the burrito stall on the horizon - rolling immigration reform / thread for hamfisted gop latino pandering

it looks like this is 'the lesson' that the party leaders are taking from the loss. so we have hannity, krauthammer, kudlow, boehner who else? this is after 3 days. has limbaugh said anything? I think the friction between the gop 'opinion makers' and gop 'opinion takers' is going to be one of the more interesting things in politics over the next few years.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-rubio-presidential-race-2016-20121108,0,6407413.story

HERE HE COMES

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/krauthammer-proamnesty-not-citizenship-149094.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/11/08/sean-hannity-ive-evolved-on-immigration/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/8/boehner-says-house-will-act-immigration-bill/

aforementioned

There are going to be some interesting demographic shifts in the latino population, from what I've seen. They might do ok pandering to a family values, traditionally-catholic population, but I don't know if that is going to be what the demographic actually is in another five to ten years

Rush does not buy this. He says 3 million white conservatives stayed home, and that the Dems give people free stuff like food stamps.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/11/08/why_did_three_million_republicans_stay_home

So three million Republican voters stayed home on Election Day. Three million predominantly white voters stayed home. ....

I'm not saying that the Republicans couldn't do a better job with some of these minority voters, but you better understand why they're not voting for you. In terms of the Hispanic vote, it is not because of immigration policy. Hispanics are voting for Democrats because of the same reason any other people vote for Democrats. They're the party of free stuff. They are the party of Santa Claus.

lol Rush is sensing a void in the market left by all the others backing away from xenophobia

there's money in them there hills

i don't see how anyone thinks limbaugh has any sincere interest in advancing republican leadership, dude wants nothing more than to gadfly the democratic administration, he built his reputation doing exactly that during the clinton era

Rush Limbaugh is living the American dream of making money off of being a dick to people

Haha so true

Krikorian, fighting the 'good' fight

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/333063/amnesty-best-revenge-mark-krikorian

hey remember when we elected a black president and then the GOP responded by installing michael steele at the RNC chair?

Whatever the response is to the republican 'latino crisis,' it will probably be just as thoughtful and effective as that maneuver.

e.g., house republicans institute "taco tuesday" lunch during legislative session

Freedom flautas.

Annnnnnd Krikorian opens up on Krauthammer:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/333067/malpractice-dr-k-mark-krikorian

Expect to see a lot more of this.

The Knox County sheriff, ladies and gentlemen:

Once again, the federal government has used sequestration as a smokescreen to shirk its responsibilities for providing safety and security to its citizens by denying Knox County the 287(g) corrections model. An inept administration is clearing the way for law breaking illegal immigrants to continue to thrive in our community and ultimately be allowed to reside in the United States. Hopefully, the denial of this program will not create an influx of illegal immigrants who think that without this program they will be able to break the law and then be less likely to be deported.

The vast majority of Knox County citizens feel just as I do when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration. I strongly support the 287(g) program and will continue to make every effort to pursue its implementation. I will continue to enforce these federal immigration violations with or without the help of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). If need be, I will stack these violators like cordwood in the Knox County Jail until the appropriate federal agency responds.

http://www.wate.com/story/23214494/knox-county-sheriff-criticizes-287g-denial

US out of North "America"

the background to this is that the knox county sheriff applied for federal dollars and training under an extant but dying program (287g) to train local cops to enforce federal immigration laws. opponents, of which i'm one, see it as giving local dudes free reign to hassle immigrants instead of doing their jobs, which is to protect EVERYONE in their county.

one of the reasons the program is dying is that most police departments and most sheriffs are like, uh, we have enough to do already.

not this guy. under the rules of the 287g application he had to hold apublic hearing, which was PACKED OUT with opponents from all walks of life. the entire hearing he SMILED and refused to answer anyone's questions directly.

a few days ago he told people that he'd gotten approval and that there were just a few loose ends to tie up. WHAT'S UP NOW DUDE. WHAT'S UP NOW.

but like --- i just cannot get my head around that cordwood quote

I will stack these violators like cordwood in the Knox County Jail

Cruel and unusual punishment imho

One of the few parts of the Constitution where they're pretty explicit about not being a total dick, morally.

cant get my head around how tone-deaf Obama is on this issue