As you have heard by now, Amnesty-loving Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) has been shellacked by his challenger, a conservative economics professor who made Cantor’s support for Amnesty his key issue.
The Establishment GOP can’t understand why the base does not share their enthusiasm for importing millions of units of cheap foreign labor to replace American workers. If you asked a typical member of the GOP aristocracy why the base is so opposed to Amnesty, they would give you the same answer a Democrat would, “racism.”
They cannot understand why the peasant class… that rabble!… won’t trust them to finally… in exchange for Amnesty… finally control the border after 28 years of promising to control the border, but never coming anywhere near controlling the border.
Because I think the peasant class has caught on that what the GOP, the Democrats, and the US Chamber of Commerce really want is for the Border Patrol to hand out American citizenship and directions to the nearest sweat shop to anyone who can run, jump, swim or take a boat into the country. And their feints at “Border Security” are just empty promises to do what they’ve always promised to do but never done in the past.
Oh, also, the Establishment GOP has decided if they can’t have Thad Cochran in Mississippi, they would rather lose the seat (and blame the Tea Party) (The Cucinelli Strategem).
Yeah, they are all about having a “Big Tent,” so long as they can run the circus.
This all may not put Boehner on notice, but it will certainly shut him up for a bit & be a reason for pause.
I’m not understanding, why so many people are not comprehending the basics of a (conservative) movement’s reality. It’s a movement of people. It’s not a fad movement du jour, run by juveniles & dreadful catch phrases.
Good riddance. Any member of the GOP who is pro-amnesty needs to be kicked to the curb.
Savoring.
And with a very heavy turnout, his defeat can’t just be attributed to casual Tea Party opposition…the bulk of the District turned on him.
Let’s hope this puts the other pro-Amnesty Republicans on the defensive.
Also heard that it being an open primary (hate, hate open primaries) some dems were crossing over to defeat him as they are counting on having an easier time with his opponent.
Hopefully, this is the beginning of a house cleaning that is long overdue.
The only reason I can think of as to why the GOP Establishment dismisses the Tea Party and conservatives is because they have come to believe the Left’s caricature of conservatives. Which will cost them in the long run, I think.
Immigration reform is one long series of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown cartoons.
It always begins with: First we secure the border.
It always ends with more illegal immigrants pouring across the 100% secured border.
We have a Marine sitting in a Mexican Prison and three army posts being overrun with illegal immigrant children spreading disease and the bright lights in the Republican establishment think amnesty is the answer.
What is it the voters don’t understand?
Many people, I believe, do not understand what underlies this “immigration reform” push.
Contract labor.
Contract labor is dealing with a labor coyote who agrees to pick the field of strawberries through the season for X per unit picked. He shows up with his crew and they start filling containers with strawberries of the appropriate ripeness and condition. At the end of the day, the coyote is paid X times the containers. The Coyote has given chits to each picker as the filled units are turned in. The Coyote pays his agreed upon price for each chit. No withholding, no minimum wage, no Osha, no lots of stuff.
Or a restaurant has bike delivery guys who get paid a contract price per unit delivered and they can keep the tips.
This is what underlies immigration reform. People on welfare don’t have to do this type of work and, therefore, won’t.
What we need is a return to the green card migrant worker program. Many farmers are being squeezed on one end by finding labor to pick a ripening crop and by the EPA on the other end which is cutting off their water supply. Meanwhile, it becomes cheaper to fly produce in from other continents.
If I were to advise the GOP-E, I would tell them to put Amnesty on the back shelf and work on passing a Border Security bill and a Universal E-Verify bill. Tell them, “This is your last chance to prove you are serious about Border Security and protecting American workers. We’ll be watching. Prove you really mean it this time, and only once you’ve got those things working we’ll talk about the Illegals who are in the country and what to do with them.”
But, then again, I’m just a constituent, not a deep-pocketed big business interest.
Now watch as the national GOP cash buckets “forget” to fund Dave Brat as punishment for knocking on the GOP-E door. Or is that kicking it down?
Hopefully, Tea Party organizations will be able to pass on some funding.
The 7th District of Virginia is solidly conservative Republican. Brat will have a cake walk without much difficulty. He doesn’t need no stinkin’ establishment money.
Robert Tracinski in the FEDERALIST:
Cantor’s real constituency wasn’t the folks back home. His constituency was the Republican leadership and the Republican establishment. That’s who he really answered to.
Guess what? Folks in the seventh district figured that out.
…as Dave Brat put it in one of his frenzied post-victory interviews, “the problem with the Republican principles is that nobody follows them.”
Cantor was also heavily in-thrall to the K Street lobbyists, and the Wall Street/Big Bank/Big Hedge Fund crowd.
Can not say I’m sad to see him leaving. Hopefully he’ll resign his leadership position before the Midterm elections…he’s beyond a “lame duck”, he’s a “cooked goose”
Still plenty of work to do, but it’s a start, and a helluva start at that.
Any real conservative knows that the costs of illegal alien labor is picked up the taxpayers, and those costs far exceed any benefit to having them here. Illegals bring chargas & TB that’s drug resistant since they are not smart enough to comply with instructions. E coli from them picking food without knowing about hand washing post BM. To top it off illegal alien drunk drivers kill more American citizens in 2 weeks than rifles do in a year.
what we have had for the last forty years is not an immigration problem, it is a politically motivated racist colonization problem. after the 1980 election the left realized that this country wasn’t going communist as long as whites were the majority. so they started a racist colonization program to make whites a minority as most of the support for communism comes from non-whites.
prior to 1980 for the entire two hundred year history of the country 90% of the immigration to the united states was from europe. in one decade that was completely reversed. in the 1980s 90% of the immigration to the united states was non-european. does that sound like an evolutionary change or a deliberate plan?
republicans like cantor see that the left’s plan is on the verge of success and want to be able to stay in power so they embrace the colonization in the hopes that they will be allowed to stay in office.
It seems that Rand Paul has decided to support amnesty for illegals. Oh, he didn’t call it that, but “let all the illegals in the country stay and give them work visas” pretty much equals amnesty.
I liked Rand Paul, but now it seems that he is nothing more than another K Street sympathizer who is more interested in helping wealthy donors keep more of their money, than he is in helping out-of-work Americans get jobs. Any man who willingly gives a job to a foreign-born criminal rather than a native-born citizen is a man I can’t vote for in good conscience.
Unless he changes his mind, or another Republican who also supports the preservation of our rights, I’m sitting 2016 out. The only way to tell these chuckle heads that we don’t approve of their antics is to not go along with it. Period.