Posted on 05/14/2014 11:08:09 AM PDT by cotton1706
Two of the most prominent CEOs that have been lobbying Congress for immigration reform and amnesty legislation indicated on Monday this Congress's final act could be passing sweeping amnesty legislation in the lame-duck session.
At a panel on the economy and infrastructure investment at the Newseum on Monday, Jay Timmons, the CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), which has lobbied extensively for amnesty legislation, and Tom Donohue, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce, agreed that amnesty legislation could pass even after the November elections despite the August deadline that is being floated.
"I think it'll happen in the lame-duck session as the final piece of legislation," Timmons said.
Donohue, after saying that immigration reform was "doable" this year, said, "I think that too." He then said that "would be the fallback position" even as he pressures Congress to pass legislation in the next three months that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers.
Even though an Eagle Forum report documented how mass immigration may doom a conservative Republican Party and a plurality of voters have indicated in two national polls that they would be "less likely" to vote for candidates who support amnesty, Donohue half-joked that Republicans were guaranteed to lose the White House again in 2016 if they don't pass amnesty.
“If the Republicans don’t do it, they shouldn’t bother to run a candidate in 2016,” Donohue said. "Think about who the voters are. I just did that to get everybody’s attention.”
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</s> after my post might have helped you to understand me better- my bad...
No problem - I’m glad we cleared up the misunderstanding!
Have a great day, FRiend.
You too
If amnesty passes, the scumbag, traitor politicians who vote for it should be swinging from a rope tied to the highest branch of the tallest tree in Washington.
And the scumbag traitors from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers should be right next to them.
Twelve million Republicans sat home in 2012 rather than Romney. I have no doubt that more than twice that number will do that in 2016 if they pull this stunt. And, if they are counting on doing this quickly to put as much daylight between this treasonous act and November 2016 thinking voters will soften, they are sadly, painfully mistaken.
If they do this they will NOT have my vote and I don't care if Chelsea Clinton is the Democrat's nominee. All the scare tactics of how bad it will be if we elect Democrat so-and-so will fall on deaf ears.
We’ve had 16 years of Clinton and Obama due to guys like this Chamber of Commerce guy, so if people really want the collapse of the USA, then this is the path and I cannot and will not bust a gut to try and stop it.
I will however, be there in the aftermath.
A post-November 2014 amnesty vote is a real possibility.
The elections will be over. The Republican victors in November who are from “safe seats” (i.e., filled with low information voters who don’t even know what amnesty is or filled with mushy centrists who think it’s kind of neat to have amnesty) don’t have to worry about a backlash. The Republicans who win and do have sizable constituencies who oppose amnesty will have 2 years until the next election, during which time they can hope the voters forget.
The real gambit is probably for Boehner/Cantor/McCarthy/McMorris-Rodgers to push through amnesty with a bare number of Republicans (20 +/-) and all—or nearly all—of the Dhimms.
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE AT THIS TIME ANYWAY?
Does anyone at all doubt that the headline is true? If so, I have a bridge to sell you, and some land in florida.
Uh, given how well those 'wars' have turned out, I don't really think we do. We just need to enforce the law, build a fence, and start shooting anyone who tries to cross in our direction.
That works.
It will not happen in this congress
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