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Drudge this morning links to an article in the \u201cQuorum Report\u201d<\/a> (a site I\u2019d never seen before) claiming that House Speaker John Boehner told \u201cvarious Texas business interests\u201d that he would schedule immigration votes after the filing deadline for the 2014 elections.\u00a0 In other words, the implication is that he would hold votes only after it was too late for upset citizens to protest by fielding a candidate to primary an amnesty-supporting GOP congressman.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

If this is true, this means that there are a lot of Republican congressmen out there who want to vote for amnesty but fear their constituents\u2019 reactions.\u00a0 And, of course, on top of this, the further news is that Boehner\u2019s new\u00a0Immigration Policy Director is an amnesty supporter coming out of McCain\u2019s staff.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Does Boehner, do these secret amnesty supporters truly believe that we can achieve that promised one-time amnesty, that the aspirational enforcement measures will truly lead to genuine enforcement and end the current situation of, ahem, \u201cundocumented immigrants\u201d working under the table or with a false\/stolen ID?\u00a0 If so, they\u2019re so na\u00efve that this alone should disqualify them from office.<\/p>\n

Or do they support an unrestricted guest worker program which, in some versions, was claimed to be a permanent solution to the illegal immigrant issue because any prospective immigrant could seek guest worker status?\u00a0 (And anyone who thinks that the guest worker program proposed in the Senate bill had sufficient protections for American workers is also fooling themselves, given that the economic conditions in which guest workers would make sense, low-skilled jobs so plentiful and workers so scarce, that wages skyrocket, are so far removed from our current situation.)<\/p>\n

Do these amnesty supporters just want amnesty, plain and simple, and fundamentally don\u2019t care about whether a bargain to reduce future illegal immigration succeeds?\u00a0 And, if so, is it out of personal convictions, believing the arguments about the injustice of the current situation?\u00a0 Is it out of an extreme libertarianism, in which borders should be open and there\u2019s nothing wrong with low\/un-skilled American workers\u00a0being forced to compete with any number of unskilled Mexicans willing to live 10 to a room to send money back home?\u00a0 Is it due to principled support of\u00a0business interests who want to keep wages low?\u00a0 Or is it to keep the campaign cash flowing from those business supporters?<\/p>\n

And \u2014 regardless of the reason for their support of amnesty \u2014 are there really that many congressmen planning on telling their constituents one thing and, ultimately, voting the other way in hopes of short voter memories?\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Hence, the title of this post.\u00a0 Who are these congressmen?\u00a0 Not mine \u2014 she\u2019s a Democrat who\u2019s very open about amnesty.\u00a0 Are there a cadre of GOP congressmen who, like the pro-life Democrats from conservative districts who lost their elections after they voted for ObamaCare with its fig-leaf abortion-related protections, want to vote for amnesty but need to play dirty politics to hide their intentions from their own constituents?\u00a0 And if so, should they be pre-emptively primaried?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"