Posted on 09/30/2014 2:28:49 AM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
The most notorious moment of Representative Steve King's career was cleverly calculated.
The immigration debate had undergone a sea change in favor of reform, with bipartisan Senate passage of a sweeping bill in the months after Hispanics carried President Obama to a resounding reelection victory.
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This really irritated King. "It was wrong," he tells TPM in a wide-ranging interview in his Capitol Hill office. "I go down to the border and … I see these guys that are coming across."
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"I'd suggest that we have now more objectively characterized Dreamers," he snarks, "and [Durbin] hasn't yet said thank you."
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King sealed the deal on his pet piece of English-only legislation in 2002, when he and Siegrest faced off in a crowded primary for a safe Republican congressional district. King telegraphed a threatening message to Siegrest through one of the Iowa Speaker's friends: If Siegrest didn’t bring up the bill for a vote, King would "hit him over the head with it at every stop on the campaign trail." At the time, the legislation enjoyed the support of 80 percent of voters.
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"That was a lot of fun," Tancredo says with a nostalgic laugh, recalling that King took his back before they met President Bush because Tancredo had a frosty relationship with president.
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"I was on the list of four or five people that [Boehner] thanked in conference after we got that resolved, and that's the first time I remember him thanking me.
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Hammond recalls a conversation the two had back in the legislature when she chided him for using the term "pro-abortion," and he obliged. "Steve needs more of those conversations where you see the humanity in the Democrat."
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Continuing the lie that the Hispanic vote was pivotal.
This nation would benefit from having many more Steve Kings in both houses of Congress and the White House.
Sadly, we’re way too far down the road to chickification and dependence for that to be even remotely possible.
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