Senator Alexander Failure

Senator Alexander recently sent a news letter to his email list. What follows is my response.

 

Awards given to politicians are payment for something. Whenever a group wants recognition they give someone an award. Means nothing. You as well as your fellow senators have been an embarassment to the United States for the past four years. As a group you have failed the citizens of this country. You succeed as a team you fail as a team. Your record is nothing you or anyone can be proud of. Get about the country's business, not your own.

 

Pro-Life is a Non Issue

Being Pro-Life is to be on the losing side of the discussion. If you do not like abortion, do not have one but do not try to interject government into a decision that is not yours.

In 2002 Patrick Buchanan wrote “The Death of the West

In 2002 Patrick Buchanan wrote "The Death of the West." In it he wrote:

 

for a quarter century (1968-1992) Democrats were unable to pick the GOP lock on the presidency, because they could not shake loose the Republican grip on the white vote. With the exception of Johnson in 1964 and Truman in 1948 no Democrat won the white vote. What broke the GOP lock on the presidency was the Immigration Act of 1965.

 

During the years 1970 through 2000 we imported a new electorate, as Republicans cheerfully backed an immigration policy tilted to the Third World that enlarged the Democratic base and loosened the grip that Nixon and Reagan had given them on the presidency of the United States.

 

In 1996, the GOP was rewarded. Six of the 7 states with the largest numbers of immigrants---California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida, and Texas---went to Clinton. In 2000 5 went to Gore, and Florida was a dead heat. Of the 15 states with the most foreign-born, Bush lost 10. But of the 10 states with the smallest shares of foreign-born, Montana, Mississippi, Wyoming, West Virginia, South Dakota, North Dakota, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas---Bush swept all 10.

 

Among the states with the most immigrants, only Texas has been reliably Republican but now is going the way of California.  In the 1990s, Texas took in 3.2 million new residents as the Hispanic share of Texas's population shot from 25 percent to 33 percent. The day when whites are a minority in Texas for the first time since before the Alamo is coming soon. In 2002 the Dallas Morning News thought that by 2005 fewer than half of Texans would be white.

 

In 1960 the U.S. population was 88.6 percent white; in 1990, it was 75.6 percent; by 2020 the proportion of whites could fall as low as 61 percent.  By 2050, Euro-Americans, the largest and most loyal share of the electorate the GOP has, will be a minority due to an immigration policy that is championed by Republicans.

 

The Republicans can ignore the Latinos no more.

TeaParty and Health Care

Do you suppose the TeaParty knows: the origin of Obamacare and Romneycare goes back to President Richard Nixon, who saw that many people did not have adequate health care and wanted a solution, albeit a Republican solution. His plan had an employer mandate, forcing every business to buy health care for its employees, not unlike ObamaCare, that forces individuals to do the same. Later, the very conservative Heritage Foundation modified Nixon's plan and proposed that individuals, rather than businesses, be forced to buy insurance from private companies. For decades, this was the Republican response to Democratic attempts to expand Medicare to cover everyone. Only after Obama pushed it through did the Republicans begin objecting to what was, in reality, their own plan.

 

When Obama was elected president, I have to believe in response to all the prayers, the Senate Minority Leader said that the sole job of the Republican Party was to ensure that Obama was a one term president.  If Obama was for it the Republicans were against it. My guess is if Romney wins the Democrats will do the same thing.

 

Day After the Election

Confrontations abroad. A divided Congress at home. A budget stalemate on the horizon that threatens another recession. Don't forget the Middle East.

Come Nov. 7, President Obama or President-elect Mitt Romney might be forgiven if he pines for the good old days of campaign rallies and negative ads.

The world won't wait for either man to enjoy his victory celebration. The bad blood and battle lines between Democrats and Republicans are likely to spill over rather swiftly from politics to policy matters. And only 55 days will remain before a convergence of tax increases and spending cuts threatens to throw the slowly healing U.S. economy back into recession.

On November 7th all you're going to hear is "countdown to the fiscal cliff."

On Novenber 7th who will happier?

 

John Jenkins
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