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.
Its the biggest thing that we can do, and thats why Ive 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. Theres 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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“We care more about the war than we do about any one battle.”
GREAT!
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...
“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?
Nice! They’re already setting up excuses for their upcoming repudiation.
Shamesty means more rat votes down the line, 1 election is insignificant compared to that.
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.”
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.
“We’d rather pass an immigration bill than worry about the election.”
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Good. Then you’ll lose on both endeavors.
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