Posted on 04/11/2014 5:27:15 AM PDT by cotton1706
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour joined Democratic Party rising star San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro in Texas, this week to call for amnesty.
"It’s not dead,” Barbour said of amnesty efforts in the U.S. Congress, according to the Texas Tribune. "Work is being done on this. I can’t look you in the eye and say I know it’s going to succeed, but there is clearly a path to success.”
Barbour argued that amnesty would be good for the country and the only reason why Republicans are not supporting it is because it is politically dangerous for them to do so.
"What the Republicans need to do is not worry about the politics," he said. "They need to do what’s good policy for the country."
Barbour appeared side-by-side with Castro at the Civil Rights Summit in Austin. Castro said that when the GOP primaries in the House are over, it may get easier for Republicans under the leadership of Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. “That may make it easier,” Castro said of the passing of the primaries.
Barbour’s decision to appear in public with a Democrat pushing for amnesty comes as one of his top allies in Congress, incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), is struggling against surging primary challenger conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel. Barbour himself, and most of his family members and other allies, are working overtime in Mississippi to try to the six-term Cochran, who is seeking a seventh term.
Despite claims from Cochran’s re-election campaign that he has always voted against amnesty, a fact check from Breitbart News found Cochran has made several votes that favored amnesty for illegal aliens.
McDaniel is strongly against amnesty, having said numerous times in interviews including with Breitbart News that he opposes amnesty.
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Reading your triple post without a sarc tag almost made me fall out of my chair. It's no wonder that Louisiana politics are so screwed up. Just damn!
Good post Norm.
Wish I didn’t have to make it on FR but there are a number of “Freepers” in name only determined t elect RINOs at the cost of conservatism. And they are coming out of the woodwork lately defending all manner of RINO bullsXit.
*chortle*.
You funny!
Won’t be voting for Haley ‘I love Amnesty! because my cheap labor dim pals need it!’ Barbour’s pick for senate in the primary.
I wish you didn't have to either. It is what it is. You'll never find me on the 'list'. No More RINOs!!!
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