Posted on 06/23/2013 7:46:02 AM PDT by Hojczyk
On paper, that should be true here too. Why on Earth would the Republican House pass an immigration bill that provides for thirty to sixty million new immigrants over the next ten years, 90% of them low-skill, low-wage, likely welfare-dependent at least in part, and overwhelmingly likely to vote Democratic? I don’t suppose they will.
But the difference between guns and immigration is that the anti-gun forces are well-organized and powerful, while the special interests are pretty much unanimously lined up behind the Gang of Eight’s bill. Still, the polls show that the more voters know about the Gang’s bill, the more they oppose it. And the Republican rank and file is overwhelmingly opposed to Gang-style immigration “reform.”
So there is no reason why House Republicans should panic. If they pass anything, it should be a revamp of our legal immigration system, which was designed largely by Ted Kennedy and is badly in need of a pro-America overhaul. Photocopying Canada’s immigration laws would be a good place to start.
Then, as with guns and other issues, the battle will be fought in 2014. Everything the Democrats are doing–they make this clear in their emails to the party’s faithful–is geared to taking back the House next year, so that the last two years of Obama’s term can be “productive,” that is to say, disastrous for America. It is up to us to stop them.
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DOA in the house.
I posted this on an earlier thread:
When this Bill passes, in any form, Obama will have succeeded in fundamentally transforming America.
This is the final hump, it will be all downhill from here, unstoppable from a political perspective, IMO.
I watched Atlas Shrugged II last night, it is all there, and happening right before our eyes.
Better be. All Boehner has to do is refuse to bring it to a vote before summer break.
Boehner should take a page from the execrable Tip O'Neill's playbook: Simply declare it DOA, and table it.
Saturday’s WSJ predicts the House will not even vote on the measure.
They must be assuming that Boehner has at least two functioning brain cells.
60 million....half of Mexico’s population.
Corker was on See-BS babbling BS about how secure the border will be.
Jeff Sessions had to explain patiently that it’s a crock of crap.
McCain and Graham have succeeded in violently dividing the Republican party, and handing the radical Left a massive victory, no matter what happens in the House.
In what way are these men - McCain, graham, Flake - on the side of the Republican party?
The damage they have done to the party and will do to the nation is beyond repair. Why do we tolerate them? They aren’t on our side.
Illegal border crossers are about 53,54% mexicon,the rest a hodge podge from everywhere.
McCain and Graham are traitors to their constituents. Always have been.
As for Flake, I had hope for him and voted for him in 2012.
Now I despise that SOB with every fiber of my being. It's sickening to watch these bastards destroy my state and my country.
DOA in the house.
Only believe that when they put on the toe tag.
1. Put a steak in its heart
2. Put garlic and holy wafers in its mouth
3. Cut off the head and put it in a lead box
4. Drop the box into a flowing river
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