Those of us who have already left welcome you.
I am so outta there.
Welcome aboard the USS TEA Party. Let the crooked, decrepit GOP-E sink into the abyss.
If we want ethnic minority voters to support Republicans, we have to engage them, and show our sincerity.
Translation: Play identity politics and promise to provide even more government benefits than the Dems.
2. As stated above, we are not a policy committee, but among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and beyond we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only. We also believe that comprehensive immigration reform is consistent with Republican economic policies that promote job growth and opportunity for all.
Translation: Accept and champion amnesty. Who cares if it takes jobs from Americans, depresses wages, and adds to the Dem voting rolls so they can be the permanent majority party.
3. When it comes to social issues, the Party must in fact and deed be inclusive and welcoming. If we are not, we will limit our ability to attract young people and others, including many women, who agree with us on some but not all issues.
Translation: Accept gay marriage and pro-choice.
Third Party time.......Tea, anybody?...........
No, it will probably finish the GOPe off.
The GOP is interested in continuing to be funded by businesses who like to hire illegals—and leave taxpayers stuck with the direct government subsidies that we end up paying to the majority of such low-skill, immigrant workers.
That is, businesses pay the GOP to assure that we are paying part of their laborers’ compensation for living and working here.
The GOP embraces amnesty and homo marriage, and it will be officially no better than the degenerate Dems. Voted GOP my entire life, but this will be the point I’ll actively divorce myself from it, regard it an enemy, and do everything I can to work for its destruction.
But IF the republicans do this, they're done. A newer, stronger TEA party will arise by surprise, and neither the democrats or republicans will know what hit them.
The homo thing is a biggie. There is no such thing as tolerance for the behavior. They are very few in number (but more kids in the public schools are being indoctrinated by the day), and it's all being forced upon us in exchange for big political donations. It's far from national reality. People have been threatened by PC into silence, but no one can control what the people are actually thinking.
When it comes to illegals, we have an unemployment rate of almost 8%. Adding new citizens at a time like this is not going to go ever well for the unemployed. Americans can't even support their own families, let alone millions more who will end up on the dole. Immigration at this time is nothing short of anti-citizen legislation. It throws the American families under the bus in exchange for a foreign vote.
If the republicans actually do this - even though neither issue is worth bringing up at all (these are left wing issues) - they've dug their own political graves. Ignore the homos, they don't deserve recognition. Seal the boarders, and the other problems can be solved later.
I won't vote for them, like millions of other disgusted Americans, and their loss will not be because of us. It'll be because they went way too far to the left - again.
We, the former Republicans know that a party, like a man that does not believe in anything will try to become everything. Never has worked and never will.
Proud registered independent. My allegiance is to me and mine.
The only reform we need is a big fence and enforcement of the law.
Wow, they will 'connect' with these illegals as soon as they get their voting cards so they vote GOP.
I am sure the Ryan/Paul budget plans to cut poverty (ie anti-) programs will go over well with these new Hispanic voters getting GOP amnesty.
HBO starts playing a new documentary today to tear-jerk some stories and interviews of poor American families whose jobs disappeared. The families carefully selected (all white) w young cute looking kids given tear-jerker lines like this :
“I would give up some of the food I get at school so my mommy would have something to eat at night”
yep, I am sure that ‘outreach’ to illegals will be a big success. And heck, we need more poor unskilled labor.
Didnt the House GOP just vote down increasing the minimum wage? Think those fools at the RNC thought to poll that issue with these groups as well as the Ryan and Paul budget resolutions?
“GOP Roadmap calls for immigration reform....”
Republicans — the incredible shrinking party!
How long before they completely disappear ?????
Don’t give up yet 2014 elections can change everything.
Though I do wonder how the GOP’s chief cheerleader, Erick Erickson, will react to this news.
“I think this will probably finish me off”
I hear you, but some don’t think the gang of 8 amnesty will fly. I hope they’re right.
Guzzardi: Gang of Eight Retreat
By Joe Guzzardi March 16, 2013 6:48 am
The Senate’s notorious Gang of Eight, a small cadre of amnesty advocates who hope to pressure Congress into passing disastrous immigration reform legislation, has developed a new game plan. In January, heady from President Obama’s strong November showing with Latino voters, the gang came out with their guns blazing. Now is the hour, they declared, to grant citizenship to 11 million aliens, issue them work permits and the entire cornucopia of welfare benefits.
The complicit media, egged on by the powerful, well-funded open-borders lobby, declared amnesty a done deal, the final vote a mere formality. But in politics, two months is an eternity. And what once seemed like a slam dunk is now anything but.
The gang has suffered through some testy internal spats. For the record, the gang includes long time Republican amnesty advocates Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio plus Democrats Mike Bennet, Chuck Schumer, Robert Menendez and Richard Durbin.
Schumer and Rubio can’t agree on border security. Calling border security a “trigger” for immigration reform, Rubio insisted that enforcement must come first. But Schumer immediately dismissed Rubio when he flat out rejected the Florida senator’s conditions. According to Schumer, border security is not part of the gang’s “blue print.”
Back home in Arizona and South Carolina, McCain and Graham have gotten slammed by their angry constituents. McCain rudely shouted down town hall meeting attendees when they tried to question him about amnesty. Graham, no doubt wanting to avoid McCain’s unpleasant experiences, refused to schedule appearances during the recent congressional break. Graham is up for re-election in 2014, will likely face a primary challenge and correctly thinks it’s unwise to antagonize voters.
Menendez is under heavy fire on two fronts. First, subsequent to a Senate Ethics Committee finding, Menendez refunded $58,000 to a donor for two plane tickets to the Dominican Republic which were not included in his disclosure form, an “oversight” according to Menendez. And second, the FBI has an open investigation into Menendez’s alleged sexual indiscretions with prostitutes while vacationing in the Dominican.
Down in sunny Florida, Miami-Dade public school administrators want Rubio to know that new immigrant students—1,000 a month; 11,000 annually—cost the struggling district $22 million each year, a sum it can’t afford. The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act proved that amnesty begets more immigration, bad news for the nation’s public school system and failing students if Rubio’s goal comes to fruition.
Given all its real world distractions, the gang was unable to meet its self-imposed March deadline. Reluctant to introduce a bill and then leave for the two-week congressional spring recess, the Senators leaked an outline to the press that it will reveal in full next month.
Summarized, the gang’s face saving plan is a combination of unsalable terms that the Senate’s liberal wing will reject and caveats which would be bureaucratically impossible to implement in the unlikely event it should pass. To acquire permanent legal residency, unconditional work permits and welfare benefits, aliens will first have to register with the Department of Homeland Security, pay back taxes as well as an undetermined fine, and prove that they have a clean criminal record. Assuming they qualify on all counts, the aliens would eventually be able to qualify for citizenship.
The gang’s chances of selling their legislation are slim and none. Here are two reasons why.
****** The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 89 million Americans are “out of the labor force”; 11 million new workers would devastate the unemployed. And the Heritage Foundation estimates that adding 11 million more people to the Affordable Health Care Act, social security and other welfare benefits would cost taxpayers at least $3 trillion.
No wonder Graham said about the gang’s revised timetable: “You don’t want to leave it hanging out for two weeks just to get shot up.”
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2013/03/16/guzzardi-gang-of-eight-retreat/