1.  The Rubio initiative is based on his professed beliefs that illegals will be willing to pay fines and go to the back of the line.  This is an assumption backed by no empirical evidence.  My anecdotal experience informs me that many illegals are in the US for the short term advantages.  Many would be content with living below the radar provided they can return to Mexico with a nest egg in US dollars.

2.  Hispanics in New Mexico, where I currently reside, are a wholly owned constituency of the Democratic party.  Ideological issues such as abortion take a backseat to political patronage which is a practice that goes back to the colonial period when El Patron served the same purpose.

3.  Hispanics are hardly a monolithic group.  It's a mistake to assume that native New Mexicans, Cuban immigrants and LA Chicanos share the same culture much less the same political concerns. 

I'm now suspicious that Rubio's motivation is mainly to see himself elected president based on an appeal to ethnic chauvinism.  After all, it worked for Republican Suzanna Martinez in New Mexico.  If so, Rubio is playing the same game as Obama did to get elected.       

Scott, you are not blowing anything out of proportion.  In fact, you are underestimating the situation significantly.

I saw the most amazing man at BWI airport.  He was obviously a young veteran of either Afghanistan or Iraq, and he was striding through the airport on bionic legs.  He walked with a military bearing, and it was clear from the expression on his face that his spirit remained unbroken.  As long as such men answer the call to duty America still has a chance.

Our cities remain cesspools of vice and corruption, but the strength of any empire resides in the provinces.  There is still a vast red swath of the nation that attends church, works hard, and raises families.  It seems to me that it's largely the urban youth who prefer a life of distraction without a shred of understanding beyond their own desires.  Such is the nature of decadence. 

When Leviathan comes crashing down, our freedoms will be restored.  The time comes nigh when our spiritual resources will be called upon to sustain us.  What do you suppose that will mean for the rank materialist?  Such people will have neither the inner resources nor the material support that used to come so easy.  The rest of us will be fine if somewhat stressed.   

I think bureaucrats operate on autopilot.  Writing regulations is just what they do, and they are insulated from the consequences of failure.  Why change a thing when there's no accountability?  Bureaucrats honor the process over the product.  So how bright can they really be?  Tocqueville said that the American government is full of mediocre people because the real geniuses in America gravitate to other areas of endeavor.  Has anything changed?

I think you're the first person in this thread to understand what I'm getting at, but I disagree somewhat with your prognostication.  Leviathan will collapse of its own weight.  It's going to get just a little more than uncomfortable, but a collapse will restore liberty.   

I was never mistaken for anything other than an American in my many travels overseas.  The local people knew it by the way I walked:  shoulders back, chest out, chin leading the march.  Do you know why that is?  It's because Americans have the confidence derived from being a free people, so unlike the beaten down masses of subject peoples.  It doesn't matter what passport I carry because freedom is an attitude.  It's in my marrow.  I will remain an American to my last breath. 

Every one of you talking about bailing out on this great nation should be ashamed.  Just go away if you're not willing to fight.  I would rather stand shoulder to shoulder with a few stalwart men than a regiment of fair weather patriots.  Be gone if that is your wish.  The country will be better off without you.  Now is not the time to question the value of citizenship, but rather to assert the principles that guarantee liberty as espoused and ordained by our Founding Fathers.  Those who take a solemn pledge to defend liberty will in time be honored.  Those who do not will live in infamy.  

My point as well. 

Anybody who has ever had the press write a story about them, or about an incident they were involved in, knows how far off the mark such stories usually are.  I don't know the truth of this situation, but I'll bet the AP story is more factually wrong than correct.  Count me with those who think the AP just wanted a chance to work the word "Nazi" into the headlines. 

It should also be noted that by mid-war Hitler issued an order forbidding the SS from recruiting native Germans.  SS commanders were forced to recruit exclusively from the conquered peoples.  They used pro-Nazi Croats against communist Serbs, Muslim Caucasians against the Russians, and pro-fascist forces from many countries to keep local populations in check.  I could make the case that the resulting atrocities had more to do with ethnic rivalries than pro-Nazi sympathies.  So a young Ukrainian gets caught up in the general madness and is accused 50 years later of being a Nazi?  There is more to this story than will ever be revealed by the press, or even a court of law.        

I understand that Michelle Obama was paid $300,000 plus for a similar position at a Chicago hospital.  How does the IRS expect to get good people for such paltry wages? 

sarc/off 

Well, of course.  A one party state in time becomes totalitarian with an emphasis on the syllable "total" from whence the word derives its meaning.   

People in the D.C. area simply don't understand that their affluence is completely artificial.  I suppose they must believe their bloated salaries are entirely justified given the tremendous service they render to the nation.  But when do first class passengers ever give a thought to those who travel in steerage?  Why not dance the night away?  Life is good. 

You fill out IRS form 1099-misc identifying the president as the beneficiary, and you list the "gift" as embezzlement income.

Putin couldn't resist.  He thought it was the One Ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.   

Easter Egg Roll?  You mean the administration is literally asking us to believe in the Easter Bunny?   Bwahahahahha! 

I don't disagree with anything you say.  Nevertheless, the table is set to make the case that government abuse is best addressed by limited power and smaller government.  It might only take one very strong voice to make that case.  Maybe Paul Ryan, or maybe someone else.  "Comes the time, comes the man," so it's said.  Let's hope so.