In a long story in today’s Washington Post, Rep. Raul Labrador says he’s hoping for a face-to-face with President Obama and says he’s convinced skeptical constituents that reform is good for the Republican Party and the country.
“I think this is something they can live with,” Labrador told reporter Rosalind Helderman, who trailed Labrador to Idaho last week. “I think the party’s ready for this. We just need visionary leaders who can explain it.”
Helderman likens Labrador to a House version of superstar Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio on the immigration issue and Labrador accepts the mantle, saying, “I just don’t think there’s a better person or voice in the House right now to deal with this issue.”
Labrador doesn’t yet have a meeting with Obama, but Helderman writes, “the White House responded to his inquiry almost immediately and offered him a session with a policy staff member working on immigration. He views the response as a good start.”
http://thecrucialvoice.com/2013/02/01/beware-education-and-immigration/
If the Washington Post only had the Bat Boy, they would have better cred.
I think there’s a world of difference between this guy and Rubio in my opinion.
Labrador was actually against NDAA, the Patriot Act, and the Arab Spring, all of which Rubio, Jeb Bush’s friend, supports.
Rubio’s a pseudoconservative elite globalist who doesn’t ruffle feathers with either Obama or the GOP establishment he’s cozy to or call for major spending cuts who the media promotes. Rubio’s flip-flopped for full amnesty, Labrador’s always been for a guest worker program without amnesty or government welfare and the military on the border, which is more conservative than what you hear from the gang of 8 or the entire media. How can Rubio be a Tea Partier when Karl Rove loves him? Rove’s declared war on the entire Tea Party. Labrador’s proven himself, he even was a leader in the effort to overthrow Boehner and he frankly has a backbone that Rubio just doesn’t. Unfortunately, a lot of Hispanics promoted in the GOP aren’t that conservative and have ties to the establishment, typically the Bush family. Rubio, Alberto Gonzales, Carlos Gutierrez, Jeb’s son George P. Bush, the Diaz-Balarts, Sandoval and Martinez who just extended Obamacare to their states.
Labrador’s kinda stepping off Jeb’s plantation by being legitimately anti-establishment and legitimately a small government conservative. I hope he backs Rand Paul when he runs.
Your Congressman’s a legit small government Tea Partier. Rubio’s not. Steve King and Paul Broun are good conservatives too, and they’re running for Senate.