Posted on 06/10/2014 8:35:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House is a goner.
And amid the ashes of House Majority Leader Eric Cantors shocking defeat Tuesday, comprehensive immigration reform smolders.
This is not to say that immigration reform would have passed if the Virginia Republican had not been the first House majority leader to lose since 1899. Immigration reform was already endangered.
But Cantors defeat to tea partier David Brat was so intertwined with immigration -- amnesty and illegal aliens that the few fence-sitters in the GOP-led House are going to flock back to the politically right side of the divide.
Regardless of what the polling says (and note that Cantor's pollster said he was winning big), Brats win and Cantors loss is now a powerful symbol, a rallying cry. That matters in politics.
Is it absolutely devastating? I dont know, said U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Miami Republican who for years has tried to get his party to tackle the issue.
Im sad. Im very, very sad. Eric is a close personal friend, Diaz-Balart said....
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.typepad.com ...
so when do we get the trains to ship out the Mexicans- barring that we’re still screwed. I want my trains.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught Hewitt’s shock at seeing what real conservatives do- as opposed to the frauds and poseurs he cultivates as guests.
Hewitt first dropped his carpetbag in California about the time we were trying to pass Prop 187. And good RINO that he is he opposed us.
Hugh has a long history of promoting amnesty that goes back at least to 1994, although sometimes he lies about his record and tries to pass himself off as being concerned about the invasion of illegals. He’s not and never has been.
Like his pal Medved he uses his radio program to try to sell a liberal GOPe agenda to his listeners. Michael Medved appears to be reverting to his leftist roots more and more, and his flirtation with anything resembling conservatism was just an anomaly.
We shall see.....
AND the stroke of a pen. obama will now be on a tear.
Don’t know Hewitt, but Medved is an unabashed statist and smug elitist from Yale.
You know somebody else who feels a little nervous? Rubio, formerly a member of the Gang of Eight.
Sure. for this year, but then come 2015 they’ll be right back to the same stupidity.
Dont know Hewitt, but Medved is an unabashed statist and smug elitist from Yale.
Smug is right. He also likes Bill Clinton but does not like Hillary. I believe he and they has said they went to the same school at the same time.
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