It doesn't matter as far as you are concerned because your position is that legalizing probational leglization w NO path to citizenship to a single illegal who pays $50K in federal income taxes and can get no benefits is the same thing as giving them the vote and my money.
That was the jist of my comment that you jumped on.
It doesn't matter as far as you are concerned because your position is that legalizing probational leglization w NO path to citizenship to a single illegal who pays $50K in federal income taxes and can get no benefits is the same thing as giving them the vote and my money.
That was the jist of my comment that you jumped on. >
Sorry about that, its late.
Let's assume Boehner keeps his promise and does not allow a vote on the senate immigration bill. If the House then passes "probational leglization w NO path to citizenship" 3 things can happen:
1) Dems won't vote for it and can't compromise with the House in conference, so both parties give up, conservatives celebrate, and Obama turns up the demagoguery.
2) Boehner/Ryan/Cantor send enough RINOs to the conference to add citizenship. Then Boehner would have a dilemma, because whichever GOP faction (pro- and aunti-amesty) loses the following vote in the full House on the conderence bill might hold a grudge for a long time. This is the possibility that drives so many posters (and Bachmann) to insist that the house pass NO immigration bill at all. (But as sickoflibs notes, when the House had no violence against women bill of its own, Boehner brought up the senate VAWA and House GOP cowards helped Dems to pass it.)
3) (I think this is very unlikely) Enough senate Dems vote for the non-citizenship to pass this thing in both houses. This would happen only if rabid pro-amnesty forces thought this would be a way to get part of the way to citizenship.