Marco Rubio, GOP Leaders: We'll 'Absolutely' Try Again on Amnesty If We Gain Control of Senate

Breitbart News ^ | 5-15-14 | Tony Lee

[Falcon28]

Conservatives who believe that winning back control of the Senate will destroy any chance of amnesty legislation passing are sorely mistaken. In fact, a Republican-controlled Congress may make it easier to provide a path to citizenship for all of the country's illegal immigrants if this Congress fails to do so.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has his eye on the GOP presidential nomination and was the central figure who backed the Senate's amnesty bill that passed last year, said that Republicans in the Senate would "absolutely" take up amnesty legislation again if they gain a net of six seats to take back the upper chamber. He indicated that piecemeal or bite-sized bills would be better than his Gang of Eight amnesty bill that he championed and which faced stiff resistance from House conservatives.

If Republicans retain the House, that would mean GOP leaders like Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who would become Majority Leader, and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) may promptly abandon the conservative base to strike a deal on amnesty legislation.

Rubio conceded that he did not "think a comprehensive bill can pass," but emphasized that he did not "want us to waste another two years on an approach that has no chance of passing."

[Norm Lenhart]

People cannot serve two masters. Nor can groups. Eventually they collapse when they try.

Eventually the grassroots of the right will coalesce. It will likely after the poop impacts the rotating device, but it will happen. And those people will look back on the people today who tried having their cake and eating it too in a less than respectful/reverential light.

We collectively have an opportunity here and now. We can be remembered for fighting the good fight or for moderation/capitulation. If we blow it with Cheshire conservatism/situational ethics and other ‘concerns’, then we deserve the hell we get. And my fondest hope is that the people responsible are remembered properly when the history books are written.

[RKBA Democrat]

Yeah, you would be better off picking people at random out of a phonebook than this bunch.

Interesting that this thread doesn’t talk about some of the more subtle reasons why amnesty is pretty much a done deal. First, there is the tax avoidance thing. Keep in mind that illegals are living at the margins of our society. They are in the off the books economy. The problem from the uniparty perspective is they’re not only survivng they’re in many cases thriving. So the hope is that by giving these folks a “path to citizenship” they can bring them into the official economy, and more importantly from a uniparty perspective, that there not be 15 million people doing just fine on the off the books economy giving the rest of the population any uppity ideas.

Then there is the diversity aspect. Not the cultural thing, but the pragmatic aspect. Like it or not, birds of a feather tend to flock together. People of shared race or ethnicity tend to organize along those lines politically. The uniparty has been very successful in engaging in a sort of political blockbusting that adds people of different ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds to the mix to prevent people from effectively organizing along those lines. From our perspective as conservatives it just exacerbates what has been a conservative diaspora: conservatives spread hither and yon across the country.

[Bikkuri]

Some here never learn.. and others (I suspect) are LONG time plants).. :/

[Graewoulf]

I agree.

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We have voted to harm our children, without ever admitting that that has been the cumulative effect of our voting.

A crude shorthand way of writing this opinion is the intent of the following poem by yours truly:

The Anti-Children, Free Stuff, American Family, Political Dynasties:

Your list is well intended,
Of that I’m very sure.
What is lacking is the reason
That these family jobs endure.

We-who vote them in,
Have we our reasons?
We-who re-elect them,
Must have reasons too?

What the reasons are
It is obvious to know:
We all like to LIVE LARGE,
Take our free stuff and go!
“Charge everything to our kids:
charge, Charge, CHARGE!”

“Politicians will be politicians,
Just as boys will be boys.”
Is what we laugh and say,
By those who hate their kids
And vote to make them pay, Pay, PAY!

“No!” You say, “NO!
You’re not talking about ME!
I LOVE my kids!” is your reply - - -
But who will be stuck
To pay your greedy free stuff bills,
When you die, Die, DIE?

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In 2014 it is time, - - - time for a change.