House GOP 'leaders' plan pre-emptive capitulation Tom Tancredo says Republican lawmakers will 'join the sellout' on amnesty June 14, 2013 Tom Tancredo
"The farce being played out on the floor of the U.S. Senate is billed as a sober debate on amendments to the “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill. Actually, it looks more like a pilot for a new reality TV show, “Republican leaders think we’re as stupid as they are.” . . . Sadly, this kabuki dance around fake amendments is what passes these days for high-level debate in the United States Congress. And, of course, the outcome is tightly scripted and well understood by all parties. The “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill will pass the Senate by a comfortable margin and will be hailed as a “huge bipartisan victory for immigration reform.” . . . Just like magic, a “bipartisan compromise on amnesty” will emerge from the joint Senate-House conference committee. It will then go to the floor and be adopted – by an overwhelming vote of 90 percent of House Democrats and 25 percent of House Republicans.
Yet, it remains a deep mystery to ordinary folks how any member of Congress can vote for any bill on immigration reform that grants the Obama administration any latitude in the enforcement of key provisions. After the Fast and Furious fiasco, the continuing Benghazi lies and the mushrooming IRS and NSA scandals, still, we can trust the Obama administration to enforce new immigration laws that are by design filled with loopholes, exemptions and waivers? And you can say that with a straight face?
There is a different path House Republicans could follow that would actually fix our “broken immigration system” without making it worse. House Republicans could follow the path they have in private agreed is the more intelligent and responsible approach to immigration reform. The problem is, that path will take more courage than the Republican leaders have demonstrated thus far in the amnesty debate. . . ."