Posted on 07/30/2013 11:11:46 AM PDT by markomalley
Nearly a hundred top Republican officials sent a letter to the House GOP on Tuesday urging lawmakers to pass a bill that legalizes illegal immigrants, arguing that the current system is already allowing them to stay and so it makes sense to register them and bring them into the system.
The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham, also said that immigrants are potential Republican voters who can be won over — if the party can be seen as welcoming to immigrants.
“Doing nothing is de facto amnesty. We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules,” the donors said in their letter.
They aimed their pitch at House Republicans, who are trying to figure out a way forward and find themselves trapped between angry rank-and-file voters who say legalizing illegal immigrants amounts to amnesty, and party elites and donors who say the GOP cannot survive nationally without embracing legalization as part of a strategy to win over Hispanic voters.
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Money talks.
Your voters walk (and form a third party)
” The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham,”
Bush.......the gift that keeps on giving.
The big donors don’t control a lot of votes. Will those big donors donate enough money to gather not only a majority of illegals’ votes but the votes lost due to the lowering of economic opportunities and violation of rule-of-law that would drive away any sane conservative? The answer is a resounding NO!
Do these big donors realize that making illegals legal will raise the cost of those illegal workers?
Perhaps those big donors are mostly Democrats and this article overlooks that?
These are the corporatists who also want government health care.
“The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham.”
Not surprised to hear that a Bush or Bushies is/are a part of this amensty push. They just can’t rest until the country is even more overrun with third world cheap labor and, as an added bonus, muslims.
“Doing nothing is de facto amnesty.” One of Liar Rubio’s punchlines when he was acting as spokesmouth for Zuckerberg et al. Yes, Rubio, we can follow the money from the fat cat Republican lobbyists to your pockets.
Coming Soon to An Election Near You: Sarah Palin’s Right Wing “Freedom Party”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3043442/posts
We need to know which exact companies they represent and boycott the hell out of them.
Yes, the old “we already have defacto amnesty so lets legalize them” argument. Even RAND PAUL has made that argument. Rubio swears (or at least swore) by it.
That may be so, but it was wanton neglect and greedy need for cheap, ignorant labor that put on those opaque ‘defacto’ sunglasses.
I don’t give a damn who you are; if you are one of these equivocators and I find out about it, I’ll drop you like a hot potato. I’ll boycott, speak out, condemn and not vote for any candidate you’ve bought with your blood money.
You ‘rich’ donors are traitors. You should be ashamed and slink on off to whatever haven you’ve built because your dead to me.
Sigh . . . it’s a shame there’s no opposition party in Washington, D.C.
You nailed it.
Immigration may just force the decision
The votes that money controls are the ones that make the Laws, or decide not to Enforce the Constitution OR Laws they don't like. Big money controls the votes in Government, and the Candidates that We The People are "given" to vote for....without the $$$$ and State-Run-Media, you get what the GOP-E (via the Donors' choices) and the Progressives (via their Donors' choices) to further enrich and reward their Companies and Executives with the Legislation and Rules they decide to provide them.
This is THE issue for me.
If the GOP takes this step then I am gone, gone, GONE. I suspect I am not alone.
I suspect not having any association will be a relief, since I will no longer feel I have stake in what the IDIOTS that run the party are doing.
Are these the same “big donors” who brought us two Bushes, Dole, McCain and Romney?
Elevenscore and seventeen years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great reverse auction, in which the political parties compete to see who can hand out citizenship in that nation most cheaply.
After I pick myself up off the floor from laughing my ass off...
I tell the young lady (always a lady) that when the GOPe stops targeting TEA Party candidates in primaries and start acting and voting like conservatives I won't send them a thin dime...
They tell me then Obama wins...I sadly inform them he is winning anyway because the GOPe is craven, gutless, spineless spork weasels
How naive can you get?
The attraction of the socialists (Dems)to voters is;
Vote for me I will get you someone else's money.
The Republican party doesn't offer that to voters like the socialists (Dems) do. I would expect over 90% of the legalized illegals to vote for the Dems (Socialists).
Also it shows a cynical disregard for our sovereignty - Tom
If I were looking for new family members to adopt, I don’t think those who broke into my house would be at the top of the list.
I couldn’t care less about a party, the GOP or any other. I care about PRINCIPLES. I care about the CONSTITUTION. I care about Personal responsibility and authority. I care about States Rights.
The GOP top donors can go do their business in a gay steam bath in Denmark where they should be doing it.
That was my question. What will the GOP do for votes? The illegals aren't going to vote for them, and I'll never vote GOP again.
Plus Ford, Nixon, Eisenhower, Rockefeller and Dewey before them . . .
“Rampant deficit spending and criminal values don’t end at the Rio Grande.”
or something like that.
The corporations took over our government, and individual people be damned. Substandard health care, ubiquitous monitoring and invasion of privacy, lower standard of living for most and only the best for a select few.
This is all the bad parts of Capitalism (yes, there are a few) only on steroids. See, when you go too far down the coporatist path, you end up nearly with communism. Politics and economic systems are not linear, they are circular.
What good did the BIG DONORS do for us in 2012? As far as I’m concerned, if they sit out 2016, that makes it harder for some GOPe type to spend all that money attacking conservatives in the primaries.
I don’t care WHAT the big donors are represented by what lobbyists, there is NOTHING I can’t do without.
Lettuce, tomatoes, grapes, wine, chicken, citrus, I can live without ALL of it.
I like Greg Gutfeld’s idea: give them Detroit.
If illegals can make that city work, they deserve to stay.
The top donors are the RNC, I received a call for money from the RNC this morning and declined. I told them I consider myself a Republican but the party is abdoning me and the Conservatives. They said they needed money to pay for projects that would bring more Conservative voters to the party but couldn’t be more specific. I told him they just use the word conservative when talking to Conservatives when they are trying to raise money.
Tokyo Rove, rich, liberal bastards and corporate scum lobby Republican congresscritters for amnesty.
PING!
” don’t care WHAT the big donors are represented by what lobbyists, there is NOTHING I can’t do without.
Lettuce, tomatoes, grapes, wine, chicken, citrus, I can live without ALL of it.”
The difference in cost of one head of lettuce picked by an illegal at 8.00 an hour, and a union picker earning 15.00 an hour is 6 cents.
They LIE!
Dubya and Jeb are going all out once again for amnesy....its all they do.
They’re afraid they’ll lose re-election if they vote against amnesty. But they’ll lose if they vote for amnesty because all the people they give amnesty to will vote for democrats. Guess which way they’ll vote.
” Legalizing illegal aliens would damage this country extensively.”
It would destroy it, under THIS proposed amnesty. With chain migration, we will have 100 million unskilled, illiterate slobs living here.
LLS
btt
I will be there and will fight as hard as I can... she and Levin just need to say NOW!
LLS
85% according to Gallup.
Just say No to ILLEGALS....
The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham, also said that immigrants are potential Republican voters who can be won over — if the party can be seen as welcoming to immigrants.
hey donors, STFU...and go to Mexico and see if you can be in Mexico ILLEGALLY!!
Part of me says, "Please, yes, please do it. Hasten the demise of your party and the country. Make the collapse inevitable, so we can see how things shake out; so can see which ideology caries the day, and start to put the pieces back together."
This waiting is getting to me.
Step away form the bong, boys! Frito Lay cannot make enough Doritos to handle the munchies from dope that good.
“These are the corporatists who also want government health care.”
You are correct IMO, and they aren’t Conservatives either. Not by a long shot. This IS BIG money chasing self interest.
The Greatest Victory of the Tea Party so far:
Pushing an Amnesty Bill through the Senate.
Think about that while you’re job hunting you racist, fascist bastards. :D
/sarc(?????)
“Doing nothing is de facto amnesty. We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules,” the donors said in their letter.
The core problem is that the current law does not allow this. However, the current (and past) administration just chooses to ignore the law. Now how will passing a new, more generous amnesty change that? Also, if we legalize the current batch of illegals, the businesses these donors represent will soon become unhappy when the now legal immigrants start demanding wages and are able to make OSHA and labor law complaints. Then they will fire all their legal employees and hire the new illegals streaming across the still unguarded border.
Already not registered GOP I wont vote for one unless I am sure they are conservative..I voted for Rubio and Governor Scott...won’t vote for either again.
I also believe that the lesser of two evils is stil evil.
These are the moneyed elite..they make money no matter who is in office
Freegards
and GOP dont call me..I will call you........NOT!
LEX
LOL! That's funny. Good luck with that, Skippy!
Mainly Hispanic, agricultural and construction interests. All of the people you’d expect to be for amnesty.
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