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.”
He is not in a majority democrat district. The district has a 5-3 GOP registration advantage.
Doesn't this sound like the Muslim credo that it is acceptable to lie to an infidel because they don't count anyway ?
I've heard so many theories these last few days on why we lost the House and Senate ranging from Iraq, values, overspending, abandoning the Christians, catering to the Christians, Bush...etc.
The reason we lost is because of scandals and candidates that ran crappy campaigns.
Oh, dear, now you've done it! You've taken the mask off the face of the Democrats and shown the face of Radical Islam to be underneath!
20 Republican incumbents were defeated in the House. Of those 20, 18 voted for HR4437. One of the two who voted against HR4437, JD Hayworth said it didn't go far enough.
Only one incumbent who was against illegal immigration reform, lost. 19 incumbents who were for illegal immigration, lost.
The following is a list of incumbents who lost and how they voted on HR 4437.
Jim Ryun (KS) - Yes
J.D. Hayworth (AZ) - No
Richard Pombo (CA) - Yes
Chris Chocola (IN) - Yes
Gil Gutknecht (MN) - Yes
Charles Taylor (NC) - Yes
Mike Sodrel (IN) - Yes
Melissa Hart (PA) - Yes
John Hostettler (IN) - Yes
Don Sherwood (PA) - Yes
Anne Northup (KY) - Yes
Clay Shaw (NC) - Yes
John Sweeney (NY) - Yes
Jeb Bradley (NH) - Yes
Charles Bass (NH) - Yes
Curt Weldon (PA) - Yes
Sue Kelly (NY) - Yes
Mike Fitzpatrick (PA) - Yes
Nancy Johnson (CT) - Yes
Jim Leach (IA) - No
Those are the facts. Te BS is this article and your support of it.
Welcome to Free Republic!
What do you find 'negative' about stopping Bush's amnesty?
Your giggling over this good conservative losing might yet be a little premature.
Why not hold off on the celebration until all the absentees are counted?
And what sort of campaign did the various, victorious Democrats run, vis-a-vis illegal immigration, compared to the 20 defeated Republican incumbents that you so kindly listed? Clay Shaw is not a North Carolina representative, by the way. He's Florida, District 22 I believe.
Jim Ryun (KS) - Yes
J.D. Hayworth (AZ) - No
Richard Pombo (CA) - Yes
Chris Chocola (IN) - Yes
Gil Gutknecht (MN) - Yes
Charles Taylor (NC) - Yes
Mike Sodrel (IN) - Yes
Melissa Hart (PA) - Yes
John Hostettler (IN) - Yes
Don Sherwood (PA) - Yes
Anne Northup (KY) - Yes
Clay Shaw (NC) - Yes
John Sweeney (NY) - Yes
Jeb Bradley (NH) - Yes
Charles Bass (NH) - Yes
Curt Weldon (PA) - Yes
Sue Kelly (NY) - Yes
Mike Fitzpatrick (PA) - Yes
Nancy Johnson (CT) - Yes
Jim Leach (IA) - No
I suspect the latter, but perhaps they really meant it.
susie
I'm not "giggling" about his loss. J.D Hayworth jumped on the Tancredo bandwagon and got burned.
"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."
And if Bush had done the same by militarizing the border on 9/12 and enforcing our immigration laws, retaining majority would have been a slam dunk. His OBL agenda took precidence over national security and sovreignty.
Laughable. II were a non issue. No one in their right mind believes the RATS will do anything except make it worse.
The election was lost because of the power of the Treason Media to control the Independents and Moderates. Reducing that power is the ONLY way the GOP can win.
"Your giggling over this good conservative losing might yet be a little premature."
It is a little unseemly, isn't it? Wanting a fellow Republican to lose, because of some strange fixation upon open borders.
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