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DCCC Chair: We Care More about Amnesty Than Midterm Elections
Breitbart.com ^ | 4/14/14 | Tony Lee

Posted on 04/14/2014 4:19:15 PM PDT by cotton1706

The top Democrat who is leading the effort to help the party elect more members to Congress said he cares more about amnesty than the midterm elections.

Appearing on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley on Sunday, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the midterm elections are taking a backseat to the amnesty legislation Democrats and establishment Republicans desperately want.

"We'd rather pass an immigration bill than worry about the election. We have got 190 Democrats ready to vote on a comprehensive immigration bill today," Israel said while also accusing Republicans of being racists for opposing Obama and amnesty. "We can do it today. And we know that not every Republican is going to agree with us on that. It passed the Senate with 67 bipartisan votes. All we need is 20 Republicans, just 20 to vote for that bill and it will be law and we don't have to have this debate anymore."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who also accused Republicans of being racists for opposing amnesty, said last week that she would rather pass amnesty legislation than become Speaker again.

“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.”

The terrain is not favorable for Democrats in this year's midterm elections, especially because of President Barack Obama's unpopularity and the disastrous Obamacare rollout, but amnesty legislation would give Democrats more voters in the future and margin for error.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; california; candycrowley; demagogicparty; elections; memebuilding; nancypelosi; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; randnesty; steveisrael
It's mid-April and still no Amnesty. While running down the clock is good, the powers that be are biding their time till after the May and June primaries.
1 posted on 04/14/2014 4:19:15 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

“We care more about the war than we do about any one battle.”


2 posted on 04/14/2014 4:20:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Steely Tom

GREAT!


3 posted on 04/14/2014 4:25:22 PM PDT by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: cotton1706

Amnesty is a done deal that will be implemented in a lame duck session... The retiring Dems along with the feckless Pubs will jam it through on Christmas Eve...

That’s where we are...


4 posted on 04/14/2014 4:26:56 PM PDT by bfh333 (William Wallace was right! ~~~ FRRRREEEEEEEEEEEDOM ~~~)
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To: Steely Tom

“We care more about adding Dem voters than we do about the life and welfare of the Nation.”
Can we call it treason yet,or do they have to go even further?


5 posted on 04/14/2014 4:30:01 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: cotton1706

Nice! They’re already setting up excuses for their upcoming repudiation.


6 posted on 04/14/2014 4:30:30 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Steely Tom
100%!!! 10million+ new voters down the road will make up for a few lost seats now...
7 posted on 04/14/2014 5:21:21 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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from the Steve Israel keyword:
8 posted on 04/14/2014 5:44:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: cotton1706

Shamesty means more rat votes down the line, 1 election is insignificant compared to that.


9 posted on 04/14/2014 5:44:58 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: cotton1706

Israel should really be concerned about his own mental health because he’s a flaming wackjob. But then again, he’s a Democrat Party so that comes with his resume’.

Don’t forget, like Rep. Israel did, that “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.”


10 posted on 04/14/2014 5:51:54 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: cotton1706

If the Dems pass amnesty, they’ve won. With millions of new Dem voters, we will never again win a national election, nor will we retain control of the House or Senate. It won’t matter if they lose 2014, they will win 2016 and beyond.


11 posted on 04/15/2014 6:15:35 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: cotton1706

“We’d rather pass an immigration bill than worry about the election.”
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Good. Then you’ll lose on both endeavors.


12 posted on 04/15/2014 8:08:51 AM PDT by Din Maker (Rand Paul, Rick Perry endorsed McConnell over Bevin. Neither will ever get my vote in 2016.)
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