I don’t think there is any doubt that there is a majority in the House of Representatives that supports the Senate’s version of the comprehensive immigration reform bill. That is probably the most important fact that you need to know. Speaker Boehner is in a vise that is going to tighten. Supporters of reform, which include the Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Big Agriculture, are going to act like a boa constrictor on the leadership of the GOP. It should be interesting to watch.
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I agree. Before Obama even won re-elction, the Republican primaries and especially the never-ending debates were awesome. The only thing that got in the way of the humor was the possibility the election would go against us. But it was hard to imagine any of those clowns having a chance against Barack. When that spectacle was over, Romney made awkward comment after awkward comment, refused to release his tax returns, and was seen making his 47% remark. With hindsight, it was the best election ever. But given how it’s difficult to underestimate the American people, I couldn’t fully enjoy it.
Since the election, politics has been so much fun. I love watching those clowns stumble and bumble, sometimes turning on each other. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Scalia’s dissent in DOMA. That guy is to Supreme Court jurisprudence what Jackie Gleason was to acting.
Supporters of reform, which include the Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Big Agriculture, …
So what? They all created this monster, and now they can’t control it.
If the entire ALEC “free market” legislative catalogue was enacted it shouldn’t be more than a decade before an impoverished citizenry resorted to torchlight and pitchfork remedies. Idiots.
Reuters:
That is the man who is being used. Immediate amnesty, as a potential citizen, would force companies to follow the rules. Thats if they want to keep this man willing to work in a 104 Farenheit heat.
Johnny Citizen home builders with 15 or 50 employees may actually have to pay some taxes instead of using day laborers and spending the extra tax free profit on imported toys. Screwing our labor force a second time. It is not only our corporations with a narcissistic sense of entitlement.
popcorn aside, vise not vice [well that too]
Just as you say, it’s a clash between the GOP plutocrats who want a flood of cheap labor and GOP Main Street who oppose that.
As for the Democrats, they sold out American labor on this issue decades ago.
You can be a good Democrat and welcome immigrants: raise the minimum wage!
Hmmm, with that fine line up of plutocrat supporters apparently slobbering over their new (unneeded) foreign worker visa rights, this looks like another corporate give-away in the guise of “immigration reform”. They never lose, do they? Everything can be turned into just another vehicle to enrich the existing elite.
I hope to God that this bill can at least be sold as an actual benefit to the undocumenteds, who were the supposed group that needed to be helped, not America’s plutocrat masters. Or will we just be left with another (highly unpopular) ACA fiasco?
As for Boner’s Boneheads, they haven’t seemed too fazed by Wall Street’s and Silicon Valley’s requests so far, especially when they conflict with braindead Repub/”conservative” prejudices, which this bill most certainly does. The Repub base simply hates today’s Latino immigrants (legal or not) and doesn’t want to even see them—that’s the reality of Repub districts. And Big Ag can’t even get a (non-insane) Farm Bill out of Boner’s House of Imbeciles, so good luck, Monsanto and ADM!
Will we end up passing new corporate visa rights and Arizona Wall construction and dropping the path to citizenship provisions entirely? “We passed Something!!” That will be sidesplitting comedy…try selling that “reform”, Dems.
Is it to much to hope that Boehner will have to choose between losing his speakership and losing his seat in Congress altogether?
Well, if he has any sense I imagine he could cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to pass the bill and still keep the speakership. However many Republicans would vote for the bill, they’re all sticking their necks out too. It wouldn’t make sense for them to punish Boehner.