Posted on 11/22/2014 6:00:06 AM PST by cotton1706
WASHINGTON – Here's what Republican elders are telling their colleagues: Please, don't be stupid. As they wait for President Obama to announce Thursday evening that he will shield millions of undocumented people from deportation, the GOP's Congressional leadership is counseling colleagues, including the most conservative ones, how -- and how not -- to respond.
Several members described a concerted effort to quiet those most likely to make inflammatory remarks that could hurt the party.
“Count to 100 before you say anything,” South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said he told conservatives in the House.
Many Republicans admit to worrying about what fellow party members might say. In the past, comments like those of former Missouri Republican Congressman Todd Akin about "legitimate rape," for example, have put the GOP on the defensive. So the establishment has carefully worked out the talking points for Thursday.
Look to the statement from House Speaker John Boehner’s office Wednesday for the best blueprint.
“If ‘Emperor Obama’ ignores the American people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his Constitutional authority, he will cement his legacy of lawlessness and ruin the chances for Congressional action on this issue -- and many others,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said.
In other words, Republican leaders want to hear talk about overreach and amnesty, not commentary on immigrants or calls for impeachment.
But try as it might, leadership can’t make members stick to the script. Getting off message poses a real danger because Democrats will be looking for any opportunity to paint the GOP as insensitive to the plight of immigrant families, offensively ignorant or just plain racist.
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They've been pushing for Amnesty by hook or by crook, and they really don't care how it happens.
Remember Graham's concerns about "the process" during the Gang of 14/Nuclear Option debate?? Well he doesn't seem to give a damn about "the process" now, does he?
Two of the masters of “stupid responses” take it upon themselves to warn others about “stupid responses”. Yeah, I know I’d go to these two for advice on saying stupid things.
Somebody send these two OLD FOGEYS a new pair of cojones. How do you stop a CRIMINAL PRESIDENT? TAKE HIS MONEY AWAY.
AMNESTY PING
I’m with all of you but it might be the right thing to do. We are being played like a fiddle.
Such insipid cowardice enabled Fast&Furious,
enabled the IRS atrocity, enabled arming al Qaeda,
enabled ObamaCARE with its two classes of Americans,
enabled open borders, enabled EV-68 murdering
children by Quartering to this day.
And that was when McCain and Graham were not
arming slavers and rapists from Libya to Syria.
While we are “Counting to 100” Obama and the Marxists are stealing the country. Moron!!
Elders? What is this, church? They need to stop acting like they speak for everyone. They speak for their respective states. Now they need to shut up and let everyone else say whatever they want to say.
The big win Nov 5 was driven by Obamacare, Jobs, Economy. Every poll indicates that immigration was low priority with most voters. With Hispanics immigration was their #10 priority after 9 other issues. The same with Blacks, Whites, Democrats, Republicans and independents.
Obama is making immigration the issue precisely because he does not want us to focus on the issues that are high priority with Americans. This is straight out of Reveille for Radicals..and out of Machiavelli and his predecssors.
Look at the shiny object over there.
"Just drop trou and let Obama give you a good rogering.
It's not so bad after the 40th or 50th time."
>>While we are “Counting to 100” Obama and the Marxists are stealing the country. Moron!!
I would say, “Let’s count to 30...and then pick up the next empty mag and start counting to 30 again.”
....99, 100. Impeach the SOB
“I would bet you could count on one hand, the number of Republicans who really oppose this amnesty enough on behalf of law-abiding Americans, to really do something concrete and material. More than a few of them have wanted amnesty. “
This is it! Everything else is window dressing. They can now have everything they want and appear to fight it all the while laughing at the suckers that keep sending them back to DC.
The discussion should include a “measured” discussion of impeachment in my opinion (but I’m often wrong about these things). I don’t think the GOP-e should shove it completely off the table.
The stupid senators.
Not a word has been uttered by any Republican leader that would educate the public about the gravity of this assault on the Constitution by Barack Obama. No effort to convince the country that their liberty is at stake. Beyond that, no evidence that the Republican leadership is endeavoring to connect 5 million immigrants with lost jobs, lower wages, flooded emergency rooms, over crowded schools, dangerous streets, higher taxes and bigger more bloated government. There is no attempt by the Republican leadership to tell the people why this is such a miscarriage of their liberty and a looting of their purse.
In view of the participation of so many Republican senators in that traitorous bill to foment amnesty and the patently unenthusiastic efforts of Boehner to withhold the vote in the House, it is clear that a significant part of the Republican leadership wants amnesty. It is as clear as the reality that they do not want to actually repeal Obamacare.
There is no campaign against amnesty, the campaign is against those who oppose amnesty. They don't want the country educated, they certainly don't want the country agitated, they want this to fade from consciousness.
Well stated, Nathan.
These two quislings should be involuntarily committed by their respective families to save them from themselves. What fools! Yes...their strategy of reaching across the aisle to their “freinds” has really worked well. Look at what that has achieved...communists and marxists in control of the United States. Good job, you two losers. mclame is the jimmy carter of the republican party...lindsey is the barney franks. Embarrassments.
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