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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoehner Is Hit From the Right on Overhaul for Immigration.
As House Republicans embarked late last month in luxury buses for their retreat on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, their ears were already ringing with angry phone calls. Heritage Action, the political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, was imploring its members to flood the Capitol with warnings to accept no amnesty.
The day before, the Tea Party Patriots group set in motion 900,000 automatic phone calls in 90 Republican House districts, connecting tens of thousands of voters to their members of Congress. The hashtag #NoAmnesty blazed across Twitter. About the same time, FreedomWorks, another anti-tax, limited-government group, was pulling in signatures on its fire the speaker petition against the House speaker, John A. Boehner.
When House Republicans gathered on Jan. 30 to actually read and discuss Mr. Boehners principles on immigration reform, his was already a losing battle.
Why did we even put these out there? asked Representative Tom Price, a respected conservative Republican from Georgia, urging leaders to set aside the issue until after the November elections.
A week later, Mr. Boehner shelved the issue, declaring Thursday that he could not move forward with a comprehensive overhaul of the nations immigration laws until President Obama won the trust of the Republican conference.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/us/politics/boehner-is-hit-from-the-right-on-immigration.html?hp&_r=0
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)They don't know how to deal with it
elleng
(131,141 posts)Democrats MUST figure out how to benefit from the idiot repugs' point of view, and I'm not at all confident that we/they can do it.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)elleng
(131,141 posts)if we handled it properly, but we often don't. Would like to see someone like Gov. Dean be designated to manage it.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)elleng
(131,141 posts)mucifer
(23,572 posts)Invisible to these time travelers is the daily damage that Republicans are suffering as American Latino voters -- the fastest growing part of the electorate and the margin of victory or defeat in several big states -- are increasingly disgusted with the GOP's immigration blockade.
The reality is now upon us: Since President Bush's immigration reform was killed by his own Republican Party in 2007, and the latest GOP presidential candidate ran on a political suicide strategy of "self-deportation," many Hispanics in this country see Republicans as the immovable object that must be dislodged from power.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fernando-espuelas/gop-is-about-to-blowup-la_b_4713629.html
Fernando Espuelas has a popular radio show in Spanish on Univision radio. He is very much middle of the road. He likes John McCain. He does not like Jimmy Carter. He HATES the teabaggers.
I love listening to his radio show. It helps my Spanish. Just about every day he bashes the teabaggers and in turn the republicans for following the teabaggers and he is telling everyone to vote. He goes on and on about how the republicans don't think Hispanics are listening to what they say in English in congress and that they believe they are only listening to the lies they say in Spanish. I hope he is right that more and more people are understanding what is going on.
elleng
(131,141 posts)and reach out, inform, and gotv, but those are all IFs, I'm afraid.