Brian4Liberty
12-17-2014, 01:04 PM
GOP Leaders Stomp GOP Voters on Amnesty (http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/16/gop-leaders-stomp-gop-voters-on-amnesty/)
Polls show the GOP’s base is overwhelmingly opposed to President Barack Obama’s amnesty, yet the GOP’s business-backed leadership ruthlessly stomped on GOP legislators who opposed funding the amnesty in the 2015 government budget.
“The allegiance that Republicans have in Washington is to [lobbyists on] K Street, to big business, and they don’t give a damn about their constituents,” said Brent Bozell, chairman of the ForAmerica advocacy network.
“Executive amnesty is what they were elected to stop… [but] they punted on first down,” said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots.
“Everybody is opposed to the amnesty, and they’re not willing to take the steps” to fight it, said Dan Holler, the communications director for Heritage Action for America. If the GOP leadership had stepped up to fight, “all of last week and this week would have been spent talking Obama’s amnesty and how it is hugely unpopular,” he said.
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The self-inflicted split has been downplayed by the establishment media, which backs Obama’s welcome for illegal immigrants. That alliance means that much of the media is also backing business lobbyists’ push to get cheap labor for farms, canneries, meat-packing plants, universities, professions and blue-chips firms.
Polls show most Americans and many Democrats oppose the Obama amnesty. The opposition is particularly strong among Republicans.
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More: http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/16/gop-leaders-stomp-gop-voters-on-amnesty/
Polls show the GOP’s base is overwhelmingly opposed to President Barack Obama’s amnesty, yet the GOP’s business-backed leadership ruthlessly stomped on GOP legislators who opposed funding the amnesty in the 2015 government budget.
“The allegiance that Republicans have in Washington is to [lobbyists on] K Street, to big business, and they don’t give a damn about their constituents,” said Brent Bozell, chairman of the ForAmerica advocacy network.
“Executive amnesty is what they were elected to stop… [but] they punted on first down,” said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots.
“Everybody is opposed to the amnesty, and they’re not willing to take the steps” to fight it, said Dan Holler, the communications director for Heritage Action for America. If the GOP leadership had stepped up to fight, “all of last week and this week would have been spent talking Obama’s amnesty and how it is hugely unpopular,” he said.
...
The self-inflicted split has been downplayed by the establishment media, which backs Obama’s welcome for illegal immigrants. That alliance means that much of the media is also backing business lobbyists’ push to get cheap labor for farms, canneries, meat-packing plants, universities, professions and blue-chips firms.
Polls show most Americans and many Democrats oppose the Obama amnesty. The opposition is particularly strong among Republicans.
...
More: http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/16/gop-leaders-stomp-gop-voters-on-amnesty/