Posted on 03/09/2016 12:22:25 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
....."[Ted Cruz's] amendments are among more than 300 filed by the Tuesday evening deadline. Republicans wanting tighter enforcement provisions filed a majority of the amendments, with Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, leading the pack with 77 amendments.
Supporters of the bill, mainly of the part of it that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants, kept a steady drumbeat in defense of the measure though emails, websites and social media.
In a press release, America’s Voice, a leading national group that advocates for more lenient immigration laws, singled out Cruz’s anti-citizenship amendment as particularly worrisome.
“This would not only destroy the path to citizenship in the Senate bill-the popular heart of an immigration reform solution-but also turn its back on 100 years of precedent in immigration policy,” said the release..........
Dec 17, 2015: More
...”The bipartisan group of eight senators - including battle-tested veterans and relative newcomers like Rubio - painstakingly negotiated a delicate compromise in early 2013 that would overhaul every corner of the U.S. immigration system, including a 13-year pathway to citizenship for millions here illegally.
Fans and foes of the legislation, as well as observers at the time, knew the core bill couldn’t change too dramatically because that would upset that compromise, which not only had the backing of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate but also coalitions off the Hill, such as labor unions and the business lobby.
Cruz’s amendment - which called for stripping out a pathway to citizenship, but keeping a path for legalization - would have done precisely that.
The night before each Senate Judiciary Committee markup, senior Gang of Eight aides would huddle to scour through each of the amendments that were teed up for the following day, determining which proposals would be palatable and which would be unacceptable. This strategy was meant to ensure the core elements of the Gang of Eight deal would stay intact (the four members of the Gang who sat on the Judiciary Committee would vote in a bloc, usually with the rest of the committee Democrats, to vote down potential deal-killers).
“This one was one that clearly we all had to oppose because it went to the core of the deal,” recalled an aide to a Senate Democrat during the 2013 negotiations. “It could’ve unraveled the whole deal.”
Sure, Cruz himself never called it a “poison pill” at the time. But no senator refers to his own proposal as a poison pill, even if it plainly is. The Gang of Eight never considered Cruz as “gettable,” and it was well-known at the time that Cruz was never going to vote for the bill and was in fact, trying to kill it.
“Everyone was rolling their eyes and smirking when he said it would improve the bill,” said the aide. “I don’t think anybody took it seriously.”...
.....the absolute last thing the establishment wants is to have a brokered convention with Trump leading in the delegates.....just more free TV TIME FOR TRUMP TRUMP AND MORE TRUMP. By the time it was over Trump would have milked it for all it was worth, Trump would have “torn the roof of the” ratings.....and the TRUMPIVERSE WOULD BE EXPANDING AT THE SPEED OF TRUMP.
You need white and black democrats to get on board in numbers in the long term to get any of it through congress.
Trump can spark this revolution.
Great graphic!
Did you make that?
Trump did. Did not hear much about it from elected officials until Trump started talking about it. Vote Trump.
Credit goes to an unknown. Thought I’d share it.
Nice one.
:)
Wish I’d made it :-)
I will share it a bit as well.
Hardly.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R
455 vs 352...
Its no where near over.
Both candidates are around 1/3 of the total delegates needed, obviously Trump has an advantage at this time, but as the field narrow, that WILL change.
BARF...
Donald Trump is NOTHING like Ronald Reagan.
N-O-T-H-I-N-G...
And now he’s an official Bush Baby, too.
Wishful thinking...
Its funny... you folks sit and trash Cruz for unifying the party...
Guess what, your liberal candidate of Trump would have to do the same if he intends on winning over all of us voters who stand against him...
Gonna be awfully hard how terrible he treats the rest of us... and the same goes for his supporters.
I’m glad Cruz is solidifying support across the board on the GOP side. Once Rubio and Kasich drop out, its over for Mr. Trump.
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