Cannon is an open borders puke. The worst of the lot in the US House of Representatives. The clowns in the Mormon church there (Utah) are bizarrely open borders. Their hierarchy promotes it, dittos for the Catholic hierarchy. It's based on body count. How many more warm butts can you get in those church pews.
Amazing how "churches" care more about filling the pews than they do about the thousands upon thousands of Americans killed by illegals since 9/11.
Your comment about the Mormon and Catholic hierarchies wanting more members is spot on.
But you better be careful or you will be anathematized for your " hurtful" comments by those who are unwilling to look honestly at their own leaders.
I think this is the problem -- purists who claim that a good conservative republican who is 90% on their side is an "open borders puke" because he won't personally shoot illegal immigrants on sight.
The republicans have the winning side on the debate, and the house republicans can carry the day, IF they and the anti-illegal purists will recognize that most of those who are "on their side" are only there relative to the absurd position of the John McCain crowd.
The message of "Secure the border, don't reward illegals, provide a controlled guest worker program, provide a larger pool for citizenship, accept the long-term illegals that have already PROVEN that they are melting into our culture" is one that is supported by a LOT of people when it is explained.
It isn't what the purists want -- they HATE the idea that any illegal immigrant will get credit for hiding well in our population. But every citizen who knows a hard-working illegal living in their community, paying taxes, with a family, mom on the PTA, Father runs a local store, is the local scoutmaster, the are on their HOA board, they speak english -- you won't get those people to EVER agree that these families need to get kicked out of the country.
The sooner you can accept that there's a compromise where you can open up citizenship to the truly integrated, and stick it to the open borders people who want to give away your social security to mexico, the sooner you will realise that you have won, that Cannon is not your enemy, and that while the President would not WRITE your plan, he will fully support it if it sounds like what I wrote above, because he sees the big picture and understands victory.
When you start blaming democracy for your problems, you've reached true "buchanon" status, and will be relegated to the same plane of existance.