I suspect this is what happened:
1) Rubio decided early-on that he would “reform” immigration, at any price. This is a pattern of RINOs where a final product, any final product, is better than delivering nothing (Bush junior did that with many, many, pieces of liberal legislation).
2) So Rubio has a plan, and the plan has some teeth in it and he gets to work with the Democrats to get his ideas into the final bill.
3) The Dems figure out that Rubio’s desperation, and decided that they will write the bill THEIR WAY.
4) Rubio STILL wants a bill, any bill, so he tries his best, but is stonewalled by the Dems - who do include a few scraps to make Rubio feel better.
5) Rather than walk away from a terrible bill, he takes what he can get and now has to somehow sell it.
6) So he lies. He tells people that the bill contains what he WANTED in the bill, not what is in it - and hopes that it’s enough.
And that’s where we are now. What really should tell our side just how bad the bill is, is the way he’s now using DEMOCRAT TALKING POINTS. We would have been better off with Crist, if this was what Rubio had in mind.
“I suspect this is what happened:
1) Rubio decided early-on that he would “reform” immigration, at any price. This is a pattern of RINOs where a final product, any final product, is better than delivering nothing (Bush junior did that with many, many, pieces of liberal legislation).
2) So Rubio has a plan, and the plan has some teeth in it and he gets to work with the Democrats to get his ideas into the final bill.
3) The Dems figure out that Rubio’s desperation, and decided that they will write the bill THEIR WAY.”
You were close up to there. The democrats didn’t write this bill. Grover Norquist and Cesar Conda, lobbyists along with the unions wrote this bill. Norquist admitted it. He wrote Bush’s amnesty.
This mess is ugly. The enemy is within.
I Have Seen Shameful Things (Must Read)
Red State ^ | April 22nd, 2013 at 04:30 AM | Erick Erickson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3010890/posts
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EXCLUSIVE — Secret Emails: Cato, Norquist, Rubio Use Boston Terror Attacks to Push Immigration...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3010671/posts
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History repeats itself, and this time, we are the NATIVES! Who is Cesar Conda? (If you don’t know, you’ll never understand what has happened here)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007546/posts
Good summary of the situation. Some of the stuff in the bill is just appalling. Like giving amnesty to illegal aliens who have IGNORED a deportation order.
For Rubio and the rest of the beltway GOP leadership to sign off on this is a declaration of war on US citizens as far as I am concerned. I will not support a party that does such a thing.