Boy is this getting to appear more and more sadly ironic.
Veritas readers should read this Powerline article about Marco Rubio’s collusion with, or stooge-ification by, Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Gang of Eight regarding the recently introduced “comprehensive” immigration bill. It does not paint a pretty picture. By the way the current version of the immigration bill now approaches Godzilla size and scope at 1100 pages in length. No devil in those details?!
Because the bill is such an atrocious overreach and dangerous in its specifics and its abdications to the executive branch, our warning is that Conservative Republicans are in no mood to accept as presidential timber any Republican Senator part of initiating a bill so fraught with red flags. The idea that the bill is merely imperfect and can be amended into a silk purse is not naive, it is stupid at best or willful subterfuge.
The bill provides the basis for all manner of the worst of Democrat manipulations. The implications for the deficit, short and long term, not to mention the very republic due to enhanced Democrat influences cannot be taken lightly. The bill is not a comprehensive reform, it is a comprehensive acceptance and inculcation of some of the worst aspects of the illegal immigration problem. The radio ads we all hear, promoting it on conservative talk radio, describe features that are obviated by the very “comprehensive” text of the bill.
We are warned it would be the catalyst for an aggressive exit of support from the Republican ticket to that of an honestly conservative third Party if somehow the establishment Republicans are able to maneuver this bill past the House. The view of a growing segment is that, long term the bill is a disaster for Republican interests, indeed the interests of the republic, therefore start now to build a real challenge to Democrat socialism.
Many observers are saying the bill has no chance in the House and that it may be problematical to get it past the said 60 votes it will need in the Senate. Well we know four Republican Senators that are not likely to help kill it — Rubio, Flake, Graham and McCain, and no doubt a few more. Conservative dependence on the steadfastness of Speaker Boehner has not been a bankable contentment of late. The powers that be in the Republican Party need to understand that the sooner the bill is killed the better for holding the Republican Party together.
Mitt Romney, who many conservatives like us trusted as having moved substantially toward us, did not enjoy enthusiastic support from other conservatives based on concerns about his former self. Our own confidence was shaken by the general election campaign he ran which in some ways justified the concerns of others about his genuineness. If our candidate can find his tongue to lambast other conservatives for their inconsistencies on the way to the Party’s nomination, but not have that tongue available to properly lambast the likes of Barack Obama, well confidence and enthusiasm for our nominee is understandably shaken.
Imagine the deflationary prospects as regards support for a candidate, potentially foisted on us by the same insightful geniuses in Washington that brought us the likes of McCain and to some extent Romney as our nominees. If Rubio is pandering, he is pandering to the wrong crowd and conservatives are in no mood to hold their nose and vote any longer. Marco Rubio is serving as the drummer boy for retreat from conservative commitments and ideals. He is marching away from us. Romney made the effort to walk towards us. The Romney effort is rightly rewarded. Not so Rubio.
More reading regarding the bill is available here at Breitbart. R Mall*
* Our illustrious Senior Editor provided the initial link and inspiration for the concerns set forth here.
‘Our current immigration system is broken”…Sen. Rubio is fond of saying. So, he’s going to help Chuck Schumer fix it with a thousand page bill which undoubtedly will have to be passed for us to know what’s in it.
I believe the “current immigration system is broken” statement is one of the stupidest comments in current circulation. Why is it “broken”? Because the law is not enforced, for cryin’ out loud! …and hasn’t been since the last time Congress “fixed it” with just a little amnesty.
Where, for example, in the “Gang of Eight’s” bill, Senator Rubio, is the issue of “sanctuary cities”, which are devoted to upholding violations of immigration law, addressed?
In one of his ubiquitous radio commercials, Senator Rubio assures that his bill will bring those illegal immigrants “out of the shadows” and they’ll start paying taxes like crazy! Exactly which taxes will they start paying that they are not now paying? The big feature that attracts support of “reform” by business is the low wages illegals are paid. Those wages are at levels at which no federal taxes are paid (recall the 47%?). The illegals already pay sales taxes and, in most cases, other “payroll taxes”.
Makes one wonder…is Rubio naive, a fake, or just stupid? Sounds like the ideal Establishment GOP candidate.
When RINO lemmings like Bill Kristol are telling Rubio to just walk away you know this thing is bad.
Also when the Rubio people have to completely saturate the AM airwaves (after he has talked to Rush, Hannity, Levin etc. about this issue) it’s a pretty pretty good barometer of how much this thing stinks. You can’t polish a turd, but these obsessive ads sure want us to.