Posted on 01/14/2013 8:33:57 PM PST by Bigtigermike
The Wall Street Journal profile on Rubio’s amnesty plan makes me want to take piano lessons or learn ice sculpture — because it’s Groundhog Day for immigration policy, and it’s like yesterday never happened.
But the specific policies Ned Ryerson.......er...Rubio is selling are just the same old, same old: “earned” amnesty for illegal aliens plus de facto unlimited immigration, in exchange for promises to some day implement E-Verify and build more fencing.
Even worse, what makes me want to throw a toaster into the bath tub is the utter lack of awareness that nothing Rubio’s saying is even remotely novel. Either he or the writer, Matthew Kaminski, or both, don’t seem to realize we’re hearing I Got You, Babe all over again. Rubio’s plan is described as one that “charges up the middle,” between “the liberal fringe that seeks broad amnesty for illegal immigrants and the hard right’s obsession with closing the door” — as though any element of Rubio’s proposal would be a deal breaker for the left.
This phony triangulation theme has been a hallmark of Republican politicians trying to convince their voters that they’re not just doing what the Democrats want them to do. After describing Rubio’s idea that there would be different stages of amnesty, we learn from the writer that “The staged process won’t please either the blanket amnesty crowd or the Minutemen” — except, of course, that the “staged” or “earned” amnesty was dreamed up by the Left in the first place
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
AMNESTY Bill PING
“let me guess:, the GOPe made Rubio their pointman on immigration?”
He’s not the only one. It’s going to be a full court press by the Treason Lobby.
And on radio you can already hear Sean Hannity, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved beating the drum for amnesty by another name. The cowards won’t even admit what they’re after.
ping
Your right .
It’s a awful future with Bonner the lobbyist town drunk as the head of the GOP .
A soulless crook open to a payoff at any time !
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