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Too Bad Mike Castle Lost

Posted on | February 7, 2011 | 13 Comments

He could become part of the Let’s Try to Cram Through Immigration “Reform” Again Caucus:

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have rekindled their alliance on immigration reform, taking some early steps to test the political will for addressing the contentious issue this year.
Their call list hasn’t focused so much on House and Senate members who’ve been reliable pro-immigration votes in the past. Instead, they’re looking to a strange-bedfellows mix of conservative and liberal constituencies that can provide a “safety net” of support, as Graham put it, once the issue heats up.

Any such legislation would be DOA in the House, which means that this is just a scam to hustle campaign cash from open-borders advocates, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Yeah, too bad Mike Castle lost that GOP primary in Delaware. Also too bad Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter aren’t in the Senate, so they could cash in on this RINO fundraising windfall.

Please: Explain to me again why it’s so damned important to elect Republicans to the Senate.

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  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

    Just when you think Dipsey Graham can be trusted…

    The US Senate=RINO gameland preserve.

  • Joe

    I think the status quo sucks, so I think somesort of immigration reform is needed (although it is not what Lidsay and MacDaddy have in mind). Even if you think this is something to vote for, is this something we really even need to focus on given everything else going on? And wouldn’t it make sense to wait for a GOP majority in the Senate?

  • Joe

    Well not if you are old like MacDaddy or have a huge target on your back (that is metaphor not a real target) like Lidsay Graham.

    People of South Carolina, I will not ask why you voted him in again, I will just ask that you do the right thing next time.

  • Anonymous

    “Any such legislation would be DOA in the House, which means that this is just a scam to hustle campaign cash from open-borders advocates …”

    Bingo! As well as to continue to portray those opposed to open borders and amnesty as racists and bigots and xenophobes. There’s political mileage in demonizing anyone opposed to the Beltway insider agenda.

  • Anonymous

    I have a hard time believing that Graham’s sense of political calculus is so screwed up that he doesn’t realize that the GOP suffers a net loss of votes by not standing firmly against amnesty. Nor can I believe that Graham thinks voters are too stupid to recognize amnesty as amnesty, simply because you label it “reform.” But perhaps I misunderstand the stupidity of Republican voters in South Carolina who, after all, recently re-elected this vicious backstabbing crapweasel.

  • Anonymous

    We’ll see when Lindsey Grahamnesty runs for re-election in 2014. I think he will get primaried and lose, since he is far too liberal for the voters of his state, a la Bob Bennett. What John McCain’s Little Leghumper is doing here is campaigning to the Beltway crowd. He loses Beltway credibility by standing against amnesty. And Beltway credibility is all that matters to him, a member in good standing of the Political Brothel.

  • Joe

    It was recent but not that recent, was that just two years ago. How many more years does Miss Lindsay have? Given the disaster that is GOP politics in South Carolina, is there anyone there who can run against him?

    Maybe The Ladies Man, Will Folks. BYO Courvoisier.

  • Joe

    I do not support amnesty. I do support focusing on cracking down on employers who hire illegals with civil penalties that will make hiring illegals more expensive than hiring legal candidates. End the draw to come here and you end the problem.

    You want a wedge issue, make the civil penalties recoverable by the local law enforcement groups who enforce it. You will suddenly find “sanctuary cities” falling all over themselves to enforce laws they ignore.

  • Anonymous

    The American People are aware that the Dem gambit of amnesty now then secure the border has already been used (successfully) in 1986. We won’t be fooled again. It might be instructive to remember that in 06 or 07 Senators DeMint and Obama collaborated on adding a provision (might have been temp worker) that the unions would raise hell about both men only caring that the bill died, not caring why. The problem with “comprehensive legislative fixes” is that they are incomprehensible.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    In the old days, Republicans had problems with Single Issue Voters. Now, it’s the Every Single Issue Voters, who demand 100% allegiance to their policy preferences, or you are a cursed RINO who must be disgraced, destroyed, and discarded lest the precious purity of ideology be despoiled.

    Stalin would admire the strict enforcement against dissenting voices.

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