Posted on 12/18/2016 3:13:08 PM PST by molewhacka
In 2007, after only one year as a Senator, Bob Corker voted against amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Democrats controlled the Senate, and enough Senate Democrats also voted to kill the 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill.
Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) was the key engineer of the bill along with Diane Feinstein (D-California). Yet, Kennedy had the support of GOPe senators John McCain (R-Arizona) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) along with President George Bush.
Feinstein, McCain and Graham are still in the Senate. So is Corker.
The bill was titled the “Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007.” Key features of the bill included legal status and a path to citizenship for the 12 million illegal aliens estimated to be living in the U.S. in exchange for a variety of measures to help secure the border.
Democrats and Republicans managed to kill the bill using procedural votes.
On May 23, 2007, speaking on the Senate floor, Corker almost sounded like President-elect Trump: “I would ask that other Senators work with me and others to create an amendment to this bill that actually would cause, over a reasonable amount of time, people who are working in this country [illegally] to return to their home country and then come back through legal channels. I think that strikes at the very core of what so many Americans believe is so inappropriate about having illegal immigrants illegal workers, automatically made legal.”
Fast forward, six years and one flip flop later in 2013: the “Gang of Eight” comprehensive immigration reform bill was proposed by McCain, Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and other GOPe senators. This bill was much weaker than the 2007 bill but again, if this bill had passed, illegal aliens would get both amnesty and a path to citizenship.
Flip flopping, Bob Corker jumped on board with the Gang of Eight.
Corker argues that he wasn’t supporting amnesty when he voted “yes” to pass the “Gang of Eight bill, but said he believed that from “…moral standpoints, it’s the right thing to do.”
How self-righteous of him to turn his back on American citizens and legal immigrants and to suggest we – the American people – are less than honorable when we oppose amnesty. If anything, it has been the continued failure of Bob, Lamar (surprise there, huh?), and their weak-back colleagues in Congress that has allowed it to persist for decades.
Speaking in Columbia, TN in 2014, Corker got edgy with his audience when they forced him to defend his vote on the Gang-of-Eight bill:
“I get really frustrated with people on my side of the aisle who say that anything you do on immigration is amnesty. I saw it play out in these congressional races, where people were actually trying to solve the problem, and the only word people used was amnesty.”
“But Corker stressed that under the bill it would have taken 15 years to go through the process of gaining legal status…I don’t know, is that amnesty?” he said. Or is amnesty what we’re doing right now?”
The bill Corker voted for gave illegal aliens immediate “registered provisional immigrant” (RPI) status to illegal aliens (including their spouses and children under 18) plus a Social Security number so they could work legally for any employer and also be able to travel outside the U.S.
The Obama Congressional Budget Office declared that the RPI status “legalizes” the illegal alien.
In other words, they could live, work and act like a U.S. citizen. DUH? Amnesty?
Before his vote, Corker added an amendment intended to bolster border security and enforcement of our immigration laws.
Corker, once again forced to defend his amnesty vote, posted on his Facebook page that his amendment “…implements tough interior enforcement to curb de facto amnesty, and helps prevent abuse of federal benefits.”
Critics of the bill said Corker’s amendment didn’t address interior enforcement of immigration laws. Surprise! Another flip flop and Corker was forced to admit that his amendment didn’t actually fix interior enforcement problems.
With Trump’s promises to fix illegal immigration in definitive ways, we encourage Corker to pull out his flip-flops once again, but this time, to support the interests of the vast majority of Tennessee citizens and workers.
Corker needs to accomplish something positive as a senator before Tennesseans bounce him in 2018.
Why start now after 10 years of utter mediocrity ?
Corker is actively against the treaty clause of the US Constitution. He is the very definition of a traitor.
We have tried to bounce him and Lamar.
With no success.
It is hard as hell to get them out once they get in.
Bob Corker the a$$ wipe that gave us the Iran deal by deciding a treaty ain’t a treaty
You’re preaching to the choir. We need to have CLOSED party primaries in the state with runoffs.
Corker did betray the Constitution is therefore helping Iran acquire the Bomb.
In my dreams, before 2018 rolls around, Corker is wearing attire with a number stenciled on the front and big letters on the back.
The election of Corker, Alexander, Haslam and a long list of other poor excuses for human beings is a reflection for how corrupt the TNGOP has been. Hopefully, we can do better for American in the future.
This blog has been covering Corker’s not-so-well-known financial chicanery. This is part 3:
https://rockytoppolitics.com/2016/12/09/the-corruption-of-bob-coker-part-3/
Scroll down to the bottom first to see the links to the earlier parts before reading this third part.
Maybe we should set up a GoFundMe page to buy Corker a one-way ticket to Tehran. Better yet, send him down the well to see if he can convince the 12th Imam to come on out and negotiate.
Oooooh I like that ladt suggestion
Re: “We need to have CLOSED party primaries in the state with runoffs.”
Republicans can close any GOP primary we want to as long as we pay for the elections.
But even that doesn’t help here in Washington state.
We have an open state wide primary to select the two candidates - from all parties - who receive the most votes.
In the open primary, any candidate in Washington state is allowed to declare his party preference (e.g. “Prefers Republican”).
So, in the state primary, there might be five candidates who claim they “Prefer Republican,” and you can’t even tell which one is the official party nominee.
Move over this senator and get another.
The problem comes from the lobbyists that control all of them
Corker is a weathervane type. I can’t decide whether his Mom was frightened by a chameleon when she was carrying him; or whether he’s “Mr. Pliable” from Pilgrim’s Progress.
Corker, Murkowsky, Heller, Hoeven, Hatch, Alexander, McCain, Flake, Graham and Rubio all voted for the Gang of Eight amnesty.
So did Ayotte and Kirk, they were the only ones removed from office.
McCain, Hoeven, Murkowsky and Rubio were all rewarded with another term for their treason.
We have to do better in 2018, Hatch, Heller, Flake and Corker MUST be removed.
In 2020 it’s Graham and Alexander’s turn.
Expect Corker to run for Governor in Tennessee.
Never trust a fricking dwarf with lifts in his shoes and big hair. What in blazes goes on down there in east Tennessee?
Just more corruption on coker’s part. Google his scandals their are quite a few. And he wants to be the next TN Gov.
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