Obama’s Border Game, and Why Republicans Are Doomed to Lose It

Posted on | July 15, 2014 | 54 Comments

President Obama has deliberately provoked the current crisis along our nation’s southwestern border in an effort to force House Republicans to pass the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” amnesty plan. Illegal immigrants are pouring in by the trainload, and the violent MS-13 gang is recruiting in detention centers. Polls show that voters strongly disapprove (58%) of Obama’s handling of the crisis he caused, but an even larger majority — 66% — disapprove of how Republicans in Congress are dealing with the immigration problem:

Almost as many Republicans disapprove of their party’s handling of the issue as say they approve, with negative ratings rising to a majority among conservatives.

Republican voters are not so stupid that they can’t see the blinding truth: Republican politicians despise the people who elect them.

In 2006 and 2007, President Bush and Senator John McCain pushed for an amnesty bill that was only stopped because of the all-out opposition of conservative activists like Michelle Malkin. Nevertheless — despite the all-out opposition of those same conservative activists — the Republican Party nominated McCain as their presidential candidate, thus guaranteeing Obama’s election. If you talked to reporters who followed the “Maverick” around on his “Straight Talk Express” campaign trips, you could learn the depth of McCain’s contempt for Republican voters, especially Christian conservatives. He and his liberal advisers (e.g., Steve Schmidt) disdained the typical GOP primary voter as an ignorant, bigoted dimwit, and more than once McCain has condemned conservative opponents of amnesty as racists.

Nor is John McCain alone in this. As we recently learned in the Mississippi Senate primary campaign, the GOP’s big-money donors and the Republican establishment would rather run race-baiting ads against conservatives and illegally bribe Democrat voters than to permit a conservative to unseat one of the leadership’s reliable stooges. Thad Cochran will vote the way the money boys tell him to vote, and we know what that means in terms of immigration policy:

A trio of billionaires — Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates — say they want to “End the Immigration Impasse,” to quote the headline of their recent New York Times op-ed article.
The article will do nothing to end that impasse, however, because the authors show no understanding of why it exists in the first place.
For the authors, the way to end the impasse is for Congress to enact a comprehensive reform along the lines of the bill that the Senate passed last year. They imagine that everyone important in Washington agrees on the broad outlines of that bill and are merely squabbling over petty details. Everyone would resolve their differences in short order if they only remembered their larger purpose of serving the people.
None of this is true, of course. Some people in Washington oppose the bill, or don’t want to vote for it, and not just because of the details. Others mildly favor the bill but have reasons for letting the opponents get their way. Many suspect Speaker of the House John Boehner falls into this category.
Adelson et al say nothing to address either the opponents’ concerns about the bill — such as their worry that legalizing illegal immigrants will create an incentive for new illegal immigration — or Boehner’s concerns about angering the opponents.

The Republican Party is led and controlled by greedy unprincipled swine who believe in nothing except the aggrandizement of their own power, privilege and personal wealth. These selfish and corrupt swindlers didn’t get to where they are because they were unwilling to do whatever billionaires would pay them to do. The GOP leadership loves money almost as much as they hate voters.

Obama is now “negotiating” with House Republicans over their next agreement to betray the people who elected them.

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54 Responses to “Obama’s Border Game, and Why Republicans Are Doomed to Lose It”

RS
July 15th, 2014 @ 11:28 am

Both parties and their politicians despise actual Americans, as well as the Founders’ constraints placed upon their power. Power is their animating force and attaining/retaining it their sole raison d’être. Their stupidity lies in thinking that they can continue to ignore us with impunity.
Quartermaster
July 15th, 2014 @ 11:39 am

Yeah. Swine is a rather mild word. There are others far more accurate, but unprintable even here at “Depravity Today.”
CrustyB
July 15th, 2014 @ 11:50 am

Republican politicians despise the people who elect them.

That’s exactly right and vise versa. Conservatives, unlike liberals, are capable of objective rather than partisan thought. So whereas a liberal would rather die than admit one of their politicians did something wrong (“Maybe Anthony Weiner’s wife deserves to be cheated on!”) conservatives can say, hey, I voted for you and you’re doing something wrong.

As a group, conservatives have no representation in government. It’s all Democrats and Republicans, virtually no conservatives. So long, America. It was nice to know you for awhile.
RS
July 15th, 2014 @ 11:53 am

BTW, as one who is married to a “Permanent Resident Alien,” I cannot describe how much I loathe the term “undocumented immigrant. Note how nefarious that is. “Immigrant” is a status conveyed by law, contrasted with “alien” or “foreigner.” The term presupposes that Americans no longer have any right to determine who can join our society but that somehow the world can make that determination. Both parties, albeit for different reasons, seek nothing less than the destruction of our sovereignty.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
July 15th, 2014 @ 12:01 pm

This is a manufactured crisis by the Administration to take the heat off the other scandals and problems the Administration was facing. And the GOP Establishment are too damn stupid to see it (or too damn craven to care).
Quartermaster
July 15th, 2014 @ 12:25 pm

I would not be the least bit surprised if they are complicit. Juan McNasty, regardless of his protests, is actually all for this sort of chaos as he will get his “immigration reform” out of it.
Matt_SE
July 15th, 2014 @ 12:25 pm

This administration has manufactured many crises. Immigration isn’t the only one.
And they all serve the purpose of taking focus off each other…the “dense pack” theory of governance.

“Make no mistake!” (heh) they all serve some purpose other than cover, though. That’s how the leftist ball is moved forward.

The GOP establishment cannot be trusted to counter this particular crisis because they serve two masters. So we’ll never know if they’re failing because of ineptitude or because they are unwilling to oppose illegal immigration. Probably both.
Matt_SE
July 15th, 2014 @ 12:30 pm

The GOP establishment has some stiff opposition in AZ these days; otherwise, John McCain would never have been censured.
But my feeling (as an Arizona resident) is that the opposition doesn’t stop with the party machinery. Many residents are fed up with McCain.
It’s still an open question whether he’ll run again in 2016. I would probably say “yes,” especially given the MS events. Apparently, one doesn’t even have to be lucid to run for Senator anymore.
And McCain is still more lucid than Cochran.
It will be fun tearing down McCain.
Matt_SE
July 15th, 2014 @ 12:33 pm

I agree. I’ve made a vow to myself to take back the language.

The Matt_SE stylebook now recommends either “illegal” or “illegal immigrant” over other terms.

Because it’s the illegality that needs to be highlighted.
Matt_SE
July 15th, 2014 @ 12:42 pm

One more thing:
“…Republicans are doomed to lose it.”
Worth repeating: [illegal immigration] only ends with civil disobedience.
If the citizens themselves start enforcing the laws or opposing the illegality of the regime, what is the GOP going to do about it? Wag their fingers at us?

The base is in no mood to receive lectures from the GOP. I have a feeling this will become obvious in the denouement of the Mississippi election.

Murrieta times 1000.
RS
July 15th, 2014 @ 12:52 pm

Of course, then we’ll be told that the citizens’ refusal to accept these refugees is nothing more than a modern day voyage of the MS S. Louis</. Our own government is using the bodies of children as human shields in its offensive to destroy the country.
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maniakmedic
July 15th, 2014 @ 1:59 pm

I’m sure the Hispanic people I’ve known who are vehemently anti-illegal immigration are happy to know they are bigoted racists. Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact they put up with the legal system long enough to get their citizenship legally and aren’t exactly overjoyed to see people who hopped a fence and stole someone else’s identity to stay here getting preferential treatment.
CrustyB
July 15th, 2014 @ 2:20 pm

My mother was a legal immigrant who couldn’t stand illegal aliens. That sentence confuses half the country today.
ThePaganTemple
July 15th, 2014 @ 2:56 pm

The illegals give both parties what they want. They are a reliable Democratic Party constituency, so the Democrats want them. They are cheap workers, and willing to work their assess off, so they are also wanted by the Republican Party business constituents, both small and big business. It’s a done fucking deal, like it or not,
Quartermaster
July 15th, 2014 @ 2:58 pm

Insanity killed Rome. It’ll do the same here.
Finrod Felagund
July 15th, 2014 @ 3:13 pm

Don’t forget when recounting the mendacity of Steve Schmidt to also mention Nicole Wallace. Those two should be Persona Non Grata to anyone who thinks of themselves as any kind of conservative. They were the ones that sabotaged Sarah Palin and thus the entire McCain campaign.
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Mike G.
July 15th, 2014 @ 3:27 pm

A trio of billionaires — Sheldon Adelson, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates — say they want to “End the Immigration Impasse

Then let them rich cocksuckers put the illegals up in their own palatial homes…otherwise, STFU!
Lemuel Vargas
July 15th, 2014 @ 4:33 pm

That is because the GOPe has become the Dem lite, doing its bidding but in a lighter form (for now.)
Coulter76
July 15th, 2014 @ 4:33 pm

This is not breaking Obama’s way at all. This crisis just destroyed any chance of “comprehensive immigration reform” read:amnesty, likely for the next generation.

The mental picture of diseased, 3rd world people pouring over out border is something even Democrats in blue states are going to be running from.

The open borders crowd had the upper hand until this went down.
Lemuel Vargas
July 15th, 2014 @ 4:35 pm

That is why it boggles the mind why the GOPe wants to alienate their base, At least the Dems pander to their base.
Lemuel Vargas
July 15th, 2014 @ 4:37 pm

And that is the “politically correct” way of saying illegal immigrant or alien…
Lemuel Vargas
July 15th, 2014 @ 4:40 pm

You hit the nail there, Evil. They create crisis after crisis until there are so many crises that we became overwhelmed by it.
Lemuel Vargas
July 15th, 2014 @ 4:42 pm

That is why our new battle cry should be
REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!!!
Lemuel Vargas
July 15th, 2014 @ 4:43 pm

Am just wondering where are the parents of those unaccompanied children that cross the borders. Maybe they are complicit in all these?
DeadMessenger
July 15th, 2014 @ 5:13 pm

Sort of makes me long for the days of angry mobs with pitchforks and torches.
K-Bob
July 15th, 2014 @ 6:36 pm

Oh, I’m pretty sure John McCain had some part to play in that self-sabotage (as well as in muffling Palin).

But yeah, those two deserve a special room in hell.
K-Bob
July 15th, 2014 @ 6:41 pm

In other words, the Revolution is baked into the cake, eh?

We do have one last chance to fix it. But it will take a President with at least the same level of hutzpah that the Dems used when breaking everything.

If we elect some Romney type, then we’re toast. It takes someone who has the balls to state, right up front, unequivocally, that Obamacare is dead, it is uneforceable, unconstitutional, and that he wants Congress to repeal it forthwith.

Then he has to say to those who are here illegally, “It is my duty to inform you that you must leave. You may not stay. Your status will never be legalized.” And he must indicate that he will enforce the law.

But it’s a slim chance we’ll get someone that direct. Only Dems tend to have people who state things that directly, but every one of their people like that are clinically insane.
K-Bob
July 15th, 2014 @ 6:47 pm

Drop the “immigrant” and you’ll have accuracy nailed.

None of them are immigrants in the usual sense of the word. None of them are migrants in any sense of the word, excepting the very narrow field of anthropology of mass migrations.

We don’t have a major “immigration” problem. The problems with actual immigration would take a bipartisan committee six weeks to fix, and no one would object to much of what they come out with. It would involve boring technical crap like H1b visas and length of stay, and whether to computerize things more aggressively.

Our real problem is illegal aliens.

Republicans fall for the stupid, “immigration reform” label, and therefore lose the argument, right out of the box.
K-Bob
July 15th, 2014 @ 6:56 pm

The bad news is Stacy is correct about Republicans.

The good news is that Republicans are rapidly fading into the distance in terms of clout. They may have money, but they represent nothing more than an echo of the Democrat machine’s designs.

We’re getting close to third party territory, despite the awfulness of having to run that route. It has two chances as far as I can see:

1) Every single conservative voice has to agree to talk it up (never gonna happen), and commit to it no matter what (definitely never happen).
2) We all agree to vote for Ted Cruz in every Presidential ballot, no matter what names actually appear.

I used to write “Allen West” in the above sentence, but Cruz is appealing to more folks now, and he’s probably the better candidate. Even more appealing would be for him to run with West from day one as his VP selection. Right out of the gate, and to hell with the Party VP selection “process.”

If we all did that and Cruz/West won, we could just declare the Republican party to be a thing of the past and name the new party whatever we want, and tell the Republican committees and leadership to go pound sand.
McGehee
July 15th, 2014 @ 7:00 pm

I still call them illegal aliens. An immigrant is someone intent on assimilating to the resident culture; these people who think they have a right to invade a foreign country and demand to be taken care of at their unwilling hosts’ expense, are not immigrants.
RS
July 15th, 2014 @ 8:04 pm

The ‘Pubs do seem to remind me of the Whigs, ca. 1856ish or so.
Bob Belvedere
July 15th, 2014 @ 9:00 pm

Godspeed – do it right this time.
Bob Belvedere
July 15th, 2014 @ 9:05 pm

Well put.

But I would urge you and everyone on our side to stop using the term ‘Hispanic’. It is a term invented for political reasons by the Nixon Administration.

http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com/2005/09/how-richard-nixon-invented-hispanics.html
Bob Belvedere
July 15th, 2014 @ 9:08 pm

THIS.
Bob Belvedere
July 15th, 2014 @ 9:09 pm

You haven’t read the novel The Camp Of The Saints I assume?
GrandsonOGrumpus
July 15th, 2014 @ 9:36 pm

Even though Grampa Grumpus’ cancer had him in a lot of pain near the end, I think he’d have been happy to see the GOProgressives *finally* shed their camouflage after all the YEARS of grief and guff people gave him over his pointing out the progressive betrayal flowing from the GOP leadership. How their actions and explanations often didn’t come *near* to matching.. and sometimes wouldn’t make sense irregardless of how you twisted it.

And facts simply seemed to make the GOP-cheerleading “conservatives” even angrier and more vicious.

Then again, maybe it wouldn’t have cheered him at all. Even though he was sad for what his posterity would face & have to endure— he passed at peace with it all, convinced he’d done all he could do. He was at peace w/The Lord & Heavenly Father, and didn’t fear crossing The Veil.
GrandsonOGrumpus
July 15th, 2014 @ 9:51 pm

Personally, I’d call them felonious aliens… if I had my druthers.

That’s gotten me ninnie-whacked w/The Banned-Hammer at more than one site…
;~)}
GrandsonOGrumpus
July 15th, 2014 @ 9:53 pm

Amen, x10^10!
Adobe_Walls
July 15th, 2014 @ 10:19 pm

Vote from the rooftops.
Matt_SE
July 15th, 2014 @ 11:16 pm

The Matt_SE stylebook has been duly updated.
maniakmedic
July 15th, 2014 @ 11:41 pm

And when they say stuff that directly it’s usually more along the lines of “I hope (insert conservative)’s children get kidnapped/raped/shot.” Which is apparently much less disturbing than calling Sandra Fluke a slut or telling people who broke the law to be here that they broke the law.

I heartily denounce myself for noticing these things.
K-Bob
July 16th, 2014 @ 2:00 am

Yes. And the turbulent times remind me of then, as well. We could be on the verge of genuine civil war. Just because it may be four or ten years away means nothing.

I think people need to really squint at the timeline of events leading up to the Civil War. Kids today (Media Matters types) think it sprang up overnight.
K-Bob
July 16th, 2014 @ 2:04 am

The way things are going, it may be the only election we’ll get to participate in.
K-Bob
July 16th, 2014 @ 2:04 am

That’s crazy talk.
K-Bob
July 16th, 2014 @ 2:07 am

Pretty similar to the term “Palestinian.”

Check out all the “Palestinians” protesting in Toronto the other day (This is an example of what reporters need to be like at Fox news, but they won’t step up)…

(Michael Coren at Sun News)
hiernonymous
July 16th, 2014 @ 5:36 am

I don’t follow your issue with the word. A migrant is one who relocates with the intent of permanently remaining in the new location. “Immigrant” and “emigrant” just identify the migrant from the perspective of the destination or source location, respectively. Nothing about the term implies anything about governmental approval of the relocation.

I could see disputing the term for those who relocate for the purpose of working for a few years and then returning to their home.

But it is the intended permanence of the move, not the legality, that determines the appropriateness of the term.
Quartermaster
July 16th, 2014 @ 8:46 am

Note to Noobs: The last line is a good self denunciation.