Posted on 11/10/2006 5:06:54 PM PST by Mini-14
Washington, DC—The Democratic Party was swept to victory in yesterday’s election by voters who were fed up with President Bush’s inability to address issues of greatest concern to the mainstream of the American public: the progress in the war in Iraq, the steady erosion of the middle class, and the failure to implement meaningful policies to control illegal immigration.
In countless races across the country Democrats pointed to Congress’ failure to control illegal immigration. The administration’s refusal to back House Republicans on critical legislation undermined the party’s standing with the public. Many victorious Democrats ran on a platform of support for immigration enforcement.
Lost in the news were the five successful state immigration related ballot measures. Arizonans passed four by margins as high as 77 percent. Coloradans passed one measure that would require the State Attorney General to initiate a lawsuit against the federal government for not enforcing immigration laws. Another that bars businesses from claiming a state income tax business deduction for wages paid to workers who were known at the time of hiring to be undocumented immigrants is still in question, though it is expected to pass.
“While many contend the elections of 2006 were first and foremost a referendum on President Bush and the war in Iraq,” noted Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), “just beneath the surface was a cauldron of public discontent about the Bush Administration’s seeming disregard for middle class, working Americans. From globalist trade policies that export American jobs, to failed immigration policies that effectively import millions of low wage workers to fill jobs in the U.S., the American voters said loudly and clearly yesterday: Enough!”
FAIR is calling upon the newly elected Democrats and the new congressional leadership to honor the promises that they made to dissatisfied voters all across the country to implement effective policies against illegal immigration. “When candidates promised that they would ‘get tough on illegal immigration,’ voters understood this to mean that they would enforce our borders, crackdown on employers, and create real deterrents to illegal immigration. If there was a single newly elected Democratic legislator who ran on a platform of amnesty for illegal aliens and massive new foreign guest worker programs, we are not aware of it,” said Stein.
President Bush has become closely identified with the guest worker amnesty program, a position that has contributed to his unpopularity with the voters. Schemes to flood the labor market with countless millions of foreign workers are widely viewed by the public as a central component of the president’s anti-middle class policies.
“Yesterday’s election was an historic middle class revolt against the administration’s tin-ear policies that are undermining their security and interests,” said Stein. “The new Democratic majority has promised to change that and we look forward to working with them to craft immigration policies that respond to the real concerns of the American voters. Amnesty and guest worker programs will only compound years of White House policies that have harmed the middle class, and we are hopeful that the new congressional leadership, as promised, will take us in a new direction.”
PING - fyi !!!
If the Democrats get some wits about them and adopt a policy of sealing the border and coming down hard on employers, they will sweep the elections in 2008.
LOL, I guess the bong hits made them lose their memory that Nancy Pelosi voted against the GOP immigration bill.
Oh yeah, BTW, FAIR is also very pro-abortion.
And that's why they will vote for open borders Nancy Pelosi as their first vote in the House.
You may want to go visit your local used car lot. Seems that you enjoy being snookered.
Those few individuals are a minority among the Dems and cannot affect what bills get voted on.
Actually Hayworth's district has a 5-3 GOP registration advantage.
My A$$
Nuff said
Hayworth made immigration his single issue and he lost.
Ping!
Anybody and everybody is blaming their pet peeve for the lose.
This was one strange election. I know countless Republicans in Virginia that came up with some excuse not to vote Tuesday....in a close election, no less!
PIMF
The new Democratic majority has promised to change that and we look forward to working with them to craft immigration policies that respond to the real concerns of the American voters. Amnesty and guest worker programs will only compound years of White House policies that have harmed the middle class, and we are hopeful that the new congressional leadership, as promised, will take us in a new direction.
MY A$$
Boy do you have a surprise coming. I heard on the radio yesterday that Pelosi family businesses are all non union and the labor at the winery is done mostly by illegals.
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