Posted on 04/18/2013 4:40:39 PM PDT by AuntB
The Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight" oozed confidence on Thursday that they could deliver on their promise to pass the most significant immigration bill in a generation.
Organizers gathered over 20 leaders from business, labor, religious and civil rights groups in order to display broad support for their plan. In an unlikely pairing, renowned anti-tax activist Grover Norquist stood alongside AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the leader of the nation's largest labor coalition. Senators from both parties yukked it up with jokes throughout the hour-long affair.
"We'll oppose only those amendments that are intended to prevent a comprehensive solution from passing," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)...
Graham threw down an ultimatum against opponents of the bill in both parties....
On Thursday, Rubio cajoled conservatives to get on board with the bill.
McCain said that the bill is the critical first move in a long process for the Republican Party to repair its broken image among Latino voters.
After the conference ended, Norquist predicted the Gang of Eight would succeed, arguing that opponents like Sessions and Vitter, who sunk the last immigration bill in 2007, have been marginalized.
Restrictionists, Norquist said, are people who merely "think of themselves as conservatives."
"If you're a Republican, you look at the business community wants it, the religious community wants it," he told reporters. "Who is the opposition? Who in the modern Reagan Republican Party is a no?"
While Congress has proved itself incapable recently of dealing with major pieces of legislation, the senators predicted this time would be different.
"I am convinced this issue will not fall victim to the usual partisan gridlock," Schumer said. "This bipartisan breakthrough offers a degree of hope."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Right... So what are the terms of this "guarantee?" If they fail (which they will), what's the ramification? A speech? A strongly worded letter of concern?
Much shame on you, Marco Rubio.... so much more was hoped for you.
“This bill could be the worst legacy of the Obama administration, even moreso than Obamacare.”
He never touched it...it’s 95% GOP! Guess who’ll get the blame??? Go ahead!
“Enforce the federal immigration law we have now. “
[snip]The immigration reform debate and the gun control debate get solved with the same answer..
ENFORCE EXISTING LAW!! Rubio & his band of quislings say our immigration laws are ‘broken’....ONLY BY him and the others who refuse to enforce it! They SHOULD be in JAIL, NOT the SENATE & White House!
“Cruz argued the current gun laws are not being enforced, and said in 2010 there were over 15,000 “felons and fugitives who tried to illegally purchase guns.” According to the Texas Republican, of those 15,000, the Obama Justice Department only prosecuted 44.”
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2013/04/pictures-worth-thousand-words-and-news.html
Being a slick talkin’ lawyer, maybe Obama will put him on the supreme court.
The Politico ^ | April 17, 2013 | Katie Glueck
President Barack Obama called Sen. Marco Rubio a “positive force” in the immigration debate and is “reasonably confident” that an immigration deal will be reached, he said in a wide-ranging exclusive interview with NBC’s “Today” show. “I think that he has been a very positive force,” he said of Rubio (R-Fla.)
McCain is a self-important, self-deluded fool.
I bet McCain is tickeled pink...he gets his amnesty and Marco is out on the stump taking all the heat. Old fool!
Rush talked today about how the 1986 amnesty and high legal immigration turned California from Republican to one of the bluest states of all. How anyone can pretend that granting amnesty to 15 - 20 million illegal aliens will ever result in net new votes for Republicans is beyond me. These people are truly delusional and capable of ignoring an unlimited number of facts that refute their delusions.
The is absolutely NO reason for any Repellican or especially for any so-called "Tea Party Conservative" to be facilitating any part of this fraudulent action!!!
"This nation absolutely will-not-survive this bill should it pass. It will not survive."
There is one way for Conservatives to test this bill and get it killed.
” We will vote for the bill. We only ask one thing. Build the wall first.”
Amnesty! The torpedo that will sink ObamaCare!
Juan McLame is a joke.
“Organizers gathered over 20 leaders from business, labor, religious and civil rights groups in order to display broad support for their plan”.
And who was there representing the taxpayers?
These arrogant fools are riding for a fall.
Norquist REALLY is at the bottom of everything wrong in this country! He’s the best thing that ever happened to Obama....and Rubio/Conda KNOW IT!
The Bush State Dept gave refugee status to the bombers family, probably throught USAID, and WHO worked for them....
[snip]Without a doubt, Grover Norquist’s team has infiltrated USAID’s lucrative contract whirl.
In April of 2005, the respected scholar Daniel Pipes asked “Is Grover Norquist an Islamist?” Grover’s November 2004 marriage to the Muslim Samah Alrayyes reveals an insider at USAID in the Bush years. Samah Norquist’s bio is an indictment of Grover Norquist’s designs on USAID contract information. Samah was the Public Affairs Specialist for Arab and Muslim outreach at the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs at USAID:
In her position, she works on developing and implementing communications and public affairs planning with regard to various Muslim and Arab outreach issues including USAID activites in Iraq, Afghanistan, Middle and Near East and many parts of the Muslim world where AID is present. This includes serving as a liaison with Muslim and Arab American interest groups to brief them on USAID activities in the developing world and coordination of the Agency’s participation in events, conferences, and discussions designed to educate the publics about American foreign assistance.
Notably, Samah Norquist served on the board of the Islamic Free Enterprise Institute along with Khaled Saffuri. And for those, like Cleta Mitchell, who are willfully blind to the activities of Grover Norquist on the Shariah Compliant front and possible connections with Muslim Brotherhood operations in the tiers of the non-profit industry, it should be noted that a third operative of the Alamoudi stripe has made it big in the world of USAID.
Read more: Family Security Matters http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-norquist-cell-operation-groverkhan#ixzz2QvUKhWio
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Wrong...We have too many, Bush allowed in more Muslims legally AFTER 911 than the previous two decades...During wartime no less.
We have many millions of Americans out of work...
Wake the hell up people.
Going into places like Los Angeles and many other cities today, they are literally crawling with foreigners, many of which hate us, many of which have no desire whatsoever to assimilate or become American.
Enough!
I've been suspecting Norquist of any number of liberal moves and now, it appears I can also add him to a terrorist supporter, perhaps fellow traveler as well!
Unfortunately, he's made himself a "regular fixture" in various conservative groups, some public, others not.
You're way better that she ever thought of being and much more corageous, starting with your live and in person efforts at Jarbidge, NV, throught Klamath Falls, OR and more (for all you FR old timers).
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