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Republican leaders hope to contain outrage in the ranks over Obama immigration moves
Washington Post ^ | November 20, 2014 | Robert Costa

Posted on 11/20/2014 12:05:57 PM PST by C19fan

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) winced as he listened to comments from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in reaction to President Obama’s plans to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation.

“Unfortunate, unfair, unnecessary, unwise,” Graham said.

Earlier Wednesday, Bachmann, a retiring tea-party firebrand, had declared that those immigrants covered by the policies that the president would announce Thursday would become “illiterate” voters.

For Republicans the roiling debate over the president’s decision is not only a fight with the White House, but a test of whether they can contain some of the unhelpful passions among their swelling majorities in both chambers. The task is keeping on-message and away from the controversial and sometimes offensive comments that have traditionally hindered attempts to bolster support for the party among Hispanics.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; congress; gope; immigration
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To: rdcbn
If only it were possible to recall this disingenuous self serving POS. He'd be back singing a different tune in a heartbeat.
41 posted on 11/20/2014 12:26:21 PM PST by skeeter
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43 posted on 11/20/2014 12:26:42 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: C19fan

44 posted on 11/20/2014 12:29:39 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: firebrand; C19fan; Red Badger; All
Of course. We knew that. Nothing new.
What about the outrage among the American people?
WE (Tea Party/informed voters) have been; ...
the enemy of the Washington GOP/Establishment Party,
for (many) decades now

and as IF they even care; during non-elective years


45 posted on 11/20/2014 12:30:56 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: C19fan

The bias in this article is so thick it’s impossible to address. But you can start by noting that obola’s unconstitutional amnesty is sold as “protect[ing] undocumented immigrants from deportation.”


46 posted on 11/20/2014 12:32:00 PM PST by IronJack
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To: firebrand

I am raising hell. Telephone fax email— street corner. We will not allow this dictator to violate the constitution. No way.


47 posted on 11/20/2014 12:34:35 PM PST by iowacornman (. He is the father of government health care.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
I have not heard , nor read her words in awhile. Where is she?

At last report she was in Louisiana, helping with the campaign to oust Mary Landrieu.

48 posted on 11/20/2014 12:35:09 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: C19fan

I hope for once it get out.


49 posted on 11/20/2014 12:35:34 PM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: C19fan
Republican leaders hope to contain outrage in the ranks over Obama immigration moves

Hope for change didn't work out so well last time.

50 posted on 11/20/2014 12:37:24 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: skeeter

At least we get a run at John “Build the darn Fence “ McCain in 2016


51 posted on 11/20/2014 12:39:40 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: C19fan

“Just look at the flowers Lindsey, just look at the flowers.”


52 posted on 11/20/2014 12:47:24 PM PST by The Toll
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To: C19fan; cuban leaf

53 posted on 11/20/2014 12:51:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: C19fan

GOPe is going to bend over and let Obama do his business

...

Yep. They get the amnesty they want and they’ll give us some meaningless theater to fool us into thinking they oppose.


54 posted on 11/20/2014 12:52:51 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: C19fan

RINO / GOPe bump for later.....


55 posted on 11/20/2014 1:05:35 PM PST by indthkr
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To: C19fan

One thing we are finding in California with all the new DMV centers being built to provide driver’s licenses to illegals is that there is a large portion of illegals who cannot read or write, either their native language or English. These individuals will be given a verbal test instead of a written test. (The corruption level of the interpreters is yet to be determined). So in at least one area, Bachmann is completely accurate - we do and will have millions of illiterates invading the country - illiterates who are accustomed to dictatorships and pro-union/anti-government sentiment.


56 posted on 11/20/2014 1:08:40 PM PST by blueplum
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To: C19fan
Hypocrite:

Graham warns of Republican impeachment push over Gitmo

57 posted on 11/20/2014 1:10:17 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: cuban leaf
Why do I get the feeling Sarah Palin is about to become the enemy of the republican majority?

You speak in the future tense quite erroneously my FRiend.

58 posted on 11/20/2014 1:19:43 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: erkelly

Maybe a good strategy would be to register as a dem and get the hardest of the hard core leftists nominated for office. Then vote republican


59 posted on 11/20/2014 1:29:37 PM PST by refermech
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The task is keeping on-message and away from the controversial and sometimes offensive comments that have traditionally hindered attempts to bolster support for the party among Hispanics.

Shouldn't matter how you stand on illegal immigration. This is lawlessness and destruction to the Constitution. It is the rise of Barack Jun Un.

Just because your dictator supports something you support, doesn't mean you should EVER support your dictator.

If Hispanics want a dictator, they'd better be careful about what may happen when the next dictator rises to power. By then there will be no freedom left and we all will be at the dictator's whim.
60 posted on 11/20/2014 1:30:15 PM PST by mmichaels1970
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