This immigration bill is 1200 pages and, according to Senator Ted Cruz, it has a thousand waivers for border security. I doubt that Senator Rubio has read this monster of a bill. In it he would also find that this bill creates defacto affirmative action for those who are here illegally. That is because illegal immigrants, when they get this RPI status, are exempted from Obamacare. So, if you are a businessman, you know it costs about $5000 more to hire a U.S. citizen than it does to hire someone who is here illegally.
I wonder what Senator Rubio got out of this deal to buy his vote. Senators Harry Reid and Dean Heller got their casino kickback, Bernie Sanders got $1.5 billion for youth employment that includes transportation and daycare and Alaska Sens. Mark Begich (Democrat) and Lisa Murkowski (Republican)got special rules allowing fish processing industries to hire low-skilled illegal immigrants to fill “temporary” jobs. What did Senator Rubio get?
Most of those same “brand-new Democrats” will also qualify for TJTC, saving those employers another $2,400.
I wonder what Senator Rubio got out of this deal to buy his vote.Only Rove and or Soros know for sure.
“What did Senator Rubio get.”
He got significant national and largely favoable media exposure in the mainstream press not normally granted to freshman Senators. He got to rub shoulders in public and private with the Washington elite. He has likely been introduced to the wealthy and powerful who operate behind the scenes and really control the political class. He probably believes he has explicit promises from the GOP establishment and deep pocket contributors for support in 2014. No doubt he’s also gotten an inflated ego from all of the attention.
What Rubio doesn’t seem to understand is he is being used. He is shunning the Tea Party voters who put him in Washington in the mistaken belief his new establishment and media friends will give him the kind of power the inner circle wields. However, once amnesty passes he will have nothing that can benefit them as he will have lost his core voter support and he doesn’t possess any meaningful wealth or power that he alone controls. He will find that John McCain, Chuck Schumer, and others will no longer answer his phone calls. His new reporter friends will start running unfavorable stories about him to pave the way for a progressive Dem to take his seat in the next election. The Sunday talk shows will stop calling because McCain will return to being the featured back stabbing Republican.
When he finally turns to his original Tea Party base for support in his reelection campaign he will learn that conservative voters are fed up with supporting Republican candidates who love them on Election Day and then kick the voters in the teeth when they get to Washington. The days of campaigning for reelection by telling conservatives you deserve another term because you aren’t as bad as the Democrat alternative are over. We elected a Republican House in 2010 and we’ve seen it advance the progressive agenda since because Republicans have no fear of retaliation from their base. In 2014 the traitors will find the base either runs challengers in the primaries or stays home on Election Day. The only way to hold their politicians accountable is for conservatives to make them fear the consequences of continuous capitulation to the other side’s agenda.
rubio received 30 pieces of silver.
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I have a new theory that he'll be adopted by Jeb Bush so he can be part of the Bush dynasty. He'll become Marco Rubio-Bush and will be next in line to the throne after Jeb.
>> “I wonder what Senator Rubio got out of this deal to buy his vote” <<
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Most likely, silence regarding some presently undisclosed misdeeds.
He got ‘Boehnered.’
Ted Cruz has left rubio in the dust. Cruz is now the main voice of Conservatives? What say you ?