Posted on 04/24/2014 11:46:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Skip to 43:30 for the key bit. Offhand, I don’t think I’ve ever heard him put it this way before. The “de facto amnesty” line is an old chestnut, the line about people in the shadows is a very old chestnut, but the idea that America has actually dishonored itself by dragging its feet in rewarding endless millions of people who broke U.S. law with citizenship is a new one on me. I wonder, does it mitigate the dishonor any that we amnestized them once already in 1986 and will surely do so again sometime soon? How much contempt for our own law do we need to show before the stain is expunged?
Does this guy … not care at all how this rhetoric sounds to people skeptical of comprehensive reform? Per his own logic, given the depths of dishonor we’ve already sunk to in trying to enforce our own borders, I can’t imagine why we would insist on any new security measures as the price for approving mass legalization. If there’s no way to deter people who are already here from staying — “they’re not going home” — why are we even bothering with E-Verify? It’s impossible to watch this and not conclude that the only reason McCain and his allies agreed to beefier security in the Gang of Eight bill was to sweeten the deal politically for skeptics, not because they think that security will work. Or even want it to.
And by the way, when I say it’s coming soon, I mean soon:
House Speaker John Boehner theatrically mocked his fellow Republican Congressmen for being afraid to reform immigration policy when he spoke Thursday before the Middletown Rotary Club in his home district.
“Here’s the attitude. Ohhhh. Don’t make me do this. Ohhhh. This is too hard,” Boehner whined before a luncheon crowd at Brown’s Run County Club in Madison Township.
“We get elected to make choices. We get elected to solve problems and it’s remarkable to me how many of my colleagues just don’t want to … They’ll take the path of least resistance.”
The House primaries will be over in June, at which point there’s nothing stopping Boehner from bringing a bill to the floor except his own fear of being deposed as Speaker. And maybe he’s not as fearful of that as we think.
Note, by the way, that McCain vows he’ll try to have any immigration bill that passes Congress named after Ted Kennedy. That smells like a cheap applause line given that he’s speaking here at Harvard’s Kennedy school of government, but he’s said it before. He means it.
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Why is Boehner whining? Why doesn’t he just do it? Afraid he will lose his cushy job?
Perhaps the most noxious affectation of the crony capitalist pols selling out the country for amnesty is when they try to wrap their treachery in an air of moral superiority.
This is the man who, had he been elected president in 2008, would be holding a signing ceremony in the WH gardens. This is the man who, had Mitt Romney, would be standing along side the President smiling while Romney signed the Amnesty bill.
People of Arizona. Why do you keep putting him back in office? Do you just like to hear the words “Senator from Arizona” or what? You have a madman masquerading as an Arizona statesman and all he does is work diligently to undermine your own laws, your sovereignty and your freedom. All in the name of ‘reaching across the aisle’. You didn’t get a ‘reach across’ you got a ‘reach around.’
What foolish men are Boehner and McCain! They should be talking about how we can secure our borders. Secure our borders, men! After our borders are secure then is the time to talk about how to deal in a compassionate manner with the illegal immigrants already in this country.
Living in the shadows and a desperate need to fix our "broken" system are shallow arguments for amnesty and an insult to those who immigrated in a legal manner.
The crisis in illegal immigration is our leaky borders. Talk about that. Tell us about the numbers since 1987. Tell us about the numbers each and every day. Tell us about the terrorists coming in. That is the crisis!
Only Democrats try to fool us over and over again since 1987 with the same empty promises and lip service about securing our borders.
Illegals already here have been in the USA for thirty years or more; they can wait until we have the right answers and resources after our borders are secured.
We don’t have enough money to: (1) reward illegals with citizenship, and (2) reward them with free health care. That even ignores the fact that it’s immoral to reward criminals while making law-abiding potential citizens wait years or often forever to come to our country legally, and it’s particularly stupid to selectively reward criminals while advertising to attract those criminals who have expensive illnesses and promise them free medical care for life. John McCain jumped the shark years ago, and he’s ready for retirement.
It’s a stain on America’s honor that we’re even discussing amnesty for illegal aliens. A nation that does not defend its borders and its culture is doomed.
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It’s a stain on America’s honor that Arizona hasn’t retired this guy yet.
McLame has become a ‘stain” on the fabric of America. He has outlived his time as a POW. It is what he didn’t learn from that experience that troubles me. Time for his retirement has come and gone, get it over with.
It’s a stain on our honor that we haven’t stopped these invaders from occupying and settling on our soil and destroying our American culture and heritage.
If they want amnesty then they should at least meet us half way and become fluent in our language.
It’s a stain on America’s honor that you’re still in office.
Its a Shame that the rocket on the Forrestal didn’t zoom up McCains tailpipe.
Two points for the distinguished Senator to consider:
1. Amnesty was passed in 1986 (Simpson Mazzioli), but the law has been selectively enforced since then (just like most every other bill signed into law).
2. Your "choices" on the budget have contributed mightily to the debt that is on the glide path to $20 Trillion.
Sums up your performance on the budget, Mr. Speaker.
Hell, why not just surrender to Mehhicckko and be done with it?
John is a stain in America’s shorts.
It’s a stain on Arizona and America’s honor that he is still in the Senate.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
If the GOP is complicit in this amnesty fiasco, either by taking up the Senate bill or through some piecemeal slight of hand with a series of House bills such as we hear are being cooked up of late, or as riders on other necessary legislation, the GOP will cease to exist. It will not survive through the 2016 elections. The people will shun the over-tanned, glad-handing, backslapping quislings and look elsewhere for leaders who actually have the spine for the fight. Make no mistake - to me and to many, many others, amnesty is the GOP's Rubicon. Cross it at your electoral peril.
He was a hero once; today he is both a liar and a traitor.
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