Posted on 06/24/2013 1:13:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ready for the kicker?
Discussing #immigration and why border security MUST come first on this issue in 25 minutes on @FoxNews #AZ #tcot
— Jan Brewer (@GovBrewer) June 24, 2013
Stupidity or something worse? Border security doesn’t “come first” in the Gang of Eight bill, of course; it comes before green-card eligibility but after probationary legalization, which is why Rand Paul, for instance, can’t support it. Illegals are granted a legal claim to staying here before anything happens on the border. Which leaves three possibilities. One: Brewer’s confused about what the bill says. That seems … doubtful. She’s the governor of a border state; almost no one is more interested in finding out precisely what the bill says than she is. Two: Brewer’s deliberately misleading the public at the behest of national Republicans who need prominent so-called “border hawks” like her to reassure low-information (a.k.a. dumb) GOPers that the bill is awesome. That seems likelier, although I believe Brewer’s term-limited as governor and therefore doesn’t really need anything from the national leadership. She could go her own way if she wanted to. Which brings us to number three: She supports the bill on the merits because, like Marco Rubio, she’s not as much of a border hawk as she pretended to be when running for office three years ago. By the same token, how many conservatives who voted for her thought she’d be a fan of ObamaCare? We have, it seems, been misled. Again.
Which brings me to the larger point. I honestly can’t believe how many Republican pols backing the bill lied, and lied brazenly, about being stalwart border hawks as candidates in order to get elected. Rubio, Dean Heller, Kelly Ayotte, Jan Brewer — hell, even McCain ran, ridiculously, as some sort of immigration hard-ass to get back to the Senate in 2010. Before the party tears itself apart over immigration reform in the House, can we have a moment of unity at least over the fact that immigration moderates shouldn’t lie about their moderation as candidates? Right? Respect your constituents enough to give them a fully informed choice in the booth by stating your opinion about a momentous issue of policy honestly. As it is, we’re being asked to believe that somehow every one of these people, from Rubio on down, has had precisely the same epiphany about what needs to be done on immigration, and in each case it was only after being safely elected that they had it. That’s some coincidence. No one but no one on the GOP side ever sees the virtue of “legalization first” policies and “comprehensive” reform in the middle of the campaign; only afterward, when they’ve gained incumbency and the support of monied national Republican interests, do they somehow attain enlightenment. Virtually no one talks about the status quo being “de facto amnesty” until after they’ve made it to Washington; as candidates, you’re much more likely to hear them say that an “earned path to citizenship is basically code for amnesty,” as Marco Rubio once infamously did. If you take these very conveniently timed reversals at face value (which you shouldn’t), then at best it means the people now leading the GOP effort on reform simply didn’t think deeply or at any length about this subject as candidates. Candidate Rubio thought earned citizenship equalled amnesty, but that’s only because he cared so little about the nuts and bolts of the issue that he didn’t spend 10 minutes thinking hard on it until he got elected, whereupon he suddenly discovered that amnesty is actually what we have now. This is the guy we’re supposed to follow on this issue?
These people lie to you, shamelessly, to get elected, and then betray your interests while in office to stay elected. They have the sheerest contempt for your opinion. Keep that in mind when the champagne corks are popping on the Hill today after the big Senate vote.
Should have known when Brewer killed the Eligibility Bill in the state of Az that Brewer was really an Obama Supporter
The hyper-enthusiasm is obvious bull.
moronic
The RINO primaried list keeps on growing.
AllahPundit, usually the more liberal of the HotAir writers, even sees this immigration bill is crap.
Man, am I getting disappointed with her. She was good as Secretary of State. The local rag over and over has printed the “dirt” on Jan. Her son is in jail (sex offense I think). What could she possibly be thinking?
Her office phones must have been on fire because she appears to be backtracking
PURE AND SIMPLE THEY HAVE GOT TO HER....
THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN POWER THAT ARE BEING CONTROLLED, THEY NEED TO START RECORDING THE THREATS AND SLIGHT HANDED COMMENTS MADE AT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES.
WE NEED TO START FORCING THE BLACKMAILERS OUT INTO THE LIGHT SO THEY WILL WITHER AND DIE.
No sane governor on a border state who claims to be for border security could be naive enough to trust Janet Nepalitano to enforce the law or build the fence. It’s absurd. It’s beyond belief. The only thing that makes sense is blackmail.
It’s amazing how effective the NSA, IRS, DOJ, DHS, etc., is at getting dirt on people which 0bama then uses to blackmail them into completely changing their party affiliation!
Its something worse. The Republicans aren't stupid. They know EXACTLY what this bill is going to do to the country. Sure the NSA is blackmailing some of these turncoats but not the ones you see on TV gleefully promoting this monstrosity. Brewer, McCain, Flake, Rubio et all WANT to take the country down. They think they are going to rule the brown rabble and rubble like South American dictators.
AZTLAN: Stolen by the Spanish, Liberated by the English, given back to the “filthy WHITE Spanish to control from mexico city” in the name of “Social Justice” by appealing to the Mestizos (useful idiot of the left) that the Spanish Originally steamrolled over 500 years ago...
What did they get on Jan?
“America is just about over.
Thirty million new “citizens” with their relatives just waiting to join them.
Uncontrolled immigration tidal wave.”
Yes exactly
Stop Amnesty.
Tell congressmen we don’t want ANY bill passed, no matter what they promise. This bill is Amnesty for 30 million illegals, and a 1000 page bill that brings in 80 million 3rd world immigrants. The bill will destroy the U.S. and will turn the USA into a socialist state as is the democrats/Obama’s plan.
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what the heck has she been smoking in those Chesterfields lately? First “embracing” ObamaCare and now this????
No! No! GraceG.... Somethings going on they’re doing we are not privy to....wait.
Boy has she turned on us conservatives. First she buys into expanding Midcaid with Zero money and now this. She cannot be so naive to believe that Zero and Big Sis are going to enforce new laws when they refuse to enforce existing law.
They have something big on her as they do most of the RINOs...
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