Posted on 08/13/2014 5:05:33 AM PDT by cotton1706
The Republican establishment is already telling the mainstream press that GOP leaders must go on offense and pass comprehensive amnesty legislation if Republicans regain control of Congress.
But CNN does not understand that Republicans may again ignore the advice of their leaders, Wall Street donors, and establishment on comprehensive amnesty legislation, because actual Republican voters do not want it.
Republican voters forced lawmakers to pass a tough border bill in the House that would prevent President Barack Obama from enacting more temporary amnesty. Republican candidates never mention or advertise their support for amnesty legislation during primary campaigns. Sen. Lamar Alexander, for instance, spent a year convincing Tennessee voters that he was "against amnesty." Only after he won his nomination with the lowest percentage ever for a Tennessee incumbent did Alexander embrace amnesty again.
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), top donors and former Bush administration officials have been pushing for comprehensive amnesty legislation, arguing, without proof, that it would help the party make inroads with Hispanics. But a recent Univision poll of Latinos found that amnesty legislation was nowhere near the top priority among Hispanics.
As Breitbart News reported, "when registered Latino voters were asked to name their most important issues, the results, in order, were: education (21%), jobs (16%), government spending and the deficit (15%), social security (13%), "how what they do will affect my wallet" (10%), health care (9%), immigration (8%), and crime and personal safety (5%)."
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GOP: Amnesty, RomneyCARE, openborders,
......... and Bishop Romney in 2016
Those they seek to appease will be the cause of their demise
That would be the last bill the Republican party will pass.
It will cease to exist if it does.
We’re gonna have to have an election at some point where we make it abundantly clear to the GOPe that we are PUNISHING them.
Even if that means having to live with a Dem majority for a time.
Democrat infiltrators...treat them as they should be treated, enemies foreign and DOMESTIC....
2006, 2008 and 2012 weren't enough, huh?
I would contend that each of those elections were more about Republican failures than they were about Democrat successes. Specifically:
a. Out-of-control spending by a Republican legislature.
b. The abysmal John McCain.
c. "Moderate Mitt" Romney and the associated abandonment of the Obamacare issue.
In point-of-fact, you could make the argument that the Republican Party has been the ascendant party since 1980. But the party leadership has squandered their advantage by not recognizing the Reagan Majority nor practicing what created it.
They just constantly wear the $hit out us with this crap don’t they? Almost makes you wish a deranged democrat turned Islamicist would go on a hunting spree for Republican senators that want to pass amnesty and enact shariah law with a scimitar
“I would contend that each of those elections were more about Republican failures than they were about Democrat successes”
I agree with that. The Republican establishment isn’t listening to it’s core base. They shove moderates down our throats and wonder why they lose.
That damn turncoat Lamar Alexander is a perfect example. Lindsey Graham is another.
Noted American University Historian Allan J. Lichtman, who highlighted the piece in a Tuesday article published in The Hill, calls Gilens and Page's research "shattering" and says their scholarship "should be a loud wake-up call to the vast majority of Americans who are bypassed by their government."
The statistical research looked at public attitudes on nearly 1,800 policy issues and determined that government almost always ignores the opinions of average citizens and adopts the policy preferences of monied business interests when shaping the contours of U.S. laws.
The study's findings align with recent trends, where corporate elites have aggressively pursued pro-amnesty policies despite the fact that, according to the most recent Reuters poll, 70% of Americans believe illegal immigrants "threaten traditional U.S. beliefs and customs," and 63% believe "immigrants place a burden on the economy."
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
If the GOP is complicit in granting amnesty - and any action that permits those who entered the US illegally to benefit from that illegal act is amnesty - the GOP will cease to exist. It will not survive through the 2016 elections. The people will shun the over-tanned, glad-handing, backslapping quislings and look elsewhere for leaders who actually have the spine for the fight. Make no mistake - to me and to many, many others, amnesty is the GOP's Rubicon. Cross it at your electoral peril.
To McConnell, Boehner, et al., what their overlords at the Chamber of Commerce want, they get. After all, they are funded by the overlords and regularly wined and dined by their lobbyists. The establishment pols only periodically need to come hat in hand to the yokels to ask for their votes, by which time they have practiced enough lies to fool the low information Republican voters again.
Eric Cantor’s loss was ‘abundantly clear’. They are either really really stupid or jus don’t care.
Looks like the Dem Party is a cult of death and the EgOp just has a death wish.
Helluva choice, huh?
Basically the people have no measurable effect on legislation. Legislation is dictated by and passed into law almost exclusively for the big donors and lobbyists.
Our so called "democracy" is a joke.
All they care about is keeping their office and the Chamber of Crony Communism $$$ rolling in their pockets. The voters are the least of their worries as is the country.
If they passed amnesty and made Islam the national religion even on this board there we would have shills screaming for us to support these traitors to the death because they are Republicans.
The candidate who comes out and supports Main Street and means it will win easily. Big Business and Big Government are the problem, not the solution as they are in a symbiotic, parasitical dance of death for the country and the average citizens just gets the bill and a kick in the ass by both parties, the government and big business.
I wouldn’t put that beyond them. The lefties I know (knew, as I am detaching myself from anyone who supports the Nazi left) are going full bore on national socialism, how Israel should be more sensitive and how obamacare is just dandy. In other words, they are insane.
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