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Tea Party's Singular Focus on Amnesty Troubles GOP
NewsMax ^ | November 26, 2014 | Melissa Clyne

Posted on 11/26/2014 9:29:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There has been a change. A few years ago the illegals issue was not wanted at some local tea parties. Rick Santelli never mentioned Obamacare. But now both issues are so pressing that the tea party has become incensed. (Also, I don’t remember a heavy pro-life presence either. I think the idea was to keep the libertarians who were not pro-life.)

The party doesn’t have to remain the same from year to year. The other parties don’t.


41 posted on 11/27/2014 2:25:48 AM PST by firebrand
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Uh, Can anyone say UNCONSTITUTIONAL?

Completely UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Like, TURNING THE US into a Obama DICTATORSHIP!

Laws originate in the US House, then go through the US Senate and then to the President who either signs or veto's them.

We do not have a KING who Dictates our laws!

Can NEWSMAX get a grip here??

42 posted on 11/27/2014 3:07:08 AM PST by sr4402
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gotta pick your battles and focus on the biggest threat. As Frederick the Great said, he who defends everything defends nothing.


43 posted on 11/27/2014 3:08:00 AM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: sr4402
Uh, Can anyone say UNCONSTITUTIONAL?

Exactly! It is an assault on the rule of law, upon the very core and foundation of our Republic , the separation of powers.

44 posted on 11/27/2014 3:33:16 AM PST by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: Piranha
I am a philosophical supporter of Taxed Enough Already.

I am against BIG Federal Government overreach where ever it currently exists: environmentally, lax control of voter eligibility, spying on taxpayers, destroying our monetary system, overtaxing, over regulation of our daily lives, destroying local control of education. Illegal Immigration is just one of many insults to the American ideal, you just have to open your eyes to see what is going on.

May God Damn the usurper who was elected by fools and ignorant voters.

45 posted on 11/27/2014 3:41:16 AM PST by wetgundog (ua)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If the Republican Party can seriously take on the Amnesty issue and use its power in the Congress to kill it, then the Republican Party may be making the attempt to detach itself from the Democrat Party. If it refuses to attack Amnesty seriously rather than just making pronouncements then it is confirming its subservience to the Democrat Party and uselessness to the Nation.


46 posted on 11/27/2014 3:42:52 AM PST by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Peters points out that it was this type of organizing and vigor that helped the tea party defeat former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.”

Oh, SO NOW they’re saying that Amnesty was a major factor in Cantor getting clocked. Until now the excuse was that Cantor was too lazy to fight for Grandma’s Social Security check.


47 posted on 11/27/2014 3:57:11 AM PST by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...that the ultra conservatives are focusing their attention and resources on this single issue (Amnesty).”

Yes we are!!! If you REPOPULATE the country with Third World types, what the hell is the purpose of trying to “balance the budget” when you’re just going to get swamped in future elections?

I’d say, on a list of priorities, that preventing repopulation (or really just trying to keep it moving a bit slower), is about as high as a priority can get.


48 posted on 11/27/2014 3:59:59 AM PST by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The Post last week reported that the two party leaders will be forced to walk a tightrope to tamp down the “intraparty warfare that has largely defined the GOP during the Obama years and that has hurt the party’s brand among the broader electorate.”

Yea, it HURT US REAL BAD, you know that fighting that knocked out Cantor. We only now control the House with the largest margin in nearly 100 years, and just took over the Senate. I’m sure the Democrats now wish they could “hurt their party’s brand” just as bad.


49 posted on 11/27/2014 4:02:56 AM PST by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: Texas Eagle

That’s why the media refer to TEA as “the tea party wing of the republican party”- so moderate Rats won’t look into joining.


50 posted on 11/27/2014 4:04:04 AM PST by uncitizen (I weep for my country)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amnesty allowed will be the death of the Republican Party.. The Elitist RINOs have no sense. First - the BIG LIE... it is not 5 million or 6-7-8-9 Million Illegal Aliens — it is 20 MILLION illegal aliens. The the idiot Repug ‘Leadership’ who have no recognition of the Case Precedence of a Federal Court Ruling called ‘Chain Migration’ which allows any new citizen to near immediately sponsor EVERY BLOOD RELATIVE for American Citizenship. Simple math... 20 million given Amnesty and NO it will never stop at 5 million and it will never stop until there is Full Amnesty. 20 Million start, in 10 years 25 million, in 15 years 30 million, then in 20 years 40-45 million. The CHAIN never stops. And it cannot be changed by New Statue.

IGNORANT is the only suitable word to describe the GOP top dogs...


51 posted on 11/27/2014 4:04:54 AM PST by ICCtheWay
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McConnell and Boehner also must try to “contain” Republicans who have offended Hispanics with insensitive comments, such as when Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a tea party favorite. Bachmann said that the “social cost” of Obama’s immigration policies would be extensive, with “millions of unskilled, illiterate, foreign nationals coming into the United States who can’t speak the English language.”

...and EXACTLY what is the problem with that, other than it SPLITS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IN HALF, by telling their base to MOVE ASIDE so that we can give jobs to our newly imported people. I wonder if that’s it?

“South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the four Republicans who make up the gang of eight, called Bachmann’s remarks “unfortunate, unfair, unnecessary, unwise.””

...but not UNACCURATE (as he would say).


52 posted on 11/27/2014 4:05:45 AM PST by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Something about our Quisling traitor elites (both GOPes and Rats) bringing in millions of non-English-speaking illiterate invaders to replace American sin the voting booth does tend to rile us up.


53 posted on 11/27/2014 5:37:47 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: BobL

People watch what’s happening at the moment, and right before Cantor’s primary the surge of children was all over the news. I think that’s what did it, at least partly. No one knew when it was even going to slow down.


54 posted on 11/27/2014 5:47:16 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Still Thinking
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55 posted on 11/27/2014 6:00:52 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: re_nortex

Any conservative, to them, is “ultra” from the first degree to infinity.


56 posted on 11/27/2014 7:34:10 AM PST by Olog-hai
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