Posted on 01/14/2013 5:57:42 PM PST by Theoria
Former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says he supports "the principles" of an immigration reform proposal from Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a sign that the party may be coalescing around its own plan to overhaul the nation's laws.
"Senator Rubio is exactly right on the need to fix our broken immigration system," the congressman wrote on his Facebook page on Monday, with a link to a Wall Street Journal article that includes Rubio's key immigration goals. "I support the principles he’s outlined: modernization of our immigration laws; stronger security to curb illegal immigration; and respect for the rule of law in addressing the complex challenge of the undocumented population. Our future depends on an immigration system that works."
Republicans and Democrats are both in the early stages of building coalitions for support for what could be a major immigration bill later this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
There really isn't any other position ~ actually, if Rubio and Ryan got their way I and my associates would DEMAND a quota for an equal number of people from India who already have graduate degrees.
They'd even pick the apples for less than the Jamaicans for a couple of years, and do stoop labor without kvetching ~ then work a few years and go back home to live like millionaires (without having to wear winter coats indoors in this country).
We will need those guys if they let all the current crop of uneducated and unskilled latinos in because somebody will need to earn the big bucks to pay the taxes Obamugabe has imposed on the rich.
Have you noticed all the stories about
Gee the GOP has to do something after the 2012 election
blah blah from the media and know it all bloggers on Hotair !
Lets give the Dem 15 mil more voters that will help the GOP look good !!
Suckers !!!!!!
I think this gun issue is a huge pr distraction to ram thru amnesty !
Distract the fighters elsewhere and quietly ram this thru !
Where does he get off saying,Our future depends on an immigration system that works.”.. How about our future depends on sending back these illegals.Their countries need the best and brightest at home. They keep sending everyone here and nobody is left there to help their countries advance.How is Obama with the high unemployment rate intending to find jobs for the 12 million Plus illegals and their incoming family memebers and finding jobs for Americans at the same time? Obama is replacing America workers with 3rd word country workers will work for 3rd world wages.
Paul Ryan?? The uber conservative budget wizard boy wonder?
Speaking of demanding a budget from O, Paul, lets see your estimates for how much amnesty will cost taxpayers.
1) Obama fiscal cliff "compromise" that royally screwed over Republicans
2) Rubio starts pimping "comprehensive" immigration reform
3) TBA
In only three short months, I've gone from really liking this guy to being wary of him. I'd HATE to think the Paulbots were right when they were making a bunch of noise and trashing Ryan after he was nominated. Paul Ryan's selection on the ticket is one of the reasons I voted FOR Romney. Now I can HONESTLY say I've "lost a lot of respect I had for him", unlike Colin Powell and Joe Lieberman who were non-conservatives and lying douchebags I never trusted from the start.
Please don't disappoint me again, Congressman Ryan. One more strike and you're out. 2016 is a long way away.
The GOP likes their cheap labor and cheap tarts. What part of ILLEGAL do these pander pimps refuse to comprehend?
Early 2011 it dawned on me that he was a manufactured conservative cult hero. It started with that ‘Obama-care debate’ he took part in 2010.
Then the budget wizard proposed the Ryan Medicare plan which was never intended to get near being law.
That got Rush and CO pumping him up to be that conservative messiah to counter O , but didnt work out to well.)
But my personal favorite was when he was running with Romney last year and he got on Sunday News show (Laura OD CBS I think) and denied he ever supported the automatic defense cuts in budget control act, the act that a year earlier he called ‘historical bipartisan deficit reduction agreement’ on the floor of the House.
Ryan is just another tool, propped up to be something he's not by a desperate party. We had plenty of make believe heroes the past few years a true sign of desperation. .
I remember I was mildly enthused about the VP choice and you were like “nope” he’s a firm part of the establishment. ;)
I wasn’t excited when he was being pushed as a possible challenger to Boner since they seem to be on the same page and I don’t want him to run in 2016, I don’t think he’s the right man. Being in Congress right now is not conducive to electability anyhow. Governors.
Supporting Bush-boy Rubio’s comprehensive immigration reform is a one-striker for me—automatic elimination.
I don’t think what I hear and see about a lot of political machinations today revolves only around conservatism or any other belief. What is going on is a piece by piece destruction/removal of our Constitutional government which is or should be the whole ball of wax of our government. Today at least 50% of people in this Nation know little and care less about what the Founders intended and even warned what could happen if generations of people denied what They were setting up. Obama publicly remarked that there should be changes to our Constitution and this should have been a warning if they cared. The 4th of July is just so much party time for most people as are other holidays to commemorate what happened to keep the ‘Spirit of ‘76. I believe it is not just Conservatism that has been sold down the river but the “Spirit of ‘76.
Sure (shrug) I’m “on board”. The requirements are beyond onerous - - which, of course, is the idea. The Rubio plan may as well ask illegal aliens to cough up a million bucks for legalized residency in the US. So yeah, I’m on board. Why not?
He voted with the GOP under Bush for medicare prescription drug entitlement, and everything else....what did he ever accomplish?
then FF to early 2009 proposes a ‘plan’ to ‘reform’ medicare that ‘protects’ 2009 level benefits for those over 55 and even restores the O-care cuts, and he says ‘He have to be brave and tell the rest of you the truth, we will be out of money by then, Sorry, too bad you were not born earlier..”
Gee, how did that happen? One House vote early 2009 and we never hear about it again.
Another BS nothing going no-where.
RE :” I wasn’t excited when he was being pushed as a possible challenger to Boner since they seem to be on the same page and I don’t want him to run in 2016, I don’t think he’s the right man. Being in Congress right now is not conducive to electability anyhow. Governors. ”
Pushed to challenge Bohner?
That's another fantasy that anyone would be doing that.
Add this to the Ryan medicare reform 'plan'. Much to do about nothing.
sorry, I was off by 2. The Ryan plan was early 2011 not 2009.
There was a thread about. Google confirms I didn't imagine it.
The whole plot to remove Boner was a fantasy.
As I have pointed out repeatedly.
Between plan B and jan 1, I posted comments in about a dozen threads here challenging freepers going with this to call their favorite uber-conservative R party Tea party House member, like lou Gohmert of TX, and tell him to run for Speaker. Of course none of them would, praising them for voting for Mickey Mouse was much easier.
It all was just hot air.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.