Sure hope so, at least that's the plan.
Straight from the open borders boy.
"Democrats railed against the legislation, standing up, member after member, to defend our tradition as a nation of immigrants."
Liberals are for illegal immigration and balkanization. Conservatives are for legal immigration and integration. And, yes, there are liberal republicans.
I'm really getting tired of Tamar Jacoby.
I think what he really meant to say was this:
The majority of GOP voters, including those who don't live in gated communities outside DC, those who slave away at jobs every day just to make a living, and those who actually have to compete with illegals for jobs, do not speak for the GOP. Instead, Washington elites who are detached from reality and only concerned with pleasing business allies speak for the GOP.
If the hard liners don't speak for the GOP, then the GOP doesn't speak for me!
If a hardliner is someone opposed to ILLEGAL immigration, then I must be a super hardliner. I am also opposed to burglary, larceny, rape, and Rats.
It is hard to give the author(s) much credence as they confuse legal immigration and illegal immigration throughout.
If they "went along" so as not to "buck the leadership or...," it's a first. The RINOs manage to have their say about everything under the sun mainly disagreeing with any conservative ideas and voting with the Democrats on anything of importance. IF they shut their mouths over this, there is only one reason - they know it's political suicide to take the opposite position just like the Democrats knew they had better keep their mouths closed over 9/11, and give the president their vote to conduct the war on terror even though it must have been hell for them to do so since we now know how they felt all along.
Grover Norquist, White House point man on immigration.
"If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here because they made a decision to go to a great deal of trouble and effort to leave their parents and their family and their small towns or whatever to come to the United States. They're natural Reagan Republicans. As long as we're welcoming them, we win their votes.
We've seen, with some effort on the part of the Republicans to reach out to Hispanics, a tremendous increase in our support in Hispanics. In Florida, where it's second nature for the Republican Party to work with Hispanics, we carry a majority of the non-Cuban Hispanic vote and more than a majority of the Cuban vote. We have, when we have worked at it, carried a majority of the Asian-American vote. So immigration is something that if Pat Buchanan became our nominee, we would lose the immigrant vote. But the strength of George Bush is that he was [the] pro-immigrant, pro-trade Reaganite in the race, and that was the winning issue, not just in the primary but in the general [election], and also the winning strategy for governor. A Republican Party which becomes anti-immigrant will become a minority party."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/interviews/norquist.html
If any of you have seen Norquist on TV, you will notice he uses the same emotional, nonsensical talking points we have had foisted on us. He simply cannot say "illegal immigration". Looks like the majority of our congress is now "Anti-immigrant" according to him.
Democrats think their base is Illegal Immigrants, and minority's so they are playing to their base!
Norquist has also been exposed as the founder of the Islamic Insitute, a group believed to be funded by foreign governments, Wahhab Islam elements in Saudi Arabia, and U.S. Muslim groups recently raided by a special Treasury Department task force for funding Al Qaeda and Palestinian terrorists.
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Norquist's relationship with Muslim groups that support terrorism became public after Norquist launched an unexpected and inexplicably vitriolic attack against Frank Gaffney, the President of the Center for Security Policy.
During a routine Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in early February, Gaffney participated in a panel discussion about the balance to be struck in time of war between preserving civil liberties and safeguarding American's lives and safety. Gafney expressed concern about one of the most insidious of the Wahhabis' activities, a concerted attempt to penetrate and influence the Executive and Legislative branch of our government.
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Norquist responded to Gaffney's comments by calling Gaffney a racist and religious bigot in an appearance on Fox News Channel and in letters sent to the Washington Post and Washington Times and barring Gaffney from attending the most important meeting in Washington, the regular Wednesday meetings of conservative Capitol Hill aides and interest-group representatives held in Norquist's offices.
It is unclear whether the Muslims who have been acting as White House gatekeepers - Ali Tulbah and Suhail Kahn - were actually placed in that position by Grover Norquist's Islamic Institute. Norquist is credited with delivering the Muslim vote for Bush in the 2000 election and has the ear of the most influential man in Washington, Karl Rove, President Bush's political advisor. Rove has been a featured speaker at Norquist's Wednesday meetings.
Although it is not noted on either group's website, Norquist's Islamic Institute actually shares office space and staff with Americans for Tax Reform.
According to news reports, while Norquist served as founding Chairman of the Islamic Institute the group received seed money from Abdurahman Alamoudi, then a member of the left-wing American Muslim Council. MSNBC and Fox News have aired videotapes of Alamoudi standing in front of the White House, declaring his support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas is currently one of the leading groups responsible for Palestinian suicide bombers. Hezbollah, sponsored by the Iranian government, was responsible for the death of 240 Marines in Beirut in the 1980s and is believed to be responsible for the attack on Khobar Towers, a barracks in Saudi Arabia.
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Since 9/11, Norquist has led opposition to domestic anti-terrorism laws and has been quoted in frontpage NY times articles allelging a wholesale loss of faith by conservatives in Attorney General Josh Ashcroft. Norquist has also attacked Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, and others who have attempted to alert Americans to the dangers of Islam.
http://tinyurl.com/d8fts
Sure, we can remain a nation of LEGAL immigrants.
ILLEGAL immigrants are called ILLEGAL immigrants for a reason.
vomit inducing article...
they don't have any idea of where to go or how to get there...
Just get along with the Democrats is their only program.
Jacoby is known as a huge open borders advocate, BTW.
On April 2, 2005 Norquist married Palestinian activist and former high school classmate Samah Alrayyes.
Alrayyes has radical Islamic credentials of her own; she served as communications director at the Islamic Free Market Institute, the Islamist organization Norquist helped found. Now, she is employed as a public affairs officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development – and so it appears that yet another Islamist finds employment in a branch of the U.S. government.
Norquist has for some years now been promoting Islamist organizations, including even the Council on American-Islamic Relations; for example, he spoke at CAIR's conference, "A Better America in a Better World" on October 5, 2004. Frank Gaffney has researched Norquist's ties to Islamists in his exhaustive, careful, and convincing study, "Agent of Influence" and concludes that Norquist is enabling "a political influence operation to advance the causes of radical Islamists, and targeted most particularly at the Bush Administration."
http://tinyurl.com/aw4no
What nonsense.