IMMIGRATION…HAVE THE BACKROOM DEALS ALREADY BEGUN?

NOT TO BE TRUSTED!!!

Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum, aka House Speaker John Boehner and, his not so trusty sidekick, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, have now set their sights on completing an overhaul of the immigration system during the coming year. So instead of simply enforcing the laws already on the books, we need to, instead, come up with new laws. I get more than a little nervous whenever I hear these two talking about some nonexistent need for comprehensive immigration reform. Because what it usually means is that they have already begun to move in a direction most conservatives aren’t going to be too happy about. They have a rather nasty habit of saying one thing while in front of the TV cameras and something quite different once behind closed doors. They seem to think that we’re not paying attention.

Conservative immigration critics, however, and there are more than a few, have said that addressing the issue this year would be a mistake when lawmakers should instead be concentrating on defeating Obamacare. Republican Steve King, he would the King with a brain, has said, "It would be a colossal mistake for us to take up anything that would end up just changing the subject and getting it off Obamacare and on to something that splits the Republican Party." Meanwhile, Louisiana Republican Rep. John Fleming pointed out that Republicans would feel comfortable tightening the U.S.-Mexico border, but would likely restrict anything else. "There’s going to be a lot of pushback because we have a president we can’t trust," he said. Now there’s the understatement of the millennia.

And then we have Daniel Horowitz, policy director for the conservative Madison Project and a contributing editor for RedState.com, who said said in an op-ed piece for the site that the announcement was a "coordinated effort" by Boehner and Cantor to issue their call at the same time U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue was making his own call for amnesty. "We’re determined to make 2014 the year that immigration reform is finally enacted," Donohue said at his 2014 State of American Business address, reports CNN. "The Chamber will pull out all the stops – through grassroots lobbying, communications, politics and partnerships with unions, faith organization, law enforcement and other – to get it done." This group too, is not the least bit interested in moving in the direction that’s best for the country.

Horowitz asked why Republicans are in such a rush to pass immigration reform when they "have so little political power." He said, "These are the same folks who suggest that we can’t even block bad things with control of just the U.S. House, even though the House is vested with control over the purse strings." He went on to say, "Why would they think we can pass new immigration legislation built on conservative principles if it requires the cooperation of all three branches?" He continued by asking, " Why in the world would Republicans reward Obama’s malevolence and disregard for our immigration laws by granting him his biggest second-term agenda item? The fix is already in." Why indeed, Mr. Speaker? One wonders exactly who’s side it is that these guys are one.

We once again seem to be in the process of getting stabbed in the back by those who proudly declare themselves to be conservatives, but are anything but. And what is most frustrating is that we are rapidly running out of options to force them to listen to us. It seems to have now gotten to the point where we’re simply being ignored. Somehow over the course of the coming months we are going to have to gather sufficient forces and get rid of Boehner, and Cantor as well, if possible. Maybe then, those who remain behind will start paying more attention to those of us for whom they are supposed to be working. The people in Boehner’s district will have to put the country first and vote him out. There is just too much at stake and he has demonstrated too many times that he has absolutely no interest in doing what needs to be done.