Posted on 06/24/2014 3:58:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
[Immigration Reform] == [Erase Southern Border]
Exactly.
Amnesty will effectively kill the Republican party and, thus, the nation. We’re already heading to 3rd world status as it is.
Good.
If Republicans pass amnesty I’ll drop them as my registered party.
If they pass amnesty it won’t matter.
I swear that nobody in the Republican Caucus has never played poker, and has never negotiated for a house, a car, a boat, a horse.
For pete’s sake they can pull together a tough, hard, thorough border control bill—lots of fence, heavy duty border patrol, deportation, meaningful job screening, and so on-—and call it Immigration Reform Step One.
If the Dems and Obama don’t like it, too bad. That means THEY are opposed to reform.
Instead the Republicans cringe and whimper about reform being impossible. What a punk-@$$ position that is.
What the rheumy bumbling boozehound Boehner can’t seem to grasp is that every pose, every slander, every attack by the Left is also an opportunity.
Pretend to agree with them and present your own bill!
I don’t believe McCarthy. He is a lying weasel. In this session of Congress, NumbersUSA gives McCarthy an F-.
They passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006. It was never implemented. The Reps want to double the size of the guest worker programs to satisfy their corporate paymasters. They are willing to use amnesty as a bargaining chip to get more guest workers. Neither party really wants to secure the border or to develop a system to track and deport visa overstays who comprise 40% of the illegal aliens.
It wouldn’t be reform either.
There will never be any reform unless the plan sends millions back. You don’t control immigration when you let every illegal stay because they are here already. If you don’t decide to get x number deported you can forget control or reform.
How can any country possibly control its border if it’s afraid to throw anyone from another country out?
What kind of employers “depend on” illegal immigrant labor? F them.
I’m aware of their weakness, lies and failure.
Are you saying the jig is up, the battle is over, that none of it matters?
If so why would we hang out here, except to give solace and assurance, sometimes to pee and moan, and perhaps better to prep ourselves for the coming collapse?
The battle just may be lost. But if it ain’t, it seems like a few of our side might at least learn to fight.
Is he just saying this to get elected OR does he really mean it?
Unfortunately, in the Bizarro-World we live in, the GOP-e sees it as their duty to give Dems what they can't get on their own!
If they pass amnesty it won’t matter.”
It may not matter anyway. Hillary’s phrase would seem most appropriate in this situation, “What difference does it make”? There are thousands and thousands of illegals pouring over the border right now and they will continue until everyone from Mexico and Central America is in the United States.
Nobody in Washington will do anything to stem the tide and I sure don’t see any Texas politicians doing anything definitive except write letters and give press conferences.
“I believe in the rule of law.”
Well that’s comforting Kev because the law says they are here illegally so get rid of them.
Well, he already got picked as House Majority Leader. But I reckon he sees this as the least offensive way to keep a few conservatives at bay while staying on the good side of the money men that Kabar is rightly talking about.
I'm just saying that even if you are cynical and duplicitious, as McCarthy wishes he was smart enough to be, there is a way to position yourself to make the leftists look bad rather than coming off as a punk and a whiner.
(by 'you' I mean him not you! lol)
The events on the ground are beyond the control of McCarthy, Boener, or any other House leaders.
The Cantor defeat has scared the living daylights out of Republicans that were supporting Amnesty or toying with the idea.
The border invasion just makes it that much worse.
McCarthy can bring up Amnesty for a vote now, if he REALLY WANTS TO, but he will not only lose that vote - he will also, FOR CERTAIN, lose his leadership position in November.
Amnesty is radioactive for Republicans (and maybe even some Democrats), it will not happen, at least this year, THANKFULLY.
Not that this will bother Obama he will work around the laws.. Than he will move on to something else to take up his time..
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