook

Very well put, Westbrook. Since most appears lost at this point, even in the House, why not include a provision in the bill allowing states to enforce this and any other federal law regarding the border, immigration, guest Visas, etc. whether or not the feds do so.

If Rubio really trusts the Feds to enforce the border, he shouldn’t have a problem with this. I don’t expect such an amendment to pass, but it’s worth a shot.


49 posted on 06/12/2013 8:07:22 AM PDT by Sharkfish ( "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: mojito

Revolt is coming.


50 posted on 06/12/2013 8:23:16 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Allow me to rephrase ...

'Do you believe there will be a "Cornyn amendment" to the immigration bill that is permitted to be voted on in the Senate (before the July 4 recess), and when it is voted down will effectively scuttle the entire immigration bill in its tracks (i.e. "poison pill")'?

Or said another way, do you believe in unicorns that purge skittles as they fly over rainbows?


51 posted on 06/12/2013 8:35:38 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Damn but you’ve gotten so much more cynical in your old age.


52 posted on 06/12/2013 8:37:52 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: IbJensen
I despise these traitorous bastards.

They're worse than the commie liberals, aren't they?

53 posted on 06/12/2013 9:07:33 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Yes, I’m aware of all that. Thanks.

I think the evil bastards have no souls. Evil eats their souls away.


54 posted on 06/12/2013 9:19:13 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I’m no Cornyn fan, but I think he and Cruz are planting seeds of destruction of this bill in the House version. (I also think that Boner might screw that up...)


55 posted on 06/12/2013 9:37:49 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: lodi90

Obama and the Democrats are mired in scandal and what is the most important thing on the Republican side? To pass one of the keystone legislation of the Democrats...


56 posted on 06/12/2013 9:46:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: GlockThe Vote
Ill stick w Cruz and Rand and Lee - that’s it.

You can definitely scratch Rand off that list.

20M + illegal criminals will gladly give the RAT party a lock on political Power.

I would get banned if I wrote what I thought about the evil GOP-e.

57 posted on 06/12/2013 9:52:44 AM PDT by sand88
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To: fwdude

Yes. They are.

They’re the worst plague that could ever have been visited by Satan in the form of a plague. They’re murdering America. At first it was ‘merely’ babies...now it’s the older and in many cases the Americans whose brains are still functioning.


58 posted on 06/12/2013 10:37:08 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: ZULU

They won’t lose office until the 30 million criminals are given voting right s and Pedro or Juanita is elected. These guys are so stupid to think they are immune.


59 posted on 06/12/2013 2:35:39 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Biggirl

Not soon enough. Alas I feel we are doomed, too many just don’t care and even with confronted with the facts tell me things like, “it is just to tiring to think about”, or “politics is so boring” , and my favorite “I just vote how my spouse/relatives tells me I don’t have time to stay up on things” .

I give us about 16 years if this passes. 4 election cycles. We will slide up until that point when all of theses criminals bazillion kids over 2 years old come of voting age. We can only hope that apathy works both sides of the fence.


60 posted on 06/12/2013 2:43:25 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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