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The GOP Reaction to Obama's Immigration Order Will Be Way More Damaging Than They Realize
New Republic ^ | Nov 21, 2014 | Noam Scheiber

Posted on 11/21/2014 1:13:01 PM PST by House Atreides

"There are several reasons why Obama’s executive action on immigration has put Republicans in a terrible bind. There’s the fact that conservatives are likely to respond by demanding a hardline position from the party’s 2016 nominee, torpedoing his or her electability. There’s the growing risk that conservative anger will force Republicans to do something epically stupid in the near term, like shut down the government...."

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Actually, if the GOP leadership plays this right, the Emperor Obama and the 'RATS will have, in effect, painted themselves into a corner. And Republicans and conservatives need to make sure they don't do anything to help them out of that unpopular corner. Let them twist in the wind and then be hoisted on their own petards.

The new Republican Congress needs to play this with a carefully tuned strategy. And the CURRENT Republican House caucus should definitely NOT agree to an Omnibus or CR of more than three months (till March 2015). Hopefully, they won't relapse into being the Stupid Party as they are wont to do.

1 posted on 11/21/2014 1:13:01 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

What’s wrong with shutting down the government?


2 posted on 11/21/2014 1:14:20 PM PST by albie
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To: House Atreides

Why is it that the Repubs need to tread lightly but Dems do what they want? Sorry, but I don’t agree with this “bring a pillow to a gun fight” approach.


3 posted on 11/21/2014 1:14:48 PM PST by fruser1
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To: House Atreides

Obama now has carte blanche power. He must be stopped.


4 posted on 11/21/2014 1:15:35 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: House Atreides

Following the US Constitution = “hardline position”?


5 posted on 11/21/2014 1:18:24 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: House Atreides

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an article written by Noam Scheiber where he hasn’t claimed that the Dems have the Republicans on the defensive, or that the Republicans are about to commit suicide, or that they are in a no-win situation, or that the rabid, crazy conservative base is going to destroy the Republicans’ electability. It rarely comes true. But no matter, his purpose is to make Dems feel good about themselves by talking about how horrible the Republicans have it. He’s basically a cheerleader for the Democrat Party.


6 posted on 11/21/2014 1:18:37 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Immigration wasn’t a blip on the radar in 2012, and it wasn’t 2014. It is an issue DC loves to lament and is in the lower single digits on the list of issues for voters.

Notice Arizona is still strongly Red, as is Texas. New Mexico is as red as it’s been in modern times. This during than era where the Republicans have grown more bullish on immigration.


7 posted on 11/21/2014 1:18:59 PM PST by ilgipper
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Let me understand this...a liberal from The New Republic is offering helpful political advice to conservatives?

If liberals are saying impeachment and a government shut down will hurt conservatives, you can bet that is what they really fear!


8 posted on 11/21/2014 1:20:00 PM PST by Menthops (If you are reading this..... the GOPe hates you!)
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To: House Atreides

Obama is breaking NO Law , he just reads the speech and then expects the Stupid Minions below him to do all the Law breaking


9 posted on 11/21/2014 1:20:32 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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When does the EO go into effect? Why kill a short term CR if it won’t fund the EO anyways?


10 posted on 11/21/2014 1:20:58 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: House Atreides

“Stupid” is doing nothing. But you can bet the GOP-e will act even stupider than that.


11 posted on 11/21/2014 1:21:22 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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"...but I don’t agree with this "bring a pillow to a gun fight" approach."

Come on now, its from New Republic


12 posted on 11/21/2014 1:22:25 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: House Atreides

I love it when pajama boy liberals give us free advice. If he’s so smart how he’s a pajama boy?


13 posted on 11/21/2014 1:22:28 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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This is so much junk. Republicans must educate or re-educate those Hispanics currently eligible to vote about the fact that retention of any type of illegal aliens will affect them and their children just like non-Hispanic people. Remind them that the rule of law is one leg of the American success story. Remind them that to ignore and rape the rule of law endangers us all. Remind them that to be more “Hispanic” than American is to dirty their own nests. Ceasar Chavez knew that. And a huge percentage of thinking Hispanics know that.

Don’t be fooled Republicans. The good and the true will resonate with all peoples.


14 posted on 11/21/2014 1:22:32 PM PST by amihow
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Of course The New Republic always has the welfare of the Republican Party at heart.

The only way a shutdown is likely to happen is if the Republicans don't cave in sufficiently to Obama. In that case, Obama will shut down the government and the media will say that the Republicans caused it...like they did a year ago.

15 posted on 11/21/2014 1:22:35 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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I am reminded of the reaction when Nixon refused to spend all the money for a program, the practice of impoundment that was started by Jefferson. The U.S. Supreme Court, in Train v. City of New York, 420 U.S. 35, 95 S. Ct. 839, 43 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1975), ruled that President Nixon could not order the impoundment of substantial amounts of environmental protection funds for a program he vetoed, which had been overridden by Congress. The president cannot frustrate the will of Congress by killing a program through impoundment. Isn’t Obama frustrating the will of Congress by refusing to enforce duly passed laws?


16 posted on 11/21/2014 1:23:08 PM PST by Armando Guerra (Enjoying Barack Obama's Legacy America?)
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To: House Atreides

In the wacky world of the leftwing media, a democrat president acting in a blatantly illegal manner always puts republicans in a terrible bind.


17 posted on 11/21/2014 1:23:51 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Tzimisce

Sure. And that’s why Tea Party members are all terrorists.

At least they’re consistent.


18 posted on 11/21/2014 1:24:46 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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"Why is it that the Repubs need to tread lightly but Dems do what they want?"

Spot on. Obama sure as hell didn't tread lightly did he?

19 posted on 11/21/2014 1:24:50 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: albie

this is bs...


20 posted on 11/21/2014 1:26:33 PM PST by nikos1121
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