Posted on 07/18/2013 5:07:56 AM PDT by kimtom
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats doggedly pursuing a far-reaching immigration bill are counting on help from Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate last year and an unlikely candidate for delivering the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda.
Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman who is frequently mentioned in the GOP lineup of possible 2016 presidential candidates, stands apart from many fellow House Republicans in favoring a way out of the shadows for the 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. in violation of the law.
He casts sweeping overhaul as a necessity to ensure both economic and national security — a fitting argument for an acolyte of Jack Kemp, the late Republican congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate who backed an ill-fated effort in 2006 to overhaul the immigration system.
‘‘Paul Ryan says we cannot have a permanent underclass of Americans, that there needs to be a pathway to citizenship,’’ says Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., who has been working relentlessly on immigration legislation. ‘‘He is my guiding light. I know I get him in trouble every time I say it.’’
Senior White House aides often mention the Wisconsin Republican as crucial to the prospects for legislation this year, hoping the Republican with impeccable conservative credentials will sway recalcitrant House members. Ryan also is a reminder of two other powerful forces backing an overhaul of immigration laws ..........
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Spot on. Not just neutralized (not with all the money and resources at their call), but killed off like a cancer in the GOP political body.
Ryan, like Rubio, is doing this for his corporate paymasters who will fund his 2016 bid for the WH. These bastards will sell their soul and their country for their own political ambitions.
Rubio has flushed his career down the toilet now it looks like Ryan wants to do the same thing. Maybe its a virus.
Staying with the Republican party is a losing option for conservative Americans.
Is there anybody on capital hill that won’t sell their soul for this cr4p?
Can’t get through to Ryan’s offices (all of them) and his voice mail boxes are full. I think this is not going over so well LOL.
‘‘Paul Ryan says we cannot have a permanent underclass of Americans,”
Yeah, like the middle class.
These corporatists are destroying the middle class. Now they want to flood the country with 3rd worlders to depress wages further.
American Citizenship is Rapidly Becoming Devalued to Zero
Washington, DC—Our forefathers sacrificed so much so we would have freedom, prosperity and the tools to prevent government from again becoming despotic. As a nation our citizenship has been the envy of the entire rest of the world. We have allowed freedom to slip away and the value of our citizenship has rapidly declined.
We built a system where free enterprise created wealth and jobs. That in turn gave Americans the ability to consume the fruit of their labor. Productivity and excellence was rewarded and accordingly America became the wealthiest and strongest nation on earth. Today productivity is punished with extortionate taxation at every level of government.
Nearly 100 years passed and Socialists and Communists floated new ideas about government. These ideas failed in nation after nation but for a few party leaders that could live like royalty through corruption while their citizens were starved, confined and enslaved. These governments are well known for killing dissidents or anyone wishing to escape from their own homelands.
That did not stop the spread of Socialism and Communism to the USA and our government including the Whitehouse. Both major political parties are awash with politicians on a united mission, to force the failed Socialist ideas on Americans. These disloyal politicians all believe the Constitution they were sworn to protect is outdated and irrelevant.
Socialism can only flourish when the vast majority of citizens are totally dependent upon government. We are at a point where over 50% of the population is impoverished and programed into utter and complete dependence.
Our Socialists are doing everything they can to increase the population with the ignorant and poor from Mexico and Central America. The price of admission is simply to break our immigration laws. Millions more illiterate and unskilled trespassers are being handed citizenship and the right to vote by our Socialist politicians. That will guarantee a Socialist government in the USA for the next 100 years.
In the mean time our government is moving in efforts to prevent the flight of Americans wanting to emigrate with their assets elsewhere in the world. The revocation of passports for tax indebtedness has already begun. At what point does our border patrol begin to use deadly force to keep Americans from leaving? Don’t say that it can’t or won’t happen because history is redundant with examples proving this point.
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It appears that getting in bed with gay legislation is the newest "fad" among the Washington DC rich, famous and glamorous people:
So what if a few thousand innoncent children have their lives ruined by these sexual perverts and their allies.
American Citizenship ......”
excellent post!!
” However in the case of amnesty he is serious about getting a bill to Obama’s desk.”
Yeah....Ryan is SERIOUS about collecting the many millions he and Rubio were promised for selling our sovereignty to the devil. I despise these rotten whores!!
” Ryan, like Rubio, is doing this for his corporate paymasters who will fund his 2016 bid for the WH. These bastards will sell their soul and their country for their own political ambitions.”
They did.
If the Ryan plan had passed future congresses would have undone his “deficit reduction” which was supposed to happen 10 years in the future. However, the citizenship for illegals which would occur several years in the future would never be undone. If anything, it would be accelerated. Funny how that works.
yep
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