Posted on 09/04/2014 2:38:40 PM PDT by george76
The business group that has been pushing for amnesty but that has often backed Republican candidates is throwing its support behind Democrats in several key House races this cycle... the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will have endorsed four Democratic candidates in the House races by the end of the week.
Wednesday the Chamber endorsed California Democratic Rep. Scott Peters, a vulnerable freshman facing reelection against Republican challenger Carl DeMaio.
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Georgia Democratic Rep. John Barrow is also slated to receive the Chamber’s official endorsement at an event on Friday...
Other Democratic House members receiving the Chamber’s endorsement this year to date are Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar and California Rep. Jim Costa.
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I doubt anyone is surprised
The Chamber of Amnesty.
And the GOP-e pays homage to these rat bastards?
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is reportedly throwing support behind Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3186028/posts
Declaration of War in short by all Conservatives against the Chamber of Commerce.
Because the Democrats are for the working man, while the Republicans are the party of the rich.
This is the organization which doesn't sell out Main Street for Wall Street. This is the organization which took ObaMaoCare to court.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is dead to me. Decent people do not reward lawless behavior.
Finally - Out of the closet and into the cesspool where they belong...
The Chamber is dead to me. Just a few years ago, they were a rallying point for conservatives because they led the way on Obamacare.
The GOPe and Karl Rove have the Chamber completely 100% in the Republican corner. That’s why we have to have amnesty. For the corporatists. So they’ll contribute to and vote for Republicans. 100%. Guaranteed. We’ve been promised.
Are local CoC’s members of this regime?
If not, good.
If so, local business members must get them to divorce it, or else they leave it.
It does dispel the myth that all of those RINOs supported by the Chamber of Commerce care about core conservative issues.
The Chamber of Commerce has become part of The Ruling Party. Wasn't the CoC once the friend of small local businesses?
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.
“Most business leaders have long favored more open immigration. Different businesses want different kinds of people,” a prominent GOP fundraiser declared on TV. “A restaurant may want waiters and cooks; a hospital wants nurses and doctors; a university wants physicists; a business like Exelon needs more engineers.” Asked by the interviewer about hiring U.S. workers for open jobs, he replied that many of those now unemployed are “unable to compete for them.” Is that the message of a winning party? It might win a majority of votes at a dinner party in a gated community in Bel Air, but it is an act of profound delusion to think that plan can form the basis of a nationwide Republican resurgence.
Democrats in Washington have already cast their lot. A recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies shows that all net employment gains from 2000 to 2013 — a period of record legal immigration — went to immigrant workers, and yet the immigration plan championed by the White House and congressional Democrats would triple the number of immigrants given permanent legal status over the next decade, and it would double the annual flow of guest workers to compete for jobs in every sector of the U.S. economy. The Democrats’ plan delivers for international corporations, open-borders groups, and even workers now living in other countries — all at the expense of American workers.
So Republicans have a choice. They can either join the Democrats as the second political party in Washington advocating uncontrolled immigration, or they can offer the public a principled alternative and represent the American workers Democrats have jettisoned. Republicans can either help the White House enact an immigration plan that will hollow out the American middle class, or they can finally expose the truth about the White House plan and detail the enormous harm it will inflict.
Bout time they took their mask off...
We should work to utterly defeat all of these Demon Rats.
They have the beltway bug like a lot of politicians.
State and local chambers have very little partisanship infection in their top staff members but the national unit has little regard for individual or local group's wishes.
The inside the DC beltway disease.
Repealing the 17th amendment would be good first step.
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