◼ Ari Fleischer: ‘Cantor loss likely means no way immigration reform proceeds’ - Twitchy
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer says Brat’s victory tonight ensures “immigration reform” (by which he means amnesty, though he doesn’t call it that) is dead in the water.
◼ PowerLine (Paul Mirengoff) agrees:
Cantor’s defeat is all about immigration. A vast gulf has opened up between certain Republican leaders, like Cantor and Paul Ryan, who seemingly are doing the bidding of corporate interests that would like to drive down wages, and the Republican rank and file....House Republicans, please take note.◼ So does The New Republic:
The immediate policy implications of this are clear: Immigration reform is completely dead. It was a very longshot before Tuesday night. Now, it’s 100 percent over. Cantor’s loss shows how toxic the subject is for any incumbent Republican.
◼ And Miami Herald political writer Marc Caputo:
The No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House is a goner.And countless others on both Left and Right
And amid the ashes of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s shocking defeat Tuesday, comprehensive immigration reform smolders.
If Cantor goes down, so does immigration reform.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 10, 2014Drudge:
◼ SALON: Drudge and the right's frenzied paranoia - Salon
◼ MAG: Immigration Reform Will Go Down With Cantor - Jack Fitzpatrick and Alex Roarty/National Journal
◼ Todd: Children Flooding Border Sealed fate - Breitbart
◼ White House Spins: It Wasn't Immigration - National Review
◼ GOP Leadership in 'chaos' - National Journal
◼ Meet The Candidate Who Beat Top Republican - ABC
◼ Press Conference - YouTube (Autoplay, turn down your speakers)
◼ THIRD military base tapped to house illegal immigrant children - Daily Mail
◼ RYAN RENEWS AMNESTY PUSH
Zuckerberg group pumps ads...
◼ Border Agent Issues Plea for Help, Says USA Overrun By Criminal Aliens - Infowars
Deportation costs soar...
Questions surround surge at border...
Illegal who sought refuge in church gets deportation stay...
Illegals flagging down border patrol to gain entry to USA...
Central American newspapers tout Obama amnesty program...
CONDITIONS DETERIORATE AT AZ SHELTER...
Chicken pox, staph infection fears...
Widespread sexual activity...
Feds violating child abuse laws?
Valerie Jarrett in secret meetings with activists...
PAPER: Influx 'threatens to transform nation'...
◼ DC Rocked. Cantor Loses Primary - AP
◼ What Cantor’s Defeat Means - John Podhoretz/Commentary
...So is this a case of the Republican Right eating one of its own to prove a point? Perhaps. Or it could just be he was hit by a perfect storm of anti-Washington sentiment and his own advocacy for an immigration bill that made him a whipping boy for ratings-hungry radio chatters. He lost touch with the voters in his own district and was done in....
