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Posted on 07/20/2015 10:57:36 AM PDT by Starman417
Help us out here, Republicans. Many of us want to support you, we really do. We worked to hand you majorities in both houses of Congress and you rewarded your constituents by letting the president run his extremist agenda all over you. This was just capped off with finding a way to cave on President Obama's goal to achieve a nuclear armed Iran. As painful as that has been to watch, what hurts the most is watching you squander an issue where you could easily gain political support simply by speaking common sense.
I am of course, talking about illegal aliens committing violent crimes here in the United States. The fact that illegals are responsible for a significant amount of criminal activity is hardly news. It might be easier to track if we actually kept a registry of crimes committed by illegals, of course. And yet, dangerous criminals are getting released into our neighborhoods, as The Boston Globe's Maria Sacchetti reports:
For years, doctors warned federal immigration officials: Do not take your eyes off Santos Hernandez Carrera.Allowing these criminals to roam freely is the policy of this administration. And unfortunately, no serious Republican contender for president in 2016 has come down hard and decisively on the right side of this issue and hammered it home. In theory this should be an easy sell to both the candidates and the American people. Most sane people don't like the idea of dangerous criminals being allowed to roam where they live. Add in the fact that these criminals should not even be in our country in the first place. and this should be a no brainer. But this is the Republican party we're talking about, so "no brainer" was the operative word - of course the party leadership supports amnesty. Of course, they do not support a fence to keep illegals out. This seems to be out of fear of alienating a voter base that supports some of the most extreme views of the Radical Left anyway.He had raped a woman at knifepoint and spent roughly half his life in jail, where immigration officials hoped to keep him until they could send him home to Cuba. As far as the public knew, the strategy worked: Until last month, the public sex offender registry said Hernandez Carrera, who has been diagnosed with a mental illness, had been deported.
He never was. Instead, the Globe discovered that Hernandez Carrera is in Florida, one of hundreds of immigrants convicted of sex crimes who should have been deported but instead were released in the United States because their homelands refused to take them back.
They are convicted rapists, child molesters, and kidnappers — among “the worst of the worst,” as one law enforcement agency put it. Yet the Globe found that immigration officials have released them without making sure they register with local authorities as sex offenders.
Even with the criminal element aside, with labor force participation rates at Great-Depression era lows, this issue makes a perfect inroad with working class workers, not to mention can be a way to show the black vote how the radical leftist policies of Democrats are hurting them. But studies and papers only go so far in promoting an issue. One thing that the left does so well is to exploit personal stories. Look no further than how effectively the Democrats used the not completely accurate stories involving Trayvon Martin, Sandra Fluke, and Michael Brown to stir up their base. If only there was a story that could be used to personalize how real this problem is. Actually, there is. We just saw the recent killing of Katie Steinle, as Dr. John recently wrote:
Kate Steinle did not have to die. She died because one of Obama’s Latino nephews killed her. She died because her illegal alien murderer knew he’d safe in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. Liberals killed Kate Steinle as sure as did Francisco Sanchez. Tragically, Steinle’s death is not unique. Since 2010 121 murders have been attributed to illegal aliens with 14 deaths in 2015 alone. The United States is infected with 347,000 convicted criminals released into the general population by the Obama regime. Chew on that for a moment.Or how about an Iraq war vet who learns that her son was murdered by an illegal? John Hinderaker at Powerline observed: (emphasis his):
Anita Shaw was an Army sergeant serving in Iraq when she learned that her 17-year-old son Jamiel had been murdered by an illegal immigrant in Los Angeles:Indeed it is crazy. The first priority of government is to keep its governed citizens safe. Ironically, the same people who demand that the state have a monopoly over lethal force in gun control are generally the same ones cheerleading government-backed efforts to allow these criminals to roam freely among us. As Debra Saunders at Real Clear Politics points out:Los Angeles High School football standout Jamiel was shot twice, once in the stomach and once in the head, near his Arlington Heights home in March, 2008.
He was targeted by Espinoza simply because he was carrying a red Spider-Man backpack and was mistaken for a rival gang member.
The killer, who was aged 19, had been released the day before he killed Jamiel having served four months of an eight month sentence for assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a police officer.
“I was screaming and crying, I wanted to help find the guy, but I felt completely helpless. And then when I found out he was an illegal alien, I felt everyone was trying to keep it quiet, I felt like because he was an illegal alien it was alright that he killed my son.
“It felt like an American citizen living in the United States is not worth anything, but my son was worth something.”
I felt like because he was an illegal alien it was alright that he killed my son. That is a very perceptive insight into America’s elites. Ms. Shaw comments on the murder of Kathryn Steinle by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco:
I still don’t understand why it happened, just like what happened in San Francisco, why wasn’t this guy deported after he was released from prison? “Sanctuary City”, that’s crazy.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Why do the Harlem Globetrotters have that other team on the court? There you go.
The purpose of the GOP today is to prevent conservatives from power, not represent them.
They are paid by The Cheap Labor Express to frustrate any attempt by the citizens to stop the invasion/cheap labor importation/colonization of our country.
For the Republic to survive, the GOP must die.
GOP-RIP
“Why do Republican politicians exist?”
For the sex and the money, same as Democrats.
*Why do the Harlem Globetrotters have that other team on the court? There you go. *
Good one!
I wonder when the Dems will declare that the USA is a one party system. It seems like most of the politicians are Democrat or Dem-lite with an R after their name.
Good analogy, one I have used before, they are the Washington Generals to the Democrats Globetrotters
The Republican Party has not earned the moniker as The Stupid Party for no reason.
To offer assistance to them.
Great analogy..!
PING
I think a lot of conservatives who worked for, donated to, and voted for Republican candidates in 2010 and 2012 are asking the same question.
I know I am.
The old adage: If you don’t see the clown at the table, you’re it.
That settles it. I’m voting demoRAT from now on. The sooner America collapses, the sooner we can hit “reset” and form a party worthy of Christian conservatives. There’s no other way. The Repugs don’t listen and they don’t care.
Because the debating society gig pays well and has great bennies?
“We worked to hand you majorities in both houses of Congress and you rewarded your constituents by letting the president run his extremist agenda all over you.”
The republican goal is to make everything so bad that
people will show up in droves to vote for the liberal
moderate candidate that they decide for us. That would be
Jeb. And to do it in a landslide so they can show prof
that the era of Reagan is over and the beginning of the
Bush era of the liberal republican socialist. The idea is
to make it so bad that they can get literal trash elected.
Your choice in Nov.2016, a lying democrat or a lying
democrat who says he’s a republican.
After much head scratching, I’ve come to the conclusion that the entire republican caucus has been blackmailed. Nothing else makes sense
Oh, and John Roberts, too
Who will your coalition partners be?
Ridiculous.
If you look at Members of Congress and Senators, of both parties - they go to the same colleges and law schools, they marry the same women, they have the same girlfriends, they buy the same DC real estate, drive the same cars, they take the same bribes from the same people, they cash out to the same K Street firms - THEY ARE ALL THE SAME.
These Republicans in whom you have so much faith vote the way they do because that's what they really believe, with very, very rare exceptions. The "battles on Capitol Hill" are, with very rare exceptions, like pro wrestling.
We have to start calling the GOPe the Washington Generals.
It’s hyperbole. I’ll no more vote rat than America will collapse.
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