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GOP Hispanic Outreach Hits Tea Party Fury
House Republican leaderships outreach to the Hispanic community ran smack into a tea party wall on Wednesday.
Outside the Capitol, a tea-party-fueled rally on immigration put the spotlight on the dilemma facing Speaker John A. Boehner. The Ohio Republican met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Wednesday and hopes to cure his partys huge demographic challenge with Hispanics by passing an immigration overhaul this year. But the tea party energy on display outside the Capitol, which catapulted him into power in 2010, has turned on the speaker.
Outside the Capitol, a tea-party-fueled rally on immigration put the spotlight on the dilemma facing Speaker John A. Boehner. The Ohio Republican met with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Wednesday and hopes to cure his partys huge demographic challenge with Hispanics by passing an immigration overhaul this year. But the tea party energy on display outside the Capitol, which catapulted him into power in 2010, has turned on the speaker.
The contrast was on full display at an ill-timed news conference held by GOP Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington outside the Capitol in the House Triangle, competing with the larger, daylong anti-immigration-bill news conference and rally on the East Front.
McMorris Rodgers had gathered faith-based leaders of the Latino community on Capitol Hill to, she said, talk about our shared goals for America with a half-dozen of her colleagues as part of a larger outreach effort.
At one point, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., addressed Hispanic media outlets in Spanish only to get heckled.
At one point, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., addressed Hispanic media outlets in Spanish only to get heckled.
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GOP Hispanic Outreach Hits Tea Party Fury (Original Post)
LongTomH
Jun 2013
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geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)1. Yes. Angry mobs are a ball.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)2. What did they expect?
The baggers are a bunch of racist idiots. Are they just learning this?
riqster
(13,986 posts)3. They forgot the story of the camel's nose. nt
Myrina
(12,296 posts)4. They're so goddamned short-sighted ...
.... I guess if there is ONE saving grace to the Baggers, it's their similiarities to spoiled 6 year olds:
They want their way, and they want it NOW and if they don't get exactly what they want, NOW, they're going to throw a
tantrum.
Or, if their poster-child-of-the-day/bff doesn't act exactly how the Baggers want them to act, then they're "out of the cool
kids club" and not going to be friends with them anymore. So there.
They simply can't see/can't appreciate nuance and/or mid-range to long-term thinking.