Related link: Buchanan: Boehner Will Lose Speakership if He Pushes for Immigration ReformNewsmax: House Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and other leaders in the House are planning to make a case for taking up a controversial plan that could include some path to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants during the annual GOP retreat under way in Maryland.
Among the most contentious issue is a push by Boehner to pass some sort of immigration reform this year even as weary Republicans face tough midterm elections back home, The Hill reports.
Yes, the former GOP VP pick is all-in with Boehner and the boyz in the sellout...
Wizbang: Paul Ryan is considered by those in Washington to be one of the brightest guys around. We accepted that view when Mitt Romney picked him for VP. We should have known better, we’ve been watching Washington for a long time.
Today, in an interview on Satan’s network, MSNBC, Ryan proved everybody wrong. Turns out Paul Ryan is dumb as a box of rocks and fits perfectly into the old adage, “There’s one born every minute.” I’ll get this out of the way right now, Paul Ryan is a shameful fool and should be banished to Venezuela, just listen to this crap.
A probationary pathway to legalization with a law written in a way that the administration can’t get around enforcing it. That is the absolutely stupidest statement that has ever come out of the mouth of a Republican, and we think that Rep. Ryan may actually believe that pile of horse pucky he just left in our house.
Rep. Ryan: GOP Looking at Legal Status, Chance for Citizenship
Sen. John Cornyn: We can’t win in 2016 without resolving immigration reform
Limbaugh Lifts Ban On MSNBC To Rip Reince Priebus
So while the Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus (along with Boehner) butters up the Chamber of Commerce (along with Obama and the Democrats) by espousing that 'something big' has to happen towards overhauling our immigration laws (instead of enforcing them!), one has to ask is this the best scam they can come up with?
TheDC: Dud Con II: Immigration reform watchers have been waiting to see how the GOP leadership tries to package legislation to trick anti-amnesty conservatives into voting for what in essence is an amnesty.**Wreck the country, while losing voters, simply to satisfy Republican bundlers...at a time when Democrats are electorally weak due to all of Obama's failed policies? Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Sounds like the GOP are attempting to put the final nail in their own coffin!
So how were Boehner & Co going to sell “legal status first” plan as an “enforcement first plan”?
Now we know: By pretending that legal status isn’t legal status. That’s something that not even the famously deceptive Senate Gang of 8 tried.
According to amnesty champion Paul Ryan, illegal immigrants would at first get “probationary status” along with a “work permit.” They could come ‘out of the shadows’ and live and work here. Then if measures are taken so the “border is secured” they’d get a “regular work permit.”
The idea, WaPo‘s Greg Sargent says, seems to be that “Undocumenteds will be allowed to work on probation while the border is being secured, but will not enjoy legal status.” Why not? Apparently because their “probationary” permits might not be permanent — the immigrants “could be kicked off of probationary status if certain security benchmarks aren’t met.”
This is a joke.
Really, this is the best they could come up with? I’m beginning to worry about the lack of ingenuity among America’s skilled legislative con artists. Maybe we need to import some better ones from abroad — a sort of “guest lobbyist” program. (H-1K visas.)
What’s wrong with a straight Enforcement First, Legalization Second approach, anyway? The undocumented have been waiting ‘in the shadows’ for 25 years. They can wait 5 more while we implement a few measures to prevent another surge of additional undocumenteds (like the one that came after the 1986 amnesty).
It’s no answer to say that the Democrats won’t go for that. It’s certainly not an answer Republicans have to accept.
Backfill: See Allahpundit and P.J. Tatler (“Paul Ryan has an immigration plan. It’s awful.”)
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**–More accurately, the idea is to allow GOP congressmen to con their conservative constituents into not rebelling against them when they vote for what is in essence an amnesty.
Related links: Immigration officials warn of amnesty ‘overload’
LIMBAUGH: Amnesty Is The ‘Mother Of All Scams’
UPDATE: Oh look...sudden change of heart? Doubtful. (via Levin)...
Related link: U.S. immigration bill 'in doubt' this year, Republican Ryan saysOn Monday's Mark Levin Show: The Republican leadership seems to be retreating on the issue of amnesty and Mark says that we can't let our guard down - are they just doing this to get thru the Republican primaries and the next election cycle? We have been adamant about our position on illegal immigration for years, and suddenly for John Boehner to change his mind and others, something must be going on.
