GOP Insurgent Rubio Has The Right Enemies—But The Wrong, Treason Lobby, Friends

A very interesting post from www.Vdare.com about Marco Rubio. This follows this post about a way to help save American jobs. This follows this post about Marco Rubio's DREAM Act. This follows this post about the Black Caucus hurting Black Americans with their immigration stand. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants such as the 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso, where President Barack Obama recently bashed immigration enforcement! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!


GOP Insurgent Rubio Has The Right Enemies—But The Wrong, Treason Lobby, Friends


By Washington Watcher

The times they are a-changing on the grassroots right. After years of drinking the neoconservatives' Kool-Aid and eating their freedom fries, Middle America seems to be realizing that blind support for the GOP got the country right in the mess it’s in today—government bigger than ever, mass unemployment, unchecked immigration, and Barack Obama as president.

Tea Parties, defunding ACORN, auditing the Fed, attacking Sotomayor for her La Raza Agenda, attacking Obama for his anti-white agenda, Members of Congress screaming at the President for lying about health care and illegal immigrants, even mutterings about secession—all of this would have been unheard of with Bush and Delay in charge. But today it’s commonplace on conservative talk radio and on the blogosphere.

As yet, there is a dearth of political and institutional leadership to guide this nascent movement. Needless to say, the Republican Party Establishment is promoting safe, bland candidates for office rather than new Tom Tancredos or Virgil Goodes. However, the Tea Partyers/ Town Hallers appear to be standing up to the party hacks. This is gratifying—but beneath the anti-establishment veneer of some of the Tea Partyers’ Beltway allies is the same old Open Borders particle board.





The most prominent “anti-Establishment” candidate: Marco Rubio, the white Cuban former speaker of Florida House of Representatives, who is running against former Florida Governor Charlie Crist for the appalling Mel Martinez’s soon-to-be vacated U.S. Senate seat.


“Anti-tax ‘tea party’ conservatives are struggling with the Republican Party establishment by backing insurgent candidates, political activists say.

One example is in Florida, where the anti-tax and limited government advocacy group FreedomWorks [more on them later—WW] is backing former state House Speaker Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate against the candidate preferred by GOP centrists, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.

['Tea party' backers target GOP candidates, UPI, October 12, 2009]

Besides Crist’s support for amnesty, conservatives are still furious over his underhanded promotion of John McCain during the Florida primary:

Naturally, the National Republican Senatorial Committee endorsed Crist.

On the surface, Rubio does indeed seem an improvement over Mel Martinez on immigration. His platform states:

“Legal immigration has been a great source of strength and prosperity for America, but I believe illegal immigration threatens the foundation of this system. If I had been in the Senate at the time, I would have opposed the McCain-Kennedy bill. I believe we must fix our immigration system by first securing the border, fixing the visa and entry process and opposing amnesty in any reform.”

But “fixing the visa and entry process” could mean a lot of things—including massively increasing legal immigration. Remember how Bush tried to portray amnesty as “immigration reform”.

And Rubio gave a disturbing hint of what this meant in a convoluted interview with the website Red County. He absurdly accused Democrats and labor unions of being against legal immigration, while Republicans (he asserted) support it.

Rubio must be either completely ignorant of the sellout of union workers by Big Labor, or he is promoting a guest worker program—the only aspect of legal immigration that labor unions oppose.

Even more ominously, Rubio blamed the Republican’s “tone” on immigration for alienating Hispanic voters.

Even Rubio’s record on illegal immigration is dubious. In 2008, patriotic Florida state legislators proposed over a dozen bills to crack down on illegal immigration, but as Speaker Rubio stalled them in the House:

“Florida lawmakers looking to pass bills targeted at curbing illegal immigration faced one major hurdle this session—convincing South Florida legislators, who hold key leadership positions in the House and Senate, to support their cause.

Without the backing of House Speaker Marco Rubio, the first Cuban-American to hold the position, the bills failed to get any major play in their committees. Six weeks into the session, a three-hour workshop was held on the six House bills, but even that failed to produce its desired intent of combining the bills into one larger committee bill.

'Speaker Rubio outlined the priorities of the session and this didn't fall under that list,' said Rivera, one of Rubio's lieutenants.”

[Miami-Dade lawmakers stymie immigration bills, by Laura Figueroa, Miami Herald, April 17, 2008]

Finally, Rubio was the object of a fawning National Review cover story recently which even worse, was written by the unspeakable John J. Miller—a very bad sign indeed. [Rubio Rising The Florida GOP has a new star, Sept 7, 2009(Free link)]

Rubio is not the only anti-establishment candidate in the race. Former New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith, who has since moved to Florida, is also running. Unlike Rubio, he is making stopping illegal immigration a top priority. According to the Jacksonville Observer

“During a recent appearance on the Jacksonville Observer Radio Show, Smith made it clear that he was not pulling punches against Crist or Rubio. He noted that his campaign is going to include a significant focus on dealing with illegal immigration. On the issue of so-called amnesty, Smith replies: ‘No, no, and hell no!’” [Rubio and Smith to Participate in Senate Candidate Forum, by Austin Cassidy, The Jacksonville Observer, October 19, 2009]

That said, Smith’s record on immigration in the Senate in the 1980s and early 1990s leaves much to be desired. But it is clear that he is currently the only candidate in the race who is making stopping mass immigration a series issue.


What’s going on here? The main problem is that the same old Open Borders Beltway “conservative” operations like the Club for Growth and Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, both Bush lapdogs a few years ago, are now struggling to get control of the Tea Party movement.

And they’re getting somewhere. The most disturbing development: the re-ascension of former Republican Whip Dick Armey. Armey’s organization Freedom Works claims to have helped organize the 9-12 protest against big government and to be creating a grassroots network of 800,000 conservative activists.

Both Armey and Freedom Works have terrible records on immigration. A quick search of immigration at the Freedom Works site shows dozens of articles, panels, and press releases supporting amnesty and more immigration.

Most disgracefully, Armey attacked Tom Tancredo as the “cheerleader of jerkiness in the immigration debate” and accused Pat Buchanan of being “content to be a rock star” for “10 percent of the most militant voters in America.” [Republican blasts party's guest-worker plan, McClatchy Newspapers, September 28, 2006]

Armey also promotes political correctness on racial issues. During the 2008 campaign, he provided ammunition for the left by calling white working class citizens the “Bubba vote” that would not support Obama because of his race. According to Armey, it was “deplorable, but … real," that “an awful lot of people in America…are not emotionally prepared to vote for a black man.” [Armey 'Bubba vote' to hurt Obama, by Richard Wolf and Martha T. Moore, USA Today, September 3, 2008]

In an age when Joe Wilson became a hero to Middle Americans when the Left called him a racist for calling out Obama’s lies on illegal immigration, it is absurd that political correct Open Borders advocates could aspire to lead the patriot movement against Obama.


With Bush and McCain discredited, and a Middle America fed up with the Obama administration, the Tea Party patriots have an unprecedented opportunity to take their country back.

But first, they need to keep their movement out of the hands of Beltway faux radicals like Norquist, Armey, and their ilk.

"Washington Watcher" [email him] is an anonymous source Inside The Beltway.

NO DEBT LIMIT EXPANSION WITHOUT SPENDING CUTS!

A very interesting post from www.dickmorris.com about the debt limit and spending cuts. This follows this previous post about Barack Obama's debts and this article about  the recent news about ending the ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran  and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

NO DEBT LIMIT EXPANSION WITHOUT SPENDING CUTS!

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann



Every Republican member of Congress should sign the following pledge, being promulgated by Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform:



“I promise not to vote for any expansion of the federal debt limit unless it is preceded or accompanied by significant cuts in federal spending.”



We all know that the reason the federal government debt is exploding is the reckless spending policies of the Obama Administration. From the time George Washington took the oath of office to the time Barack Obama did, Washington borrowed $9 trillion. Since Obama took office, two years ago, we have borrowed almost $5 trillion more! Domestic discretionary spending (non-defense) has risen by an astonishing 41% in two years!!! Welfare spending, primarily Medicaid, has gone up by 54% in two years!!!! We must roll back these increases. (It is not increases in Social Security – 14% — or Medicare -16% that are the problem).





Obama will never allow spending cuts unless they are jammed down his throat and his need for an expansion of his borrowing authority are the key chance to do so.



House Speaker John Boehner sounded an ominous note of possible capitulation even before the first shot was fired when he said “We’re going to have to deal with it [raising the debt limit] as adults. Whether we like it or not, the federal government has obligations and we have obligations on our part.”



Obligations? Sure. But don’t we also have the obligation to stop the crazy spending even as we allow the debt limit to rise to pay for the spending that is already underway? Is this not the perfect time to demand spending restraint?



The American people will strongly support the spending restrictions as a precondition for raising the debt limit. Most don’t want the limit raised at all. But almost everyone will see the wisdom of cutting the spending as we raise the debt limit.



Obama will resist and, if he vetoes the spending cuts, he – not the Republican House – will bear the onus for the ensuing government default. And he will blink just like he did over extending the Bush tax cuts.



What spending cuts? Nothing complicated. The most important one is to roll back domestic discretionary spending to pre-Obama levels – 2008 levels – and freeze it there for three years. This step would cut the deficit by over $100 billion for each of the next three years (and, if we take the step now, for this year as well). Let the federal agencies figure out what to cut. But force them to make these cuts.



We all lived pretty well in 2008 before the 41% hike in domestic discretionary spending (on things like transportation, Congress, EPA, Justice, Education, Energy, etc). Let’s go back to those days and erase the legacy of the Obama stimulus package.



And we should also take two other steps:



(a) Transform Medicaid into a block grant to the states giving them the flexibility to spend it as they wish. Roll Medicaid back to 2008 levels and include a modest annual inflator for increasing costs of about 3%.



(b) And, we should only increase the debt limit by $500 billion (about three months worth) so as to keep Obama on a short leash and make him keep coming back for more while we add restrictions and new cuts each time.



Republicans need to be smart to leverage their one-house control into real accomplishments and there is no better place to start than with the debt limit vote next month

DEBT-LIMIT CHICKENS FACE CHOP

A very interesting post from www.dickmorris.com about the debt limit and spending cuts. This follows this post about Barack Obama's recess appointments and this article about  the recent news about ending the ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran  and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

DEBT-LIMIT CHICKENS FACE CHOP

By Dick Morris

Published on TheHill.com


Unless House Republicans want to trigger a civil war within their party, they must accompany any expansion of the debt limit with serious cuts in spending. While the old, complacent GOP establishment would have gone along with a clean debt-limit bill, the new, fiery Tea Party folks won’t have it.



Nor will America. Most Americans do not want to see the debt limit raised at all. If it must be increased, they will insist that it be preceded by major cuts in government spending. Voters see the need to borrow more money as a symptom of a disease of overspending. They are unwilling to sanction ongoing pain relievers to mitigate the impact of the illness without major progress toward a cure in the form of spending reductions.





And a few minor cuts won’t do. House Republicans should demand that discretionary, non-defense spending be rolled back to 2008, pre-Obama levels and be frozen there for the next three budget cycles. Since Obama has taken office, non-defense discretionary spending has risen by 41 percent. In just two years, it has soared! Only if this overspending is reined in and rolled back can the Republican House vote for a debt-limit increase.



Americans for Tax Reform (http://www.atr.org/) is pushing a pledge for members of Congress to sign promising not to raise the debt limit without first effecting “significant” cuts in federal spending. A majority — an overwhelming majority — of the House Republican Conference is sure to sign the pledge, forcing the leadership’s hand.



Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) sent the wrong signal when he called for Republicans to act like “adults” when it comes to dealing with the debt limit. If by that he means that they should go along with an expansion of the debt without big spending cuts, he is going to face reversal in his own caucus.



And the debt-limit extension the GOP approves should be a very limited one. President Obama needs to be kept on a short fiscal leash. The House should raise the limit by $500 billion — enough for three months — and then demand more concessions for a further increase. The next step should be to freeze Medicaid spending and block-grant it to the states.



The debt-limit increase is the first real confrontation between Obama and the new Republican House majority. It is a game of chicken the House must win. In any such contest, the key, of course, is where public opinion is on the issue. Americans are so enamored of spending cuts that the Rasmussen Poll says that they even regard them as more important than balancing the federal budget by a margin of 57-34.



The longer Obama tries to hold the line against cuts in spending as he seeks a debt-limit increase, the more political damage he will suffer. The longer the crisis lasts, the more Republicans will gain.



When Obama’s economic advisers — a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find — warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.



Voters will clearly understand that the debt has been caused by overspending and that we must cut the outlays for our financial survival. The more Obama fights over this issue, the more he will lose, and the harder Republicans fight, the more they will gain.



But if Republican leaders turn squishy on the issue and “compromise” with Obama — abandoning real spending cuts — they will lose their mandate from the American people. The entire future of the Republican Party’s 2012 effort to change America hangs in the balance.



We hope that Republican members will go to http://www.atr.org/  and sign the debt-limit pledge.

BLOGGER'S NOTE: You can contact yours at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov