When I hear “Gang of …” mentioned in a political context, I think of the “Gang of Four” — the Chinese Communist apparatchiks “tried” and executed for their “failures” in carrying out the so-called Cultural Revolution in the ol’ PRC.
Every so often, a group of senators from both parties will get together to work on some pet project and the drive-bys will call them “Gang of” something. Usually it’s a scheme to give liberals some Republican cover for one of their horrible statist schemes. Usually, this so-called “gang” includes Lindsey “Macho Man” Graham and / or our very own “Therrible Thom” Tillis.
Surely everyone remembers Thom’s hard work against Trump’s border wall? Despite what comes out of his lying mouth, he has NOOOOOOOOOO interest in securing the border. The guys who line his pockets won’t allow it. They own him. What they say GOES.
Roughly 30 Republican senators are backing the House’s H.R.2 migration stabilization bill — but a gang of six senators, including three Republicans, are drafting a giveaway “compromise” bill.
“H.R.2 should be the focus,” said a policy analyst who favors pro-American migration laws, adding:
There’s no reason to preemptively surrender good border security legislation before we’re forced to negotiate [with the House]. What the Senators who are supporting that [compromise] package are doing essentially is preemptively surrendering, preemptively giving away very important pieces of H.R. 2 before they’re even being forced to do so.
“They’re negotiating with themselves” instead of with Democrats, he added.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and James Lankford (R-OK), are working with three Democrats to write a pretend compromise in the end-of-year budget battles over funding for Israel, Ukraine, and President Joe Biden’s border security agency, he said, adding that their plan is “not going do anything of any substance.”
The compromise legislation will likely be touted by Democrats and their media allies in January as they try to create a political stampede that will overpower Republicans’ popular demands for substantial policy change to migration laws, he said.
“Lankford is now working to turn a one-page summary of the party’s border plan into legislation,” Politicoreported
Behind closed doors, additional Republican senators are likely cooperating with the group of three.
The three Democrat-aligned senators in the group are Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO).
In 2013, Bennet joined with Graham to push the failed 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty that would have cut Americans’ wages for a decade or more.
The evidence so far is that the Gang of Six compromise includes few substantial changes in current laws, the immigration analyst said. It also appears to leave intact many of the alternative loopholes that Biden’s border deputies will use to keep importing millions of poor, desperate, indebted, and compliant migrants, he said.
But the 3o-plus cosponsors on the Senate’s version of the House bill H.R. 2 may block the stampede planned by the “Gang of Six.”
The Senate version of H.R.2 is S.2824, titled “Secure the Border Act of 2023.” It was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). It includes most major stabilization measures sought by Republican-aligned experts and the public. […]
The H.R.2 bill is being pushed by nearly all of the GOP House caucus, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). “We’re going to force the issue — and people want us to,” Johnson said.
Johnson is in a good position to get immigration concessions from Democrats because President Joe Biden needs Republican approval for the funding that he wants to give to Israel and Ukraine.
Biden also needs a funding deal to help patch over the growing and unpopular cost of moving southern migrants into the jobs and homes needed by voters in blue cities, including New York and Chicago.
Also, Democrats are realizing that Biden’s reckless migration policy is deeply unpopularnationwide.
The 32 senators backing the stabilization bill include the Republicans’ mainstream wing, such as Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Josh Hawley (S-MO), Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
The bill is also backed by Republican establishment-linked leadership, including Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. John Thune (R-SD), and even Graham, who was a leader of the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty.
The bill is also backed by Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), who drafted a last-minute, fake border-security compromise in 2013 that allowed the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill to pass through the Senate.
The Republican bill is also backed by Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND). He is also pushing two other bills — including the Eagle Act — to allow a massive inflow of foreign workers for white-collar jobs and healthcare jobs that would otherwise go to North Dakota’s college graduates. One of his bills is backed by seven other Republican senators.
It is not clear how many of the 32 senators who support the stabilization bill have signed on for PR purposes. But at least two — Graham and Tillis — are working with Lankford and the Democrats on the compromise giveaway.
[…]
So, the scheme by the RINOs in the Senate appears to be (a) back the stronger House bill to appease the “little people” back home, while (b) also voting for the nonsense being pushed by Thom and his six friends.
We told you earlier about Ted Budd’s habit of following Thom around like a puppy. His name is conspicuously absent from the reporting on this debate. Where is ol’ Ted? Is he with US, or is he loyally following his buddy Thom around?
Here’s a quick comparison of the House bill vs. the mess Thom & co. are pushing:
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Let’s not forget Tillis was working with Dick Durbin – the MOST liberal Dem in the Senate – on amnesty not too long ago.
I hope EVERY GOP County Chair realizes their power with the Tillis censure! It gives them the power to actually support his primary opponent!
1. NO Tillis at your GOP events.
2. NO Tillis in your GOP office.
3. NO Tillis materials in your GOP office.
This censure has HUGE consequences, if chairs exert it! 700+ delegates voted to censure Tillis for his abandonment of the GOP platform. This is yet another example!!
IF the Republican twits in DC listened to the folks back home, their position on immigration would be six words long…”Send them back, build the wall!”
Tillis is seriously damaging the Republican brand right at a time that polls show Americans are fed up with illegal immigration. Republican leaders need to be very vocal against Tillis and what he is doing. There is an NCGOP ExCom meeting December 2 in Raligh. How about a resolution comneding Tillis and demanding he retire after this lousy term?
Look at the political implications of illegal immigration in European politics just over the last week. In the Netherlands, populist nationalist anti-immigration parties calling for a huge reduction in immigration won big, with the Party for Freedom way ahead in first place after it called for “zero asylum seekers” and the brand new New Social Contract, running in its first election finished very strong, only four seats behind the traditional conservative VVD. New Social Contract called for a massive reduction in the number of foreigners allowed into the county. The left-liberal D66 which in the last government had opposed a crackdown on illegal aiens that had been proposed by the VVD, lost two thirds of their seats and fell from the second largest party to the fifth largest.
Then there is what has been happening the last few days in Ireland. An Algerian who had come to Ireland as an adult perpetrated a mass stabbing at an elementary school, and anti-immigration protesters came out in droves taking over the city center of Dublin and driving out the police, yelling “Get Them OUt” and “Ireland for the Irish, carrying signs saying ‘irish lives Matter” and Irish flags and setting fire to hotels housing illegal aliens and police cars.
Then there are other recent elections across Europe where anti-immigration parties have scored, becoming key parties in government. For example this year’s election in Switzerland, where the anti-immigration populist right Swiss Peoples Party, already the largest party in the country for the last decade, stormed further ahead, with a large gain in seats. A few elections back, the Swiss Peoples Party used a campaign poster that showed two white sheep kicking a black sheep off of a map of Switzerland.
Stongly opposing illegal immigration is not only good for the country, but it is good politics. Tillis is stabbing both the country and the party in the back, and doing it to pander to corrupt special interests. He is crooked as a snake and needs to be run out of NC politics. NEVER TILLIS. He is worse than a Democrat.
How does a county censure authorize a GOP County Chair to prevent a censured Republican from attending Chair’s GOP events? Or from attending Chair’s GOP office? Or from having campaign material at Chair’s GOP office? Further, how does a county censure authorize a GOP County Chair to support a primary candidate?
Where can one find this censuring authority to be formally defined and referenceable?
Every so often, a group of senators from both parties will get together to work on some pet project and the drive-bys will call them “Gang of” something. Usually it’s a scheme to give liberals some Republican cover for one of their horrible statist schemes. Usually, this so-called “gang” includes Lindsey “Macho Man” Graham and / or our very own “Therrible Thom” Tillis.
House bill to appease the “little people” back home, while (b) also voting for the nonsense being pushed by Thom and his six friends.
Let’s not forget Tillis was working with Dick Durbin – the MOST liberal Dem in the Senate – on amnesty not too long ago.
I hope EVERY GOP County Chair realizes their power with the Tillis censure! It gives them the power to actually support his primary opponent!
1. NO Tillis at your GOP events.
2. NO Tillis in your GOP office.
3. NO Tillis materials in your GOP office.
This censure has HUGE consequences, if chairs exert it! 700+ delegates voted to censure Tillis for his abandonment of the GOP platform. This is yet another example!!
IF the Republican twits in DC listened to the folks back home, their position on immigration would be six words long…”Send them back, build the wall!”
Tillis is seriously damaging the Republican brand right at a time that polls show Americans are fed up with illegal immigration. Republican leaders need to be very vocal against Tillis and what he is doing. There is an NCGOP ExCom meeting December 2 in Raligh. How about a resolution comneding Tillis and demanding he retire after this lousy term?
Look at the political implications of illegal immigration in European politics just over the last week. In the Netherlands, populist nationalist anti-immigration parties calling for a huge reduction in immigration won big, with the Party for Freedom way ahead in first place after it called for “zero asylum seekers” and the brand new New Social Contract, running in its first election finished very strong, only four seats behind the traditional conservative VVD. New Social Contract called for a massive reduction in the number of foreigners allowed into the county. The left-liberal D66 which in the last government had opposed a crackdown on illegal aiens that had been proposed by the VVD, lost two thirds of their seats and fell from the second largest party to the fifth largest.
Then there is what has been happening the last few days in Ireland. An Algerian who had come to Ireland as an adult perpetrated a mass stabbing at an elementary school, and anti-immigration protesters came out in droves taking over the city center of Dublin and driving out the police, yelling “Get Them OUt” and “Ireland for the Irish, carrying signs saying ‘irish lives Matter” and Irish flags and setting fire to hotels housing illegal aliens and police cars.
Then there are other recent elections across Europe where anti-immigration parties have scored, becoming key parties in government. For example this year’s election in Switzerland, where the anti-immigration populist right Swiss Peoples Party, already the largest party in the country for the last decade, stormed further ahead, with a large gain in seats. A few elections back, the Swiss Peoples Party used a campaign poster that showed two white sheep kicking a black sheep off of a map of Switzerland.
Stongly opposing illegal immigration is not only good for the country, but it is good politics. Tillis is stabbing both the country and the party in the back, and doing it to pander to corrupt special interests. He is crooked as a snake and needs to be run out of NC politics. NEVER TILLIS. He is worse than a Democrat.
How does a county censure authorize a GOP County Chair to prevent a censured Republican from attending Chair’s GOP events? Or from attending Chair’s GOP office? Or from having campaign material at Chair’s GOP office? Further, how does a county censure authorize a GOP County Chair to support a primary candidate?
Where can one find this censuring authority to be formally defined and referenceable?
Richard Carter
Davie County