This is a follow up to my post After passing immigration amnesty, Republicans should go on an overseas apology tour.
There’s one sentence in Lindsey Graham’s prediction of a “breakthrough” passage of the Gang of 8 bill which is particularly troubling:
“I think we are going to get plus 70 votes,” he said. “I’ve never been more optimistic about it.”
Think about that.
There are 54 Senators who vote Democratic (including two nominal “independents”) and will vote for the bill.
So the “breakthrough” passage requires just 16 Republicans — just over 1/3 of the Republicans in the Senate.
Put another way, Lindsey Graham will declare a breakthrough victory if almost 2/3 of Republican Senators vote against the legislation.
I don’t know how many more of these breakthrough victories we can take.
Update 6-18-2013: While Rubio is the face of the Gang of 8, maybe Graham is the driver:
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, is a jovial sort, but he was scowling like a man who’d just discovered that he might have boarded the wrong bus.
“How do we put together a bill and then the guy who put it together says that he may not vote for it?” Graham asked me. “I just don’t get what we’re doing here.”
His specific complaint: that GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a fellow member of the Senate “gang of eight” who had spent months drafting a bipartisan immigration reform bill, seemed to be backing away from the legislation.
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It is just a ploy to keep him busy & away from Fort Sumpter.
“Put another way, Lindsey Graham will declare a breakthrough victory if almost 2/3 of Republican Senators vote against the legislation.”
If you close one eye and squint just right, you can almost see which party he identifies with. And it ain’t the one he puts on his campaign literature.
The word in the House is that Boehner will follow the Hastert Rule – no immigration bill that isn’t supported by a majority of the caucus will get a floor vote.
Rep. Dana Rohrbach (R-CA) said that if immigration passes the House without a majority of Republicans, Boehner will not be Speaker any more.
I wouldn’t bet on John having enough spine to stand up to democrats suddenly.
Via The Heritage Foundation. IRS Targeted Hispanic Outreach Group
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/06/nice-it-turns-out-irs-targeted-hispanic.html
Wow… This pretty well proves that this was a premeditated effort to squelch conservatives everywhere and that last November’s election was fraudulent in almost every way.
Maybe it’s time for conservatives to begin a protest movement nationwide.
This whole administration needs to be in jail…
The end result, is before you when parents bless a male child with the first name of: Lindsey
you gotta have money to name your kid Lindsey. If he went to my HS the kidding alone would have made him ‘Conservative.’
LMAO. Right you are..
For having been a lawyer, and a military lawyer specifically, Lindsey Graham sure has a weird take on the idea that people need to follow the law.
If Lindsay Graham is the driver, who’s got the stop sticks?
Trey Gowdy for Graham’s Senate seat next time.
I’m a fan of those ID Channel crime procedural shows (Unusual Suspects, etc.), and distinctly remember a couple murder cases out of SC where Trey Gowdy was the local prosecutor, before he ran for congress. They held interviews with him on how the case progressed and showed some video of him in the courtroom doing his thing. I remember thinking, “that guy ought to run for office – I’d vote for him.” I keep waiting for some cable news host to tease him about his former days as a Hollywood star.
If there was ever a person deserving of comparison to excrement, this is the guy.