Are Republicans Providing the Rope To Hang Themselves?

Republicans in La La Land — “Now throw one end over the tree Skippy!”

As reported in Breitbart:

In President Barack Obama’s weekly address, he makes a hard sell for the Senate to pass the immigration reform bill currently under consideration. While describing a path to citizenship, the President takes an uncharacteristically harsh stance:

“This bill would provide a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million individuals who are already in this country illegally–a pathway that includes passing a background check, learning English, paying taxes and a penalty, and then going to the back of the line behind everyone who’s playing by the rules and trying to come here legally.”

The above quote from Obama echoes almost verbatim the script of the radio ads being run incessantly by the so-called Americans for a Conservative Direction (ACD) (See their Board of Directors below).

It is all mostly a lie. This Breitbart article by Matthew Boyle exposes much if the phoniness especially as regards the supposed requirement to learn English and pay “back taxes.”  But there are more if what has been revealed about the “Gang’s” bill is accurate.

The claim in the ad is that those illegal immigrants are going to be subject to such “extremely tough measures” as “no federal benefits, pay fines, pay taxes, go to the back of the line to gain citizenship” is baloney.

One must wonder exactly what is going on. The ACD must be spending an incredible amount of money to promote this thing. Ads are running on a number of talk radio shows as much as 3, 4, 5 times an hour. Such an aggressive, all out, money is no obstacle, truth is not a concern, effort by Republicans (see their Board of Directors below) for a piece of legislation so onerous to the nation and to the party’s interests is unprecedented.

Few, however, have noted that the bulk of the so-called 11 million illegals, now residing in “the Shadows” are low paid workers, the feature that has such great appeal to business supporters of the bill.  They are most likely to join the 45% or so who currently do not pay any federal taxes. That they will be deprived of “federal benefits” is absurd, even if the Democrats had not rejected an amendment which would have made it so.

The ad calls our current immigration law “a joke.”  It doesn’t correctly note the reason, however; that being, the federal government does not enforce it. It, in fact, promotes its violation. It stops states from attempting to enforce the law and encourages such things as “Sanctuary Cities” to violate the law. And, unconstitutional Executive Orders like the “Dreamer” order further ensure the law is a “joke”.

What do you think the current wildly corrupt Obama administration will do regarding any parts of the new law it doesn’t like?

And, here are the “good conservatives” who think this bill is a really good idea:

Americans for a Conservative Direction Board:

Haley Barbour — Former Governor Haley Barbour served as the 62nd governor of Mississippi from 2004 to 2012 and served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee in the mid ’90s.

Sally Bradshaw — Sally Bradshaw worked as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s Chief of Staff from 1999-2001, and served as a Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee’s Growth and Opportunity Project.

Joel Kaplan — currently Vice President of US Public Policy at Facebook.  Joel also served as Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush.

Dan Senor —  former chief advisor to Representative Paul Ryan on the Romney-Ryan 2012 campaign

Rob Jesmer — worked as the former Executive Director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 2008 – 2012

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