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Nancy Pelosi: I'd Rather Pass Amnesty than Be Speaker
breitbart.com ^ | 4/9/14 | Tony Lee

Posted on 04/10/2014 5:25:38 AM PDT by cotton1706

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she would rather pass amnesty legislation than get her gavel back.

“It’s the biggest thing that we can do, and that’s why I’ve said to the speaker, to the press, to these groups, I would rather pass [a] comprehensive immigration reform bill than win the elections in November,” Pelosi told Politico. “There’s nothing we could accomplish in winning that would be as big as passing immigration reform.”

Politico noted that Pelosi has been traveling the country promoting immigration reform legislation and said she hoped a bill could pass by June or July. She ruled out the possibility of amnesty legislation being passed during the lame-duck session of Congress after the midterm elections.

Democrats have circulated a discharge petition for their bill, which is the Senate's bill that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers with less stringent border security provisions, but it has failed to get the 218 signatures needed to force a vote.

Other Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) have indicated that this year was the last chance to pass broad amnesty legislation.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty
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To: chiefqc

Ditto.


21 posted on 04/10/2014 6:00:52 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Mr. K

They are DESPERATE to get this done BEFORE the next election!


No, they just want to keep the issue alive and in the news.


22 posted on 04/10/2014 6:02:34 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: cotton1706

She actually made this statement? How stupid.


23 posted on 04/10/2014 6:03:03 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: cotton1706
The reason we are having these issues and problems is that our laws aren't being followed by the very people who wrote them and who swore an oath to uphold them.

She'd rather pass amnesty?!?

I'd rather charge, prosecute and jail those elected and appointed officials who purposefully didn't enforce current immigration law, who purposefully refused to enforce our borders as required by the US Constitution, and who conspired with or encouraged others to do the same, as with the many "sanctuary cities" and the federal programs to grant housing loans to illegal aliens and the wide variety of social and educational programs.

Many of these elected and appointed officials and their programs put illegals ahead of the tax paying citizens who pay their salaries and pay for these programs only to then have to compete for jobs and the benefits they're paying for with those who shouldn't even be here!

This isn't compassion, it's criminal insanity!

Charge, prosecute and jail those of US who are tearing US apart from the inside and enforce our border first, then clean up whatever mess they've left behind.

24 posted on 04/10/2014 6:05:12 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: cotton1706
Because Amnesty will lead to permanent democrat control.

Ding, ding, ding ... We have a thread winnah!

25 posted on 04/10/2014 6:06:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (When fascism comes it will come..with promises of a better world.The jackboots come later..-Shapiro)
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To: cotton1706

Nancy, you ignorant sl*t....

I’d rather you just passed......rather than be speaker.

That’s passed - as in the southern use of the word.


26 posted on 04/10/2014 6:09:18 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: cotton1706

The word “Amnesty” is just in the headline. No politician R or D dares utter the word directly.


27 posted on 04/10/2014 6:18:24 AM PDT by DManA
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To: cotton1706
I'd rather pass a stone than her be speaker.
28 posted on 04/10/2014 6:25:39 AM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: cotton1706



29 posted on 04/10/2014 6:46:08 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: cotton1706
Nasty Nancy is oh so noble, isn't she?
The supremely egocentric Frisco mental lightweight claims she would prefer one last thrust, perhaps the fatal one, into the traditional American way of life above her own desire for power and control.
For the rest of her days Na卐i Peloϟϟi will not be in position to be Speaker as her party will be in the minority in the House so she can shoot her mouth off like this without carrying any weight.
30 posted on 04/10/2014 6:50:52 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: DManA

“broad amnesty legislation”
Exactly. It is unusual to see those words in print but you never hear insects like Pelosi or McCain use the ‘A’ word.
If Miss Lube Rack and her partners in crime were ever to succeed (like Obamacare: “It’s affordable, it’s private!”) they would make it clear that “reform” is in fact what we have been saying it is all along: amnesty. (Surprise surprise.)
We would hear nothing more about fines and the other things newly minted citizens were expected to do as conditions of passing “comprehensive. immigration reform” or they would be given short shrift, unenforced as rules usually don’t apply to Democrats.
As you point out, we don’t hear them using the actual word, that is, what it really is—a pardon and reward of citizenship. The siren song is, ‘The system is broken. We need CIR. Reform, reform, reform ...’ droning on-and-on. All they want is amnesty. Period.


31 posted on 04/10/2014 6:51:16 AM PDT by tumblindice (Are all Democrats inveterate, habitual liars?)
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To: cotton1706

I’d rather pass a kidney stone the size of a golf ball than have Pelosi as Speaker again.


32 posted on 04/10/2014 6:55:10 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: cotton1706

I’d rather pass a kidney stone than have Pelosi in public office.


33 posted on 04/10/2014 6:56:07 AM PDT by Old Yeller (In Latin, the word sinister means left. Which is appropriate for left-wingers.)
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To: cotton1706

I long to see the day this woman is looking out on the world through the prism of iron bars. (Sigh! It will never happen as Americans have “lost it.)


34 posted on 04/10/2014 6:58:22 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: cotton1706

Mow your own lawn, NANCY!


35 posted on 04/10/2014 7:02:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The debate, ANY DEBATE, is NEVER OVER!)
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To: cotton1706
The day she dies, I will celebrate that the world is more free.

And much more sane.

36 posted on 04/10/2014 7:04:14 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

The criminal pe-louse-i should be in prison for her crimes.


37 posted on 04/10/2014 7:09:30 AM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: lodi90

no???


38 posted on 04/10/2014 7:11:58 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: cotton1706

Apparently the woman is still alive.


39 posted on 04/10/2014 7:27:23 AM PDT by lurk
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To: TurboZamboni
Dems are more committed. Willing to fall on the sword for communism.

Thanks be to you for finally the word "communism" is finally sinking in. We are controlled by a communists Federal Government and we may never recover. I'm a very old man and have watch the falling of the Federal Government over the years. In 2007 I watch the complete hard core Communists King Obama start his move. This black communists Muslim believing ars has taken America so far down the communists rule and most of America is still blind,

40 posted on 04/10/2014 7:38:58 AM PDT by Logical me
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