Adam Kwasman: Scores national attention in AZ CD 1

At the races, Roll Call’s political blog, takes note of Arizona’s upcoming First Congressional District race and focuses on state Rep. Adam Kwasman, the bright and energetic conservative representing LD 11.

Kwasman’s arena is a smart place to shine the high beam. His reasoned approach to the wide spectrum of issues facing Arizona has gained the notice of political watchers around the state, whether the topic is Medicaid expansion or our state’s porous border. We previously wrote Adam Kwasman was “the guy to watch.”

At the races refers to the 2014 CD 1 race by citing Stuart Rothenberg’s assessment of Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, naming her — and her equally liberal seatmate AZ CD2 Rep. Ron Barber — among at least 11 Democrat incumbents who start off at risk.” This stunning video reminder clearly illustrating her disconnect with the voters, reveals a good reason for Kirkpatrick’s shaky position.

In the current economic crisis, the astute skills of Kwasman, a financial guru, have been welcomed at the state legislature.  They are needed in Congress.

Rep. Kwasman’s current legislative district covers an important region in CD1, which includes a large population of Republican voters.

He clearly is “the guy to watch.”

Opposition growing to Gang of 8’s amnesty scheme

Numbers USA features a compilation of quotes from noted conservatives who exemplify the backlash against the amnesty bill introduced this week by the Gang of 8 — two of whom, John McCain and Jeff Flake — claim to represent Arizonan citizens.  Republican Senators hold the key to whether this amnesty of millions of illegals passes or fails. And the conservative opinion media that tend to matter most to them are showing increasing disdain for the bill.

To read more, click on the link following each quote. You’ll find a treasure trove of great thinking on this important subject.

Numbers USA also provides a free fax form — although donations are welcome — to contact your two U.S. Senators and your U.S. Representative to voice your opposition to the gang‘s amnesty scheme. They even have a means of getting your message to Barack Obama.

Fact Check: “Marco Rubio distorts his bill during Rush Limbaugh interview” by Chris Chmielenski can be read here.

Sen. Rubio facing major opposition from Tea Party activists over Amnesty bill can be read here.

Then click on Roy Beck’s updated video “Immigration, World Poverty and gumballs.” You won’t soon forget it.

Senate immigration hearings: Déjà vu on steroids

Speaking at the start of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on granting amnesty to millions here in the U. S. illegally, Sen. Charles  Grassley (R-Iowa) noted that exactly 30 years ago — April, 19, 1983 — the same committee met to consider similar immigration legislation that claimed to bolster border security and reunite separated families.

“Now 30 years have passed, and we’re saying the same thing, facing the same problems,” Grassley said. “We’re proposing the same remedies and asking the American people to trust that we’ll get serious about enforcing our immigration laws.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was also skeptical: “We have laws today that are utterly ignored, and I have no confidence that this administration, based on what we’ve seen, will ever enforce any law,” he said.

Grassley also criticized Democrats for “rushing to read and analyze” an 844-page bill.

The only thing that has changed is that in 1986, through the passage of the flawed Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) signed by Ronald Reagan, amnesty was granted to 2.7 million illegals.  Today the number is at least ten times greater.

Then, as today, the efforts to legalize those who thumb their noses at our laws as they make demands and refuse to acclimate, was promoted by a “bi-partisan” team. Rep. Romano Mazzoli was a Kentucky Democrat who collaborated with Sen. Alan Simpson, a Wyoming Republican. They each chaired their respective immigration subcommittees in Congress.

Their effort was assisted by the recommendations of a so-called bipartisan Commission on Immigration Reform, chaired by Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, then President of Notre Dame University.

Today we have the notorious amnesty hustling “bi-partisan” Gang of 8, including Arizona’s two ostensibly Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, in cahoots with four Democrats and two other deceptive Rs. The Catholic Church is still actively involved as noted in this article by Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: Bishops Lobby for ObamaCare and Amnesty for Illegals.

Sens. Grassley and Sessions are correct. But rather than the situation not changing, the illegals have become militants who desire to take over this country.

 Take the time to watch this:

McCain, Flake undercut US workers in massive job giveaway

AZ Senators aid Democrats while deceiving American citizens

The harsh realities of the amnesty bill being championed by the deceptive “Gang of 8” include importation of 1 million workers a year, who will increase the inflow of foreign workers in the U.S., according to government data and news reports.

John McCain, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio along with their left-leaning senate cohorts, have carefully avoided the term “amnesty” as they work to undermine 23 million unemployed or underemployed American citizens.

The 1 million inflow would provide almost one foreign worker for every four Americans who turn 18 — a  rate high enough to fill up all the extra non-farm jobs created during the last six months, according to this disturbing, 3-page report in the Daily Caller.

Additionally, the 1 million imported workers would include at least 350,000 people capable of competing for middle-class skilled jobs sought by the 1.8 million Americans who graduate from universities each year. Only about 10 percent of the workers would be farm laborers.

The takeaway from this excellent article is summed up here: Inflow of workers is good for the Democrat Party’s political clout, because it increases unemployment, reduces wages and boosts dependence on government aid. But it creates a problem for Republicans, partly because low unemployment and high wages encourage people to get married, have kids and vote GOP.

Under the political scheme being drafted in secret by the coalition of amnesty hawks, companies would bring in many low-wage workers. In exchange, the workers would be allowed to become citizens and vote from 2026 onward, likely for Democrat candidates. No wonder it is backed by Democrat leadership, including Barack Obama, and many in the establishment, leftwing media.

Nationwide public outrage at the 2007 amnesty sham called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” and  led by McCain, Kyl and liberal icon Ted Kennedy resulted in the shut-down of the congressional switchboard, jammed fax lines and over-filled email boxes. It worked then. It’s past time for Americans to express their anger again. In the intervening years Kennedy has died and Kyl retired, but Jeff Flake, a longtime amnesty proponent, is now toadying as a willing accomplice, although he had a temporary politically expedient reversal as a duplicitous candidate.

Give McCain and Flake a call.  Since we pay their salaries, they’ll be happy to hear from us. But first read all 3 illuminating pages of the Daily Caller report.  Knowledge is power.

Contact info is just a click away: Jeff Flake and John McCain. Check the bottom of their pages for additional contact information. Do it now!  They intend to fast-track this amnesty monster when returning from Easter break on Monday.

Reminder: How Mexico treats foreigners

This commentary by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin is enlightening. 

Malkin’s reminder is especially pertinent given the push for granting amnesty to an estimated 26 million+ illegals by congressional Republicrats, including Arizona Senators McCain and McFlake, who foolishly believe this is the route to increasing GOP election victories.

Congress is set to reconvene after the Easter break, and this issue is a key agenda item.

 Do yourself a favor and read: “Reminder: How Mexico Treats “Undesirable” Foreigners.”

Knowledge is power.

McCain regrets insulting Sens. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz

“That was inappropriate,” says Reagan fan McCain

John McCain, known for running his mouth, appears with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto discussing his verbal attacks on Republican Sens. Rand Paul (KY.) and Ted Cruz (TX). The insults followed Paul’s historic 13-hour filibuster effort, aimed at getting the administration to affirm it won’t authorize drone strikes against non-combatant Americans in the U.S.

McCain has been widely criticized for referring to the rising star Republicans as “wacko birds” engaged in a “stunt. “

“I apologize to them for saying that because I respect them both. I respect what they stand for and what they believe in,” McCain said. “Sen. Paul in particular, and Sen. Cruz also and others, constitute what I believe is an ongoing debate in this country and in the Republican Party in particular about the role of the United States in the world.”

When asked about Paul’s recent remarks at CPAC that “the GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered,” McCain removed imaginary “moss” from his face. Then in a vain attempt to rehabilitate himself with members of his own party, he invoked the name of conservative icon, Ronald Reagan, saying, “Everybody is entitled to their views. I’m proud to have served in the House and the Senate under who I think is the greatest president of the 20th century and maybe ranks among the best ever, and that is Ronald Reagan.”

 Sorry, bucko, it doesn’t wash. We’re on to you.

H/T Commenter Doc

Boorish McCain denounces principled Rand Paul’s actions as “stunt”

Conservative U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s principled 13-hour information-seeking filibuster concerning John Brennan‘s suitability for confirmation as CIA Director, has met with the wrath of John McCain and his sycophantic buddy, Lindsey Graham.

Sen. Paul should consider criticism from this feckless duo a feather in his cap.

Failed presidential candidate McCain and Graham took to the Senate floor to denounce Paul’s actions, claiming he was doing a “disservice” to the debate on drones.

Sen. Paul said he was filibustering to get the administration to affirm it won’t authorize military strikes against non-combatant Americans in the U.S. — and his effort was joined by more than a dozen other senators who said they, too, supported his effort to get answers.

Toady Graham said asking whether the president has the power to kill American citizens by use of drones on American soil is a ludicrous question. “I do not believe that question deserves an answer,” Graham said. The petulant Graham denounced the Republican Senators who supported Paul’s filibuster last night, and told reporters that he will now vote to confirm Brennan as a result of Paul‘s actions.

While Sen. Rand Paul was doing the heavy lifting on behalf of the American people, McCain and Graham were busy dining with Obama at the luxe Plume restaurant featuring an $85 prix fixe menu,

Graham, a South Carolinian cut from the same RINO fabric as McCain, is up for re-election next year and could face a primary challenge in his conservative home state.

Let’s hope he suffers a similar fate as Russ Feingold another senate buddy of McCain’s. In 2010, Democrat Feingold, (remember the McCain -Feingold campaign finance reform measure that undercut Republicans?) was defeated in his reelection bid by Republican Ron Johnson.

Here is U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder — the chief legal officer of the United States — dancing around the constitutionality of killing Americans, not posing an imminent threat, by use of drone attacks:

A conversation about debt limits

There’s a new bank in town…us!

For those who are not quite sure about the term “sequestration,”or the threats being tossed around by the Obama administration and its congressional and media sycophants, we invite you to watch this simplified and easily understandable version:

Then click on the real time U.S. debt clock. This is the one the Democrats wanted turned off as they spoke during congressional debate as they pushed to raise the debt ceiling. The truth made them uncomfortable. The Washington Times carried this report.

Obamanation on sequestration: He can’t have it both ways

BHO manufactured this crisis he now calls “a meat cleaver approach”

In the midst of the blame game and threats emanating from the White House regarding sequestration — or automatic spending cuts — set to kick in March 1, 2013, let’s remember one thing: The idea originated with Barack Obama. 

He used the issue as a political hammer to force Republican agreement as part of The Budget Control Act of 2011, establishing the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction of 12 House and Senate members to deal with cuts of approximately $1.5 trillion dollars over 10 years. The bi-partisan committee, on which former Arizona Senator Jon Kyl was a member, failed in its mission of writing deficit-reduction legislation.

Obama vowed to trim the budget Nov. 21, 2011, when he said this regarding Congress and automatic spending cuts:

“My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.”

This is Obama this past Saturday, February 23, blaming Republicans:

NewsMax’ Bradley Blakeman provides up-to-date, cogent analysis here.

“Gang of 8” amnesty hawks attack effective voices

McCain-led coalition aims to discredit knowledgeable immigration control organizations

The birthdays of Presidents Washington and Lincoln have morphed into a single day that has lost any semblance of the original commemorations. Sales have replaced tributes. There are minor inconveniences of no trash pick-up or mail delivery.  Libraries and government offices are closed. But the sharp mind of former U. S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) continues to perform and inform.

Townhall carries Tancredo’s excellent column, “Immigration and the Pro-Life Movement.”

His commentary opens with “There has not even been an amnesty bill introduced yet in the U.S. Senate, and key Republican members of the “Gang of Eight” are panicking.”  This piqued our interest since two of the gangsters are Arizona senators — the deceptive John McCain and his open-borders protégé Jeff Flake.

Tancredo concludes with this pithy thought: “Just as any Republican with half a brain should be skeptical when someone like Senator John McCain (as in McCain/Kennedy Amnesty Bill) lectures us on immigration issues, they should be just as suspicious when the likes of Grover Norquist, the Catholic Council of Bishops or La Raza put targets on the backs of Numbers USA, FAIR and the Center for Immigration Studies* and gets front page coverage in The Washington Post. I can assure you that none of the aforementioned band of brothers are out to protect conservatives.”

Tom Tancredo’s credentials on the subject are impeccable.  He represented Colorado’s 6th Congressional District from 1999 until 2009 where he chaired the 100+ member bipartisan Immigration Reform Caucus. He currently serves as co-chairman of Team America PAC and president of the Rocky Mountain Foundation. He authored “In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and Security.

Get up to speed. Refresh your memory with this Feb. 2, post.

*Seeing Red AZ has taken the liberty of inserting the links to these three organizations. We urge our readers to acquaint themselves with their efforts.