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Tue Jun 26, 2012, 12:02 PM Jun 2012

Jon Kyl Blames Obama For Failure Of Immigration Reform Under Bush

Lying liars lying,again.


The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday against major parts of Arizona’s immigration law highlighted the GOP’s bind on the issue, with Mitt Romney awkwardly equivocating. A leading Arizona Republican sought to ease his party’s troubles by devising a novel claim: that President Obama was to blame for Congress’s failure to pass immigration reform under President Bush.

“I note that in his response to today’s Supreme Court ruling, President Obama called on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. I also note that the bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill I helped draft in 2007 was killed — in part — by then-Senator Obama,” Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ), a Republican leadership member, said in a statement.

The problem: Obama voted in favor of Bush’s 2007 immigration legislation, while Kyl joined the filibuster that quashed it.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/jon-kyl-immigration-reform-barack-obama-arizona-dream-act-hispanic-vote.php?ref=fpb

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