A nod of support for comprehensive immigration reform from former GOP vice presidential hopeful Rep. Paul Ryan, via Facebook:
Senator Rubio is exactly right on the need to fix our broken immigration system. I support the principles he’s outlined: modernization of our immigration laws; stronger security to curb illegal immigration; and respect for the rule of law in addressing the complex challenge of the undocumented population. Our future depends on an immigration system that works.
Sen. Rubio’s immigration plan has been dubbed a “charge up the middle.” As the son of immigrants, Rubio has distinctive energy and is in a unique position to marry conservative values with common-sense reforms, all while respecting the delicacy of the situation. Rubio’s plan seeks to do the following:
- Gain “operational control” of the border first
- Enhance employment checks
- Raise the hard cap on high-tech immigration
- Create a guest-worker program for low-skill labor
- A lengthy but not indefinite process for normalizing longer-term illegal residents
That last point will probably be the largest sticking point with anti-amnesty conservatives on Capitol Hill. Rubio undoubtedly understands this fact and is offering a more even-handed approach than the liberal Left that requires illegal immigrants to apply for citizenship and get in line:
“Here’s how I envision it,” he says. “They would have to come forward. They would have to undergo a background check.” Anyone who committed a serious crime would be deported. “They would be fingerprinted,” he continues. “They would have to pay a fine, pay back taxes, maybe even do community service. They would have to prove they’ve been here for an extended period of time. They understand some English and are assimilated. Then most of them would get legal status and be allowed to stay in this country.”
The special regime he envisions is a form of temporary limbo. “Assuming they haven’t violated any of the conditions of that status,” he says, the newly legalized person could apply for permanent residency, possibly leading to citizenship, after some years—but Mr. Rubio doesn’t specify how many years. He says he would also want to ensure that enforcement has improved before opening that gate.
The waiting time for a green card “would have to be long enough to ensure that it’s not easier to do it this way than it would be the legal way,” he says. “But it can’t be indefinite either. I mean it can’t be unrealistic, because then you’re not really accomplishing anything. It’s not good for our country to have people trapped in this status forever. It’s been a disaster for Europe.”
The Wall Street Journal has more on Rubio’s immigration plan here.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)One month before the general election, the liberal blogosphere mocked then-GOP vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan after he suggested President Obama would pursue stricter gun control in a second term. And while no one could’ve predicted last week’s tragic shooting in Connecticut, Ryan may have correctly predicted Obama’s plans for more gun control.
In October, Ryan told Outdoor Life:
RYAN: What I worry about as a hunter, as a person who believes in the Second Amendment, as a gun owner, is knowing that President Obama – in his earlier career, prior to his presidency – was an advocate for gun control.
I worry about what his attitude will be once he never has to face voters again. And that to me is a concern just as a gun owner, that this is somebody who has a history of being hostile to the Second Amendment. He hasn’t, for political reasons I believe, done much to go after the Second Amendment, but his history, his party, lead me to be concerned about what he would be like in a second term.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Both Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are widely seen as big players in the future of the Republican Party.
Wall Street Journal‘s Peggy Noonan doesn’t see what the big deal is. She writes today on the speeches each of them gave last week in Iowa:
Rep. Ryan’s speech was OK but insufficient. He didn’t say anything terrible but he didn’t stake out new ground or take chances. Actually, the part where he said Mitt Romney made “a big election about big ideas and offering serious solutions to serious problems” was slightly terrible because it isn’t in a general way true, and it forestalls analysis that might actually be helpful in the long term. Mr. Ryan got points for loyalty but no one doubts he’s loyal, and it undercut his central message, which is that the Republican Party needs “new thinking,” “fresh ideas and serious leadership,” and must find “new ways to apply our timeless principles to the challenges of today.”Well, yes, that’s true. But what thinking do you suggest? In what area? Which fresh ideas? Do you have one? …
But Mr. Rubio also indulged a rhetorical tic that we hear a lot and that is deeply obnoxious. He said the words “middle class” 12 times on the first page alone. Repeating that phrase mantralike will not make people think you’re concerned about the middle class, it will only make them think you’re concerned about winning the middle class. It is important to remember in politics that people aren’t stupid.
I find both Mr. Ryan’s and Mr. Rubio’s media expertise mildly harrowing—look at the prompter here, shake your head here, lower your voice there, raise it here, pick up your pace in this section.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Both Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are widely seen as big players in the future of the Republican Party.
Wall Street Journal‘s Peggy Noonan doesn’t see what the big deal is. She writes today on the speeches each of them gave last week in Iowa:
Rep. Ryan’s speech was OK but insufficient. He didn’t say anything terrible but he didn’t stake out new ground or take chances. Actually, the part where he said Mitt Romney made “a big election about big ideas and offering serious solutions to serious problems” was slightly terrible because it isn’t in a general way true, and it forestalls analysis that might actually be helpful in the long term. Mr. Ryan got points for loyalty but no one doubts he’s loyal, and it undercut his central message, which is that the Republican Party needs “new thinking,” “fresh ideas and serious leadership,” and must find “new ways to apply our timeless principles to the challenges of today.”Well, yes, that’s true. But what thinking do you suggest? In what area? Which fresh ideas? Do you have one? …
But Mr. Rubio also indulged a rhetorical tic that we hear a lot and that is deeply obnoxious. He said the words “middle class” 12 times on the first page alone. Repeating that phrase mantralike will not make people think you’re concerned about the middle class, it will only make them think you’re concerned about winning the middle class. It is important to remember in politics that people aren’t stupid.
I find both Mr. Ryan’s and Mr. Rubio’s media expertise mildly harrowing—look at the prompter here, shake your head here, lower your voice there, raise it here, pick up your pace in this section.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)That’s the implication of these comments from Barack Obama’s national field director, Jeremy Bird. Bird tells Buzzfeed that Wisconsin Democrats were “totally demoralized” after Republican Gov. Scott Walker successfully overcame unions’ recall efforts. But, he says, Democrats were determined to keep the Wisconsin congressman from joining Romney in the White House.
“[Wisconsin] was the hardest state for me as a field director to go out and organize,” he said. But all that changed after Romney recruited Ryan to be the GOP’s No. 2.
“Paul Ryan re-galvanized all of our troops in Wisconsin,” Bird says.
This is one of eight “new” insights about the 2012 presidential election Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller has pulled together today. Not all of them are exactly new — some of us always knew that Paul Ryan was incredibly meme-worthy…
It’s sad to think Ryan might have cost Romney votes in Wisconsin, but I’m willing to be that for each moderate Republican vote Romney lost in Wisconsin, he picked up two conservative Republican votes elsewhere that may not have turned out at all on election day. Ryan was still a great choice.
The GOP may not have won the White House, but they now have a fiscal policy spokesman with great national name recognition, for what that’s worth.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Posted by the “Paul Ryan For Congress” Twitter account last Friday:
Paul out getting dinner with his brothers twitter.com/ryan4congress/…
— Paul Ryan 4 Congress (@ryan4congress) November 9, 2012
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Spotty Internet tomorrow is Election Day. I still have same issue, a win4 Mitt Romney Puts the Tea Party INTO the White House. This is the
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) November 5, 2012
The same group who spit on lawmakers who’s beliefs are very radical as evidenced by the VP nominee. It puts the Tea Party 1 heat attack frm
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) November 5, 2012
Full control of the White House. Good luck to us all
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) November 5, 2012
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Because it’s been weeks since we’ve seen Paul Ryan do anything of significance (much to the delight of Mitt Romney, I’m sure)…
Caption that photo! We’ll post the winner along with a few runners-up Sunday evening.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)In an interview with radio host Charlie Sykes today Paul Ryan said he expected “interruptions” from Vice President Joe Biden in their debate last week.
The Washington Post flags this part from the interview:
He told Sykes that he thought it was “important to be respectful of one another’s time” and said of Biden’s frequent interruptions: “It’s not our manners, where we come from.”
“I was not going to try and follow suit with that kind of demeanor. … I wasn’t going to try and let that get under my skin and try and follow suit with that, I guess I’d say, demeanor. I wanted to make my case,” he said.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Politico‘s Jennifer Epstein traveled with Vice President Joe Biden today. She filed a report immediately after the debate, giving the feel from inside the hall:
Though Martha Raddatz told the crowd not to applaud, there was some laughter, almost all coming in response to Biden’s lines, including his mentions of “malarkey,“ ”bunch of stuff” and, of course, “Oh now you’re Jack Kennedy? This is amazing.” In discussion of Syria, Biden’s “you notice, he doesn’t answer the question” got some nervous laughs. From Ryan, “I think the VP very well knows words sometimes don’t come out of your mouth the right way,” might’ve been the line that drew the most laughter for him.
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