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Chris
07-03-2013, 08:12 AM
Love 'em, hate 'em, tell truth about 'em, make up stuff about 'em, the Tea Parties are becoming an effective force in politics. This is how the Do-Nothing Congress Somehow Manages to Do Even Less (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/14227-Do-Nothing-Congress-Somehow-Manages-to-Do-Even-Less).



Elites of both parties are united in support of Marco Rubio's immigration bill. That sort of unity is remarkable in Washington, but not unheard of.

Here's the unprecedented part: The elites are going to lose.

The Tea Party has cultivated in House Republicans such a distrust of the establishment and such a disregard for party unity that even when the issue isn't a Tea Party issue — and immigration isn't, really — the GOP rank and file have little interest in doing what they're told.

...unlike the days when Bush, Armey and Delay dragged the GOP caucus around, the Republican rank and file today calls the tune for its leadership. Speaker John Boehner, no enemy of K Street, has declared Rubio's bill DOA in the House.

One telling wrinkle here: Tea Party organizations aren't uniting against the establishment GOP and industry organizations. FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth are staying out of the fight. Americans for Prosperity, funded by the Koch brothers, is on Rubio's side. Heritage Action and some local Tea Party groups are opposing Rubio.

So even the official anti-establishment organizations on the Right aren't united against the establishment in this fight — and the establishment may still lose.

It looks like the Tea Party really has changed Washington — and if you're the a Republican business lobbyist, that's no good.

@ Marco Rubio immigration bill imperiled by Tea Party defiance (http://washingtonexaminer.com/marco-rubio-immigration-bill-imperiled-by-tea-party-defiance/article/2532633)

ptif219
07-07-2013, 04:57 PM
Love 'em, hate 'em, tell truth about 'em, make up stuff about 'em, the Tea Parties are becoming an effective force in politics. This is how the Do-Nothing Congress Somehow Manages to Do Even Less (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/14227-Do-Nothing-Congress-Somehow-Manages-to-Do-Even-Less).




@ Marco Rubio immigration bill imperiled by Tea Party defiance (http://washingtonexaminer.com/marco-rubio-immigration-bill-imperiled-by-tea-party-defiance/article/2532633)

This is a BS article. It is not Rubio's bill since much was crafted by the democrats in this bill.

That said it is a bad bill and all should be against it. We need Border security not amnesty

Mainecoons
07-07-2013, 05:39 PM
Good. Someone needs to kill this.

Rubio may as well switch parties.