The pro-amnesty right is trying to Bork immigration hawks
The desperation of the high-immigration Right is palpable. Like the Left with Obamacare, they fear that if voters and lawmakers actually engage, in detail, the specific issues at hand, their cause will be defeated. This is why, again as happened with Obamacare, they insist on a “comprehensive” amnesty bill, a 1,000-page monstrosity that no congressman could even skim before voting on, as a way to reach their goal of not only amnesty but also effectively unlimited future immigration.
That desperation comes through in the rhetoric of participants in the smear campaign. Aguilar, for instance, told the Washington Post that “if these groups can be unmasked, then the bulk of the opposition to immigration reform on the conservative side will wither away.” You always want opponents to believe their own press releases, but this smells like over-compensation; I can’t imagine anyone could be that dim regarding the concerns that conservative (and many moderate and even liberal) voters have over immigration.
These conservative supporters of the Obama immigration agenda are even using material produced by their leftist allies to denounce immigration skeptics as leftists. For instance, Lopez, the author of the Human Life Review article, distributed this flyer at a recent Norquist meeting. One side of it is produced by the National Immigration Forum, a left-wing open-borders group that has included on its board and staff some of the most odious figures in American political life this side of Bill Ayers. The following week — after I pointed out the origin of his material — Lopez was invited by Rubio’s staff to distribute his flyer at a meeting of conservative Senate staff; the National Immigration Forum content had disappeared.
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You can apply this statement to any conservative position, really – abortion, taxes, spending, Obamacare, etc. I have never before such a concentrated effort from our supposed “allied” political party in the last three years to paint conservatives of all stripes, fiscal or social, as radical extremists that shouldn’t be allowed to have a voice in policy discussions.
Doomberg on February 19, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Rubio is the plague. As far as I am concerned he is now American Public Enemy Number One. Pardon me, numero uno. Comprenda, marco?
VorDaj on February 19, 2013 at 4:35 PM
I’m mightly impressed by Rubio’s singleminded determination to get this passed and receive full credit for doing so. And yes groups like FAIR have demagogued this issue in the past; they’re just getting a taste of their own medicine from someone on the other side.
Illinidiva on February 19, 2013 at 4:38 PM
If Boehner had any sense, he’d wait until the Senate Bill comes to the House and then state that the House will not vote on a 1,000 page bill until it has been reviewed and digested by the public. Then he should say the House consider it in the Fall of this year.
Dusty on February 19, 2013 at 4:39 PM
Marco “Teddy” Rubio The Borker.
VorDaj on February 19, 2013 at 4:42 PM
lllinidiva,
What do you know and or will admit you know about the Mexican Drug Cartel enforcers the Zetas.
Do they operate/control the “coyotes” who haul these illegals into the U.S.A.?
Do you know that no “illegal” Mexican can be walked/hauled accross the U.S. / Mexican Border now unless they haul illegal drugs.
Do you know that these Zetas enforce their Mexican Drug Cartels bosses rules by chopping off heads, puting used tires around rule breakers and then setting the tires on fire.
Do you know that Mexican women under 18 are forced into “farm field sex slave camps”?
What do you know other than the lies the Goebbles News Networks and the liar Democrats have lied into your brain?
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 19, 2013 at 4:48 PM
The son of an illegal immigrant asks his dad, “Dad,
what’s democracy?”
“Well, son, that’s when the British work and we
get all the benefits from it!”
“But Dad, aren’t the British people unhappy
about that?”
“Sure they are son, but that’s called racism.’
Schadenfreude on February 19, 2013 at 4:49 PM
Brian Terry is still dead.
Ramos and Copean went to jail for doing their job of catching drug mules haulind illegal drugs into the U.S.A..
Then Pres. Bush called Americans who tried to help control the unsecure Mexican Border,, “vigilanties”.
The two party evil money cult in Washington D.C. has spend the U.S. and We the People into bankruptcy. They know they have to escape the judgment of history so they lust for these new wage/vote slaves to fix the crime (aka treason).
They want to tax these wage/vote slaves.
They want to avoid the judgment they deserve.
They know time is running out on them as the $20 Trillion short term debt looms and the long term $60 Trillion debt is yet to be seen by most as the Goebbles News Networks have lied it out of the knowing for a short time.
But the real deamon of History knows of the lies.
He sits now with Huge Angry Red Eyes.
He sits on a huge black horse, with hooves of sharpe steel.
He is judgement, and he will come, History always comes and the truth always rules. It is just a matter of time and who will be around for the judgment.
Comes the judgment.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 19, 2013 at 4:57 PM
Anyone see Zeb Coulter last night?
agmartin on February 19, 2013 at 5:01 PM
Umm.. having a saner immigration system ends all that.
Illinidiva on February 19, 2013 at 5:05 PM
Unless you let everyone in who wants in…ummmm…no it doesn’t.
sharrukin on February 19, 2013 at 5:08 PM
lllinidiva on February 19, 2013 at 5:05 PM
We have a sane immigration system now.
Due to actions of treason by mostly Democrats (like Fast and Furious) the willful leaving the borders wide open, to include the ones of islamic terror as these “Zetas” of the Mexican Drug Cartels have a price to bring them in with a much higher price if they have over 1,000 lbs of luggage aka bombs ect.
You and the William Ayers, John Kerry, Jane Fonda commie cult have the undemocrat party in the hands of the crime drug/slave operation from Mexico and your just a unkowning usefull fool.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 19, 2013 at 5:17 PM
ROFLMAO! You’re just joking, I assume … If not, I’d get that checked by a professional.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 19, 2013 at 5:18 PM
lllinidiva,
Give us your opinion of the “anchor baby” operations on the Mexican Border.
Mexican motel’s with 8 month 15 day pregnant Mexican ladies/women.
Mexican lady/woman say wakes up has cramp maybe even breaks her water.
She heads for the “Up and Running Well Staffed” “Anchor Baby” Hospital on the American side of the border.
She gets to the “emergacy room” has the baby, it is a U.S. Citizen, she via that can get status, U.S. taxpayers pay for the delivery.
Not a problem with you I would guess.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 19, 2013 at 5:26 PM
It is not just a crime, it is at its core treason.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 19, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Mark Krikorian,
Just a passing thinking thing if you read here on your post above.
One of the other posters on http://www.wattsupwiththat.com
had a nice idea on how to get the e-mails on the fraud of the EPA on global warming.
Hire the ones of China who are breaking in to all the Goverment Computers.
You should be able to find out the real truth of the evil.
apachewhoknows
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 19, 2013 at 5:49 PM
We don’t need to change the law. We are not enforcing existing law. We need to enforce it.
gryphon202 on February 19, 2013 at 5:55 PM
They aren’t conservative. They are big government establishment Republicans. Rockerfeller Republicans aka small ‘s’ socialists.
njrob on February 19, 2013 at 6:25 PM
You’re so freakin’ stupid, it has to hurt.
She’s a lib, no matter how much she claims otherwise.
xblade on February 19, 2013 at 6:37 PM
Shhhhh….don’t confuse her with reality.
xblade on February 19, 2013 at 6:41 PM