The "GANG of Eight"
It’s very hard for me to understand what “Establishment”
Republicans “DON’T GET” about the anger of their own base.
I DO! I “get it,” perfectly.
Of course, I’ve ALWAYS
said that, “The Republicans Party is a
very poor vehicle for Conservatism,” at least the Conservatism of Southern
whites and Northern ethnic Catholics, mostly pro-Union workers. I stand by
that.
One of the BIG
issues facing American workers over the past 40+ years has been IN-Sourcing –
the importing of cheap migrant labor to do jobs that Americans WON’T do for less than $15/hour.
So, HOW
did our “Republican Congress" respond to American worker’s demands for LESS In-Sourcing and MORE expenditures on education and
re-training?
Yep, with the vaunted “Gang of Eight.” A gang tasked with pushing for and rationalizing even MORE In-Sourcing!
And what a “gang” it was, eight Corporatists, eight
anti-American worker pseudo-elitists, eight socially liberal dipshits.
BOTH
Parties have sold out their constituencies on this issue. Democrats KNOW that once Hispanics gain
citizenship they (1) retain their
devoutly religious stands and (2)
begin to vote, as most ethnic Catholics do, more conservatively, while
Republicans make no bones about their corporate shilling for cheap labor for
their corporate masters.
In-Sourcing cheap labor hurts ALL U.S. workers by
lowering the wage floor. Americans largely set up the 3rd World education
systems that are now producing the engineers and physicians we employ with all
those H-1B Visas, proving that they COULD
DO the SAME THING right here at
home...if they wanted to and if they wanted to pay American workers a decent
wage!
The Senate’s vaunted “Gang of Eight” was an utterly
bi-Partisan affair, albeit entirely Corporatist collective in its makeup.
The four Democrats were;
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-CO
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-IL
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY
Yes, four very Left-wing Democrats ALL apparently willing to welcome in a
huge wave of ethnic Catholics virtually guaranteed to become regular Conservative
voters once established here. Sure, both Schumer and Durbin envision a “permanent
Hispanic underclass” mired on welfare and attached to the “Democratic
Plantation” – NOT gonna happen...and being completely honest, they KNOW it!
As for the “Republicans.” Well, their resumes speak
for themselves;
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-AZ – A guy about whom, Dave
Weigel of Bloomberg Politics, once tweeted an ironic story with Sen. Lindsey
Graham of South Carolina calling Senator Flake the “RINO of the year.” Enough
said!
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC – A certified liberal
Democrat “dressed up” as a Republican.
Sen. John McCain, R-AZ – A “Born Again” Corporatist
(the very worst kind) who reviles Conservatives of every stripe. A man who
disgraced himself and his Party by running a veritable Vaudeville campaign back
in 2008 during which he quipped the immortal line, “I don’t know much about the economy.” WHAT is he STILL doing
on the Senate?! Oh yeah, same thing Lindsey Graham is, screwing over American
workers.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL – At least Rubio shills for
ever more GOP support from this new wave of ethnic Catholics, nothing wrong
with that EXCEPT that it ignores the
economic bomb called In-Sourcing!
See?
THIS
is the exactly what’s made the Conservative/Libertarian base of the GOP so
angry with the Bush-Boehner-Graham-McCain wing of the GOP...and rightly so.
