A lot of conservatives are hoping for a wave election this November. They still hold out hope that a GOP majority will halt the decay and mark the turnaround. This story from The Hill says otherwise.
It wasn’t part of the jobs message he planned to pitch, but Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that immigration reform would help boost the economy.
“Immigration reform will help our economy, but you’ve got to secure the border first,” the Ohio Republican said after a speech at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. “We’ve got a mess and everyone knows we’ve got a mess.
“Our legal system is broken, our border isn’t secure, and we’ve got the problem of those who are here without documents,” the Speaker continued. “It needs to be fixed. We’re a nation of immigrants, the sooner we do it, the better off the country would be.”
His immigration comments, in response to an audience question, weren’t part of his prepared remarks. They followed a 20-minute-speech in which Boehner laid out his five-point plan to jump-start America’s economy.
As everyone knows, flooding the nation with new workers will drive up wages and make everyone richer. All of that twaddle about supply and demand is just nonsense. It really is incredible how the basics of economics are thrown out the window when it comes to immigration and foreign workers.
It is well known that Boehner has a well paid landing spot lined up. He needs to seal the deal with an amnesty bill. He tried to do it over the summer, but Obama screwed it up with the Children’s Crusade at the border. They thought that was a winner, but the backlash made passing amnesty an act of suicide. After the election, during the lame duck session, Boehner will bring up an amnesty bill and it will pass.
“He tried to do it over the summer, but the idiot in the White House screwed it up with the Children’s Crusade at the border.”
It wasn’t just the idiot in the White House. Conservative Inc. had its fingerprints all over the Children’s Crusade. The GOP was trying to use the Crusade to shoehorn the Dream Act past the base. Shows how tone deaf they are; that debacle is what cost Eric Cantor his job here in VA.
Notice how Boehner keeps chanting “secure the border” like a mantra. So does Ryan and the conservative commentariat. This is the tell. After the midterms, The Ruling Class will announce some kind of agreement on border security. Obama, who is a lame duck and can take the heat without consequence will announce some showy deportations and other enforcement “crackdowns”. La Raza and Luis Gutierrez will gnash their teeth on cue and declare Obama the traitorous “Deporter in Chief”. Someone trusted by the conservative base, most likely Ted Cruz, will announce himself satisfied with these “tough” new border security measures. Boehner, Ryan, Pelosi, McCain, Graham, Rubio, and Reid will then put forward some kind of amnesty measure that will pass both Houses of Congress and will be signed into law by President Obama.
If the scenario does not play out along these lines, I will be shocked. Of course, if there are any snags, Obama will just announce an executive amnesty, safely after the mid terms. He will do this not caring for the electoral consequences in 2016, because the Dems want to lose anyway.