Last Chance for GOP and America: Fifteen Painful Years on the Wrong Course

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Monday, April 11, 2016

Last Chance for GOP and America: Fifteen Painful Years on the Wrong Course

Mike Scruggs

 

In August 2001, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) published a report by Karen Kaufmann and James G. Gimpel, entitled Republican Efforts to Attract Latino Voters: Impossible Dream or Distant Reality? This study found that Hispanic voters in U.S. elections favored the Democrat Party by more than two-to-one because of long-standing traditional loyalties and strong Hispanic preferences for generous big government welfare and healthcare policies. Moreover, it showed little change in this Democrat Party preference with time in the U.S. or over generations. Nor did economic success substantially change the preference of higher income Hispanic households for the Democrat Party.

This should have been sobering news for the G.W. Bush Administration, which continued to formulate its immigration policies based on anecdotal myths rather than statistical reality. The Bush policy of expanded legal immigration and negligible internal and workplace enforcement against illegal immigrants earned no Hispanic respect, resulted in a doubling of illegal immigration, hurt American workers and taxpayers, and accelerated the growth of a strong Democrat voting bloc that threatens eventual Democrat dominance in national elections. Pew Research found in 2013 that 69 percent of Hispanics favored Obamacare, and 71 percent voted for Obama.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Tracing The Origin of The Modern Republican Party Agenda…

Via Mike

"This is a very informative but disturbing article. Basic theme: The agenda of the RNC, the GOP establishment, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are basically identical, and its political financing comes first and foremost from the U.S. Chamber, but huge chunks also come from the Koch Brothers and others.

 

They want:

1. "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" including amnesty and tripling of legal foreign immigration and guest workers, i.e. cheap labor

2. TPP

3. Keeping and maintaing Obamacare.

They don't care about social issues and don't want GOP political campaigns focused on anything by economics and taxes.

Their power has increased immensely since the Supreme Court's favorable ruling on the Citizens United case, which liberalizwd PAC spending considerably."

 

http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2016/04/tracing-origin-of-modern-republican.html