If the GOP passes an amnesty bill, it will not be the same as 2010. Boehner's attacks on the Tea Party and the passage of an amnesty will depress significantly GOP turnout. There will also be more rancorous GOP primaries that will divide the base and depress turnout. You cannot paper over these differences.
And the recent Ryan-Murray budget deal just highlights how ineffectual the GOP has been in using its leverage in the House. A clean CR would have been much better than suspending the impact of the sequester and increasing spending and taxes. Increase spending now with the promise of miniscule cuts in the future.
You make some good points….but I would quibble with you around the margins on a few things.
While a passed amnesty bill would tamp down some turn out, out in the world outside of FR and so on, the concern about Obama Care is probably 10X what it is about amnesty….and the reality of Obama Care is now 1000X what it was in 2010.
As for the Ryan Murray bill, I have no disagreement with yout at all….but that will not be an issue in 2014 to speak of.
Are you retarded? High? Terminally stupid? HOW MANY GOP VOTED AGAINST THAT PACKAGE? I’m talking the ones who reliably vote against that stuff.
There’s your base. Build on it. Primaries are coming. You FR doommongers - get up off your lazy whiny asses and get involved and make change happen.
I’m tired of hearing the complaining and the excuses.