S.744 Passes Senate - Pyrrhic Victory For Treason Lobby

The Treason Lobby won a Pyrrhic victory on Thursday, passing the nation-breaking Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill through the Senate. This widely-anticipated action led to predictable Main Stream Media ululations, maudlin sentimentality, and veiled racial threats against the historic American nation on the part of the governing class and its clients. But patriots should not be cowed: there is real cause for optimism.

The fact that Amnesty has passed the Senate means little in itself—it did that years ago. As Jim Antle notes on Twitter, “There has been 60 to 70 Senate votes for some form of comprehensive immigration reform since 2005.”

So the whole point of the current full court press for Amnesty/ Immigration Surge following Barack Obama's re-election has been to overwhelm debate and create a sense of inevitability...

However, one could not help but notice that two faces were missing from the celebratory gaggle—Marco Rubio and Jeff Flake. Both avoided the press conference, as if they were ashamed. It won't do them any good—Rubio's favorability ratings among Republicans have plummeted....

After all, Rubio's role throughout this entire process has been to convince (= fool) conservatives that the bill ensures border security, when it does the opposite. Unfortunately, many conservatives are so desperate for minority frontmen, even stupid ones, that putative opinion leaders like Sean Hannity have gone along with this...

...GOP House Speaker John Boehner... is now trying to sound tough... If the Speaker holds to his position of not bringing the bill to a vote unless a majority of Republicans support it, the bill is in fact “dead on arrival” as Senator Rand Paul claims.

However, as New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait writes, there is a sneaky way the Democrats could push through the bill—a discharge petition. If seventeen Republicans break ranks, the Democrats and their collaborators can force a vote on the exact Senate bill, without any edits or additions... This would also allow Boehner and the Beltway Right to whip up anger at Democrats who refused to “work together” for a “practical” solution—thus protecting them from angry grass roots conservatives and still getting the big money from donors...

Will Boehner hold to his newest position? Will he reverse himself (again)? Or will he try a clandestine betrayal of conservatives?

All depends on the level of outrage from the patriotic grassroots...