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  • Obama to Prioritize Immigration Reform Once Fiscal Crisis Resolved

    10/16/2013 5:47:36 AM PDT · by jimbo123 · 11 replies
    Time ^ | 10/16/13 | Per Liljas
    Once the fiscal crisis has been resolved, President Barack Obama is going to push for immigration reform, he told the Los Angeles affiliate of Spanish-language network Univision on Tuesday. Obama, who largely managed to hold on to office on the backs of Hispanic voters, has long looked to easing the plight of the country’s 11 million illegal immigrants, but other issues have kept coming in the way during his second term.
  • Jeb Bush on Ted Cruz: It’s not enough to say the system’s broken, you have to fix it

    06/15/2013 9:10:38 AM PDT · by jimbo123 · 49 replies
    Dallas Morning News ^ | 6/15/13 | Wayne Slater
    Potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush was asked about Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday and offered less-than robust praise for the tea party freshman from Texas. Bush suggested it’s one thing to point out how things are broken – and quite another to fix them. In an interview on the Christian Broadcast Network,
  • Jeb Bush, arguing for immigration reform, says immigrants 'more fertile'

    06/14/2013 9:09:36 AM PDT · by jimbo123 · 86 replies
    CNN ^ | 6/14/13 | CNN Political Unit
    Making an argument for overhauling the nation's immigration system Friday to a crowd of conservative activists, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush claimed immigrants were "more fertile" and thus a great benefit to American society. His remark appeared to be an inarticulate reference to immigrants' fertility rates, which data show are higher than native-born Americans. "Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans over the last 20 years. Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity,"
  • Conservatives Call on Boehner to Stick With ‘Hastert Rule’ (200 RATS + 18 RINOS = AMNESTY PASSES)

    06/12/2013 7:46:02 AM PDT · by jimbo123 · 43 replies
    Roll Call ^ | 6/12/13 | Emma Dumain
    After signaling earlier in the day that his leadership style could lend itself to passage of immigration overhaul without the votes of a majority of his own party, Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, took some heat from outside conservative groups. The Conservative Action Project on Tuesday afternoon circulated a letter to House Republican lawmakers co-signed by dozens of influential movement leaders, urging them to formally adopt the “Hastert Rule.” Named for Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., who served as speaker from 1999 to 2007, the rule dictates that no bill come to the floor without assurance that a majority of...
  • Conservative leader says GOP must broaden appeal

    03/14/2013 11:26:13 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 18 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Mar. 14, 2013 10:37 AM EDT | Steve Peoples and Ken Thomas
    As the GOP struggles to broaden its appeal, the head of the American Conservative Union declared Thursday that the Republican Party is not a home for everyone, as prominent voices in Republican politics gather with thousands of conservatives and tea party activists outside Washington. The Conservative Political Action Conference offers Republican leaders—past and potential presidential contenders among them—a high-profile stage to court their party's most passionate voters. The three-day gathering also shines a spotlight on deep divisions within the Republican Party as it tries to recover from a painful 2012 election season. “I’m a firm believer that if the Republican...