Posted on 09/16/2014 6:41:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
In light of President Obama’s decision to delay his much-anticipated edict on immigration until after November’s elections, some critics are asking why the president and Democrats in Congress didn’t pass immigration reform back when they had overwhelming majorities in both House and Senate. It’s a good question — and a good reason to revisit 2009 and 2010, when immigration reform could have become a reality.
As a presidential candidate, Obama promised to “put comprehensive immigration reform back on the nation’s agenda during my first year in office.” After victory in 2008, he had the clout to do so: sky-high approval ratings, 257 Democrats in the House and, for a while, a filibuster-proof majority of 60 Democrats in the Senate.
And yet, immediately after being sworn in, Obama began to send subtle signals that immigration reform wasn’t a top priority. Reform was a “serious concern,” Obama told a group of regional reporters in March 2009, but not an urgent one.
“We’ve started to talk to all the parties involved and both parties here in Washington about the prospects of taking legislative steps,” Obama said. “But obviously we’ve got a lot on our plate right now.”
Immigration activists pressed hard for Obama to act; after all, he had promised. As 2009 unfolded, Obama encouraged the activists to believe he was committed to introducing a comprehensive reform bill. After a White House meeting, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, (D, Illinois) told reporters Obama had promised a bill “in the very near future.”
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Because he and the dim/libs would own it and couldn’t blame the Repubs.
That's his problem....kicking out existing legislation via executive order.
I really wish folks would stop calling the Democrat’s efforts to eradicate our borders “immigration reform”. It is truly nothing more than abdication of our sovereignty.
Too many people out of work at the time, and he was too busy spreading the wealth around with recovery.gov
because he doesn’t know any immigrants ???
“Byron York laments”
Really?
Chalk it up simply to another failure to execute. The boob has proved he could pretty much screw anything up. He may have some intelligence but absolutely no wisdom and I don’t anticipate him gaining any.
“Immigration Reform” - political code for “farting in the face of the law by generating large hordes of new Democrat voters at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to be paid by fleecing American citizens.”
Let’s call a spade a spade.
Sometimes just posing a question is better than getting an answer.
Forces the suckers into inventing denials.
I guess that could also be..
because no immigrant has ever asked him for “reform”
or
because immigrants are quite satisfied with the status quo...
And who could forget the imbecilic Gutierrez strutting around, crowing about "having the votes" to pass the Senate bill in the House? When that failed, latino pressure groups then segued to getting Obama to E/O amnesty.
REALITY CHECK.......a tsunami of 2014 voter polls indicate massive voter revulsion for Democrats---a decisive vote of "no confidence." So much so that Democrats forced Obama to delay his plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegals---hoping to stave off disaster to protect uneasy Democrats from voter wrath in November.....
But slimeball Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Dem-Ill), the leading mouthpiece for amnesty giveaways, isn't taking Obama's dismissal lying down. Gutierrez said the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will meet to determine a formal response.
“No more excuses, I don’t care what senator is dangling in the wind, I don’t care what Republican proposal is being made,” he said. “I don’t care what happens. We are moving forward.”
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IS GUTIERREZ PLOTTING A COUP AGAINST DEMOCRATS?---his mouthings sound dangerously like a latino threat to Democrats.
Question is: are Democrats who have been so loyal going to allow Gutierrez to threaten their re/elections?
Democrats need to get cracking and demand to know the details
about an individual threatening their candidacies. For instance:
<><><> the number of identities Gutierrez is using now, or has ever used (driving a cab in Illinois);
<><><> the number of US govt check Gutierrez, his family, and his staff are cashing;
<><><> whether Gutierrez has ever been labled a ntl security threat; <><><> whether Gutierrez used infamous crooked Chicago tactics to get elected;
<><><> the list of his memberships in violent latino groups advocating the overthrow of the US govt;
<><> How many stolen Social Security numbers are his family, staff and political entourage using?
<><><> how many identities are the Guiterrez family and campaign entourage using?
<><><> are his family, supporters, and political entourage paid agents of foreign governments?
WHO IS GIVING GUTIERREZ HIS MARCHING ORDERS? Democrats need to get the FBI to subpoena Gutierrez's phone records, emails and snail mail, wire transfers, etc .....
<><> Examine his campaign contributors, foreign travel;
<><> did Gutierrez employ foreign agents as staff w/ US tax dollars?
<><> did Gutierrez ever file falsified documents w/ the federal government?
<><> did he ever make false statements on tax returns?
<><> did he ever apply for EITC refunds listing children "back Home" that are not related to him?
<><> does he earn outside income as a paid political consultant to foreign governments?
<><> did Gutierrez fail to register as an agent of a foreign government;
<><> Is Gutierrez and The Congressional Hispanic Caucus using tax dollars to conduct a coup against Democrats.
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FBI TIPS PAGE---https://tips.fbi.gov
<><> DEMOCRATS should demand Gutierrez, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other tax-funded latino groups, be investigated.
L/E should supboena Gutierrez' official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.
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Democrats should demand to know who these people are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.
Democrats should demand to know if Gutierrez, his family, his staff, The Congressional Hispanic caucus, are colluding to dump Democrats, and whether they are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the Democrat Party.
If you think back to that time it is clear that Obama need to spend all his political capital to pass Obamacare. It passed by just one vote. Trying to pass immigration reform at the same time would have made passing the ACA that much harder.
Oh, you’re absolutely right. They had to choose between ACA and Amnesty and they didn’t anticipate the rise of the Tea Party and then Scott Brown’s election scared the hell out of them. So many different things happened that prevented action, Al Franken wasn’t seated as a senator due to the recounts and lawsuits. Then Kennedy was sick and wasn’t there to vote, and they had to get a law in MA changed and a replacement appointed. It was one thing after another. And thank God there were lots of obstacles in the way!
the tea party in the streets and townhalls, the meltdown of the phone lines first against pelosi, reid, mcconnell, bush, mccain and obama in those years were the major causes that stiffened the spine of the then spinless GOP such that the dems were forced to focus on obamacare and carbon credits, among other priorities. in short, they lost the cover they had expected to have from the GOP and had to go it alone.
Obama wanted to use the issue to create chaos and outrage.
If he had done this when it was ‘easy’ it wouldn’t be a useful tool to humiliate and divide the citizens of the United States.
It’s tricky destroying country... what if sending ‘boots’ to Ebola zones doesn’t produce the desire deaths in the United States? Or if Obama’s silly ME policies doesn’t start World War III?
Obama’s only got a little more than two years to take down the United States... he needs every option.
#1 : Obama had his hands full passing Obama-care, he didn’t get Cap and Trade either.
#2 : Obama making amnesty a priority during economic free-fall would have been risky politically.
#3 : He was able to use it to beat Republicans over the head with in 2012. And all the Dems can no run on amnesty in 2016.
Honestly i think it has more to do with Obama’s personal values.
Healthcare deform was about Marxist ideology, Immigration was about demographic power.
If Obama has ever placed anything above power in his life it is his ideology. Which is why we are often successfully in using that ideology against him because even as Obama controls the media to the point of denying us a voice, he is a rather predictable follower of the teachings of marx.
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