The ruling class — that is, the Democrats in lockstep and the establishment Republicans aiding them in what will be termed a bipartisan effort — is fast-tracking “comprehensive immigration reform” with a goal of having it passed by August 1, before summer recess.
What this new set of laws will do is essentially add 30 million new legal voters over a decade’s time, nearly all of them permanent clients to a big corporatist government determined to expand and entrench its power. What it won’t do is secure the border in any way. And whatever provisions it claims to offer as stepping stones on a path to citizenship are set-up for juridical overturn: different “classes” of citizens won’t hold legal water, and they know it. It’s theater.
Here it is in plain, clear English: The ruling class plan to defeat the TEA Party and the small-government base of the Republican Party is to import enough new progressive voters to offset the influence of we, the people. Whose only remaining function will be to subsidize the people and programs that ensure our own subjugation to the State. We become draft horses to the Beltway crowd’s plantation overseer.
August 1 is the date of fundamental transformation. And it will be accomplished with the help of people you mistakenly believed were in office to represent you.
They aren’t. They represent themselves, pragmatists being pragmatic, opportunists seizing an opportunity. And they will vote themselves a ruling permanence by using human logistics to effectively end the American experiment in representative government — ironically by legalizing a dependent class, the representation for which will forever swing elections and guarantee big government progressivism.
Unless we stop them.
That’s all that’s left to say, really.
– If you needed any more proof: “Definately not good enough for them, but good enough for us.”
– This ones too easy. Clinton wants Bumblefuck to commit in Syria, so Hildebeast won’t have to.
“pragmatists being pragmatic”
But there is nothing pragmatic about importing an underclass to vote Commiecrat at all.
It it treasonous, plain and simple.
We have been sold out, whether by WSJ greedheads who want their thirty pieces of cheap labor silver, or by romantic immigration fools who really think they can somehow win a Hispandering contest, all empirical evidence to the contrary.
it’s pragmatic for those who wish to maintain their station and entrench their power.
That’s what happens when you insist your party drop its ideals in order to win elections. Good thing we got rid of all the Purists and True Believers.
Fuck, we give conservative awards to people who promote such ideas.
More pragmatists being pragmatic.
it’s pragmatic for those who wish to maintain their station and entrench their power.
The fate of the California GOP should prove to those people otherwise. And oddly enough, one of the men who understood what was coming to the California GOP was the otherwise RINOest of RINOs, Pete Wilson. And he was demonised by the Dole-Kemp faction as a result.
Then again, if we are talking about the WSJ greedheads, who don’t mind welfare as long as it is corporate, your point is well taken.
Seventy GOP House members have a spine but need reinforcements.
They’ve been threatened with losing their chairmanships and reelection support.
Beck says they’re hoping to push it through around the 4th of July, when people are on vacation. So don’t count on having 2.5 months before the end of the Republic.
Also, TheBlaze, it would be nice to know who those 70 are so that we can throw our support behind them all.
When Chuck Schumer is grinning for Craprehensive Immigration Reform, you know it is bad.
The only thing preventing this is making Republican incumbents fear that their re-election chances are in peril.
– Until the true believers are forcibly disavowed of their unworkable theories nothing is going to change. So called pragmatists are hanging on for dear life like everyone else, living for the immediate future because they’ve lost all faith in any longevity. In their minds they’re just being realistic more than pragmatic because they don’t see any options, and since its probably too far gone at this point to reverse, they’re probably right.
– Small consilation to be the least of the losers in a complete and utter disaster.
– Until the true believers are forcibly disavowed of their unworkable theories nothing is going to change. So called pragmatists are hanging on for dear life like everyone else, living for the immediate future because they’ve lost all faith in any longevity. In their minds they’re just being realistic more than pragmatic because they don’t see any options, and since its probably too far gone at this point to reverse, they’re probably right.
– Small consilation to be the least of the losers in a complete and utter disaster.
And again, I want to cry. We have become France.
Cue David Bowie: “This Is Not America.”
They’re going to find that they’ve left the barn door open…and that a lot of low- to no-skilled, very needy people are looking to them for sustenance.
OK, now that’s just funny. I know it works for some of you, but not around here.
Seconded!
I have to admit a morbid fascination with watching the noble American Experiment melt down right in front of me.
At least Rome took a long time to fall apart. America looks to be much more efficient at decay than the old Romans.
So there’s that.
In the shadows.
And the truth is, they WANT to be in the shadows. And not just for criminal activity either. From working under the table for cash to roadside vendors paying no sales tax (ubitquitous in California), it is frankly advantageous. I want to be in the shadows myself now.
They keep pushing the Big Lie that we must let some illegals “come out of the shadows”, never mind that so many more will jump INTO the shadows.
It is time to dismiss this “come out of the shadows” argument for the crock that it is.
These Republican will pay for destroying their own party when they are not re-elected, or if they manage to get re-elected, when they have to address the cost of caring for these 30+ million new “citizens.” Who cares about their inevitable pain, though, when the rest of us will be dealing with the destruction of our country?
The July 4 number is the Senate. The House has Aug 1 as its goal.
Unless they’re in Washington.
Bachmann and King are fronting this, with a rally to be held next Wednesday at the Capitol. Go to their sites and you’ll probably find out who else is on the good size.
Hint: Paul Ryan? Not. He’s an opportunistic lying shiteater who probably would push your grandmother off a cliff if it helped his political career.
Flashback.
These Republican will pay for destroying their own party when they are not re-elected
They’ve been promised the support of Leviathan, so either they win, or they get a cozy little sinecure somewhere.
win-win
And the truth is, they WANT to be in the shadows. And not just for criminal activity either.
Nor do they particularly want citizenship: they’re Mexicans a hueso colorado whose work site happens to be another country.
They’re constantly going back and forth to manage their affairs en la patria. Only a few are here to Be Americans.
1. Can we do anything about the “See more…” bullshit being added to every cut and paste?
2. Paul Ryan: ‘I will debate anybody’ who says immigration bill is ‘amnesty’
Shadows? What shadows are left except government approved/subsidized/ordered ones?
sdferr says June 13, 2013 at 10:11 am
That’s creepy, sdferr.
So much for your Free Republic of Texas.
If this passeswhen this passes, you’ll have to come up with a another place to seek refuge.I wonder if Canada would sell us Alberta.
Or is that were all the tarry oil is?
I wonder if Canada would sell us Alberta.
Actually, the Canucks are a lesson in what happens when you allow an ethnolinguistic minority to politically organize and then ruin your country.
Everything happens faster these days.
Anyone in the path of the derecho?
We won’t have that problem Curmudgeion.
All the anglo kids are busy learning Spanish.
We won’t have that problem Curmudgeion.
All the anglo kids are busy learning Spanish.
All the Anglo Canucks are busy learning froggy speak. It does not help.
Ryan was too busy to go on Levin last night. So much for “debating anybody.”
There are some tea leaves to be read here as well.
It doesn’t sound like Ron Johnson (R-WI) is going to be much help either.
I wonder if Canada would sell us Alberta.
Or is that were all the tarry oil is?
For the record, yes it is, and Alberta is the most Right-thinking of the provinces. And oddly enough, Stephen Harper and his Tories are the most Right-thinking government Canada has had in recent history. Better than Dubya and certainly much better than the Obamunist.
Thinking of Canada, the Tories had to crack up, spend a long time in the wilderness, and let the Reform and Canadian Alliance movements take over their party in order to win back power.
Think we should resurrect the border wall brick-mailing campaign? Make’s our desire for them to take protecting the border seriously tangible.
I don’t believe bricks are mind-concentrating enough to make the ruling class take us seriously , Libby.
Depends on how hard they’re thrown, Ernst.
-Damn good point, RI Red.
-One quibble, Jeff: I think the end of the American experiment in representative governmen began with the passage of Obamacare and that the passage of this horrendous bill will merely be icing on the Fascist cake.
I agree with you, Bob. There were so many moments where Obamacare could have been stopped, and then the Dems or Obama came up with a convenient workaround, such as having Ted Kennedy’s seat warmer vote before Sen. Brown was sworn in or the Cornhusker kickback. The SCOTUS decision was the final nail in the coffin.
Bob, I would disagree heartily disagree with you.
The end of the American Experiment began when Roosevelt threatened to pack SCOTUS and SCOTUS subsequently allowing the “Interstate Commerce Clause” to be stretched way beyond its original intent.
Obamacare is merely a signpost on a road that stretches back several decades.
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note the extra “disagree” for added emphasis. Or poor editing skills.
I think Mark Steyn was right, Libby, when he said that the passage of Obamacare ‘would fundamentally alter the relationship between the people and the government’.
It did. The government owns us and believes it can do with us as they like.
This ‘reform’ is just a recruitment campaign for their army of enforcers.
Since Obamacare has further reveled itself to chockfull of holes and unworkable work-arounds, it seems to me (but what do I know) that there is further opportunity for repeal of, or at the least non-compliance.
It’s not that there is an irreconcilable contradiction between the two fundamental principles freedom and equality, which by the most impressive prestidigitation known was thought to have been permanently bridged (practically scientifically, thus honoring the best hopes of the bridge-builders themselves, but without the name put to the hope)? Best consider the possibility at least.
I see FDR’s Administration as merely a stop along the road to perdition that began with TR and the Progressive Movement’s invasion of the Congress.
Such stops were merely part of the Beginning of the Beginning of our Downfall – the End of which occurred with the first year of Obama’s Presidency. The Beginning of the End Times began with the passage of Obamacare in my view.
TR brought the ideas to town, but Woodrow Wilson set our destruction in motion.
What Pablo said.
Pablo, Leigh – point taken.
leigh, anecdotal evidence suggests Obamacare will insure everyone, but the insurance will only be valid with doctors of marginal skill and reputation, because all the doctors worth a damn will go cash only and submit the paperwork yourself if you want to be reimbursed. (see: Glenn Reynolds discussing colleagues of his wife going cash only and being much happier in the end)
At which point government will then decide that all doctors belong to the State, or, a law will be passed requiring doctors to accept all forms of insurance.
I cannot say which solution would be the worst, otherwise, I’d predict which route government will go.
I cannot say which solution would be the worst, otherwise, I’d predict which route government will go.
– You can, however, predict with settled science certainty that whatever path the gov takes will be the worst of all worlds.
– BTW, I don’t think the Marxo-Socialist rats give a fuck if ObamaCare is a total failure, just as long as no one enjoys any healthcare in the end they’ll be happy. Pure fucking class envy drives the whole cult mess.
Yeah, Bob, I think coerced passage of obamacare was the nail in the coffin. Even creation of the tea party and the subsequent 2010 “shellacking” of the dems was not not enough to drag us back up the cliff. The ruling establishment is not going to change; they’re in it for ideology, power or survival.
Amnesty for illegals is just turbo-charging the downward acceleration. I hope Beck’s 70 cam raise hell, but it ain’t gonna be enough.
Signed,
Debby Downer
I share your downerness, RI Red.
However, as I just wrote in a post over at my place [in a post where I quote Squid]: However, my grim mood is always balanced by the thought that we are on the side of Good, that there is no nobler quest than to battle Evil.
So, we may end up like the 300 Spartans, but at least we’ll please our Maker*.
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*This is why I drink Maker’s Mark: to
prepare for that meeting.
That’s funny, I was trying to come up with a 300 Spartans tie-in. Gave up spirits (excepting, of course, vodka, rum and gin) a while ago, but I may have to lay in a supply of the Mark. For bartering purposes, of course.
And tequila. Leigh says that tequila makes her clothes come off.
“…for tonight we dine in Obamerica!”
It does, Red. It also makes me talk dirty in Spanish.
At which point government will then decide that all doctors belong to the State, or, a law will be passed requiring doctors to accept all forms of insurance.
Blake this is exactly what happened in the USSR. Doctors were making peanuts and being worked to death. Additionally, in their quest for equal opportunity (sound familiar?), many of the doctors and later most, were women. The job was low-paying and thankless and no one wanted it. Hospitals once again became a place to go and die. Spending your days performing abortions and tying drunks who were in the throes of the DTs to beds in a ward? No thanks.
The US ruling class plan appears the same as the UK Labour plan under Tony Blair: import so many foreigners into the UK that a Prime Minister like Margaret Thatcher could never happen, ever again.
I’m beginning to think that a decent survival plan is to locate the places on earth that have gone through, and are emerging from, these sorts of stupidities, and move there.
Red, Tequila works on a lot of women. Leigh is the only one honest enough to admit it.
We need a grant, a large grant, to perform a scientific study.
For Science.
I’ve noticed there are a great many researchers at beaches and resorts during Spring Break.
Willing test subjects, too. Yep, I’m laying in a supply.
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