Thread: Tequila uprise?

Tequila uprise?
Florida January 17, 2011

Many Latinos have grown frustrated by the failure of Democrats and Republicans to craft a comprehensive reform of national immigration policy. Those disaffected voters may have a new home: the Tequila Party, an independent, grassroots effort designed to mobilize Latinos much as the tea party movement has seized on the anger and frustration of fiscal conservatives.

The Tequila Party remains more an idea than a movement, but you can imagine the possibilities if it were to take off.

More Latinos identify themselves as Democrats than as Republicans — by nearly a 3-to-1 margin according to polling. But Tequila Party backers are frustrated by Democrats' unwillingness to push hard on Latino issues. Like the tea partiers, they sense antipathy from one party and lip service from the other.

Tea party activists thought they were taken for granted by the Republican establishment. When tea partiers knocked off some GOP incumbents in primaries, the establishment started to pay close attention.

The early rumblings for the Tequila movement have come from Nevada in the wake of the mid-term elections. Latino voters were key to saving Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, who ran against an anti-immigrant Republican. Republican Brian Sandoval was elected the state's first Latino governor.



Sensing new strength but feeling they were being taken for granted, Latino power brokers in Nevada floated the idea of the Tequila Party, and it has quickly created a buzz nationwide. In Chicago, Mexican-American activists who organized huge immigrant street marches in 2006 have started a Tequila Party chapter.

Their frustration grows. Immigration reform still seems to be on the back burner for many Democrats, and last month Republicans derailed the DREAM Act, a sensible bill that would let military service or college study become a path to legal status for illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. Five Democratic senators joined the Republican opposition.

So this will be interesting to watch. Remember, while the tea party has become a force in the GOP, it has also drawn support from a number of disaffected Democrats. If the Tequila Party becomes a force, it will be because it lit a fire under Democrats and a new wave of Latino Republicans. Latinos won two governorships and one U.S. Senate seat in November. All three candidates are Republicans. And this month, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush brought moderate Republicans to a summit intended to rebuild goodwill with Latino voters.

Latino influence will continue to grow here and around the nation. New census data show that Illinois will lose a congressional seat in 2012, but likely would have lost two seats if not for a Latino population surge in the state.

The tea party movement was once seen as quixotic, but it has created the political template for a constituency to channel its anger and impatience into a force that the major parties have to respect. Don't count out a tequila uprise.

Barfing emotion now on!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... 6538.story

Latinos need to stop harboring illegals, realize the immigration reform ahead amounts to tougher immigration laws, ramped up deportations, a more secure border and cutting off of free schooling, free medical, and free social services including food stamps.

Whats with the "taken for granted" rhetoric!?!?!?

I think it's safe to say by the hubris shown by BOTH parties that ALL of us feel like this!!!!!!!!

They can "party" all they want

They still only have 12-15% legal voters , if that many

knocked off ? knocked off ! knocked off !?!?!?!?!?

Someone call the New York Times and Chris Mathews ASAP! The Chicago Tribune is using language that could be construed as advocating violence!

Quick! Call the PC Police!

Oh, sorry... I forgot. They are on the left so they can say and do what they want without getting bashed.

W

"Oh, sorry... I forgot. They are on the left so they can say and do what they want without getting bashed."

So Can I Say? "We will kick their asses back in to the drowning public sector if any of the Peoples Representatives continue and try to pass any form of amnesty to Illegal Aliens."
Or does this make me a violent right wing nut case?

Or, "we should put your behind on the border with the threat of illegal aliens, drug and human smugglers to experience the terror those on the southwest border live with day to day."

Am I in big trouble? Am I in the Libtards "Cross hairs" now?"
Am I a right wing nut case "Target?"
Telling the left to kiss my butt is a show of my affection.

Oh crap if I just so happen to bring my pocket knife to protest the Obama
administrations policy.

The Obama administration is bringing a gun?"Oh, sorry... I forgot. They are on the left so they can say and do what they want without getting bashed."

Obama On GOP Attacks: "If They Bring A Knife To The Fight, We Bring A Gun"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/1 ... 07131.html

Their own words.

I hope they do this. In the end, all they will do is split the Democrat vote and make it easier for us to vote them all out.