How badly does Republican leadership want to hide their support for amnesty? Asks David Horowitz at Conservative Review.
And how badly do they want to avoid confrontation with Obama?
This badly.
They are holding a symbolic vote denouncing Obama's unilateral action but apart from the operative budget bill. It is not even a standalone bill and contains no defund language. Just empty toothless protest.
They took the backbench bill and rewrote to be innocuous and even renamed it to rid it of any possible perception of offensive language. They are treating conservatives with the exact contempt Democrat leadership shows for their constituency. Their new bill adds a substitute amendment including "adds necessary exceptions for imminent humanitarian and law enforcement reasons."
Horowitz asks, Why add this exception to an unlawful act?
Horowitz ends, This is not about disagreement over policy. These people do not share our values.
It's as if they imagine their positions perfectly secure and the voters who put them there perfectly unconscious.
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There are times when only "Shut 'er down" will "Get 'er done."
The base be dammed again.
The white tie on the white shirt really makes the orange head pop.
The Republicans are bereft of good ol' boy wisdom. Sadly.
The GOP elites are absolutely convinced that if they appose Obama exec action they will lose Latinos forever and if they don't do something to pretend to oppose it they will lose their conservative base.
We bovines have a word for this: steers.
They are making Whig noises already.
Boeehner looks like he was in an explosion in a turmeric plant.
Anyhow.
While the Congressional elephants are going into dithering mode, meanwhile, governors and attorneys general from 18 states today brought a lawsuit seeking to block President Barack Obama’s executive action to unilaterally change immigration law.
No dithering there.
Link to the lawsuit.
"A new Economist/YouGov poll said that the public opposes the president’s order, 45 percent to 38 percent supporting it. In fact, only a majority of Democrats support the president’s action.
“The president’s plan for executive action on immigration clearly does not sit well with many Americans. Democrats support the president’s decision to use an executive order to delay deportation proceedings for parents of U.S. citizens, but 51 percent of independents and 80 percent of Republicans oppose it,” said the poll analysis.
What’s more, support for illegals and the president’s action has dropped since he unveiled his order to allow some illegals to stay temporarily and apply for a work permit if they have children who are U.S. citizens.
In February, for example, 55 percent supported providing a path to citizenship. That has dropped to 47 percent.
More telling is the nation’s attitude toward undocumented immigrants when it comes to jobs, school and crime."
Boehner makes me sad. I feel like crying.
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