Posted on 07/24/2013 6:11:49 AM PDT by xzins
I understand what you are thinking. If you are watching the political process, you are probably thinking, as a sane person, that Republicans would completely ignore amnesty and focus on what’s important. After all, the country is focused on other trivial news, summer vacations, and the scandals. After August, the main fights will be over funding Obamacare, the budget, and the debt ceiling.
So why on earth would Republicans push for amnesty, especially after the Senate bill has been ridiculed and repudiated? Why would they bail out Obama at his weakest moment? Why would they agree to the premise that we must have some form of amnesty now, thereby bleeding conservatives dry on the issue – drip by drip?
There is no good answer to these questions other than the fact that Republican leaders are looking for a new base. Unfortunately, their dictates are strong enough to percolate down to the committee chairmen. Trey Gowdy’s subcommittee on immigration held a hearing today on the Dream Act – a mass amnesty bill that will grant citizenship and welfare rights to a large population of illegals. Basically, we control the House, but are using the committee hearings to promote Democrat policies.
Here is what the committee leaders had to say:
“I do not believe that parents who made the decision to illegally enter the U.S. while forcing their children to join them should be afforded the same treatment as these kids,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who chairs the House subcommittee that oversees immigration issues, said children are treated differently in nearly all facets of life and are seen as a “special protected class.” That was why the younger immigrants should have a separate solution than those of their parents, Gowdy argued.
“Attempts to group the entire 11 million into one homogenous group in an effort to secure a political remedy will only wind up hurting the most vulnerable,” Gowdy said in his opening comments.
The problem is that these people are not vulnerable and they are not in the shadows. They testify openly before Congress; they disrupt committee hearings; they harass members of Congress in their offices. There is no national emergency to deal with this issue now.
Moreover, there are a number of problems that are being overlooked in this process:
***Once you accept the argument that these people are entitled to citizenship, just be honest with the fact that it will metastasize into millions more. There is no way their immediate family members will ever be sent back. So yes, this is ostensibly amnesty for almost everyone. We are basically expanding our anchor baby policy to include anchor teenagers, essentially telegraphing the message that as long as you come here illegally with children, you’re here to stay.
***Once they obtain green cards or citizenship, they will be eligible to bring in more family members and spawn more chain migration. Again, Republicans might start out with something blocking family members and chain migration, but that will never stand in the long run. Those provisions will either be inserted into conference, or inevitably revised down the road.
***Has anyone thought about the cost of legalizing such a young and poor demographic? The cost to education and welfare? If they get an expedited path to citizenship, they will all be eligible for the full array of programs.
I’m seeing too many good members getting conned by leadership. They are injecting their abstract sympathies, which may be appropriate in the right time, into a political process that will not end well. If we had a president who was willing to enforce the laws and work with Congress to cut off the magnet of future waves of illegal migration, then we could discuss such a proposal.
Any discussion of this now will only lend credence to the Democrat premise of inevitability, give Obama cover for his other failures, and immediately incentivize new waves of illegal immigration. Instead of the narrative revolving around how much up-front enforcement Democrats are willing to agree to, the storyline will be dominated by how much amnesty Republicans are willing to talk about as a precondition to negotiations.
So if you are putting your faith in the Republican House to stop this amnesty, remember not to use logic when crafting that assumption. Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell want this badly, and they are not giving up.
1. Fines and JAIL TIME for anyone who abets the invasion. That includes those who employ them, rent to them, help them get credit, issue them driver's licenses, enroll them in schools, provide any more than medical care to save lives in emergencies and then a one-way ticket home when stabilized,
2. Give a meaningful reward to US citizens who turn them in, alive and unharmed.
It's a war, for heaven's sake. We're being invaded with collusion from the elite who really like dumbing down the general population and creating cheap labor and a market for cheaply produced goods. The only way to win is to not give even one inch of "wiggle room" to HOR reps.
Because they want the national media to like them; no other possible explanation, and of course the media will never like them. The fault lies with poor choices over decades by Republican primary voters.
Because they are evil, just like the democrats.
It is just as simple as that.
For many decades, well-funded internationalists have patiently worked to destroy the independence and sovereignty of the United States of America, reshaping it into a debt-ridden, malleable socialist state under international authority -- like the formerly independent nations of the European Union. Foundations established by patriots were co-opted, and their funds were used to subvert academia, media and mainline churches, and to purchase politicians. As the foundations of our society have eroded, so has the fabric that once held us together. And now, as the last of our once-reliable institutions are falling, our common identity as assimilated Americans is being destroyed by floods of uncontrolled immigration. None of this has happened by accident.
The final power grab is cleverly camouflaged by the over-hyped threat of "Terrorism" here at home, with otherwise sane Americans abandoning their freedoms for the illusion of safety. Terrorism could never destroy our nation as we know if, but government tyranny most certainly can. We are at the brink of destruction, and most Americans don't even know who the real enemies are.
When Palin came out against Hayworth in 2010, she hurt herself with conservatives.
It looks like Boehner would just switch parties and relieve himself of anguish.
If Sarah had supported Hayworth over her esrtwhile running mate, I think she would have gotten the term 'backstabber' pasted on her by the media, in addition to 'quitter' and all the other lying media crap she's already dealing with.
IMO, if she wants to remain relevant, she should run for the AK Senate seat in 2014 that's currently held by a 'Rat.
Pardon me for repeating a rant from yesterday:
Pledge to fund and vigorously enforce ALL of the immigration laws that have already been passed over the years. Quit with this bullhockey! The Senate bill is a piece of crap. Let it die. Blue slip it. You're wasting my taxpayer dollars!
Do something useful. Need some starter ideas? Form some select committees and go hard core on Bengahzi, Fast & Furious, IRS, government spying on me, etc. You've got enough right there to keep you productively and proactively occupied till at least the end of the year.
Get busy!! I've known noodles with more spine than you guys. Cojones too.
If you think this will be too hard to accomplish, there are millions of folks that will be overjoyed to put into office next year some conservatives who know how to kick ass, take names and drive for the goal line.
Boehner will never switch parties. His 8thf Ohio district has voted solid republican since 1939 and only 20 years since the Civil War has it been in Dem hands.
That’s also his greatest weakness, though. A “Boehner’s a liberal” campaign run in his district BETWEEN elections would really get his attention.
I think there’s real truth to the notion that Horowitz proposes. The GOP, the Republican establishment, desperately wants to switch their base. The merely tolerate - if not despise - the social conservative and religious conservative wing of their party.
Romney did everything he could do to spit in the face of social conservatives, and actively campaigned for pro-gay, quasi-gun, revenue “enhancing”, democrats and independents.
They want a “budget balancing” coalition that excludes those who want traditional values. They’d give their “right” arm (so to speak) to get it. And then they could actually kick us to the curb instead of having to be sly about to whom they’re trying to appeal.
And Romney had rules changes enacted that puts the RinoGop fully in charge of the process.
In short, the GOP wants to be Democrats who like to balance their checkbook. That’s it.
Democrates live in the 1800s style slavery, crude and medievalist.
Republicans live in 21st century Japanese and Chinese modern days slavery of globalist trade. They see the Mexican and the arab the same way, as pervs moving the Kinsey-Rockefeller agenda.
Meanwhile communist materialists enjoy the show because to them it is edging to their world of a bourgeois adapting to their lust for total terror domination and pimping.
Excellent ... and worth repeating.
The answer to the question is simple. It is because they are too stupid to live.
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Only one here who gets it : )
They are pushing it because businesses want to keep their payroll low by hiring illegals for less than minimum wage.
That is definitely one of the top reasons. Obama and his other elite corporatist buddies, gop or dem, hate the middle class. It stands between them and their self-appointed rightful place on the throne.
Sorry can you please give me some background on what you are referring to?
I am not familiar with Hayworth, and was not aware Palin took any sort of controversial stand way back when in 2010.
I do however know, she was “” this close to running last time. It looked to me like her bowing out, had something to do with her kids.
They’ve continued to grow, and will (all) be four years older next time around.
Just saying.
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