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    On CNN, McCain Prods GOP Leaders on Immigration - 'Time to Bear Pressure On GOP'

    On CNN, McCain Prods GOP Leaders on Immigration

    "We have the broadest coalition of support of any legislation I've ever been involved in. Big business, small business, evangelicals, the Catholic Church. The list goes on and on. It's time for those people to weigh in and bring pressure to bear and say, "Look, we need to act."
    Center For Immigration Studies
    By Jerry Kammer, February 17, 2014

    On CNN's "State of the Union" program Sunday, Sen. John McCain called on Republican House leaders to reverse their announced decision to avoid consideration of immigration reform legislation this year.

    Here is the exchange between McCain and host Candy Crowley

    CROWLEY: Let me turn you to a couple of political problems back home. One of them is that we're now led to believe by the leaders in both the Senate and the House, Republican leaders, that there will be no immigration reform this year. I want to remind you of something that you said in July of 2013 in an interview to PBS when you said: "If we don't do that," meaning immigration reform, "Frankly I don't see – I see further polarization of the Hispanic voter. And the demographics are clear, that the Republican Party cannot win a national election. That's just a fact."

    Having read the statement, Crowley asked, "Is that still a fact? And do you believe that Republicans are undermining or enhancing their chances in the midterms by not dealing with immigration reform?"

    McCain responded that he "absolutely" still feels the same. He said

    [in] states like mine over time, the demographics will overtake not only mine but throughout the whole Southwest and many other parts of the country. I won't give up. We have the broadest coalition of support of any legislation I've ever been involved in. Big business, small business, evangelicals, the Catholic Church. The list goes on and on. It's time for those people to weigh in and bring pressure to bear and say, "Look, we need to act." And I have not given up hope that we will act, and we must act. And I would again urge my House colleagues to consider whatever way they want to pursue to try to address this issue. Because it's going to have to be addressed. And to wait to 2015, when we [will be] involved in Republican primaries obviously would not be a viable scenario.

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    John McCain has been exposed as a flip flopping hypocrite and has lost credibility along with many others in the establishment (Old Guard, Mossy backed) GOP. He appears to me to have more in common with Socialist Democrats than Republicans and uses his party affiliation to show"bipartisan support" for the socialist Democrat agenda.

    Am I the only person that wants to hurl every time I hear some pocket picking politico start spouting "bipartisan support" ?

    The consent degree that bars the GOP from contesting voter fraud was agreed to on his watch.

    At Supreme Court, no reprieve for GOP in voting rights consent decree

    US Supreme Court on Monday turned aside a petition from the Republican National Committee to lift a 30-year-old consent decree. The decree requires the RNC to refrain from tactics that could suppress voting rights.


    By Warren Richey, Staff writer / January 14, 2013
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    The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a request by the Republican National Committee to lift a 30-year-old consent decree that restricts the political party’s ability to enforce preelection ballot security programs that critics say would result in minority voter suppression.

    The high court, without comment, turned aside the Republican Party’s petition.

    At issue was a consent decree dating from 1982 involving allegations that Republicans had attempted to intimidate and suppress black and Hispanic voters in New Jersey in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

    Similar allegations arose during the recent presidential election, with Republicans emphasizing the need to counter potential voter fraud and Democrats accusing Republicans of seeking to disenfranchise minority voters. The same fundamental difference in perspective is at the center of the legal dispute over the long-time consent decree.

    In that case, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed suit in federal court in New Jersey challenging the Republican tactics. The case never went to trial. Instead, the Republican National Committee (RNC) agreed to abide by a consent decree that required it to refrain from preelection tactics that might deter qualified voters from casting ballots.

    The decree was approved by a federal judge and has remained in place ever since, with some modifications.

    In November 2008, the Republican Party sought to lift the consent decree to allow party officials more flexibility in pursuing election security programs. The judge, Dickinson Debevoise, rejected the effort. That ruling was upheld by the Third US Circuit Court of Appeals.

    In urging the high court to examine whether the decree is still warranted, lawyers for the Republican Party said the arrangement had become onerous for the RNC.

    “The ability of the Republican Party, as one of two national political parties, to conduct effective election observation programs is of national importance,” Bobby Burchfield wrote in his petition to the high court.
    He said statutes in 21 states permit political parties to engage in “poll watching activities for the purpose of detecting and reporting fraud.”

    DNC lawyers argued that the high court should allow the consent decree to remain in place. Evidence presented during the 2008 and 2009 litigation over the decree showed that the order is still needed today, they said.

    “That evidence includes proof that the RNC violated the Decree in 1990 and in 2004, when it created voter challenge lists that targeted minority voters; that between 1997 and 2008, Republican candidates and party organizations had engaged in separate voter suppression activities in various states, including Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; and that the racially polarized voting that influenced the RNC in the 1980s persists today,” Angelo Genova wrote in his brief to the court
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    “This substantial evidence stands in stark contrast to the RNC’s proffered ‘evidence,’ “ Mr. Genova added. He said the Republicans had made a “preposterous claim that because President Obama, Attorney General [Eric] Holder, and former RNC leaders Michael Steele and Boyd Rutherford are African-American, the RNC no longer has any incentive to suppress minority votes in violation of the terms of the Consent Decree.”

    The case was Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee (12-373).

    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0114/At-Supreme-Court-no-reprieve-for-GOP-in-voting-rights-consent-decree

    It is common knowledge that illegals were bussed to the polls in Nevada and they are voting in our elections for the Democrats.

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    Sweet Little Lies (Republicans Prepare To Cave On Amnesty)


    Although Hispanic voters overwhelmingly favored the reelection of President Barack Obama, and increased his margin of victory in several densely populated blue states, they did not play a decisive role in any of the major swing states.




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    Immigration, Political Realignment, and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects

    Immigration may help Republican business interests hold down wages, but it also undermines the party’s political fortunes. Future levels of immigration are likely to be a key determinant of Republicans’ political prospects moving forward.
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