Posted on 04/18/2013 4:40:39 PM PDT by AuntB
The Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight" oozed confidence on Thursday that they could deliver on their promise to pass the most significant immigration bill in a generation.
Organizers gathered over 20 leaders from business, labor, religious and civil rights groups in order to display broad support for their plan. In an unlikely pairing, renowned anti-tax activist Grover Norquist stood alongside AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the leader of the nation's largest labor coalition. Senators from both parties yukked it up with jokes throughout the hour-long affair.
"We'll oppose only those amendments that are intended to prevent a comprehensive solution from passing," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)...
Graham threw down an ultimatum against opponents of the bill in both parties....
On Thursday, Rubio cajoled conservatives to get on board with the bill.
McCain said that the bill is the critical first move in a long process for the Republican Party to repair its broken image among Latino voters.
After the conference ended, Norquist predicted the Gang of Eight would succeed, arguing that opponents like Sessions and Vitter, who sunk the last immigration bill in 2007, have been marginalized.
Restrictionists, Norquist said, are people who merely "think of themselves as conservatives."
"If you're a Republican, you look at the business community wants it, the religious community wants it," he told reporters. "Who is the opposition? Who in the modern Reagan Republican Party is a no?"
While Congress has proved itself incapable recently of dealing with major pieces of legislation, the senators predicted this time would be different.
"I am convinced this issue will not fall victim to the usual partisan gridlock," Schumer said. "This bipartisan breakthrough offers a degree of hope."
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Additional old timer pings for the record!!!
I gagged when little Marko Rubio called Rush on his show yesterday singing praises of this pile of Bull ShiX. It smelled of Karl Marx Rove...
You’re too kind. I just feel like we’re running out of time.
If they get their way they will be called La Banda de los Ocho.
“It smelled of Karl Marx Rove...”
You are so right. Where you find Conda, you find Norquist and you find Rove. IMO, a good deal of the game is really little more than money laundering between the various lobbyist run ‘non profits’, including hijacking the tea party label to fund and promote candidates like Rubio. He was an amnesty man long before he was elected. Primed and groomed. Cesar Conda didn’t work for George Soros for nothing. And, yes, I know it sounds crazy.
“Former George W. Bush advisor, Karl Rove* said that Rubio was “the best communicator since Ronald Reagan.” Rove appeared on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier with Democrat Joe Trippi, who also believes that Rubio is the glue that could bring the Republican party together, and come to terms with the Democrats on immigration reform.”
and
“And he’s [Norquist] personally doing fine... he gets two-thirds of his funding from two big corporate billionaire-backed nonprofits: the Center to Protect Patients Rights, which donated $4,189,000 to Americans for Tax Reform in 2010, and Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, which gave him $4 million.”
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Karl+Rove
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