Comes news that House GOP Whip Kevin McCarthy has endorsed
comprehensive legalization for persons unlawfully in this country, and
predicts the entire House “leadership team” may follow suit.
Presumably, the leadership epiphany will be embodied in the
“immigration principles” which House Speaker John Boehner will unveil at
this year’s appropriately named “Republican retreat.”
Thus, this package is expected to include:
-a legalization “pathway to amnesty,” in which between 1.7 million
and 11.5 million illegals will be brought out of the shadows and given
every incentive to work day and night in order to destroy Republicans
and elect Democrats;
-a GOP-backed “healthcare.gov for jobs,” in which every American will
have to get the government’s go-ahead in order to work, even in menial
jobs like babysitters and gardeners;
-a delusional notion that Barack Obama can be trusted to “secure the
borders” when it’s no longer in his political interest to do so; and
-specialized visas which will be nothing more than enormous “amnesty loopholes.”
Boehner & co. have openly publicized that they intend to do this
in late spring, right after most primary filings have closed and the
supposedly stupid Tea people presumably can’t do anything about it.
Which raises this issue: Given that Boehner’s staff, on the front
page of every major American newspaper, has already told us he intends
to kick us in the groin, why not force GOP House members to openly
embrace or reject this strategy now? If I were Senator Jeff Sessions
(or an anti-amnesty leader in the House), I would circulate a letter —
now — asking members top either repudiate this devious gambit or, by not
signing, confess that this is exactly what they intend to do.
But two-step amnesty is only one of the four cornerstones of Boehner’s Tower of Babel. Here are the four:
PATHWAY TO AMNESTY: As bad as instant amnesty would be, it’s probably less bad than two-step amnesty.
Under the Boehner proposal, between 1.7 and 11.5 million illegals
would be formally insulated from prosecution. And for these legalistas,
the pathway to their future would become spending 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, working to elect Democrats and to maintain Harry Reid’s
control of the Senate so that they can receive the badge of full amnesty
— citizenship.
Once granted citizenship, according to one poll, 88% will vote for
Democrats. That number will go even higher if, in the short term,
promotion from “legalization” to “citizenship” rests on electing
Democrats. But, either way, the country goes the way of California and
the GOP dies an ignominious self-inflicted death.”
The Republican base is highly motivated to throw out Democrats and
take the Senate in 2014 — particularly those who hate ObamaCare and love
the Second Amendment.
But the legalistas would be an even more highly-motivated
counterweight that could be the one thing to dislodge Republicans from
the House and speed Barack Obama’s ascent to Mount Rushmore.
Remember the immigration advocates who descended on John Boehner
during breakfast? Remember the chants of Obama’s campaign slogan (“Yes
we can”) from the Senate galleries? Imagine these people, multiplied by
a million, freed from all inhibitions and organized as a political
force.
Bottom line: If GOP congressmen wish to eat breakfast in peace and
hold town hall meetings without being ambushed, they will resist the
“pathway to amnesty.”
“HEALTHCARE.GOV FOR JOBS”: The good news: Given the events of the
last four months, only a moron would want to condition employment on
logging onto and being approved by a federal computer website.
The bad news: There are plenty of morons around.
One additional observation: We have seen, with guns, that, over
time, when you condition a constitutional right on getting the go-ahead
from a government database, that go-ahead is eventually denied for
political purposes.
In the wake of the IRS scandal, does anyone not see the potential
harm which would come from requiring the government to give its assent
before you can work?
‘VISAS WITH BENEFITS” (LOOPHOLES WAITING TO HAPPEN): There are
various drafts dealing with agriculture and high-tech visas. Under
some, if you can claim you were an agricultural worker over 26 weeks a
year for a fixed number of years, you are on the pathway to citizenship.
‘TRUST-ME OBAMA”: Does anyone not understand why the Senate bill
does not contain objective measurements of border security from an
objective arbiter as a condition for amnesty? Enough said.
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