No pressure on House Republicans to tackle immigration reform (Boehner Amnesty conference July 10!)

The Hill ^ | 7/3/13 | Russell Berman

[jimbo123]

House Republicans aren’t feeling pressure to tackle comprehensive immigration reform — not from the Senate, not from the business and religious communities and not from the many GOP-aligned groups backing the effort.

From Karl Rove to Jeb Bush to Grover Norquist, an array of Republican heavyweights have called on the House GOP to embrace immigration reform.

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At the behest of the Speaker , the House is taking a more deliberate, methodical approach to immigration reform than the Senate and will begin in earnest with a special meeting of the Republican Conference on July 10.

[jimbo123]

Boehner will show his hand on July 10th! Call your Rep first thing tomorrow morning and tell him/her to tell Boehner not to bring any form of an Amnesty Bill to the floor! The clock is ticking!

[Ray76]

At the behest of the Speaker, the House is taking a more deliberate, methodical approach to immigration reform implementing Obama's Amnesty Agenda than the Senate and will begin in earnest with a special meeting of the Republican Conference on July 10.

The Republicans differ only in method not agenda.

The ruling Democrat-Republican Party MUST GO.

[Diogenesis]

The GOP is leaving the borders open
and cannot be trusted.

[Castigar]

Unfortunately my rep is a liberal democrat...

[Paladin2]

Paul Ryan has dropped the ball?

[jimbo123]

GOP Amnesty Day is July 10th! Call your REP!

[umgud]

No amnesty, no chain migration (from illegals).

[Stalwart]

Reading around a few weeks ago, there was a story circulating that it was Darrel Issa quietly taking the lead to craft the House version. Issa was purported to be using his Silicon Valley connections to get input from big businesses.

Story didn’t get much traction, but there were no denials, either. Nothing since then. Odd.

[jmaroneps37]

I wrote my GOP Congressman and told him if he dared vote for ANYTHING looking or smelling amnesty in any form I would work to defeat him without concern for the political consequences. “If Bonehead and Cancer ram amnesty through there will be no country to save and my only enjoyment will be putting you out of work.”
If they do this we can change the national motto to “What difference now does it make?”

[Iron Munro]

[cripplecreek]

Grover Al Norquist needs to go run for the presidency of Egypt. He can take Karl with him for whatever.

[LibsRJerks]

When you think of all the problems we face in this country, yet this seems to be the TOP priority of both parties ...it really makes you wonder.

I seriously doubt there is even ONE patriot left in our halls of leadership today. They are ALL traitors and liars.

We should have cleaned house long ago ....long ago.

[SecondAmendment]

The money quote in that article is from LA Raza,

"Just vote one something"

Here the LA Raza spokesidiot openly admits the plan is to pass anything in the house so that amnesty may be pushed through via conference.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

You cannot use “deliberate” and “methodical” in the same sentence when using the current GOP in both houses. I told someone the other day there are not enough cajones in the entire GOP fold on the hill to equal one eunuch!
Freegards
LEX

[Paladin2]

I’m sure the House has a Gang of Miscreants working in the darkness as we speak.

[headstamp 2]

Hey Boner, ObamaCare is where it’s at. Far more important on peoples minds than this garbage.

The momentum is with doing something to curtail, delay, defund it.

The GOP is truly pathetic.

[EternalVigilance]

Please, don't anybody let up.

Show 'em the rope, point at the branch. And if they give one ounce of support to this monstrosity, hang 'em.

[SunkenCiv]

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  I, for one, am for immigration reform. … That being said, I’m worried that the bill before us won’t pass.... [Rand Paul: I hate to say it, but the immigration bill is a little bit like ObamaCare right now ]

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  [Paul open to voting for Senate immigration bill]

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  [Rand Paul: I'm Open to Voting for Immigration Bill]

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  Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers... [Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform]

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• ...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said. [Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance]

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  One day after announcing on his radio show that he is "truly considering" running in 2014 for the U.S. Senate seat now held by New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, Rivera amped up his message today in a television interview and a column on the Fox News Latino website... a moderate Republican who is fiscally conservative but also supports gay marriage and Roe v. Wade... [Geraldo Rivera declares himself a 'moderate Republican' as he eyes U.S. Senate run]

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[GailA]

I totally agree, I’ve been calling my new ran on conservative principals US Rep Stephen Fincher, nearly daily. NO ON AMNESTY or I’ll be first in line to vote your butt out!

[Count of Monte Fisto]

I wrote my GOP Congressman and told him if he dared vote for ANYTHING looking or smelling amnesty in any form I would work to defeat him without concern for the political consequences.

The House Republicans aren't going to vote for Amnesty. They are going to vote for border security. The bill coming out of conference will be Amnesty and will pass with all Democrats and a handful of RINO's from safe districts. Thus the GOPe can push through Amnesty and your CONgressman can say he voted for border security.