Thread: GOP opposition to DREAM a hot Sunday topic

GOP opposition to DREAM a hot Sunday topic
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by kos
Mon Dec 20, 2010 at 06:08:04 PM PST

Not that they care what anyone thinks about them, but taking a baseball bat to innocent kids didn't play well on Sunday.

NBC’s ANDREA MITCHELL: The dumbest thing that the Republicans did was the DREAM Act. … that is going to turn out to be a real setback for Republicans because these are people who wanted to serve in the military and get educated and contribute to the society.

NEWARK, NJ MAYOR CORY BOOKER: To tell people who’ve been through high school, high school presidents going on to college some of the best brains who have no relation to their home country. This is crazy. It’s hurting America.

GOP STRATEGIST MARK MCKINNON: The Republican Party has got to recognize Hispanics are the huge growing demographic in this country. … We gotta send the right signal to Hispanics in this country in addition to the fact that it’s the right policy.

FOX NEWS’ JUAN WILLIAMS: The one thing that I regret…is the defeat of the DREAM Act for the immigrants and the immigrant kids. I just think, again, Republicans play politics with real lives, real people, real aspirations and they leave the immigration issue on the table when that’s the real business of the American people.

Any Republican interested in having his or her party remain a viable national party into the next several decades has to be cringing at this vote. While the asshole caucus blocking this included five Democrats, the brunt of the political fallout will be born by Republicans, who voted -- on live national Latino TV -- to punish children for transgressions they didn't commit.

One could point to the strong family tradition in the Latino community, but when it comes to kids, there's no culture that doesn't viscerally recoil at violence against kids. And this vote was, in effect, an act of violence against kids -- destroying their ability to serve their nation or educate themselves, all the while threatening to physically remove them from the only country they call home.

Republicans have short-term advantages -- the shitty economy, a demobilized Democratic base, and the Citizens United ruling that allows them unprecedented access to unlimited corporate funds. But just like a culture the GOP can't control, so too will demographic changes continue to erode their inherent advantages.

That's what everyone says, when they get their ass kicked!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/2 ... nday-topic

They do not need the Hispanic vote, they need the Independant vote and most independants are against amnesty.
These people give the Hispanic vote way too much credit!

Harry Reid won only because not enough Conservatives and Independants got out the vote and we did not have the right person running against him.

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Same old crap. Same old propaganda from the liberal press. Telling what dire consequences are going to happen to all the politicians who actually support the overwhelming majority of Americans. Someone tell these morons that it was the traitors on the OTHER side of this issue who were getting voted out of office in the last election.

Sorry bout that!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/2 ... nday-topic

The hater of all American's

GOP STRATEGIST MARK MCKINNON: The Republican Party has got to recognize Hispanics are the huge growing demographic in this country. … We gotta send the right signal to Hispanics in this country in addition to the fact that it’s the right policy.

Mark McKinnon needs to recognize that while there are a large NUMBER of Hispanics, there are also a large number who can't vote. Pandering to their demands will do little for his party.

FOX NEWS’ JUAN WILLIAMS: The one thing that I regret…is the defeat of the DREAM Act for the immigrants and the immigrant kids. I just think, again, Republicans play politics with real lives, real people, real aspirations and they leave the immigration issue on the table when that’s the real business of the American people

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Juan, tell the Krentz family about real lives and real people who are affected by uncontrolled illegal immigration.

And this vote was, in effect, an act of violence against kids

These kids?

Juan was just on Fox saying how all the children in Juarez living in fear and Calderon is doing nothing to stop the violence!
Mexico needs to clean house starting with Calderon!

We are as sick of this racial pandering as we are of Illegals flooding across our border and stealing from our nation...

I'm constantly amused how it's never admitted that the only reason the Hispanic demographic is growing so fast is because we haven't had immigration law enforcement for over 25 years!

And boy does it sure show!
"Voter registration card please"
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