Top Immigration-Reduction Democrats (if you're looking for a Democratic incumbent to support, here are some nominations)

A timely post from http://www.numbersusa.com/  about Immigration Enforcement DEMOCRATS. This follows this post about Los Angeles County extending the 287(g) program. This follows this post about the border with Mexico and the Falcon Lake murder and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE!

Top Immigration-Reduction Democrats (if you're looking for a Democratic incumbent to support, here are some nominations)






By Roy Beck, Sunday, October 17, 2010, 8:09 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA



We know that most of our NumbersUSA members are dedicated either to the Republican or Democratic Party because of a wide array of issues and ideologies that are dear to you.



Today, I'm writing for those of you who are wondering where you can make contributions to congressional Democratic incumbents nationwide who have been the most reliable in resisting immigration increases and in working for reductions.



Here are the 18 Democrats who have earned a Grade-B or better for both their Career and for This Congress.



DEMOCRATS WITH Grade 'A+' OVER THEIR CAREER



(Grades in parentheses below are the incumbent's This Congress grade for only actions in 2009-2010.)



MISSISSIPPI



•Rep. Gene Taylor (A-minus)

'A' GRADE FOR CAREER IMMIGRATION ACTIONS



GEORGIA



•Rep. Jim Marshall (B+)

NORTH CAROLINA



•Rep. Heath Shuler (B)

'A-minus' GRADE FOR CAREER IMMIGRATION ACTIONS



GEORGIA



•Rep. John Barrow (B)

'B+' GRADE FOR CAREER IMMIGRATION ACTIONS



MONTANA



•Sen. Jon Tester (B)

'B' GRADE FOR CAREER IMMIGRATION ACTIONS



ALABAMA



•Rep. Bobby Bright (B)

FLORIDA



•Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (B)

IDAHO



•Rep. Walt Minnick (B)

INDIANA



•Rep. Joe Donnelly (B)

•Rep. Brad Ellsworth (B)

LOUISIANA



•Rep. Charles Melancon (B)

MARYLAND



•Rep. Frank Kratovil (B)

NORTH CAROLINA



•Rep. Larry Kissell (B)

•Rep. Mike McIntyre (B+)

OREGON



•Rep. Peter DeFazio (B)

PENNSYLVANIA



•Rep. Jason Altmire (B)

•Rep. Patrick J. Murphy (B)

VIRGINIA



•Rep. Glenn Nye (B)

Those 18 have consistently had a good-to-excellent record of supporting less immigration, both over their entire career and during the most recent Congress (2009-2010).



For some of these, their Career and This Congress cover the same amount of time because they were just elected in 2008.



For honorable mention, I would also note Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia whose Career grade is "B-minus" but who was the Democrat with the best record in This Congress, earning an "A."



BUCKING DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP



Generally, I consider a "B" grade to be a luke-warm sort of record. It certainly doesn't show much leadership.



On the other hand, a "B" grade does show some real independence and even courage when earned by a Democrat.



Why? Because the Democratic Party's leadership is so aggressively in favor of high immigration, high importation of foreign workers and high U.S. population growth. Consider that both the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi earned "F-minus" grades for their total support for more foreign workers during This Congress (2009-2010).



Unfortunately, the majority of Democrats in This Congress were pulled substantially into Reid's and Pelosi's open-borders orbit.



But the Democratic incumbents listed above bucked their Party's leadership and their Party peers in order to take generally good immigration stands that favor unemployed Americans and environmental sustainability through lower immigration levels.



LISTING OF GRADES FOR ALL DEMOCRATS



You can look at the full list of all current congressional Democrats, sorted by the Career grades at:



http://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/tools/grades/list/0/CONGRESS/US/D/Grade/Active#tabset-3



If you want to re-sort that list by alphabetical order of last names (so you can more easily find a specific Member of Congress), look at the "Sort By" box in the upper right of the page. You'll see "Grade" listed. Click on the drop-down box and click "Name" to see all the Members in alpha order.



For the grades in This Congress alone, go to:



http://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/tools/grades/list/0/CONGRESS/US/D/Grade/Active#tabset-1



If you are committed to supporting only Democratic candidates, I recommend the Members of Congress listed above.



If you want to see what kind of immigration promises are being made by their Republican challengers, check out the Candidate Comparison pages here:



http://www.numbersusa.com/content/elections/races/congressional  



ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA



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They Think You Are Stupid: Why Resistance To Obamacare Is Growing Despite Intimidation and Slander

A very timely post from www.hughhewitt.com about the resistance to Obamacare.



They Think You Are Stupid: Why Resistance To Obamacare Is Growing Despite Intimidation and Slander
by Hugh Hewitt

President Obama's decision to unleash his operatives at the DNC, surrogates like Barbara Boxer, and his staff like Linda Douglas to slander and attempt to intimidate opponents of Obamacare not only has badly backfired, it has opened another front the president now finds himself fighting on: Does he intend to be the new Nixon, rather than the new FDR? Like Nixon, will he unleash a political operation that spirals out of control and ends his presidency?

More than a million people have signed a petition to stop Obamacare, and the president and his Chicago-rules enforcers have serially insulted each one of them and every other citizen who rejects Obamacare for any of many reasons.

Appealing as the president did via the White House web for snitches to turn in "fishy" citizens smacks of the lowest sort of thuggish politics. It took Chuck Colson a couple of years and the repeated leaks of national security information and massive protests of the Vietnam era to get the Watergate-era Plumbers up and running. A mere six months into his unsteady start, the new president is reaching for the political blackjacks. "The White House request that members of the public report anyone who is spreading 'disinformation' about the proposed national health care makeover could lead to a White House database of political opponents that will be both secret and permanent, according to Republican lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are examining the plan's possible implementation," writes Byron York in the Washington Examiner. A new Enemies List! Can break-ins to doctors' offices be far behind?
The opposition to Obamacare has exploded and spread in a natural, viral way across the country to various events sponsored by various congressmen and senators. Because the issue if of such enormous consequence to their lives, the opposition will continue to spread. It is the same sort of energy that accompanied the immigration debate of a couple of years ago when all participants in the Congressional debate --GOP and Democrat-- were perceived by the public as not being candid and responsive, and before that during the recall of Gray Davis in California following the rolling blackouts of energy and Davis' near complete collapse in his ability to be believed.
This voluble crowds and loud expressions of disdain and dismay arrive when political elites attempt to jam down very unpopular policies or explain away very pressing problems with manifestly absurd arguments or dodges. The concern and anger that has been on display the past two weeks and which is likely to continue to grow is rooted in the fact that (1) Obamacare is rightly understood to be a threat to people's existing insurance and doctors and (2) the president repeatedly and falsely "guarantees" voters that they can keep their insurance and doctors. The refusal of proponents of Obamacare to honestly address these obviously major problems and concerns feeds the fear which feeds the anger. The president, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman and the rest are hiding the truth about the consequences of Obamacare and voters know it.
There's a reason why Democratic Congressman Collin Peterson of Minnesota declared his opposition to Obamacare this week --he wants to keep his job.
Two Arkansas Democrats, Mike Ross and Vic Snyder have to be recalculating their political futures after a hometown crowd of angry constituents blasted the "compromise" Ross and other "Blue Dogs" worked out with the hard left Henry Waxman. Conservative Democrats and moderates are not buying the idea that the left will genuinely compromise and are assuming, correctly, the good ole boys got hornswaggled by the sharpies from the coast and the cool guy in the White House. They are working and they like their health insurance and don't want to be pushed into a tin-cup government plan. They know Medicare is slated to put the screws to doctors again, which means seniors will be even less likely to get appointments and procedures. And they know that the political elites of the Beltway will continue on with their platinum-plated FEHB plan, free of any concern over life's health insurance lottery.
There are lots and lots of Democratic congressmen and Democratic senators up for election in 15 months. If Obamacare is pushed through on narrow majorities using street thug tactics and supported by Pelosi-Boxer San Francisco sneering over the objection of core Democratic constituencies, the Obama coalition will be as dead as the prospect of efficient and effective health care in America. Retreating from the brink would be a defeat for Obama, but not the Waterloo predicted by Senator Jim DeMint if the president disengaged artfully and instead imposed a package of necessary reforms on the senate and the house but one that excluded the government option and massive tax hikes.

President Obama is still in a position to declare are a victory and achieve a useful bit of reform, but all signals are that his ego is engaged in winning the end of American medicine as we know it, and forcing tens of millions of Americans into a half-way house to single-payer while punishing doctors for their past sins and collecting information for opponents' permanent records.
The reaction to this thrust for power is more political resistance. When the DNC puts out a scurrilous ad like yesterday's branding opponents as part of a right wing extremist mob, I and other radio hosts gladly play it again and again. When Barbara Boxer astonishes rational people with her diatribes, we play Boxer's rants again and again. We play the president's "guarantees" again and again, and Robert Gibbs' shambling rambling non-sequitors again and again. (Does Gibbs go the way of Stephanopoulos soon? George S. was a great asset to Bill Clinton but not so good in the Press Room and got yanked in favor of David Gergen about six months into Clinton's first term. Is Gergen warming up in his permanent D.C. bullpen?)

All the hit pieces and all the supporting fire from a still cheering MSM (there are credible exceptions like ABC's Jake Tapper and Politico's Mike Allen) are not going to turn the debate on Obamacare because it sets up a "government plan/private option" that will attract thousands of employers to dump millions of employees into it. That's the hard reality, the granite fact, at the heart of this debate. Tens of millions of Americans don't want to go into the post office or DMV equivalent of health care, and they will continue to say no --at various volumes-- and to learn every day that Team Obama just doesn't care what they think. The concerned citizens should sit down and shut up according to all the president's men and women. And those men and women are taking names.


About The Author
Hugh Hewitt is host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show. Hugh Hewitt's new book is The War On The West.
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The Four Democrat Blue Dogs Who Sold Out America

An analysis from Erick Erickson of www.redstate.com on the so-called Blue Dogs



The Four Democrat Blue Dogs Who Sold Out America
Judas only needed 30 pieces of silver to sell out Christ. How much did these four need to sell out their country?

Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)

When you are calling Congressmen today, and you can get your Congressman’s name by going to http://www.redstate.com/action, keep in mind that these are the four Blue Dog Democrats who decided to cut a deal with the liberals in the House of Representatives.
These four men need to be called by every single freedom loving person in their districts.

Bart Gordon(TN) at 202-225-4231
Zack Space (OH) at 202-225-6265
Baron Hill (IN) at 202-225-5315
Mike Ross (AR) at 202-225-3772