Posted on 07/31/2014 8:00:34 PM PDT by kabar
Good grief!!! We are now going to split hairs on who is the *front man*? Really? We need every pol we can get, we need Sessions AND Cruz.
Or is it your contention Cruz is not necessary and Sessions can go it alone. ....is that what you prefer?
Who the heck CARES who was first?! Geeesh,,has Obamaism crept this far into the ranks of Conservatives? Now we are going to have a stand off over who was first? Really? This is EXACTLY what King Obama wants. Is Sessions demanding any sort of credit? Come on!
When Americans went to the polls in 2012, the following was true: Work-force participation had sunk to its lowest level in 35 years, wages had fallen below 1999 levels, and 47 million Americans were on food stamps. Yet Mitt Romney, the challenger to the incumbent president, lost lower- and middle-income voters by an astonishing margin. Among voters earning $30,000 to $50,000, he trailed by 15 points, and among voters earning under $30,000 he trailed by 28 points.
And what did the GOP’s brilliant consultant class conclude from this resounding defeat? They declared that the GOP must embrace amnesty. The Republican National Committee dutifully issued a report calling for a “comprehensive immigration reform” that would inevitably increase the flow of low-skilled immigration, reducing the wages and living standards of the very voters whose trust the GOP had lost.
Over the past four decades, as factories were shuttered and blue-collar jobs were outsourced or automated, net immigration quadrupled. Yet the corporate-consultant class has pronounced that an insufficient level of immigration is the problem. A more colossal misreading of the political moment has rarely occurred.
Perhaps the most important political development now unfolding in the U.S. is the public’s growing loss of faith in our political and financial elites of both parties. To open the ears of disaffected voters, the GOP must break publicly from the elite immigration consensus of Wall Street and Davos. Republicans have a clear path to building a conservative majority if they free themselves from the corporate consultants and demonstrate to the American public that the GOP is the only party aligned with the core interests, concerns, and beliefs of everyday hardworking citizens.
But the immigration “principles” offered by House GOP leaders imply that record immigration levels must be increased further to meet “the needs of employers.” One such GOP proposal — to provide the food industry with half a million low-skilled workers each year — was polled by Rasmussen. Nearly 70 percent of independent voters opposed it.
Sessions has been fighting amnesty for a decade now. He was involved back when W was pushing amnesty.
He’s up there with Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter, fighting for this country and being vilified by his party for it. Long before it was cool to do so.
Mo Brooks is another good one. He’s principled and tough as nails.
He is standing tall
Or is it your contention Cruz is not necessary and Sessions can go it alone. ....is that what you prefer?
You need to go back and reread my posts, which were in response to another poster. They need to be read in that context. I was not the one who brought up Cruz's name. This thread is about what Jeff Sessions did tonight. I said nothing negative about Ted Cruz and said that I supported either Sessions or Cruz as the 2016 nominee for President.
Who the heck CARES who was first?! Geeesh,,has Obamaism crept this far into the ranks of Conservatives? Now we are going to have a stand off over who was first? Really? This is EXACTLY what King Obama wants. Is Sessions demanding any sort of credit? Come on!
Good grief, get a grip on yourself. I just set the record straight based on my over 8 years of lobbying on the issue on the Hill. Jeff Sessions deserves our praise for what he did tonight. He was a leader.
Call him and tell him. There’s a ton of pressure on him right now.
Thank you for your work.
Cruz & Sessions 2016!
I helped the Dave Brat campaign in the primary on the issue of immigration. Brat used it perfectly. The GOP should use his approach on immigration as a template nationally.
I will call his office tomorrow and thank him. It is just one battle in a long war.
I sent an email.
Thank you, Mr. Sessions.
/salute
The majority of American workers is too uninformed and too damned lazy to vote. He has no right to expect a voice representing him.
See my post #50.
Who are they going to vote for—the Dems who have sold them out or the Reps who support Big Business and the Chamber of Commerce? Both parties support increased immigration for different reasons.
YEAH BOY!
Ska-Rew "immigration reform"
We want a Border Bill!
WE need to flood HIS PHONE with THANKS....and even cards!! WOW a TRUE PATRIOT!! THANKS Jeff Sessions!!
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