One quick ping to you guys that responded on the thread...Watch the PBS show in its entirety, it is EYE OPENING. Here are a few points that stuck out to me:
1) The show traces Luis Gutiérrez and how he sweet-talked Republican after Republican into supporting Amnesty.
2) All suspicions that we’ve had over the years about secret meetings and secret deals behind closed doors ARE PROVEN. They keep mentioning the need to make sure that “nothing leaks out”. I think in Texas we have open meeting laws to prevent just that - I guess not in DC.
2) The 1 hour, 54 minute show NEVER shows ANY CONCERN from any Republican as to how phone calls are running, or E-Mails, or any other communication from constituents (including a Tea Party guy from South Carolina, Mick Mulvaney, who is later corrupted). We simply DO NOT EXIST as far as the show goes...and given what they nearly did, it’s likely true, as phone calls were likely 50 to 1 AGAINST amnesty then.
3) The South Carolina Republican was fed a FLAT-OUT LIE by the GOPe regarding Texas demographics. Specifically he was told that the Romney won Texas by 900,000 votes in 2012, but in 2016 there will be 3 MILLION NEW HISPANICS that can vote then (in 2016), but cannot vote in 2012. That’s pretty amazing because the entire population of Texas will not even increase by 2 million people in that time frame, and only a bit more than half of them will be Hispanic. The 3 million may be a national number, it is not a state number, but then who cares about facts when the cause is much more important?
4) The Tea Party guy above starts out his Town Hall spending 10 minutes LECTURING the people of South Carolina as to why Amnesty is the only choice for the Republican Party.
5) The Tea Party guy above and his hottie assistant snicker at locals back home when doing an “electronic town hall” (via Internet). They can’t stand getting question after question over something so ‘obvious’ as the need for Republicans to pass Amnesty.
6) Hate him as we do, Boehner is simply not willing to bring up a vote on Amnesty until at least half of the Republicans in the House are on board (the Hastert Rule). With the compromised Tea Party guy above carrying along a bunch of Republicans, they are finally able to reach that 50% mark, and the vote is planned just after Cantor’s Primary (and then canceled after Cantor loses). But Boehner does hire this REALLY SNIDE lady babe who is an ‘expert’ on immigration issues to try to bring up the Republican vote count...and she does her job. In the end, she lets us know what she thinks of Republicans in general.
7) Cantor, the House Majority Leader, is only mentioned once in the entire show (when he loses). People above and below him are mentioned all the time...that was weird. As we knew, Paul Ryan is TOTALLY ON BOARD for Amnesty, but has enough sense to not be part of the show. Had he been on this show and had it come out earlier, there is no way he would have been elected Speaker.
8) This club in DC needs to be BROKEN UP and ENDED. It is SICKENING to see the Republicans get suckered over and over again by Gutiérrez, who, in return shows us what he really thinks of Republicans, over and over.
Anyway, that’s my report - watch for yourselves if you have the time.
“This club in DC needs to be BROKEN UP and ENDED. It is SICKENING to see the Republicans get suckered over and over again by Gutiérrez, who, in return shows us what he really thinks of Republicans, over and over.”
Thanks for the ping,I will try to catch this episode. But it really isn’t about Gutierrez or other democrats. Remember these names, they are who promote these amnesty candidates while they pretend to be ‘tea party’.
Cesar Conda, Rubio’s chief of staff, Ryan’s mentor
Grover Norquist owner of the ‘pledge’...when candidates sign it, they OWN them and if they try to go anti amnesty/bad trade like TPP, They are destroyed...Cruz signed it, Trump has not
Karl Rove...”Turd Blossom”
Al Cardenas, head of CPAC
Steven Moore, Heritage’s head ‘economist’ who helped Conda, Norquist destroy prop 187 in Calif and every attempt at enforcement
NRCC...run by Cong. Greg Walden, who is stealing contributions of Trump Supporters.
NRSC...Which Cruz used to run, pulling the same scam on Trump supporters.
Freedom works
Americans for Prosperity
Several lobbyist run ‘Tea Party’ groups, ie...Tea Party Express, Tea Party Patriots
And YES, most of our ‘conservative’ non profits have SOLD OUT
The Republcan Insider support of amnesty still doesn’t make sense me. It can’t be a desire for cheap labor. That need simply doesn’t exist. The farm laborers where I live have been carrying on a srtike against a berry farm for three years in attemp to block temporary workers from taking their jobs. The strikers are illegals who over stayed their visas.
The only explanation is that the establishment and probably Trump, as well, are Statists, who view the voters as useful idiots, and evangelicals as good for nothing.
No, it was the People's Congressional District.