Sipsey Street Irregulars: Why Pro-Amnesty Republicans Are So Desperate To Pass Immigration Reform This Year

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Why Pro-Amnesty Republicans Are So Desperate To Pass Immigration Reform This Year

In other words, this whole immigration push that the GOP leadership in the House is embracing is a scam. It doesn't matter what they tell you, what they promise or how good they make it sound; immigration reform this year would be about as legitimate as a letter from a Nigerian prince.

See also "The House GOP Sounds Retreat (Or Should.)": The leaders of the party in the House, in other words, have to at least pretend to care what the various segments of that party's base care about and how they react to the House GOP's initiatives. The House GOP leadership has to act rationally, and win elections before they "make tough choices" no one asked them to make now, and which they cannot make except to hurt themselves while helping Democrats, as they did two weeks back in backing the attack on the retirement benefits of the career military.

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SWIFT said...: I feel that the war between the Tea Party and mainstream Republicans, has become so vicious, that Boehner and company have lost sight of the big picture. Add to that, McCain and Graham constantly crossing the aisle to suck up to Democrats, you have a recipe, a witches brew, for defeat. All the talk of taking back the Senate and gaining seats in the House, is smoke and mirrors. The real agenda is the complete destruction of all Constitutional protections, by "progressives".; January 28, 2014 at 6:42 AM
Longbow said...: The piece at TownHall didn't really answer the question... Why?

The answer is, because the "R" branch of the Socialist party doesn't have a genuine disagreement with the "D" branch of the Socialist party. They are flip sides of the same coin. It is one huge scam.; January 28, 2014 at 8:52 AM
Anonymous said...: When was the last time that anything in the beltway conformed to the actual will of the people, the constituents? I don't remember when, but it's the pinnacle of stupidity to think that congress or the president make their decisions with our benefit in mind. There is virtually no difference, Democrat or Republican, in matters of importance. It's a false dichotomy. They are all collectivists working toward a one-world government, elites in power ruling over the serfdom. Martial law IS the desired outcome. The all powerful police-state apparatus is nearly in place. They're just waiting for a bitter clinger to take the first shot before they can bring it to full fruition.
HinMO; January 28, 2014 at 11:00 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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